CROSSWORD FOR THURSDAY

ACROSS

1 Sound of thunder

5 Fragmentary pieces

9 Actress — Martinelli

13 Tick off

15 Asian nanny

16 Loud arguments

17 Attack on a fort

18 Popular dog name

19 Zoo attraction

20 Weird

21 Pigeon coop

23 Beat an incumbent

25 Backless slipper

26 Clearest, as the sky

27 Like a tank

30 Join on

31 Not theirs

32 Incubator babies

37 Team setback

38 Thorny shrub (var.)

40 Before, in combos

41 Spartan foe

43 To the most extreme

degree (2 wds.)

44 Climber's challenge

45 Set free

47 Grave risks

50 Caboose's place

51 Opposite of acid

52 Sacked out

53 GI address

56 Major nuisance

57 Clay pot

59 Hearth residue

61 Croon

62 Part of speech

63 Luxury fur

64 Sidle past

65 Ditto

66 Western alliance

DOWN

1 El —, Texas

2 Phillips University town

3 Matured

4 Drumstick

5 Rode the rapids 6 Brigitte's friend, perhaps

7 Ramble

around

8 Road margin

9 Clear a

diskette

10 Strides along

11 Work long

and hard

12 Like some mgrs. 14 Happens again

22 Corrida cry

24 Hosiery shade

25 Telegraph code inventor

26 Unadorned

27 “The Mammoth Hunters”

heroine

28 Fundamental part

29 Sentimentality

32 Fasten temporarily

33 Town official

34 Data

35 LGA postings

36 Parched

38 Lots and lots

39 Chats, slangily 42 Workbench item

43 Razor fillers

45 Sophisticated

46 Once called

47 Sporty fabric

48 — out (making do)

49 Prairie

51 Cathedral part

52 An astringent

53 “Fernando” band

54 Throw snowballs

55 Popular cookie

58 Hawaii's Mauna —

60 Game piece