CROSSWORD FOR WEDNESDAY

ACROSS

1 Hair treatment

5 Mare's morsels

9 Watch pockets

13 Kyrgyzstan range

14 Rustic

16 With, to monsieur

17 Takes a powder

18 Platitude

19 Its HQ is Brussels

20 Not privately (2 wds.)

22 Gravy morsel

24 Stockholm carrier

25 Steakhouse order (hyph.)

27 Witch hunt locale

30 Kanga's kid

31 Aluminum company

35 Lumber along

36 Immense

38 — Hagen of films

39 Play on words

40 Stock ending

41 Marciano stat

42 Leftovers

45 Riverbank growth

46 Romantic appointment

47 Decide

48 Father of sci-fi

49 Metrical compositions

51 Awful

52 Kind of pan

55 Peg

60 Nonsense writer

61 Dressy events

63 Great Wall locale

64 She, to Marie

65 Wiring problem

66 Stop the car

67 Applied henna

68 Cookout intruders

69 Barely makes ends meet

DOWN

1 Cliff, in Hawaii

2 Gusto

3 Freeway access

4 Exploited

5 Dreaded exams

6 Imported car

7 Farm vehicle

8 Sink downward

9 Crankshaft attachment (2 wds.)

10 Pecan shape

11 — noire

12 Person from Dundee

15 Toy block brand

21 Thud

23 Witless

26 “Casablanca” lead

27 Jet forth

28 Take up or let out

29 Fertile

30 Haphazard

32 More winsome

33 Of durable wood

34 Battery terminal

36 Thug's piece

37 Circulars

39 Rock climber's aid

43 Longed to

44 Greek “E” 45 Bureaucrat's delight (2 wds.)

48 Vehicle

50 Quiche ingredients

51 Defeats

52 Escaped

53 Count on

54 Ivy League member

56 Kind of board

57 — Dinesen

58 Pull the trigger

59 Chatters

62 “I knew it!”