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2014-01

1 Puzzle #1 Across 1. Pickling herb 5. Anatomical passage 9. Effervescent beverages 14 . Feverish chill 15 . Yarborough high card 16 . Jong or Kane 17 . Famous forest denizen 19 . Compound in fireworks 20 . Bard's preposition 21 . Colonel's insignia 22 . One more than tri- 23 . Start of a carol's refrain 24 . Long oar 26 . Venerate 29 . One might be chronic 30 . Historic period 33 . Navy and coffee 34 . Loose, as jeans 35 . Dandy lead-in 36 . It has a low pH 37 . Plum puckered out? 38 . Puppy follower? 39 . Little shaver 40 . Bullets 41 . ''Laughing Out Loud'' Down storyteller Myron 1. Draw a line in the 18 . Becomes imminent 41 . Provide food, 42 . Terrorized street of film sand, perhaps 23 . Discovery uptown 43 . Word on a button, 2. Assistant with a 25 . Pet store purchase 44 . Bother continually sometimes hunch? 26 . Diminish in 46 . Make baskets, e.g. 44 . Frequent hangouts 3. Auto service job intensity 47 . Nasal complaint 45 . Inundated 4. Muumuu accessory 27 . Graphic transfer 48 . It may need 47 . Coiner of the term 5. Doctor's request 28 . Love of 17-Across stitches ''horsepower'' 6. Texas hometown of 29 . Gag reflex? 49 . Norwegian Nobel 48 . Bridge maven Charles Gene Autry 31 . Steel fastener Institute locale 50 . Fall color (Var.) 7. Hydroxyl compound 32 . Endorsements in 51 . Hudson Bay tribe 52 . Place name with Claro or 8. Does an interior church 52 . Rich man in ''Rich Cuarto decorator's job 34 . Disdainful Man, Poor Man'' 55 . From Tibet or Taiwan 9. Tenth of a rejections 53 . One found on a 56 . Compatriot of 17-Across millennium 37 . Desirable addition computer screen or 58 . ''Amistad'' extra 10 . Corbeled bay 38 . Vulgarian movie screen 59 . Swampy bogs window 40 . Traversed 54 . Creole cuisine 60 . Polecat's trademark 11 . Compatriot of staple 61 . Refined, as skills 17-Across 57 . The piper's son 62 . Bishoprics 12 . Super server 63 . Starling family mimic 13 . Teasdale of poetry

2 Puzzle #2 Across 1. Take great pleasure (in) 5. Longtime Southern senator 9. Diplomat 14 . Newsman Colmes 15 . "Dies __" 16 . "Common Sense" author 17 . Refine 18 . Retreat 19 . Brown and others 20 . Start of a quip 23 . They're not straight up 24 . Delighted cry 25 . They travel a long way to get here 26 . Quip, part 2 31 . Congo, formerly 34 . Notched, as a leaf 35 . Hosp. areas 36 . "The Lord of the Rings" creatures 37 . Quip, part 3 38 . Actress Swenson 39 . Supporting cheer 40 . Oil source 42 . One who peeps, perhaps Down 43 . Quip, part 4 1. Mideast religion that 21 . Marriage, for one 41 . Basic music system 45 . Calendar abbr. preaches equality 22 . Does yard work 42 . Avoid 46 . Phone sequence 2. On the wing 26 . Sandwich order 44 . Corsair and Pacer 47 . Attacks suddenly 3. One with a pole words 45 . Arm-raising events 51 . End of the quip position? 27 . Observe 47 . Period 55 . IM user 4. Church accessories 28 . Taboo 48 . Cringe 56 . Some nest eggs 5. Spring bloomers 29 . It may lead to a 49 . __ Gay 57 . Unaccounted for, in a way 6. Some degree conclusion 50 . Three-time French 58 . Quartet part requirements 30 . Pronto Open champ 59 . Sleeveless garment 7. Follow 31 . Speed (by) 51 . Seethe 60 . Graphic starter 8. Actress Polo 32 . 1968 self-titled folk 52 . Weena's race, in a 61 . Elite group 9. Serial part album Wells novel 62 . Stretches (out) 10 . Arizona native 33 . Bakery worker 53 . Jackknife, for one 63 . Historic times 11 . Grandfather clock 34 . Airline since 1948 54 . Long haul number 38 . Swamp 55 . Actress Gardner 12 . Linear 40 . Curse 13 . Unambiguous response

3 Puzzle #3 Across 1. Touch of acrimony 5. Shakespearean ''Bummer!'' 9. Move powerlessly 14 . Prepare for an exam 15 . Monologist after the news 16 . Kukla and Fran's pal 17 . A POUND here . . . 20 . Admits customers 21 . Beetle Bailey's pal 22 . Big bang letters 23 . They get rolled 26 . Play the part 27 . Kind of burglar 30 . . . . and a POUND here . . . 36 . ''Baby Baby'' singer, 1991 38 . Light weapon? 39 . Bound along 40 . Team racing event 43 . Huge amount 44 . Half the integers 46 . Artwork overlays 48 . . . . and a POUND here . . . 51 . AARP members 52 . Logger's tool 53 . Right-angled shapes Down 55 . Supplement 1. Off-the-wall answer? 24 . Big shot of industry 49 . WWII power 58 . Goats' progeny 2. Release 25 . Coastal flyer 50 . More than popular 60 . Little cases 3. Ready and willing 27 . Spy in Canaan 54 . Bed or home 64 . . . . and a POUND here 4. Make changes 28 . ''Don't make ___!'' attachment 68 . Lake rental, often 5. Sitcom alien (''Freeze!'') 55 . Basics 69 . Move like molasses 6. Bandleader Brown 29 . Competitive and 56 . ''Phooey!'' 70 . Loads 7. 1998 animated film intense 57 . Eat in style 71 . Beef source 8. Not happy with 31 . Ayn Rand shrugger 59 . Rectangular boat 72 . Chang, to Eng 9. Prairie dwellers 32 . Biggest bear, of 61 . ''Do ___ others . . 73 . Finished 10 . Like something three .'' from the Jurassic 33 . Brief final remarks? 62 . Desktop image period 34 . Moray trapper 63 . Last word of the 11 . Zillions 35 . Lock that cannot year? 12 . Apply one's John be opened 65 . Digit Hancock 37 . Squire 66 . Israeli machine gun 13 . Microphone word 41 . Tooth woe 67 . Toon Chihuahua 18 . Willow for wicker 42 . Sidelines cheer 19 . St. Louis landmark 45 . Less sound 47 . 10th U.S. president

4 Puzzle #4 Across 1. Some pub patrons 6. Bean town? 10 . Room online 14 . Doctor-turned-wordsmith 15 . River through Opole 16 . Quasimodo's creator 17 . Public persona 18 . ''Be happy!'' front 20 . Happened upon 21 . Projectionist's unit 23 . City on the Trinity River 24 . Anti or semi, e.g. 26 . Turtle cover 28 . Came down to earth 30 . Daughter of Tethys, in myth 34 . ''Spoil the child'' front 38 . Mine piece 39 . Glossary entry 40 . Genetic letters 41 . State with conviction 42 . Catchall abbr. 43 . ''Three's a crowd'' front 47 . Capital near the Caspian 49 . Chronological brinks 50 . Honey badger Down 52 . It arrives before midnight 1. Pinch into folds 22 . One way out 45 . No longer in love 56 . Confront boldly 2. Dinger or tater 25 . Place in an Orwell with 59 . Beginning for dynamic or 3. Colored marble title 46 . Lilting space 4. Cribbage marker 27 . Roman lyric poet 48 . Ate away 61 . Hail from the past 5. Clinically clean 29 . Seat of kings 51 . Souper-upper? 62 . ''Warm heart'' front 6. Mother ___ 31 . Unstable star 53 . Weathercocks 64 . Jutlanders, e.g. 7. Sacred cows? 32 . Hemoglobin 54 . Tennis Hall of 66 . Grimace 8. What boys will be component Famer 67 . ''Atlas Shrugged'' hero 9. Popular design style 33 . Moist, as grass in 55 . Puts one within 68 . Lethargic of the 1920s the morning another 69 . Scratched (out) 10 . Spiny, treelike 34 . Proofer's 56 . Vertex 70 . It's pointless in the Olympics cactus ''nevermind'' 57 . Kenai Peninsula 71 . Selects the dramatis 11 . Make one's pitch? 35 . Name used in inlet personnae 12 . Uttar Pradesh city exclamations 58 . Crossword puzzle? 13 . Kiddie litter? 36 . Place for a 60 . Italy's Villa d'___ keystone 19 . Beat on 63 . Count a few sheep 37 . The two for none 65 . Santa ___ winds 41 . Church recess 43 . Vandalize 44 . Power supply

5 Puzzle #5 Across 1. Char on the grill 5. Indian princes (Var.) 10 . Neatnik's nightmare 14 . Dance at the luau 15 . Skip the big wedding 16 . Prefix with dynamic 17 . Take ___ (acknowledge applause) 18 . Humble 19 . Environmentalist's concern 20 . Techie's lament, Part I 23 . ''Unhand me!'' 24 . Like composition paper 27 . End to be attained 30 . Skyline feature, perhaps 32 . Warbucks cohort 35 . More of the lament, Part II 37 . Oft-told tales 39 . It has arms and waves 40 . Part of TVA 41 . Part III of the lament 43 . Cheer start 44 . Gives up, as an office 45 . Make an impression? 48 . Blow up Down 49 . Oktoberfest dance 1. ''We ___ Overcome'' 21 . Wine and dine 42 . Miss Kett 53 . End of the lament 2. James Hubert 22 . Zeno's home 46 . Bean counter, for 59 . Red giant now broken up Blake's nickname 25 . Kate Nelligan film short 61 . Kitchen draw 3. Drifting above 26 . Bruce and Laura 47 . Lincolnesque 62 . Grayish yellow 4. Nog ingredient 28 . Love, Italian style adjective 63 . Chase off 5. Move, in realtor's 29 . Van Pelt and 50 . Saint ___ (isle S of 64 . Send money lingo Ricardo Martinique) 65 . Famous twins' birthplace 6. Moises of baseball 30 . Classic 1953 51 . Gold standard 66 . Rightfully deserve 7. Nixon facial feature Western 52 . Reunion folks 67 . Some are deciduous 8. Impersonated 31 . Palindromist's 54 . Sewer's tuck 68 . Makes lacework, in a way 9. Kosovo native dogma 55 . Llano rarity 10 . Cheeky, to the max 32 . Full of life? 56 . Visitor's opponent 11 . Some baked 33 . To date 57 . Give off goodies 34 . Forerunner 58 . Calculating subject 12 . Oaxaca gold 36 . Executive letters 59 . Employ 13 . Quagmire 38 . Former first lady, 60 . ''___ Na Na'' ('70s somewhere musical series)

6 Puzzle #6 Across 1. Not fancy at all 5. Flora's partner 10 . "The Te of Piglet" author 14 . Where billions are 15 . Loathe 16 . Singing brothers 17 . Assures, in slang 18 . Cyberspace biggie 19 . Place 20 . Just to have a good time 23 . Lost 24 . Group with lots of hits 25 . Pi follower 27 . Museum piece 31 . "Twister" event 38 . Penn, for one 39 . Eat away 40 . Newcomer's subj. 41 . Feature of the simplest path 46 . Tedium 47 . Make lace 48 . Catches 53 . Advisory group 57 . One is hidden in 20-, 31- and 41-Across Down 59 . Pennsylvania's fourth largest 1. Israeli port 22 . Nina of "Spartacus" 44 . Popular cologne city 2. Race place 26 . River to the Baltic 45 . Reduce to fine 61 . Disputed subject 3. Parts of some cakes 28 . It means nothing particles 62 . Data 4. Onetime American to René 49 . Jung's inner 63 . Rash treatment competitor 29 . Etched: Abbr. personality 64 . Hot dogs and hamburgers 5. Oldtime actress Alice 30 . Flirt with obviously 50 . Slopes 65 . Puzzle pair 6. Toward the stern 31 . Four-point H, e.g. 51 . Common college 66 . Druid, for one 7. "Sure" 32 . Hot spot admission requirement 67 . Up to now 8. Nary a soul 33 . "Sleepless in 52 . "On the Beach" 68 . Messes up 9. "__ with a View" Seattle" costar author 10 . Flounder kin 34 . Hematite, e.g. 54 . Baseball's Doubleday 11 . Exclude 35 . Main message? 55 . Allude (to) 12 . Charge 36 . Mean Amin 56 . Refuse 13 . The Seminoles' 37 . Daring exploit sch. 42 . Questionable 57 . Window part 21 . Sounds of mirth 43 . Ike's ex 58 . Robin's digs 59 . And so on: Abbr. 60 . Scottish explorer John

