CROSSWORD FOR FRIDAY

ACROSS

1 Mighty trees

5 Some handball points

9 Informal wear

13 Chimney

14 Type of glue

15 Ship of myth

16 Public meeting places

17 Fill-ins

18 Overeats, with “out”

19 Couch

21 Casino action

22 Tijuana dollar

23 Technical word

25 Strauss of jeans

27 “The Reivers” author

31 Chopped up

35 High-fashion mag

36 Two fives for — —

38 Rock tumbler stone

39 With, to Fritz

40 Permitted

42 Ernesto Guevara

43 Earn

46 Show enthusiasm

47 Boutique

48 Nail polish

50 Owning no real estate

52 Canned

54 Place

55 Eager

58 Eyebrow shape

60 Misses a syllable

64 Dry riverbed

65 Fire alarm

67 Army wear

68 Thames school

69 Big occasion

70 Funny Bombeck

71 Parched

72 Fixes a seam

73 Be grouchy

DOWN

1 Switch positions

2 First-aid plant

3 — Vonnegut Jr.

4 Space Needle site

5 It has long arms

6 Rooster's crest

7 Banish

8 Computer network

9 Rapping softly

10 Old barge canal

11 Farm products

12 Average (hyph.)

14 Lasting forever

20 Response to a rodent

24 Taxi device

26 Travel word

27 — fatale

28 Sci-fi thriller

29 Beyond the limit

30 Like a king

32 Secret store

33 Social mores

34 Ocean trenches

37 Of ships

41 Easygoing

44 Daydream

45 Cowboy nickname

47 Miners' troughs

49 Rental contracts

51 Dover's st.

53 Take the wheel

55 Fills with wonder

56 Box office

57 Bouquet

59 Gang of workers

61 Repair a tear

62 The avenging Mrs. Peel

63 Water partner

66 Dash widths