CROSSWORD FOR THURSDAY

ACROSS

1 Thin nail

5 Dash

9 Dull

14 Prospector's find

15 Chromosome unit

16 Sorenstam rival

17 Thor's father

18 Dobbin's dinner

19 Tackle box items

20 Minuscule

21 Unexpected change

23 Feed

25 Teller's stack

26 “Nightmare” street

27 Part of summer

29 Soda can opener

32 Angelina — of films

35 Metallic sound

36 Well-ventilated

37 Poet's black

38 Thick wools

39 Monogram pt.

40 Morse signals

41 Palo —, California

42 Pond scum

43 Devotee's suffix

44 Protein sources

45 Outcry

46 Idyllic spot

48 Edges

52 Magic word

56 — cit. (footnote abbr.)

57 Pass out

58 Assns.

59 — -carotene

60 Prince Valiant's wife

61 Fishtail

62 Shortly

63 Chorus platform

64 Untold centuries

65 Move quickly

DOWN

1 2

Squandered Bronco-riding event

3 Departure 4 Fox's abode

5 “I” trouble? 6 Filter

7 Con 8 Famous Loch 9 Illinois city 10 Sharp 11 Wielding a sword 12 Nailed at a slant 13 Proficiency 21 Nasty 22 Jingles 24 Jockey's controls 27 Spurns a lover 28 Golden Rule word 30 Soprano's piece 31 Data unit 32 Yoda, e.g. 33 Ginza purchases 34 Sweepstakes 35 Throw snowballs 36 Had the flu 38 Zoologist's study 42 Unseen emanation 44 Fruit juice

45 Ranch animals

47 Florentine poet

48 Air rifle (2 wds.)

49 “The Vampire Diaries” protagonist

50 Machine part

51 Barely enough

52 At a distance

53 Exotic island

54 Capsule, maybe

55 Alice's chronicler

59 Inadequate