7 Puzzle #7 Across 1. Locked, maybe 5. R&B family name 10 . Noted garden denizen 14 . South-of-the-border dough 15 . Disembarking sites 16 . Knucklehead 17 . Start of a quip 20 . Plastic indulgence? 21 . Fury 22 . Dating word 23 . Deity worshiped by Canaanites 25 . Mob figures 26 . Quip, part 2 31 . Overbearing sort 32 . H.S. proficiency test 33 . Bronze mil. medals 37 . Air density symbol 38 . Nervous ones 41 . Debtor's letters 42 . Only player with three 60-homer seasons 44 . At birth 45 . Squawking group 47 . Quip, part 3 Down 50 . Relaxed 1. 1974 19 . It's activated by 46 . Goon 53 . Hipparchus, e.g.: Abbr. Gould/Sutherland film clicking 48 . One logging in 54 . "Beauty and the Beast" 2. Friend of Micawber, 24 . Ristorante order 49 . Conniption heroine in "David Copperfield" 25 . Barrio stores 50 . "The Name of the 55 . Write 3. Soyuz launcher 26 . Mtg. halls Rose" role 57 . Some political hirees 4. Satchel relative 27 . Sunshine cracker 51 . Hard to see, maybe 61 . End of the quip 5. Wall St. news 28 . Slaughter of 52 . Mischievous 64 . "Come __!" 6. Where Syracuse is baseball 55 . Zoologist Goodall 65 . "Delta of Venus" author Nin 7. Father of Regan 29 . Place for a lace 56 . "The Good Earth" 66 . Yahoo 8. Fish-eating flier 30 . Twice tre heroine 67 . North Sea feeder 9. Fashion monogram 34 . A coach might flash 58 . Screen __ 68 . Bedouin homes 10 . Gave notice (of) one 59 . Adequate, slangily 69 . Canine communication 11 . Active sorts 35 . Vassar, e.g.: Abbr. 60 . York and Preston: 12 . Rapidly 36 . Chop __ Abbr. 13 . Arizona landscape 39 . Natural necklace 62 . Magician's prop features 40 . Some mall temps 63 . Moron 18 . Dueler's choice 43 . Algae eater

8 Puzzle #8 Across 1. Vanderbilt and Carter 5. Mink relative 10 . Judge Bean's decision, reputedly 14 . Milne bear 15 . Verify 16 . ___ about (prosecutor's phrase) 17 . Strong reaction 18 . Persian fairies 19 . Spaniard's other 20 . 1962 Burt Lancaster film? 23 . Warner ___ 24 . Remove from the crate 25 . Eugene O'Neill play? 30 . Start of Ed McMahon's famous intro 31 . Fancy Japanese porcelain 32 . Shore avian 35 . Lets it be known 36 . Flexible Flyers 37 . Dundee dagger 38 . Org. that sticks to its guns? 39 . TV's Jock 40 . Top reason for traffic jams Down 41 . Carpenters hit? 1. What 4 may mean 21 . Medicos 40 . Foot curve 43 . It follows sex (Abbr.) 22 . Side in a debate 41 . Topped out 46 . Linen color, perhaps 2. Ancient Dead Sea 25 . Word used in 42 . Nerve 47 . "Ramblin' Man" singers? kingdom comparisons 43 . Chance for a hit 52 . Strike on the head, in 3. He said "It ain't over 26 . Apparent relative? 44 . Conversation cartoons till it's over" 27 . Eyelashes piece? 53 . "___ my case" 4. Some fortified wines 28 . Future signs 45 . Pasta variety 54 . Some is third class 5. Side against 29 . Sinclair in "Coming 48 . Hillside in the 56 . Frank, diarist of 1944 6. Unclean, by Jewish To America" Highlands 57 . Referring to birth law 32 . VIP's following 49 . Nerve network 58 . Breakfast staple 7. Said three times, a 33 . Vintage vehicles 50 . Mama bears, in 59 . Prepared to drive? 1970 movie 34 . Word with love or Mexico 60 . They travel in formation 8. Blackhearted empty 51 . Highway sight 61 . Thrill, slangily 9. Firemen, often 36 . Sign of an injury 55 . Dropped drug 10 . Hot booze (Var.) 37 . Noted Motown trio 11 . Bone cavities 39 . Carrier to the Holy 12 . Dunn and Ephron Land 13 . Eat like a heifer

9 Puzzle #9 Across 1. Word with French or English 5. ''You ___ Beautiful'' (Cocker hit) 10 . Cathedral protuberance 14 . Little pat on your buns? 15 . Hub of India 16 . Gift line 17 . Sight from a fjord 18 . Poet Nash 19 . T-Men, e.g. 20 . Insincere ladies' men 23 . Indeterminate number 24 . Change course suddenly 25 . Cowardly flees the scene 28 . Sibilant summons 29 . ''A Raisin in the Sun'' actress 31 . $10 gold piece 34 . Give-go links 35 . Golf's Baker-Finch 36 . Pickup line deliverers, perhaps 41 . Parson bird 42 . Hullabaloo 43 . Word with charlotte or Ballet 44 . Actress Getty Down 47 . Dent slightly 1. Foofaraw 22 . Flow partner 45 . Eats away at, as 49 . Breeds, as livestock 2. Acting twins 26 . Norman and support 50 . Sacred Hindu writings 3. Pass along Edward 46 . Shaq's college 51 . Vigor partner 4. Jordanian queen 27 . It's good when 47 . Computer 54 . Some social parasites 5. Sun-dried bricks common command 58 . Frame of mind 6. Lament 28 . Middle Eastern org. 48 . Cry of 60 . In captivity, in a way 7. Kind of statesman 29 . Rd. map line, accomplishment 61 . Type of test 8. NL park perhaps 50 . Where the hits are 62 . Jim-dandy counted 9. Babe's greeting? 30 . Middle Eastern 63 . Violinmaker Nicolo org., once 51 . Sound heard at 10 . Free-for-all 64 . Salmon variety 31 . Fragrant organic Indy 11 . Spanish forts 65 . Fawning females? compound 52 . Potato variety 12 . Nursery offering 66 . It's a plus 32 . Tell good jokes, 53 . What we opened 13 . Abbr. on an e.g. before we had 67 . Med. care providers ambulance 33 . Refuse help Windows 21 . Couch potato's 34 . Wall St. offering 55 . Some ESPN focus 37 . Holbrook or Prince coverage 38 . Poem of devotion 56 . Grable's trademark 39 . Classic TV's 57 . Part of a foot Ricardo 58 . Like King George 40 . Kind of boat III 59 . Tic-tac-toe winner

10 Puzzle #10 Across 1. Alley score 6. Organization's symbol 10 . ''Get on it!'' 14 . Battle lineup 15 . Humorous Bombeck 16 . ''Queen of Country'' McEntire 17 . Farmer's windfall 19 . Niger neighbor 20 . One counterpart 21 . Soft-shell clam 23 . ''Cover ___ Face'' (P.D. James mystery) 24 . Separable snack 26 . Up there, say 27 . Reliable teammate 32 . Insect repellent? 35 . Heavenly bear 36 . English I reading 37 . Word with garden or power 38 . Kaline and Gore 39 . ''Zounds!'' 40 . Would-be chicks 41 . Mongolian desert 43 . Hightails it Down 45 . Cyclist's slacks 1. Region of Malaysia 22 . Noted first name in 43 . Certain ceremonial 48 . Wharf pest in northeastern Borneo jazz occasion 49 . ''Here I am!'' 2. Trim limbs 25 . Visionary? 44 . Studied hard and 50 . Cry partner 3. Knight's wear 27 . Cartoon frame fast 53 . Fabled djinni master 4. Like a fan during 28 . ''48 ___'' (Nolte- 46 . Deeply devoted 57 . Leftover amount overtime Murphy film) 47 . ''Over the 59 . Inviting word 5. Feature of some 29 . Meditative Rainbow'' composer 60 . Nonstop talker doors discipline Arlen 62 . Needing more time? 6. Kind of agent or 30 . Cheese type 50 . Visit frequently 63 . Indigo source ballot 31 . Rhode Island fowls 51 . Solve a knotty 64 . ''Sesame Street'' character 7. Show fallibility 32 . Cry from a tickled problem? 65 . E-mailed, e.g. 8. Half of an old radio person 52 . Outer space 66 . It's what's on one's mind duo 33 . Shoreline 53 . They may be split sometimes 9. They're off during irregularity in Vegas 67 . Library stamp takeoff 34 . It has shoulders 54 . All-conquering 10 . Naval force but no head thing 11 . Coal line 38 . ___ Dhabi 55 . ''My feelings 12 . Up to the challenge 39 . Triage sites, briefly exactly!'' 13 . Two of a kind 41 . Pleased as punch 56 . Verboten thing 18 . Second or third 42 . Most favorable 58 . ''Saturday Night showing, e.g. Live'' alum Dunn 61 . Oaxaca aunt

11 Puzzle #11 Across 1. Imitative sort 6. Shoulder, as a burden 10 . Swedish speedster 14 . Expo site, 1970 15 . First name from ''Laugh-In'' 16 . Boxer's fare, perhaps 17 . Take in 18 . Fish to fiddle with? 20 . It separates seeds 21 . C.S.A. Gen. Robert 23 . Flowers in a Poitier film title 24 . Quad antecedents 26 . Point at the table? 27 . Word with onion or friendship 28 . Surety 32 . You may get these in the long run? 34 . ''Seinfeld'' character 35 . Man-mouse link 36 . Calm and relaxed 37 . Men of learning, e.g. 38 . Irritated condition 39 . Bark up the wrong tree 40 . Measure of dignity Down 41 . Pertaining to birth 1. Plaintive sounds 19 . Varieties 40 . Fire engine feature 42 . Endowed with feeling 2. Land in the sea 22 . Birler's base 41 . Round-the-clock 44 . Trouble-making Norse god 3. Bugler's high point? 25 . Capital of 43 . Jams or links 45 . Cholers 4. Likable candidate of Cambodia? 44 . Part of a jack-in- 46 . Subcompact's smaller kin the past 26 . Fit and trim the-box 49 . Maintenance costs 5. Drives recklessly 28 . Sire, biblically 46 . Their actions speak 52 . Auction necessities 6. Ones in the woods? speaking for them 53 . Before, before now 7. Perry's penman 29 . Jefferson's home 47 . ''Stormy Weather'' 54 . Riddle you may beat? 8. One-time connection 30 . Part of a libretto, songwriter 56 . Some car payments 9. Takes it easy, in a perhaps 48 . Some bar signs 58 . Bow part way 31 . Pt. of NASCAR 49 . Bill Walton's alma 59 . Treater's term 10 . Mink relatives 32 . They are not mater 60 . Forest fledgling 11 . Jai ___ (fast-paced returned properly 50 . Word with mouth 61 . Word with fine or graphic court game) 33 . Prepare apples for or excuse 62 . Adjusts, as a spark plug 12 . Vault location baking 51 . Group of toads 63 . Drudges 13 . One seeking results 34 . Stock holders 52 . Speed deterrent 37 . Four-legged herder 55 . Genetic stuff 38 . H.H. Munro's 57 . Have chits out pseudonym

