CROSSWORD FOR WEDNESDAY

ACROSS

1 Food fish

5 Scent

10 Assignment

14 Spaghetti — puttanesca

15 Tempts

16 Spread for bread

17 Genuine

18 Senses

19 Tennis type

20 Gambler at the track

22 Fine silver

24 Forthright

26 Headliner

27 In a muddle

31 Gentle

34 Self-importance

35 Wound's aftermath

36 Lost color

38 Correct

40 Narcotic drug

43 Completed

44 Songbird

46 “Midnight in the Garden of Good and —”

48 Fight

49 Hawaii's state bird

50 Theological school

52 Weakens

55 Opera set in Egypt

56 Fit perfectly

60 — Christi

64 Fall birthstone

65 Cookout fare

67 Fragrant flower

68 Wind

69 Glide on wheels

70 Sign of what's coming

71 Molt

72 Dog- —

73 Wild — show

DOWN

1 Hook point

2 Nautical direction

3 Wing part

4 — — the earth

5 In open air

6 Poe's “The Murders in the — Morgue”

7 Minerals

8 Dissolves

9 Desirable thing

10 Turnpike (2 wds.)

11 Jai —

12 Stitched

13 “King —”

21 Musical work

23 Speak hoarsely

25 — tide

27 So-so grades

28 Utah city

29 Bete —

30 Wipes

32 Plant life of a region

33 Singing voice

37 Moist

39 Like a Christmas tree

41 Eye part

42 Aped

45 Unmixed, as liquor

47 Italian resort

51 Thin

53 Outmoded

54 Alaska's former capital

56 Canines

57 Moonfish

58 Valley

59 Shakespearean king

61 Apple or pear, e.g.

62 Applications

63 Directed

66 Consumed