CROSSWORD FOR THURSDAY

ACROSS

1 Prepare to be knighted

6 Garment edges

10 Seafood entree

14 Main artery

15 Like

16 Man of the haus

17 Citrus fruit

18 Audition tape

19 Singer — Adams

20 Kudu cousins

22 Naive (hyph.)

24 Kind of storm, in sci-fi

26 Trunk contents

27 Hot pepper

31 Space widths

32 Depleting

33 Pipe up

36 Ruby or Sandra

39 Not green

40 Molecule

components

41 Fish organ

42 Scale notes

43 Enthusiasm

44 Spring month

45 Cooler

46 Turns on an axis

48 Zodiac sign

51 Still

52 Like many pearls

54 Took a break

59 Coup d'—

60 Think-tank output

62 Coastline

63 Alaskan seaport

64 Mild oath

65 Roman garment

66 Walked

67 Cell phone button

68 Pilot's control

DOWN

1 Leafy vegetable

2 Eggnog time

3 A funny Bombeck

4 London school

5 Touchdown

6 Came down with

7 Barely scraped by

8 Says with gestures

9 Garden produce (2 wds.)

10 Shouts hurrah 11 Change colors

12 Zodiac ram

13 Reproduced

21 Mama's boy

23 Tug sharply

25 Robins' domiciles

27 Biceps exercise

28 Vast region

29 Kennel sounds

30 Compass dir.

34 Gambler's kitty

35 Georgia university

36 Soap target

37 Nobelist — Wiesel

38 House wings

40 Omens

41 Academic stat

43 Meditation guide

44 Vouches for

45 Protruded

47 Above, to Tennyson

48 Instruct

49 Texas tourist site

50 Bulrush

52 Dollar fraction

53 Campus figure

55 Boarded up

56 Morrison or Braxton

57 Mr. Sevareid

58 Patio cousin

61 Build on to