12 Puzzle #12 Across 1. Drops out of contention 6. Elephant baby 10 . Close-mouthed one 14 . Moon of Uranus 15 . Sunburn soother 16 . Circle of light 17 . Unit of flux 18 . Agree, in a way 20 . Pouchlike structure 21 . Restaurant bill 23 . Steep in brine 24 . Like an old bucket of song 26 . Disembogue 28 . Agree, in a way 33 . Small and sprightly 34 . 1953 Pulitzer winner for drama 35 . Large tub 37 . Share holder? 38 . Peninsula in northeastern Egypt 40 . Natalie Wood's sister 41 . So-so score for the course 42 . Vehicle for the course 43 . Diametrically opposed Down 44 . Agree, in a way 1. Some greasy 22 . Yon lady 43 . Computer adjunct 48 . Roman poet substances 25 . Obote's successor 45 . Rat or beaver, e.g. 49 . From another planet 2. Region 26 . Burial place for 46 . Fir tree 50 . Goteborg resident 3. Pain, e.g. Enceladus 47 . Words with mode 53 . Distinctive and stylish 4. It may be smoked 27 . Bethlehem trio or francaise elegance 5. Subside 28 . Beatles album 50 . Airport hazard 54 . First name among ironmen 6. Where the chips are 29 . Rap sheet name, 51 . Whitecap 57 . Agree, in a way down? perhaps 52 . Just gets by (with 60 . Resort lake 7. Hit the runway softly 30 . Kings Peak range ''out'') 62 . Tandoor, for one 8. Birling surface 31 . Skiers' cover-alls? 53 . 1993 Oscar winner 63 . Peruvian capital 9. Low, swampy marsh 32 . Hawaiian isle Thompson 64 . Happening 10 . Holly Golightly 36 . Cascades lake 55 . Top-notch 65 . Notable exploit creator 38 . Hector Hugh Munro 56 . Riga denizen 66 . Good earth 11 . Waikiki wingding 39 . Made angry 58 . Corner letter? 67 . Stopwatch button 12 . Pendulum paths 40 . Theater box 59 . ''Blame It on ___'' 13 . Word with ship or 42 . Musky cat 61 . Old greeting soul 19 . Stage whisper

13 Puzzle #13 Across 1. Boxing champ Willard 5. Seed used in cooking 11 . TV powerhouse 14 . Chimney shaft 15 . Mary-Kate's twin 16 . Flamenco exclamation 17 . JUMPER 19 . Rogue 20 . Whale or herring follower 21 . Zodiac constellation 22 . Cymbal relative 23 . Crumpet cousin 25 . RUNNER 27 . Rummy game 29 . Crossword fan, presumably 30 . Container with a spigot 31 . Rascally tots 34 . Check one's figures 38 . WALKER 42 . Texas teammate 43 . Tenor's higher-up 44 . Words with roll or tear 45 . Likeable president 47 . Decamp 50 . HOPPER Down 55 . Styx locale 1. NY destination 22 . Viscous 46 . Performance extra 56 . Part of a billiards table 2. Actor Wallach 23 . Snorkeling upgrade 48 . Scour for bargains 57 . Jack Ryan's employer 3. Protective head gear 24 . Gives a hoot 49 . Box made of (Abbr.) 4. Red rock town near 25 . Lively ballroom cardboard 58 . Shape Flagstaff dance 50 . Border between 59 . Wood-trimming tool 5. Hotel convenience 26 . Evoke yawns Europe and Asia 60 . SKIPPER 6. Corner key 28 . Tic-tac-toe 51 . "Sexy" lady of 64 . Hurley of "Serving Sara" 7. Traditional will? outcome, often Beatles song 65 . Cop's collar 8. "The Sandbox" 32 . Crony 52 . Popular delivery 66 . Yesteryear playwright 33 . Long-necked 53 . Crowning touch? 67 . Something fishy 9. Air instrument 54 . Peter, pumpkinwise 68 . Artichoke delicacy 10 . Ophthalmologist's 35 . Quite a few 58 . Minnesota of 69 . Kremlin veto study 36 . "I Remember billiards 11 . Campfire drink Mama" star 60 . "That's ridiculous!" 12 . Lackluster 37 . Twosomes 61 . Illinois clock setting 13 . Papyrus, e.g. 39 . Type of period 62 . Sculptor's medium 18 . Word in a Poitier 40 . Mischievous Norse 63 . Basketball film title god champions' "trophy" 41 . Tennis shot

14 Puzzle #14 Across 1. Mosey 6. Stitched line 10 . Makes clothes 14 . Artifact 15 . Opera solo 16 . Hosiery hue 17 . Playground snitch 19 . English bloke 20 . Urban roads: Abbr. 21 . Greek war god 22 . __ it up (celebrates noisily) 24 . Nest builder 25 . Lima or kidney 26 . Constellation components 28 . Stage whispers 31 . Knee-ankle connectors 32 . Nostalgic time 34 . Tiny mistake 36 . Drench 37 . Sandwich bread 38 . Lean slightly 39 . ''Gone With the Wind'' plantation 40 . Planter's purchase 41 . Chills Down 42 . Get ready to ice-skate 1. __ and crafts 18 . Makes a mistake 41 . Above-the-knee 44 . Harms 2. Butcher-shop buy 23 . ''Bali __'' jeans 45 . Roller-coaster units 3. Layered sandwiches, 24 . Depositor's holding 43 . Have breakfast 46 . Obligation for short 25 . Stationed 44 . ''Les Misérables'' 47 . Author Truman 4. Ignited 26 . Sand bar author 50 . __ dancer ('60s performer) 5. Custard-filled 27 . Jeweled crown 46 . Barbie and Ken 51 . Possesses deserts 29 . Author T.S. 47 . Applaud 54 . Hawaiian party 6. Filled completely 30 . Soprano Beverly 48 . Coupe or 55 . Knitter's sphere 7. Historical times 31 . Retired airplane: convertible 58 . Envelope abbr. 8. Feel poorly Abbr. 49 . Butter portions 59 . Wicked 9. ''Come up and see 32 . Gets ready, for 50 . Smooth-talking 60 . Gal's guy me'' actress short 51 . Heavenly headgear 61 . Fence part 10 . Agile thief's target 33 . Sailor's assent 52 . Folk singer Guthrie 62 . Bar bills 11 . Canyon sound 35 . Scoreboard 53 . Ginger cookie 63 . Small porch 12 . Prepare a gift postings: Abbr. 56 . Actress Gardner 13 . Dines 40 . Absolute certainty 57 . ''Are we there __?''

15 Puzzle #15 Across 1. ___ Harbour, Fla. 4. Runs while sitting 9. Jockey's persuader 13 . Lindros or Roberts 15 . Gallows' loop 16 . Symbol of servitude 17 . Prie-___ (prayer bench) 18 . Fruit container 19 . Moonshine ingredient 20 . Popular summer squash 22 . Italian sports cars, briefly 23 . Component used as fertilizer 24 . Dark plain on the moon 26 . Considered 29 . Wise person 30 . Dog lovers' org. 33 . Ishmael's people 34 . Type of pilot 35 . La ___ Tar Pits 36 . Place to demonstrate a green thumb 39 . Cake decorator 40 . With a chrome dome 41 . Blackmore's ''Lorna ___'' 42 . Bering or Formosa (Abbr.) Down 43 . Binding obligation 1. Board partner 21 . Avian tuft 38 . Firefighter Red 44 . Holy 2. Nev. neighbor 22 . 100 square meters 43 . Faint 45 . Construction area 3. Stead 25 . Highly excited 44 . Geometric figure 46 . ''King Kong,'' e.g. 4. Emulated a worm 26 . Lincoln's 45 . He has a small 47 . Perpendicular to the keel 5. Ill-fated vessel Confederate work force 50 . Grow and spread quickly Andrea ___ counterpart 46 . Ruhr Valley hub 54 . Coffee or vanilla 6. Kind of shark 27 . Upright, as posture 47 . Pop vocalist Lane 55 . Hard to penetrate 7. Approximated 28 . Gung ho 48 . Redness typified 56 . Secret retreat 8. Envision 29 . Besmirch 49 . Garner 58 . Ernie's partner 9. Washing machine 30 . Fervidness 51 . ''Do ___ others ...'' 59 . Prefix with state or act phase 31 . Nancy Drew author 52 . Propellers of a sort 60 . Lemmon film, ''___ la 10 . It's over your head Carolyn 53 . Silent performer Douce'' 11 . Southern dish 32 . Switch-hit? 55 . Insult, nowadays 61 . Active European volcano 12 . Authors 34 . Suppression 57 . Not yet processed 62 . Fourteen pounds 14 . Pickle, once 35 . It has florets 63 . Stitch 37 . Border on

16 Puzzle #16 Across 1. Shore dinner order 9. Lunchroom staple, briefly 15 . Wartime warning 16 . Gully 17 . Big name in publishing 18 . Series shower 19 . Water holder 20 . Affected the opinion of 22 . Dreyer's partner in ice cream 23 . Controversial rap producer Gotti 24 . Clears 25 . Ran together 26 . Former capital of South Yemen 28 . Major leagues, in baseball slang 29 . Swell 30 . Quite competent 32 . Refraction consequence, perhaps 33 . It's sunk at the end of the game 35 . Met works 38 . Some links Down 42 . Bridge declaration 1. World's largest 13 . Easter basket item 37 . Run riot 43 . Some profs inland body of water 14 . Pop singer with the 39 . Biblical land 44 . Faint 2. Sitcom family name Starlighters 40 . In 45 . CPA's output 3. Blows in, so to speak 21 . NFL stat 41 . Epicure's 46 . Reserve 4. Take off 25 . Gunny condiment 47 . Field 5. Barrister's deg. 27 . Marlins' div. 43 . __ favor 48 . Snappy dresser 6. Dusky times, in 28 . Prepares for 46 . Memory units verse eavesdropping 49 . Way in the boondocks 49 . Smack 7. Prospered 29 . Cartoonist Keane 51 . Sets (on) 50 . Clammy 8. Honest sort and others 52 . Sulking 51 . Jayvee athlete, 9. Puréed spreads 31 . Met works perhaps 54 . "Swordfish" actor 10 . Reared 32 . Porsche-designed 53 . Tour for drivers?: 56 . Go back and forth 11 . It may come after monster tank of WWII Abbr. 57 . Early Diana Rigg role you 34 . The downside of 55 . Zoological duct 58 . Gym get-up 12 . "Billy Budd," for "what goes around 59 . List of priors one comes around" 35 . Losers 36 . So far

17 Puzzle #17 Across 1. Kitty 5. Built-in weapons for 1-Across 10 . Standing on the summit of 14 . Ratio phrase 15 . Eaglet nursery 16 . Became a donor 17 . Any moment during Sir Galahad's journey? 19 . Supplements, with "out" 20 . Abu Dhabi's fed. 21 . Watermelon discards 22 . Danger signal 23 . "Mama" Cass ___ 25 . Biblical fratricide victim 26 . Where duck calls are displayed? 32 . That is, in Latin 35 . Arizona tribesman 36 . Not nuts 37 . ___ Tin Tin 38 . Fathered 39 . Coq au ___ (chicken dish) 40 . Dynamic prefix 42 . ___ instant (immediately) 43 . Borscht veggies Down 45 . Every silicon-based mineral? 1. Annoyed state 22 . "Aladdin" monkey 44 . Links legend Ernie 48 . Expressway 2. Regular customer's 24 . Mensa stats 46 . WBA bout ender 49 . Sandy land order, with "the" 25 . At the center of 47 . Mentally mixed up 53 . ___ Detoo ("Star Wars" 3. Pittsburgh product 27 . Ceramic 50 . 1999 Super Bowl android) 4. Message from the dinnerware MVP John 55 . Garbo or Bergman, e.g. Titanic 28 . Islam's sacred text 51 . Angel portrayer 58 . Poet's meadow 5. Per ___ income 29 . Go on a certain Della 59 . Transport by truck 6. Spinks or Trotsky spree 52 . Nursery rhyme 60 . Trait of many historic 7. Like a 49-Across 30 . Part of BTU knave's loot writings? 8. Season record 31 . ___ wear (clothing 53 . Melville whaler 62 . Zoning unit column store section) 54 . Triple Crown 63 . Quitter's cry 9. Stage scenery 32 . Jordan adjoiner "jewel" 64 . Endure 10 . Eternal 33 . God, in Grenoble 55 . Tries for a tan 65 . Busy buzzers 11 . Depart 34 . Hold spellbound 56 . Candle cord 66 . Served as an interviewer 12 . More than 38 . Magnitude 57 . "Vogue" rival 67 . Henna and indigo, for two 13 . Exterminator's 41 . Maryland songbirds 60 . Sine ___ non target 43 . Censor 61 . Word with hand or 18 . Rainbow or hat speckled fish

