Crossword

Across

1 Mythology anthology

5 Perlman of “Cheers”

9 Tomato blight

14 John Irving’s “A Prayer for ___ Meany” Sandwich

16 In the buff

17 Appoint

18 Terrific, in slang

19 Appearances

20 Cuban dance

22 Undersides

24 Frock wearer

25 Manipulates

26 Fast plane

29 Hitching post?

31 However

33 Jacuzzi

36 ___ mortals

37 Pond organism

38 Telephone part

40 Hooligan

43 Hokkaido native

44 Replete

45 “___ Time transfigured me”: Yeats

46 Pestilence

49 Happen again

51 Double curve

52 Danish toy company

54 Community spirit

57 Keys

58 Christopher of “Superman”

59 Ten-percenter

62 It towers over Taormina

64 Dispatched

66 Faux pas

67 Haggis ingredient

68 Celestial bear

69 Mary of “The Maltese Falcon”

70 Fencing sword

71 Part of a process

Down

1 Long, long time

2 “The Lord of the Rings” figure

3 Object

4 Lack of vigor

5 Banter

6 “Gotcha!”

7 Expunction

8 Choir voices

9 Tangle

10 Place for a throne

11 Barely manage, with “out”

12 Door word

13 Commercials

21 Salves

23 Authorize

26 Actress Christie

27 Actress Samantha

28 Lord’s attendant

30 Frick collection

32 Blockhead

33 Contour

34 Buckets

35 Actresses Faris and Berglund

39 Excavated

40 Wish undone

41 Cause stomach problems

42 “Peter and the Wolf” bird

44 Ice over

47 Heavy overcoat

48 Long fish

50 Kind of monkey

53 “Silly” birds

55 Undisguised

56 Have a feeling

57 The skinny

59 ___ Khan

60 Filling station filler

61 Newt, once

63 Born

65 Kind of dance