THE FRIDAY CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Favoring

4 Rainbow

7 Waned

12 Bedouin

14 Assam silkworm cocoon

15 Magnifying glass

16 Underground burial spots

18 --- Heights

19 Bliss

20 Oyster's offering

22 Was a blacksmith

23 Laid waste

25 "Pink Panther" Peter

28 One or two follower

30 Possessed

33 Midday

34 Sleuth Vance

35 Half a Panay Island city

36 Rancher

39 Delta of Venus author

40 Actress Hasso

42 Fulda feeder

43 Utter

44 Elaborate tale

45 Permission

48 Try a new concept

50 Kind of daisy

54 Having second thoughts

55 Sfax locale

57 Inflexible

59 Clobbers

61 Removed the squeak

62 "Able was I --- saw . . ."

63 Vision start

64 Pari ---; at an equal rate

65 Break a commandment

66 Actor Byrnes

DOWN

1 Confronts

2 Spinach-flavored plant

3 Midnight Cowboy role

4 Host

5 Tease

6 Webster's Milquetoast

7 Pomp and Circumstance composer

8 Uncouth

9 Announcements

10 Ecology agcy.

11 Lair

13 Psycho motel

14 Dawn goddess

17 Musical resolution

21 Conversational pauses

23 Nag

24 Festival of Apollo

26 Old card game

27 Downcast

29 Tail or express

30 Greet the villain

31 Make --- out of

32 Comic verse

34 It's sometimes non grata

37 Canticle

38 Barbie's boyfriend

41 Temperaments

45 Author Yutang

46 Fireplaces

47 Be

49 Veda believer

51 Helena's competitor

52 Give way

53 Let up

55 Feds

56 Where, in old Rome

57 Drench

58 Madre's sister

60 Exodus hero