18 Puzzle #18 Across 1. Persian Wars emperor 8. Over 15 . Fund-raiser's target 16 . Easter Island statues, e.g. 17 . Start of a quip 19 . Rodeo assistant 20 . Container weight 21 . Every relative 22 . Carrere of "Wayne's World" 24 . Second installment 26 . Quip, part 2 30 . Magician James 34 . Ted Williams, in most seasons 35 . Leisurely movements 37 . Urchin's home, perhaps 38 . Colorado NHLers, on the sports page 39 . Not behind 40 . Postgrad degrees 41 . Secondary wager 43 . Like some earrings 45 . Center of Miami? 46 . Quip, part 3 47 . Conserve Down 50 . __ Marino 1. Child measure 18 . Split 46 . Mass name 51 . Sea into which the Syr 2. Seltzer opener 23 . Tequila source 48 . Like some suspects Darya empties 3. Pablo __ y Picasso 25 . Not fooling anyone 49 . Chicken 54 . Enthusiastic overseas assent 4. What a springboard 26 . Liszt symphonic 51 . Turkish titles 56 . __ Oro: Western Sahara supplies poem 52 . Do another stint 60 . End of the quip 5. Too sensitive to 27 . Vegetable oil 53 . Abruzzi bell town 63 . Sky lights publicize, maybe compound 55 . Ways of looking at 64 . Peck's role in "The Boys 6. __ generis 28 . Gay man? things From Brazil" 7. "__ that cute?" 29 . While opening 57 . Ancient theaters 65 . Thin and frail 8. Capital of Ghana 31 . Rain clouds 58 . Where heros are 66 . Embark 9. Chan portrayer 32 . Factotum made 10 . It's near Miss. 33 . Basketball Hall of 59 . Pulitzer-winning 11 . Nag feeder Famer Dan biographer Leon 12 . She, in Salerno 35 . Scopes trial org. 61 . Law: Abbr. 13 . Tiny time pd. 36 . Predestines 62 . Carolina's __ Dee 14 . Course 42 . Near the beginning River 44 . Storefront accessories

19 Puzzle #19 Across 1. Anjou alternative 5. Girl in a Beatles title 11 . WWII figure 14 . Prefix with mate or graph 15 . Uncaring about right or wrong 16 . Australia's big bird 17 . Definition you won't hear in English class (Part 1) 19 . ''Ah, Wilderness!'' character 20 . Cruiser's rear 21 . Romance enhancer, proverbially 23 . Chile's 1973 coup victim 27 . Louise or Victoria 28 . Part 2 of the definition 32 . ''I knew it!'' 33 . Rainbow feature 34 . Bangs, clacks, e.g. 38 . Cap 41 . Like Mother Hubbard 43 . Join forces 44 . Head honcho 46 . Its make-up is many years 48 . Indian lentil dish Down 49 . Part 3 of the definition 1. Calls from the flock 24 . Mauna --- 50 . Walk-on roles 53 . Get off one's chest 2. Unseat (Hawaiian volcano) 51 . Envelope encl. 56 . Dillon's job 3. Eyelid annoyance 25 . Recent change in 52 . ''People'' or 57 . Acceptance of the way 4. ''Lord Jim'' novelist change ''Animals'' things are 5. Board game piece 26 . Kind of power plant 53 . Rubbish 59 . Horse-drawn carriage 6. Singer Grant 28 . First name in 54 . Unearthly 63 . Jackie's partner 7. Letters after CD entertainment 55 . Church members 64 . End of the definition 8. Simple chords 29 . State on Lake Erie 58 . Measly problem? 68 . Watch the kids 9. One who's seen 30 . Highway access 60 . Traditional 69 . Kids' game that might bug better times 31 . Letters of note? teaching you 10 . Word of woe 35 . Word with order or 61 . Where the femur 70 . Zone 11 . Brownish dye line and tibia meet 71 . ''You, there!'' 12 . Kiss loudly 36 . List ender 62 . Time for a 72 . Hawthorne's Prynne 13 . Recipient of 37 . Hawk revolution? 73 . Ogler's look one-on-one teaching 39 . Pastoral poem 65 . Slugger Mel of the 18 . Kind of child 40 . In addition old Giants 22 . Mischievous 42 . Juan and Quixote 66 . If broken, some 45 . Private eye people are happy, 47 . Certain degree some sad 67 . ''Hannah and --- Sisters''

20 Puzzle #20 Across 1. Refuel 6. Godzilla's stomping grounds 11 . Curative waters 14 . Siege site of 1836 15 . Potpourri emanation 16 . Scammed 17 . Ice cream treat 19 . Scandalous suffix 20 . His job is on the line 21 . Sound from a frog 22 . Seraglio 24 . Pull up to the bar? 25 . Origami need 26 . Newsman Charles 29 . Carbolic acid 31 . Throat clearers 32 . Tight as a drum 33 . Have the look 36 . Bigot's emotion 37 . Wishy-washy answer 38 . Push record 39 . ''Nope'' 40 . Spring blossom 41 . Hip swinger of note 42 . Census unit Down 44 . Presidential delivery 1. TV teacher Kotter 18 . Bone-dry 41 . Names derived 45 . Stable occupants 2. Heisman winner 23 . Last Supper from people 46 . New Mexico art colony Ameche attendees 43 . In great demand 47 . Sharpened 3. Kind of flea or dollar 24 . Parental command 44 . ''Roseanne'' 48 . Squirrel treat 4. Hollywood's 25 . Red Rose alumna Gilbert 50 . Balaam's rebuker Thurman 26 . Hawaiian island 45 . Runway figure 53 . Like an unmatched sock 5. Rain slickers 27 . Ex-Iranian VIP 46 . Whistle stops 54 . Off ramp 6. First name in horror 28 . Vim and vigor 47 . Place for an ace 57 . Relay segment films 29 . ___ full (satisfy a 48 . Years on end 58 . Indian, for one 7. Angelo's instrument debt) 49 . Cyberspace 59 . Mediterranean republic 8. The one between 30 . Centers of activity conversation 60 . ''Eldorado'' rock group Tyler and Taylor 32 . Poi-making tuber 50 . Car bar 61 . Things often passed 9. ''What ___, chopped 34 . Kind of proportions 51 . Something to build 62 . They may sport a popular liver?'' 35 . Screen material on brand 10 . Lane of ''The 37 . Be nostalgic for 52 . Marquee performer Birdcage'' 55 . Cap material? 11 . Tar's time off 56 . Be corrosive 12 . More ashen 13 . The #1 guy?

21 Puzzle #21 Across 1. It may be found in runes 6. Inbox clogger 10 . Fitness facilities 14 . Political sphere 15 . Sheltered bay 16 . Saintly sign 17 . Typesetting units 18 . Space 19 . Words that pass bills 20 . Start of some advice to chew over 23 . Fed. agency renamed in 2003 24 . Works on a wall? 25 . End to Taiwan? 26 . Heel 29 . FAA ally 31 . Tie tightly 33 . ''Groovy!'' 35 . Second-largest land animal, briefly 37 . Retreat from the heat 38 . Part 2 of the advice 42 . Concern of 23-Across 43 . Rattle the rafters Down 44 . Purpose of many vacations 1. Mealtime face-saver 21 . Path of Discovery? 45 . Recently 45 . Late-night TV name 2. Prepare, as incoming 22 . ''The Bathers'' 47 . Imminent 46 . Totally absorbed students painter 48 . Longtime tenor, 50 . Plastic piping 3. Judge's break 27 . Has one's nose to Jan 51 . ''I approve the motion!'' 4. Jiffy the grindstone 49 . Pounded down 53 . Pharmaceutical pioneer Lilly 5. Student's safety net 28 . Spanish couple? firmly 55 . Word with spoon or cup 6. Close examination 30 . Distinct variety of a 52 . Uncanny 56 . End of the advice 7. Deficient species 54 . Knocker's reply, 60 . Summit 8. Professed 32 . Slipknot formation perhaps 62 . Foxx of TV and film 9. Office missives 34 . Not merely ready 57 . Vehicle's 63 . Like some wits or cheeses 10 . Marine fish prized 36 . English king who connecting rod 64 . Wall Street signal for its roe won at Agincourt 58 . Patsy created by 65 . Tennis champ Nastase 11 . Gets without 38 . Certain Eastern Jim Davis 66 . Cut into bits charge? European 59 . Flimsy 67 . Holiday happening 12 . Heady brew 39 . Gossipy newsman 60 . Pecs neighbors 68 . Took in visually 13 . Help wanted on early radio 61 . Common legume 69 . Discontinued notice? 40 . Like some advice 41 . Greenbacks 42 . Leading Dada painter

22 Puzzle #22 Across 1. Bitter 6. Indonesian island 10 . Kind of division 14 . False identity 15 . Shah's former domain 16 . Object of worship 17 . Corpulent Crosby? 19 . Coffee center 20 . Junior 21 . Gulf or Canal 22 . Ogled 24 . Word with jump or goggles 25 . New England college town 27 . Kind of curl 30 . ''Jose Jimenez'' comedian 32 . Doughnut, perhaps 36 . Hard or soft attachment 37 . Red-coated cheese 38 . Serviceable 39 . The Confessor and G. Robinson 41 . Intrude 43 . Kind of rate or suspect 44 . Seat of King Olaf's rule 46 . Split Down 47 . Doctrine 1. New Testament 18 . Led 45 . Name in a Stephen 48 . Contents of a Paris grid chronicle 23 . Follow Foster song title 49 . Very much a fan of 2. Silver salmon 24 . Hotbed? 51 . Take the top off, in 50 . Thrashes 3. Neck and neck 26 . Wander a way 52 . Fuss 4. CSA soldier 27 . Searched for bugs 53 . Penalizes through 54 . Atlantan that may go out of 5. Lively 28 . Minister in the pay bounds 6. Sailing technique military 54 . Domino preceder 57 . Dynamic introduction 7. Painted Desert locale 29 . Novelist Shaw or Minnesota follower 59 . Shoshonean language 8. Creative, innovative 31 . Accumulate gases 55 . Admit openly 62 . State group on the surface 56 . Georg Buchner's 63 . Crawford cudgels? 9. Saxon starter 33 . ''American Idol'' ''Leonce and ___'' 66 . Author Morrison 10 . Think Toronto's runner-up 58 . River near Siegen, 67 . Problem that breaks out terrific? 34 . Dirty Harry Germany 68 . Santa's first name 11 . Sulfur attribute portrayer 59 . College credit 69 . Do tar work 12 . Questionnaire box, 35 . Japanese martial 60 . Kind of pattern 70 . Bottom-heavy shape perhaps art 61 . Exxon predecessor 71 . Heated conflict 13 . Word with hand or 40 . Grade beginning 64 . Gems, slangily rags 42 . Prayer beads 65 . It could come after you

23 Puzzle #23 Across 1. One-time Winter Palace dwellers 6. Agrippa's wrap 10 . Drink without a pause 14 . Open, as a bottle 15 . Graven image 16 . Sprinter's assignment 17 . Alternative to a towelette 19 . Word with catch or hang 20 . Chest thumper 21 . Terrier type 22 . Reversed an action 23 . Lollobrigida of ''Hotel Paradiso'' 24 . Increase threefold 25 . Bordeaux wine 28 . Kampala is its capital 30 . Pervasive emanations 31 . Practices on the canvas 32 . Greenskeeper's supply 35 . Exemplar of innocence 36 . Geographic depression 37 . Stew pod 38 . Deal prerequisite 39 . Backing for an exhibit Down 40 . Like Alexander 1. Porous limestone 22 . Upscale coffee pots 40 . Brief vacation 41 . Scale's reading 2. Salon sound 23 . Type of bag 42 . With little effort 43 . Bug on the road 3. Teenager's bane 24 . Mountain pool 43 . Misshapen 44 . Pipe types 4. Newspaper, 25 . Advanced math 44 . Finishing nails 46 . Presidential power derogatorily course 45 . Accumulate, as a 47 . Word with charlotte or Ballet 5. Biological subdivision 26 . Island feast debt 48 . Field of endeavor 6. Fibula neighbor 27 . Supplier of 46 . Bulletproof apparel 50 . Cul-de-___ 7. Fragrance pressure? 48 . Saharan 53 . Climax beginning 8. Surgeon's work 28 . Sports surprise 49 . Natural coat 54 . Where to find time on one's attire 29 . Olympic medalist 50 . Place in a hold hand? 9. Word with thumbs Devers 51 . Feel pain 56 . Point of honor settler, once or ears 31 . Window frame 52 . African republic 57 . Suggestion 10 . Replicated, in a 33 . Verbalized 54 . Reporter's question 58 . See ya in Hawaii? way 34 . Dinner and a 55 . In the style of 59 . Agile 11 . Certain woven movie, perhaps 60 . Equalizing allowance container 36 . They may be 61 . Went off course 12 . Up to such time as checked 13 . Crystal-lined stone 37 . Nabisco cookie 18 . Bombastic speech 39 . Leprechaun land

