THE FRIDAY CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Stage manager's concern

6 ''Today I ---- man''

9 Despot

13 Composer Copland

14 Fritz, the director

16 Oppositionist

17 Do to do

18 Division word

19 Did weeding

20 In This Our House author

23 Wild

24 Cue in group singing

26 Rose, and namesakes

29 Oolong or Earl Grey

30 Give it a go

32 Anzio apple

33 Call Me Mister composer

37 '' ---- 'clock scholar''

39 Son of Apollo

40 Wyatt and Virgil

41 The Call of the Wild author

44 In love, old style

45 Skill

46 Fitting

47 Nautical cry

49 Money order

51 Swiss stream

53 Always composer

58 Chanel

60 It comes in ears

61 Nobleman

63 Word for Yorick

64 Graf ----

65 Dispatch boat

66 Soccer legend

67 Always, to poets

68 Burdened

DOWN

1 Kettle and others

2 Contest

3 Exam type

4 Roper's forte

5 React to pollen

6 Straighten

7 Virile

8 Broadway acronym

9 Western resort

10 Winter phenomena

11 Downed

12 Free of

15 It's often preached

21 Ogden, of verse

22 Step

25 Axilla

26 Explosive

27 Current system

28 Armored car

29 ---- avail; fruitless

31 Sat., on Sunday

32 Crab genus

34 ---- Misbehavin'

35 Serling or Steiger

36 Tabula follower

38 King of Norway

42 Light science

43 Loki's boy

48 In words

50 Subject of a Stein line

51 Concur

52 Capp lad

54 Yep's opposite

55 Melled rock

56 Crocus

57 Cyrano feature

58 Beret

59 Corrida shout

62 ---- sequitur