CROSSWORD FOR WEDNESDAY

ACROSS

1 Fall birthstone

5 Health club feature

10 Maladies

14 Go very fast

15 Nothing more than

16 Fastener

17 Athletic shoe brand

18 Pet annoyance

19 Stereo's predecessor

(hyph.)

20 Accounts book

22 Inscribed

24 Part of the eyeball

26 Melody

27 Turned in for cash

31 Puts on a happy face

35 Rowing need

36 Plant secretion

38 Commence

39 Culture medium

41 — the Hedgehog

43 “You can count on it!”

44 Brown color

46 Of punishment

48 Race an engine

49 Fashions

51 Turncoat

53 Actor — Gerard

54 Building location

55 Struck

59 Northeasters

63 Toy block maker

64 Station

67 Do a farm job

68 Microwave

69 Clearing in a woods

70 Lady — of pop music

71 “The Way We —”

72 Church officer

73 Use a blue pencil

DOWN

1 Voiced

2 Macadamize

3 Amino —

4 “The — of Extraordinary Gentlemen” 5 Noted Motown trio

6 Devoured

7 Pickup cousin

8 Actress — Campbell

9 Hippodromes

10 Comes into a trust fund

11 Hiding place

12 “You bet your —!”

13 Skidded

21 At any time

23 Allen and Conway

25 Noted tale teller

27 Sunday dinner item

28 Avid

29 Hang in folds

30 Modest restaurant

32 Actress — Dern

33 Got it wrong

34 Comedian — Martin

37 Dressed to the —

40 Phone feature preference

42 Flour container 45 Mine entrance

47 Latvian

50 Heavy hammer

52 Actor — Clooney

55 Word on a roadside sign

56 “— Only Just Begun”

57 Golden- —

58 Valley

60 Interpret

61 Three Wise Men

62 Quarrel

65 Cushion

66 Beethoven's “— to Joy”