24 Puzzle #24 Across 1. Painter Chagall 5. January 2 event 9. Bureau 14 . Toast-topper, perhaps 15 . Product mention 16 . Star-crossed lover 17 . First mate? 18 . Indian tourist mecca 19 . Allow inside 20 . Star of 38-Across 23 . Benz ending 24 . Cost to be dealt in 25 . Fitted within one another 27 . Nova follower 30 . Brief contact 32 . Tin Man's desire 33 . Transmission part 34 . Electrifying swimmers? 38 . Hit show starring 20-Across 41 . Plateau relative 42 . London Magazine essayist 43 . Born yesterday 44 . Not the final copy 46 . School notebook 47 . Bedtime recitation Down 50 . Interstate hauler 1. Lot's land 21 . Rita in ''West Side 40 . Opposite of 51 . Female octopus 2. Pierce portrayer Story'' persona 52 . Co-star of 20-Across 3. Nurture 22 . Get used (to) 45 . Cry uncle 58 . Isolated 4. Prepared for battle (Var.) 46 . Blow the foam off 60 . 26 of 32 counties of Ireland 5. Rival of Athens 26 . Deceitful tricks a brew? 61 . Highly rated 6. Pond growth 27 . Wooden gap-filler 47 . Distinct stage 62 . Beauty parlor 7. Fly on a hook 28 . Relinquish 48 . Hang loose 63 . Where most humans reside 8. Yipes! 29 . They row, row, row 49 . American 64 . Social blunder for Nanette? 9. Large waders your boat chameleon 65 . Put forth effort 10 . Mortar tray 30 . Suit 50 . It's over Jordan, on a map 66 . Fermented honey beverage 11 . Irish patriot Robert 31 . Indian prince 53 . Twenty quires 67 . Laurel in ''The Music Box'' 12 . Parisian waterway 33 . It's played in rounds 54 . Ascend 13 . Packed a gun 35 . Camelot character 55 . Like some points 36 . Like early television 56 . ''___ and the King 37 . Tarot reader of Siam'' 39 . Stiller's partner 57 . Type of big city light 59 . Here-there link

25 Puzzle #25 Across 1. Homemade single-shot pistol 7. Saw eye to eye 12 . Commentator Clift 14 . Provided the entertainment for 16 . In a specific order 18 . Gloomy 19 . Scotsman's topper 20 . Item pressed in a bad situation 22 . Reason for purchasing tickets 24 . When etoiles come out 25 . Peyton Manning's bro 26 . Note on some failed tests 27 . Congressional assistant 29 . "Sabre Dance" composer Khachaturian 30 . Fast food sandwich that debuted in 1981 32 . Ends 34 . Song with the line "Oh, baby, that's what I like!" 37 . Everett of "Citizen Kane" 38 . Titan, formerly 39 . Meaney in "The Road to Down Wellville" 1. Lemon tool 17 . Too cool to fathom 40 . Sch. home to the 40 . Affectedly dainty 2. Phrase used in wills 21 . It gets chalked Horned Frogs 41 . Measuring cup marks, for 3. Made really curly 23 . Polite refusal 42 . Best Actress winner short 4. Moo goo ___ pan 27 . Commedia dell'___ at age 21 45 . Kind of tour Robin Williams 5. Hardly suitable 28 . Jr.'s jr. 43 . Heavy emotional did in Iraq in 2003: abbr. 6. "Sorry, ___ winner" 29 . Al ___ (city in Iraq baggage 46 . Letters in an early 1990s 7. "Pee-wee's war news) 44 . Carrey's "Lemony financial scandal Playhouse" character 31 . Anderson Cooper's Snicket" costar 48 . Word after pie or eye 8. Folding phrase employer 46 . Play real loud 49 . Yield 9. Reynolds who 32 . Erik Menendez's 47 . Labor leader 53 . Cigarette pack word renamed himself "Turd brother Chavez 54 . 1970s rock concert sites Ferguson" on SNL's 33 . Island: Fr. 48 . Go to bed 55 . "The answer's right in front "Celebrity Jeopardy!" 34 . Crawl info during 50 . Have the 411 of you!" 10 . Odd, as a range of winter weather 51 . Agnus ___ 57 . Mazatlan miss knowledge 35 . Epic epoch 52 . Suffix for palm or 58 . "Let's do this thing" 11 . Like ghost towns 36 . Detector detection amor 59 . Ninja Turtle's hangout 13 . ___ Tin Tin 37 . Cancun tanks 56 . Dollar divs. 60 . "No you didn't!" 15 . Bib overalls materials

26 Puzzle #26 Across 1. Sonic boomerang 5. It'll hold water 9. Style is important here 14 . ''___ she blows!'' 15 . Lexicographer Webster 16 . ''Fantasy Island'' sighting 17 . Honey of a spot 18 . Granny Smith throwaway 19 . Start of a famous Schwarzenegger quote 20 . Common contraction 21 . What a film director does? 23 . Decennial count 25 . Like many a contrast 26 . Fable monsters 28 . Shrimp habitat 32 . Some artists' studios 34 . Chief Norse god 37 . Painting type 38 . Zoo attraction 39 . Exertions 42 . Chinese cosmic principle 43 . It's drawn with a rifle? 45 . It's fit to be tied 46 . Duke of drama Down 48 . Manuscript copyist 1. Rule of conduct 21 . Invoke misfortune 44 . Heterogeneous 50 . Mormon founder 2. Baked potato topper 22 . Lacks, in brief 47 . Sprint alternative 52 . Third word of 19-Across 3. What superheroes 24 . York or Pepper 49 . Tongue-burning 55 . Lets down, maybe do? (Abbr.) 51 . Soda fountain 58 . What a skydiver does? 4. Miner's quest 27 . Postprandial seat, offering 62 . Emolument 5. Sheathe perhaps 53 . Goes public 63 . Conspicuous 6. Word with steel or 29 . What a 54 . ''___ and his 64 . Steal money or the money virgin sharecropper may do? money ...'' stolen 7. British peers 30 . Cut features 56 . Condensed 65 . Wear a hole in the rug 8. Mitchell's Butler 31 . Abnegate wrap-up 66 . Dentist's direction 9. Area of influence 32 . Science class 57 . ''___ like old times'' 67 . Kind of wolf 10 . Like a malamute adjuncts 58 . Part of a WWII 68 . Way around London 11 . Corporal 33 . Trade org. since exclamation 69 . Michaelmas daisy punishment unit 1960 59 . Nero's bird 70 . Runners support it 12 . Clued-in regarding 35 . A dwarf 60 . County on the 71 . They travel with the band 13 . Carefully written 36 . Hot tempers Strait of Dover 40 . Type of wound 61 . First-class 41 . Restaurant faux 65 . Harper Valley org. pas

27 Puzzle #27 Across 1. Burn 5. Sought, with "for" 10 . Get into a spot 14 . Theater area 15 . Added to an already tight schedule 17 . "Rag Mop" brothers 18 . Unleashes 19 . Bologna, for one 21 . Stone bracket 22 . Run out on 23 . Like a good waiter 24 . Show interest 25 . Country's Tucker 26 . It uses a larger scale 27 . Shocks 28 . Slide area 31 . Word from a hammer wielder 32 . Some dice rolls 33 . Held up, maybe 34 . "__ takers?" 35 . Fervent 36 . Dispatch 37 . Best Actor of 1958 Down 38 . Biblical place of plenty 1. Decked out 13 . Showed reverence, 35 . Oater sights 39 . Happens to 2. Was heading right maybe 36 . Enticement 42 . No neatnik for 16 . Pole vault units? 37 . Most 43 . Social welfare org. since 3. For all time 20 . Comply with well-mannered 1946 4. Exercised 23 . Lost color 38 . Photo finish 44 . Emotional self-control 24 . Homer's daughter 39 . Cake type 46 . Parts of fractions 5. Not forward 25 . Botulin, e.g. 40 . Toughen 48 . End 6. Hunker down 27 . Concurs 41 . "Life is ticking" 49 . Some golf course 7. Writer Vonnegut 28 . Was harshly critical company restrictions 8. Lyrical period 29 . Thin out 42 . First film to win an 50 . Jam component? 9. Harmonizing 30 . Existed Oscar for Best 51 . School handout melodies 32 . Retain some Animated Feature 52 . Exalt 10 . Illinois River port dignity 44 . Some UPS 53 . Crock-Pot concoction 11 . Clayey soil 33 . City that doubled in deliveries 12 . Out of bed population from 1970 45 . Deere product to 1990 47 . Huge amount

28 Puzzle #28 Across 1. Unsure one's question, perhaps 5. Some shoes 10 . Stalk of bananas, e.g. 14 . Old Testament place 15 . ''Cosmicomics'' writer Calvino 16 . Sky bear 17 . Bringing up the rear 18 . University of Florida mascot 19 . Ready to pick 20 . Classic Lee film 23 . Herzegovina partner 24 . ''___ Mio'' 25 . Mix with a spoon 27 . Like the scent of pines, perhaps 31 . Classic film comedy 36 . Maternal 37 . New or old follower 38 . Small earrings 40 . Souvenir from the beach? 41 . Word in a Rick James song title 44 . Schwarzenegger film Down 47 . Nonviolent arcade game 1. Famous person, 21 . Lady in a Beatles 43 . Chicken style 49 . Indian garment informally song 45 . Monks 50 . Cons' quarters 2. Hersey locale 22 . Very useful plant 46 . Type of hands 53 . Capital of the Bahamas 3. Rookery structures 26 . Learning method 48 . Grabs some 57 . Stephen King novel turned 4. Hardly mild 28 . They're often raw shuteye film 5. They might be 29 . Prefer not to get 51 . Groucho's tattooed 60 . Sometimes it's not taken dipped in inkwells? hit lady 61 . Borders 6. State with a Green 30 . Strong desires 52 . ''Cosmos'' author 62 . Lively, like a shampoo? River 31 . Weapon handle 54 . Prolonged attack 63 . Lock or knock attachment 7. San ___, Calif. 32 . Mythical meanie 55 . ''It's ___ country!'' 64 . Bench site 8. Walks heavily 33 . Deal with, as a 56 . Out-and-out 65 . Writer James 9. Down feeling challenge 57 . Neither here nor 66 . Flat-topped elevation 10 . Walter Reed, e.g. 34 . Sally Field role there 67 . Vegas casino razed in 1996 11 . Quartet with one 35 . Byrnes and Roush 58 . ''Ben'' extras 68 . ___-do-well out sick 39 . Scoundrels 59 . Tear apart 12 . Place to catch 42 . Place of peace and 60 . Southdown male many highlights quiet 13 . West of Tinseltown

