The Crossword

across

1 blow one's own horn

5 singe

9 mccullough's "The ---- Birds"

14 Decorate over

15 ---- kiri

16 Taylor, of TV's "The Nanny"

17 Ancient Hebrew harp

18 Parched

19 Mad

20 "The Executioner's Song" author

23 Clean, in a way

24 Canadian canals

25 Mist

28 Sargasso, for one

31 Ancient Greek geographer

33 TV host

39 Outlandish

40 Iced beverages

41 Ventilated

43 Eons

44 Pineapples, in Pamplona

46 Etiquette maven

48 Vents contempt

50 Perjure

51 Attention

52 Levitate

55 Donkeys

60 "The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert" star

63 Bowling feat

66 To be, to Balzac

67 Bumpkin

68 Jargon

69 Bluish-green hue

70 Virginia willow

71 Restaurateur Shor

72 Spheres

73 Benefit, briefly

DOWN

1 Wheat husks

2 Seed a second time

3 Venerate

4 Songstress Eydie

5 Film star Jackie

6 Injure

7 Songs for Scotto

8 AM or FM, e.g.

9 Italian city

10 Munich mister

11 Not ---- bet

12 Soak flax

13 Born

21 Altar area

22 Angeles preceder

25 1996 Oscar film

26 Off-Broadway prizes

27 "Whither thou ---- I will ..."

29 ---- of Good Feeling

30 Parisienne pal

32 Harvest

33 Slip by, as time

34 Minneapolis suburb

35 Pavarotti, e.g.

36 Slavic sovereign

37 Anchor part

38 Simon or Sedaka

42 551, in Latium

45 Broadway and Via Veneto

47 Parliamentarians' calls

49 Letter opener

53 Take care of

54 Stage direction

56 Section of Las Vegas

57 Pan-fry

58 Bonfire remnant

59 Enunciate

60 Jog

61 Grass that's a weed

62 Congers

63 Joined a jury

64 Expert

65 Of yore