29 Puzzle #29 Across 1. "Terrible" tsar 5. Tiny power source 9. Like the "waves of grain" 14 . Bach's "__, Joy of Man's Desiring" 15 . H.H. Munro's pseudonym 16 . Room, in Rouen 17 . Whatnot display area 20 . Twisted thread 21 . Lamb-in-pita sandwich 22 . Is in debt 23 . Word after Big Band or Reagan 25 . 10 C-notes 27 . Rec room item 33 . Hurricane center 35 . Flower support 36 . 2002 financial scandal company 37 . Corker 39 . Thrown weapon 42 . Football field measure 43 . Dancing Castle 45 . Alum 47 . Parts of psyches Down 48 . Design on Charlie Brown's 1. H-M connection 24 . FBI employees 49 . Aim shirt 2. Caesar's "I came" 26 . When the French 50 . Opine indiscreetly 52 . "Am __ early?" 3. Sale warning fry? 51 . Steering aid 53 . Outback runner 4. Cell centers 27 . "Moby Dick" ship 54 . GE and GM 54 . Car sticker abbr. 5. Question co-owner 55 . Reduce the speed 57 . Vaulted church area 6. Orange-flavored 28 . Energy of 60 . More strange instant drink 29 . Last Greek letter 56 . Carousel or ferris 64 . Beach wear 7. "You bet" 30 . Gray matter wheel 67 . Cowboy contest 8. Millionth of a meter 31 . Prayer start 58 . Mast 68 . Religious abstention 9. Balaam's rebuker 32 . Comes to a stop 59 . Cato's being 69 . Mtn. stat 10 . Furniture wood 33 . Mother of Chas. 61 . Cowboy Roy's 70 . Stockholm native 11 . Overloaded, as a 34 . Doctor Zhivago partner 71 . Ridge on a guitar neck fuse 38 . Expanded, as a 62 . Zeno's home 72 . Harvest 12 . Model MacPherson compressed computer 63 . "Let us know," on 13 . Football officials file an invitation 18 . Composer Jerome 40 . Museum collection 65 . Nemesis and others 41 . $.37 for the first 66 . ABA member 19 . King of filmdom ounce, e.g. 44 . Chow down 46 . Sinister spirit

30 Puzzle #30 Across 1. Tone down 5. Lacking required skills 10 . J. Child's measure 14 . Watering at the mouth 15 . Active start 16 . Agatha's contemporary 17 . ''Fiddler on the Roof'' star, combined form 19 . Past participle of lie 20 . Wrath 21 . Dealer's request 22 . Puts in office 24 . Some till fillers 25 . Comes about 26 . Used a hook and line 29 . Public square 30 . Mantle teammate 31 . Brining need 32 . Abominable 36 . Prudish one 37 . ''--- Coins in the Fountain'' 38 . ''--- at the Races'' (Marx Bros.) 39 . Bring into harmony 40 . Pretentious Down 41 . In solitary 1. Word in a DeNiro 18 . Prides of lions 41 . Wedding way 42 . Ram sign title 23 . Ms. Taylor 43 . Deteriorate 44 . Used a rotary phone 2. Teen follower? 24 . Famous designer, 44 . A way to be sure 45 . Auctioned again 3. ''Encore!'' combined form? 45 . Oscar de la --- 47 . Write-off 4. Psyche part 25 . One place to find 46 . ''Purple People ---'' 48 . Lions and tigers and bears, 5. Pressed cats (Sheb Wooley hit) e.g. 6. They may be out on 26 . Fuse 47 . Faithful 49 . Malodorous a limb measurements 48 . Sport fisherman's 50 . Kimono sash 7. Cigar ending 27 . Not one catch 53 . Matter or body start 8. Prior to 28 . Cheshire cat's 49 . Rode the wind 54 . ''Cape Fear'' actress, 9. Put up with feature 50 . Ornamental arch combined form 10 . Bald actor, 29 . Segments 51 . Get the better of 57 . British gun combined form? 31 . Destroy 52 . Highway stopovers 58 . Utopian 11 . Prop up documents, in a way 55 . Keat's work 59 . Hymn to Apollo 12 . Narrow cuts 33 . Punk rocker Billy 56 . Tach reading 60 . Wear for Indira Gandhi 13 . Jots down 34 . Space between the 61 . Front for wed or married dotted lines 62 . Shea denizens 35 . Watched carefully 37 . Sudden collapse into failure

31 Puzzle #31 Across 1. Parsley piece 6. Something to gather around 10 . ''The Whales of August'' co-star 14 . Belly to the ground 15 . Agate variety 16 . Clarinet cousin 17 . Unreal tender 20 . Inclined 21 . Pat on the buns? 22 . Thistlelike plant 23 . Tousle 24 . Copied 25 . Wear away through erosion 28 . Purloin 29 . Brylcreem unit? 32 . Bingo relative 33 . One sheet to the wind? 34 . Theater level 35 . It has unreal chambers 38 . Kind of market or circus 39 . Reduces friction, in a way 40 . Makes eyes at 41 . Ritter or Avery 42 . Feed to surfeit Down 43 . Happy emoticon 1. Stray advocate, 19 . Abound 42 . Irene of ''Fame'' 44 . Member of ''The Godfather'' briefly 23 . Suffix with Wrestle 43 . Slip through the cast 2. Theatrical object 24 . Unreal name cracks 45 . Make the acquaintance of 3. Sports broadcaster's 25 . Toward the stern 44 . Good-looker (Var.) 46 . Part of a round trip dread 26 . Comic legend 45 . ''___ Cane'' (1962 49 . One with rhythm 4. Quaint quarters 27 . Like some gloves film) 50 . Halloween word 5. Escape from 28 . Merrily 46 . Girl in a Beatles 53 . Unreal formal items 6. Drivers' warnings 29 . Handy sort tune 56 . Bit of mosaic 7. Reference material 30 . Coincide 47 . Abu Dhabi honcho 57 . Where the boyz are 8. Kind of flour 31 . ''Heavens to'' 48 . Pinball 58 . Be of use to 9. Election day woman transgression 59 . Affectedly cultured benchmark 33 . Descendant 49 . Like Franklin's Richard 60 . Foreign currency 10 . Spoil 34 . Aboveboard, 61 . Words of agreement 11 . Egyptian bird slangily 50 . Obnoxious young'un 12 . Seafood serving 36 . Gilbert & Sullivan 13 . Alternative to high operetta 51 . Stew or miscellany water 37 . They are always 52 . Capital on a fjord 18 . Contrariwise the host 54 . Debt acknowledgement 55 . ''___ Maria''

32 Puzzle #32 Across 1. ___ Romeo 5. Apple center 9. Reagan's daughter 14 . Farmer's place 15 . Famous last word 16 . Ladybug's lunch, perhaps 17 . Important office 18 . Season of penitence 19 . Bacteria 20 . Song that could carry you away 23 . Printer's dashes 24 . West of Hollywood 25 . Tract ending 26 . Young feller 29 . Song that could carry you away 32 . Ranis' garments 35 . Grazing land 36 . Arcade patron, perhaps 37 . Have a bias 38 . Out of joint 40 . Make even 41 . Garden beauty 42 . Wipe lightly Down 43 . Fine rains 1. Sun-dried brick 21 . Aussie flock, 45 . Longhorns, etc. 44 . Song that could carry you 2. ''Rosemary's Baby'' perhaps 46 . Mystery author ___ away author 22 . Senatorial wraps Jackson Braun 48 . Dry, as in wine 3. Tires 27 . Northern inhabitant 47 . Scottish 49 . Intention 4. ''___ McBeal'' 28 . Acceleration forces landowners 50 . First name in spy novels 5. Opera's Maria 29 . Belarus capital 51 . Fuss 51 . Is down with 6. Egg dish 30 . Excuse 52 . Wedding site 54 . Song that could carry you 7. Place to do more 31 . Room at the top 53 . Aquarium away than separate? 32 . Freudian mistakes, scavenger 58 . On the ball 8. Twists together e.g. 55 . October birthstone 60 . Word with cafe or film 9. Heathens 33 . Condor nest, e.g. 56 . Former Venetian 61 . Wee bit 10 . High point 34 . Insurance for a magistrate 62 . Union term 11 . Mystery novels, rained-out game 57 . Quote 63 . Knight's oath e.g. 38 . Firefighter Red 58 . ___ mode 64 . Baht spender 12 . Tiny of literature 39 . Emergency cash 59 . Godfather 65 . Place for a bracelet 13 . Personality parts 43 . ''The Magic 66 . Cravings Mountain'' author 67 . Peerage member

33 Puzzle #33 Across 1. Bestial hideaway 5. Letter before epsilon 10 . Frank's daughter 14 . Lot of rows to hoe? 15 . Lunchbox cookies 16 . Mild expletive 17 . Chinese restaurant offering 19 . ___ mater 20 . Range of vision 21 . Secret store 22 . Preamble 23 . Heroic narrative 24 . Baseball league 25 . Basic commodity 28 . Northwestern U.S. capital 30 . Kind of premiere 31 . Well-defined prevailing wind 35 . Start for lock or knock 36 . Earthenware jars 37 . Smuggler's weight, perhaps 38 . Surpassing everything 40 . Spanish title of respect 41 . Some siblings 42 . Show for critics 43 . Union of old Down 46 . Long stoles 1. Be without 22 . Tense choice? 40 . Disney dog 47 . Films with casts of 2. Need liniment 23 . Type of ballot 42 . Taken to the thousands 3. Word with Age or 24 . Pageant contestant cleaners 48 . One of the world's religions cross 25 . Absorbent stick 43 . Enclosed 50 . Gift for a malihini 4. Business solicitor, 26 . Musical sound automobile 53 . Computer insert for short 27 . They may be fine 44 . State one's belief 54 . Tense tennis situation 5. Senility 28 . Ducks and most 45 . Western scene, 56 . Charge for a hand delivery? 6. Susan's soap role people have them e.g. 57 . Blow away 7. Poland's Walesa 29 . Viva voce 46 . Five-alarmer, e.g. 58 . Tuftlike mass 8. Strong puff 31 . Comic King 48 . ''___ La Douce'' 59 . Orderly and systematic 9. Burro 32 . One from Hanover 49 . When it's saved it's 60 . Condition of many fences 10 . Extremely sad films 33 . Balm ingredient, taken 61 . Porgy and bass 11 . Dome-shaped perhaps 50 . 1953 Caron role structure 34 . Even opposite 51 . He lived for 905 12 . Title giver 36 . ''Wanna make years 13 . Sixth president something ___?'' 52 . Yen 18 . Heat to the boiling 39 . Is indebted 54 . Help at the point checkout counter 55 . Switch setting

34 Puzzle #34 Across 1. Indecent companion 5. Debuted 11 . Tackle 14 . Comic strip dog 15 . Copy illegally 16 . Dijon drink 17 . Ad head 19 . Wire measure 20 . Boards Amtrak 21 . Little wave 23 . Melville effort 24 . Furnish for free 25 . Informs, fink-style 28 . Sought help, in a way 31 . ''Clash by Night'' playwright 32 . Track tipsters 33 . Short highway? 34 . They may be strained in young families 35 . Comically exaggerated 36 . Comic vignette 37 . Tree with tough, useful wood 38 . Impressionist Claude 39 . Knight or rook, e.g. Down 40 . They're cold-blooded 1. Take it on the chin, 18 . Greek island 39 . Intrinsically 42 . Tank stock, perhaps say 22 . Group of seals 41 . Dickens child 43 . Energetic dance of the 2. Utopian place 24 . Emulate Dante's 42 . Traces of color 1930s 3. NBA legend Peak 44 . Canada and snow, 44 . Surround Chamberlain 25 . ''Three's Company'' e.g. 45 . Dumas dueler 4. Does a freezer- landlord 45 . Off-course 47 . Service awards related chore 26 . An Astaire 46 . Ostrich look-alike 51 . Interview staple 5. Cruise control or CD 27 . Ad head 47 . Summer's sign? 52 . Ad head player, e.g. 28 . ''___ a Horseman'' 48 . Cookie snack 54 . Riddle-me-___ (children's 6. It might be grand 29 . New York city 49 . Decoy to dealers book catchword) 7. Plays a wrong note 30 . Heads of France 50 . Coyote St. 55 . Build a fire under, say 8. Rebel slave Turner 32 . U.S. chief justice 53 . ___ Gatos, Calif. 56 . Olympian queen 9. It goes on and on 1836-64 57 . Yevtushenko's ''Babi ___'' 10 . Mocks 35 . Lip woe 58 . Complicated situations 11 . Ad head 36 . ''Don't move!'' 59 . Clock sound 12 . Transportation 38 . Lightweight mode recorder 13 . Time to give and get

35 Puzzle #35 Across 1. Weightlifters count them 5. Pueblo material 10 . What you can take from me 14 . Did a takeoff on 15 . Show to be false 16 . Request for permission 17 . Flamingo or stork 19 . Like a yellow banana 20 . Lemon 21 . Becomes free of 22 . Free-for-all 23 . Hint at, with "to" 25 . Doctor's org. 27 . Wray of "King Kong" 28 . New drivers, often 29 . Cajun side 32 . Blade name 33 . Dry, in a wine cellar 34 . Gradually withdrawn 35 . "The Singing Cowboy" 38 . Magician's hiding place 41 . British WWII fliers 42 . Picket fence features 46 . Source of lemons, sometimes Down 48 . Welcome sound, to one's 1. Unanalyzed 18 . Dozes off 43 . In the main ears information 22 . Part of MGM 44 . Stolen at sea 49 . Hadrian's "hello" 2. Shoulder piece 24 . Like new wine 45 . Grim Reaper 50 . Cereal box letters 3. Street vendor 26 . Calendar letter accessories 51 . Bright yellow 4. Star Wars initials sequence 47 . Creature's home, in 52 . Fork over 5. Have words 29 . Wallace of "E.T." film 54 . Succeed in life 6. Young socialites 30 . Words of empathy 48 . Old-time 57 . Lab animal 7. Memorial notice 31 . Heater of the schoolteacher 58 . Guitarist Clapton 8. Tuition check taker future 51 . Seize, in a saying 59 . Constant talker 9. LAX posting 33 . Links legend Sam 53 . Desktop symbol 61 . Golden rule preposition 10 . Land unit 36 . Frequent foe of 55 . "Beetle Bailey" dog 62 . Crawled out of bed 11 . Rear end feature Navratilova 56 . Fab number, in 63 . Make tracks 12 . How to go from 37 . Egypt and Syr., rock-'n'-roll 64 . Hammerhead part church once 59 . Classic two-seaters 65 . Sleep sound 13 . Under the table 38 . Manage to find 60 . "Scram!" 66 . "The Untouchables," e.g. 39 . Shirley's roomie 40 . Solitary one

36 Puzzle #36 Across 1. Fan-club favorite 5. Do damage to 9. Fringe benefit 13 . Calf-length skirt 14 . Lotion ingredient 15 . Spooky 16 . ''No Trespassing'' sign phrase 19 . High-spirited horse 20 . Lunar or solar event 21 . Maple product 24 . ''Of course!'' 25 . General MacArthur, to friends 29 . ''That's amazing!'' 31 . California wine region 36 . ''That's terrible!'' 37 . Cajun vegetable 39 . Took a risk 40 . Pro baseball event 43 . Clean the chalkboard 44 . Practice for a bout 45 . On the peak of 46 . Humiliate 48 . Health resort Down 49 . Examination 1. Little brats 22 . Army offense: 51 . Triangular Greek 50 . Mom's mate 2. Garden soil Abbr. letter 52 . Santa's assistant 3. ''Garfield'' dog 23 . Nudges 53 . Justice Department 54 . Predict 4. Not prerecorded 25 . Like some stadiums org. 58 . Pesto herb 5. Tam or beret 26 . Chicago airport 54 . Dread 63 . Post-office service 6. Pub beverage 27 . Fix, as a printer 55 . Aware of 66 . Singers Hall and __ 7. Strong cord paper problem 56 . Oboe insert 67 . Folk story 8. ''Heavens to Betsy!'' 28 . Golden-egg layer 57 . Dutch cheese 68 . Actor Sharif 9. Chick's sound 30 . Prepares a present 59 . State openly 69 . Stepped heavily 10 . Slips up 32 . Constantly find 60 . Highway hauler 70 . Bullets, briefly 11 . Religious ceremony fault with 61 . Teheran's country 71 . Dinner drink 12 . Lock opener 33 . Deliver a speech 62 . Ancient stringed 15 . Soap-opera 34 . Office notes instrument segment 35 . Skilled 63 . Obtained 17 . Magazine fillers 38 . Open-mouthed 64 . ''Nightmare'' street 18 . Spanish cheers 41 . Book lovers of film 42 . River of Russia 65 . Summer zodiac 47 . Canaveral org. sign

37 Puzzle #37 Across 1. Abacus unit 5. Completely unfamiliar 10 . Smog 14 . Wheel rod 15 . Russian furbearer 16 . Desktop image 17 . Gas-saving car option 19 . Watch carefully 20 . Good Feelings, for one 21 . Eggheady sort 22 . Talks back to 24 . Cupid companion 26 . Hold out 27 . Gathered together 28 . Ship or plane partition 32 . Chasm 35 . One and only 36 . ''Bells Are Ringing'' heroine 37 . Barnstorming feat 38 . Scottish cattle breed 39 . Short parody 40 . Three gift bearers 41 . Cartoon Bunny 42 . Sew loosely 43 . Waits in readiness Down 45 . Rocket trajectory 1. Headquartered 18 . Pants parts 42 . Higher-ups 46 . Passing comments? 2. Theater walk-on 23 . Drill 44 . Gray-hair banisher 47 . Dapper 3. Crook's cover 25 . Musical that 45 . Spark 51 . Stun with noise 4. Yr. ender debuted in 1878 48 . Become frosty 54 . New Mexico home of Kit 5. State 26 . Corkers 49 . Water-penetrating Carson 6. Garland co-star 28 . Soft and device 56 . Soft murmur 7. ''The same'' in waterlogged 50 . In a heated 57 . Fuzzy red monster footnotes 29 . Big game manner 58 . Spot for rings 8. 2003 Christmas film 30 . Landed 51 . ''Edward 61 . Jetty 9. Retailer's concern 31 . Time line inclusion Scissorhands'' star 62 . Pandora's escapees 10 . Calls it a day, really 32 . Help for the poor 52 . Literary pen name 63 . Twofold 11 . Court winners 33 . It's not to be 53 . Word said with 64 . Window insert 12 . Sector missed closed eyes, often 65 . Continue without a break 13 . ''... in the two ___ 34 . Meditative exercise 54 . Alg. follower 66 . Nimble of the mercy seat'' (Ex. 35 . Rebuffs 55 . Scopes trial org. 25:18) 38 . Report card 59 . ''___ Got Sixpence'' notation 60 . WR's scores

38 Puzzle #38 Across 1. Muslim holy city 6. Snatch 10 . Sign of spring 14 . Name on seasonal mail 15 . Stop snoozing 16 . Harvard rival 17 . Start too soon 19 . Latvia's capital 20 . ''How Sleep the Brave,'' for one 21 . Polish 22 . Hot 24 . Hotel employee 26 . Rectangle's four 27 . Canal site 28 . Corbin's ''L.A. Law'' role 29 . Word that follows 17-A, 61-A, 10-D and 25-D 32 . ''Cannery Row'' character 34 . Silas Marner's child 38 . Gridlock components 40 . When Thanksgiving is celebrated in Can. 41 . Flies high 42 . Not the final copy Down 43 . Snores, comics-style 1. Low-pay position, in 18 . Stockpile 44 . Brief period 45 . ''___ in Cincinnati'' slang 23 . Takes a stab at 47 . Pot, in the past 46 . Made out 2. Get away from 25 . Celebrate, in a way 49 . How to confirm a 48 . Nuptial or natal starter 3. Sahara animal 26 . Wholesale password 50 . Pulverized 4. Stanley or Ryder quantity, often 50 . Celestial bodies 53 . Duke, marquis, earl, etc. 5. Breathing problem 28 . Rainbowlike 51 . Papier-___ (art 57 . Divulge a secret 6. Edmund of ''Miracle 29 . Like Leroy Brown material) 58 . Indianapolis athlete on 34th Street'' 30 . Lord's Prayer 52 . ''___ Grows in 59 . Tennis shot 7. Infuriation opener Brooklyn'' 60 . Lot of land 8. Half a Heyerdahl title 31 . One-time bridge 53 . Grace under 61 . Magazine for parents 9. Robert Guillaume 33 . Seeped pressure 64 . Ostrich relative sitcom 35 . Se Ri of the LPGA 54 . Similar 65 . Wraps up 10 . ''The Razor's Edge'' 36 . Discount tag 55 . Office errand-boy 66 . Maverick's game star abbreviation 56 . Movie critic Roger 67 . ''... not always what they 11 . Selassie of Ethopia 37 . Clairvoyant's claim 58 . USN officer ___'' 12 . Rags-to-riches 39 . Lesley of ''60 62 . Collection of stories 68 . Out of the ordinary author Minutes'' 63 . Brine-cured salmon 69 . Wield, as influence 13 . Withdraws gradually

39 Puzzle #39 Across 1. Top four 5. Great expectations 10 . Cover in the woods 14 . Its business is picking up 15 . Rugged mountain crest 16 . Lust for life 17 . Dinner discards 18 . Ranch in ''Giant'' 19 . Abate 20 . Spray graffiti on, e.g. 21 . Panhandler's request 23 . Like some decks 25 . Galley propeller 26 . Modest hand 27 . Inert medications 32 . Show disdain for 34 . Drinker's vessel 35 . Kimono closer 36 . Touched down 37 . Harass 38 . Author Bagnold 39 . Sports buff 40 . It's similar to a rush 41 . Savage 42 . Ennobles Down 44 . Turns bronze 1. Molecule 21 . Word with deep or 40 . Box office draw 45 . ''Norma ___'' (Sally Field constituents dive 41 . Put up a fuss role) 2. Unit equal to 200 22 . Disdained writer 43 . Cara and Dunne 46 . Perplexing situation milligrams 24 . Apple carrier 44 . Yule decoration 49 . Need for those running on 3. Kicker's easiest score 27 . Tune-up needs 46 . Trip the light empty 4. Cheer start 28 . Scene of many fantastic 54 . Ca++ or Cl-, e.g. 5. ''To Kill a strikes 47 . Salesman's stop, 55 . Thor's father Mockingbird'' novelist 29 . Airline's offering, sometimes 56 . Niblick and mashie Lee sometimes 48 . ''+'' site 57 . Choir voice 6. Nymph of myth 30 . Sad news, in brief 49 . It might have the 58 . Bugbear 7. Lute shape 31 . Start for bar or car shakes 59 . As of 8. Sermon ending 32 . Container that can 50 . Add fringe 60 . Kind of money 9. Popular settings for be cracked 51 . Part of an equine 61 . Doctor's take paintings 33 . The Kennedys, e.g. pedigree 62 . MTM's pal Georgia 10 . Watch your step! 34 . Do poorly in the 52 . ''Joanie Loves 63 . Tropical getaway 11 . Arkin or Ladd stretch Chachi'' co-star Moran 12 . Emulated 37 . Air 53 . Chinese political Quasimodo 38 . Piscivorous bird party 13 . Child seat, 57 . ''___ was saying . . sometimes .''

40 Puzzle #40 Across 1. Grind to a halt 5. Ready for a fight 9. Aired ''I Love Lucy'' 14 . Legal prefix 15 . Oceanic threat 16 . Opposite of pencil in 17 . ''Abdul Abulbul ___'' (old tune) 18 . Word with Lambeau or quantum 19 . Useless 20 . Horse racing 23 . Bruce Wayne's home, e.g. 24 . Gave false hopes 25 . Word with down, up or back 28 . Actress Garr 30 . Bloodsucking fly 32 . It's fit for a pig 35 . Strip searcher's paradise? 38 . ''Good-bye, old chap!'' 39 . Wendy Wasserstein play (with ''The'') 43 . Certain field workers 44 . Raconteur's inventory 45 . Trevino of the links Down 46 . ''Finally!'' 1. Sudden convulsion 22 . Part of a famous 47 . Seismograph part 49 . Bioelectric swimmers 2. NFL city soliloquy 48 . Day-care visitor 51 . Hallucination cause 3. Giant hunter, in 25 . Stable part 50 . Turned on the 52 . Carved pole emblem mythology 26 . Compact first tears 55 . Major blood vessel 4. Mimic name? 53 . A small Tom 59 . Routinely 5. Fledgling flier's goal 27 . Taunt 54 . Start of a counting 61 . Dromedary 6. Before takeoff 29 . Button on a rhyme 64 . Hospital division 7. Pat-___ camcorder 56 . Baton-passing race 65 . Rorschach mark 8. Quick 31 . And so on, for 57 . Treasure-___ 66 . Toodle-oo 9. Rules short 58 . Late-blooming 67 . 1940s slugger Johnny 10 . Some sea birds 32 . Place to run flower 68 . It hangs around the roof aground 11 . ''Diff'rent Strokes'' 59 . Swiss chard, e.g. 69 . Hardware purchases actress Charlotte 33 . College student's 60 . Shoshonean people armload 70 . Quilting events 12 . Krait kin 61 . Truck's passenger 34 . Ramp sign 71 . One whose work is 13 . Cyberhead's place area constantly changing? 36 . Parseghian of 21 . Italian fountain 62 . Without further coaching ___ 37 . Observe with 63 . 1/1000 inch dignity 40 . Gene's ID 41 . Word in the society pages 42 . It has five pillars

41 Puzzle #41 Across 1. College Park student, briefly 5. Sand containers 10 . Role for Shirley 14 . Not to the wind 15 . Circle around 16 . Afternoon parties 17 . Where a Dell may go 19 . It's in the Bible 20 . Leachman of ''The Last Picture Show'' 21 . Treat, as in therapy 23 . Middle name of Lenin or Tchaikovsky 26 . Swimsuit material, perhaps 27 . Carpaccio base 30 . Cheep joint? 32 . Maglie or Mineo 33 . A deadly sin 34 . Doozy 35 . Low bridge bid, informally 38 . Yeoman's yes 39 . ''Silent Movie'' actor Marty 41 . Loudness unit 42 . ''Inferno'' poet 44 . Reps' rivals Down 45 . Million add-on 1. Powder base 18 . Standard product? 45 . Masters locale 46 . The Lord, as introduced to 2. Lod Airport carrier 22 . Heated crime? 49 . Material of no Moses 3. Defaulter's auto, 24 . Woulda partner consequence 47 . War deity often 25 . Theme of this 50 . Correo ___ 48 . Take apart 4. Scare and then puzzle (Spanish airmail) 49 . Disperse some 27 . Sweat unit 51 . Words with go or 52 . Colorful talk 5. Frozen treat brand 28 . ''A Day Without off 54 . Heavy metal band? 6. Bow shape Rain'' singer 53 . ''___ gloom of 56 . Words with ''my sunshine'' 7. Famous roundball 29 . Where mascara night ...'' 60 . Metropolitan areas, for short coach Hank may go 55 . Tiny Archibald 61 . Where an Oriole may go 8. One of the Presleys 31 . Thrash 57 . Second son 64 . Achievement 9. Surgeon's insert, 36 . Eggheady sort 58 . Cakewalk 65 . Old operating room perhaps 37 . Cooking staple 59 . National before substance 10 . Bellini or Fellini, 39 . Leg bone 2005 66 . Fill-in at the office, briefly e.g. 40 . Lode analysts 62 . Across-board link 67 . Obscures 11 . Where deletions 43 . Wu-wei adherents 63 . Rocker Nugent 68 . Title documents may go 69 . Dog dish filler, perhaps 12 . Passover staple 13 . Beauty, brawn or brains, e.g.

42 Puzzle #42 Across 1. Dare into doing 5. Flightless bird 9. Backup strategy 14 . ''To Sir With Love'' singer 15 . Sandwich notable? 16 . Country singer Tucker 17 . ''Come ---! The water's fine'' 18 . Plumbing problem 19 . Sat tight 20 . University thug? 23 . Mother of Calcutta 24 . Partied down 28 . Jock TV 30 . Shea and Arthur Ashe 31 . The Buckeyes, for short 34 . Disney's middle name 37 . ''Let's get crackin'!'' 38 . Storage of angling gear? 42 . ''Dedicated to the --- Love'' 43 . Remove the stubble 44 . Half an African fly 45 . More puffed up 48 . Eliot's ''Adam ---'' 50 . Cloths by the sink 53 . Supplies with more Down munitions 1. Rub it in 21 . Ruhr valley city 41 . Hands over 57 . Case against a firm? 2. Pound part 22 . ''--- bodkins!'' 46 . Spews lava 59 . Censoring sound 3. ''Are you calling me 25 . Word on a ticket 47 . --- Tafari (Haile 62 . Clueless ---?'' 26 . Pride members Selassie, originally) 63 . Sting operation 4. Crocodile of 27 . Jessica of ''Tootsie'' 49 . California section 64 . Get a bead on Australia? 29 . Louse eggs 51 . Comedienne 65 . The skinny 5. Rhode Island's state 31 . From way back Radner 66 . Priest of the East tree 32 . Moses' mountain 52 . Do detective work 67 . Grads 6. Mata --- 33 . Internet surfers 54 . Part of RFD 68 . Per 7. Segal or Fromm 35 . Flame proof? 55 . Home of the Heat 69 . Settled down 8. Omega's opposite 36 . Wild try 56 . March 17 honoree, 9. JFK's vessel 39 . Nighttime driver's briefly 10 . Easygoing selection 58 . The NHL's Phil, 11 . In addition 40 . Go beyond familiarly 12 . ''Bill ---, the 59 . Ewe said it Science Guy'' 60 . Like Abner 13 . Michael Jackson hit 61 . Flightless bird

43 Puzzle #43 Across 1. Work hard 5. Nautical pole 10 . Something to make at night and break in the morning 14 . Green Gables girl 15 . Terse verse 16 . ___ about (roughly) 17 . Adhere to formalities 20 . Metered ride 21 . "I'm ___ here!" 22 . Must 23 . "Either you do it, ___ will!" 24 . Mr. Hyde's creator, initially 25 . Smoke, for short 26 . Talk foolishly 27 . Like many windshields 29 . Outlaws 30 . Richmond-to-D.C. dir. 31 . Sin city 32 . "Sesame Street" resident 33 . Rice VIP 34 . Be indifferent to, as an insult 37 . Sibilant "Hey!" 40 . Itar-___ Down 41 . "___ my place" (reader's 1. San Diego Chicken 13 . Use a crowbar on 39 . Beethoven's lament) et al. 18 . Musical scale "Appassionata" et al. 45 . NYSE event 2. City east of Los sequence 42 . "Probably..." 46 . Porn Angeles 19 . Lines of thought? 43 . Temporary 47 . Familiar with 3. Trapped 25 . Atkins dieter's substitute 48 . Bert Bobbsey's twin 4. Actor Cariou concern 44 . Deluge 49 . Levy 5. Word of obligation 28 . Civil wrong 46 . Dance move 50 . Speed meas. 6. Bottoms 29 . Beauty lover 47 . Was revolting 51 . Côte-___ (French 7. Costa ___ 32 . Boyfriends 50 . Hajji's destination department) 8. Likable prez? 33 . Remove from the 53 . Fall bloomers 52 . Seinfeld's goofy pal 9. Enter, as one's manuscript 54 . Wally's little 54 . Swiss capital driveway 35 . West Indies island brother, for short 55 . May time (abbr.) 10 . Arrive belonging mostly to Fr. 57 . Med. care plan 56 . Summon one's nerve 11 . Painkiller Guadeloupe 58 . Use the oars 59 . Muslim priest 12 . Butte locale 36 . Hindu god 60 . Colorful Apples incarnated as Krishna 61 . Algerian seaport 37 . Cocktail with 62 . Promontory bitters and no ice 63 . Super stars 38 . "No details, 64 . Sobbed please!"

44 Puzzle #44 Across 1. Bandleader Shaw 6. Presidential campaign subject 10 . Video snippet 14 . Outdoor cookery (Var.) 15 . Partner of aid 16 . Word with strike or school 17 . SeaWorld attraction 18 . Force-ful teacher? 19 . Film canine 20 . TRAIN film 23 . Hinny's kin 26 . ''The Gold Bug'' writer 27 . Palindromic exclamation 28 . White House nickname 29 . Plenty of bread 31 . Word with T or dry 33 . Made a choice 35 . Archimedes' cry 37 . Gratify 39 . PLANE film (with ''The'') 44 . Native Alaskan 45 . Muppets creator 46 . Pin the blame on 49 . Daly of ''Judging Amy'' 51 . Korean border river Down 52 . ''___ Not Unusual'' (Tom 1. They look better 21 . Track down 43 . Cold-shoulder Jones hit) after crunching 22 . Flute sound 46 . More qualified 53 . Denouement 2. Stadium sound 23 . Pub potables 47 . Where charity 55 . ''Double Fantasy'' artist 3. Singing syllable 24 . Beginning course, begins? 57 . ''When We Was ___'' 4. Many are cloned often 48 . Log-on name (Harrison tune) 5. Outfit 25 . Indira's dress 50 . Bates of ''Psycho'' 58 . AUTOMOBILE film 6. Lower level team 30 . Wild 54 . ''Swell!'' 62 . Ran like heck 7. One of the reeds 32 . Koufax, notably 56 . Take place 63 . Democritus' unit 8. Cowpunchers' gear 34 . Indiana's state 59 . Understands 64 . Chocolate-yielding tree 9. Squirrel away flower 60 . Moldings at the 68 . Send forth 10 . Industrial mogul 36 . Out of ___ (awry) bases of columns 69 . More than mega- 11 . Go ballistic 38 . Goddess of wisdom 61 . Lighten, as a 70 . Loan shark's offense 12 . Consumption 40 . Not in vogue burden 71 . Pirates rivals 13 . Somewhat ill 41 . Letters on a jet 65 . Novice reporter 72 . Valkyries' master 42 . Thelma Harper's 66 . What may follow 73 . Union foe neighbor you 67 . Olive with a little salt?

45 Puzzle #45 Across 1. Teen's lifeline 6. DDE predecessor 9. Locked 13 . Vice President Burr 14 . Matadors' motivation 16 . Meager 17 . Abyss 18 . Medieval defense feature 19 . Persian Gulf leader 20 . Start of a coming-of-age scenario 23 . Fuss 25 . Entirety 26 . Geller of psychic fame 27 . Contrary start 28 . Scenario, part 2 32 . Madison Avenue honor 33 . Campus URL completer 34 . Underhanded 35 . Mush 36 . Augusta player 38 . Lahr of ''The Wizard of Oz'' 42 . Young mischief-maker 45 . Sushi choice 47 . Borodin's ''Prince ___'' Down 48 . Scenario, part 3 1. Org. with capital 21 . Like Michelangelo's 46 . In ___ of 53 . ''___ the ramparts . . .'' assets? David 48 . Cherry, for one 54 . ''___ don't say!'' 2. ''So there!'' 22 . Cambodian 49 . Utter delight 55 . Sheltered side 3. ''Messiah,'' for one currency 50 . White-furred 56 . Nickname uttered in the 4. Ruin one's appetite 23 . ''Sesame Street'' weasel Lone Star State 5. Catch, as in a net subject 51 . ''Arthur'' star Moore 57 . End of the scenario 6. Made from scratch 24 . It gets in a pickle 52 . Take off 61 . Enthusiastic 7. Highway advisory 29 . Cause for 58 . Inserts 62 . Quiet valley 8. Oolong container discussion 59 . Dijon dad 63 . Hasta luego 9. Disgorge 30 . Wassailers' times 60 . Carmela portrayer 66 . Be given 10 . Compassionate 31 . Title role for Sally 64 . Odd man's place Field 67 . Moistureless 11 . Harmony 65 . Intelligence 37 . Shipping routes 68 . Make confetti of 12 . Despot purveyor 39 . Self-indulgent 69 . Right-hand column, typically 15 . Bart and Brenda 70 . It's positive excursions? 71 . Peevish 40 . Meander 41 . ''Jurassic Park'' menace 43 . Chichén Itzá builders 44 . Pointy projections

46 Puzzle #46 Across 1. List of choices 5. Capri, for one 9. Ultimate winner 14 . Rising locale? 15 . Kadett maker 16 . ''The Magnificent Seven,'' e.g. 17 . Like an unwelcome diplomat 20 . Close with 21 . Manilow song site 22 . WWII turning pt. 23 . Pear-shaped instrument 25 . Actor Jannings 27 . Attractive New Jersey skater? 32 . Start of a Vladimir Nabokov novel 33 . Certain pro hoopster, for short 34 . Freeway trouble 37 . Speech impediment 39 . Shortens with scissors 42 . Focus group? 43 . Hokkaido city 45 . It's put before the carte? Down 46 . Genteel affair 1. Brood 19 . Reputation 48 . Boss of Hazzard 47 . Captain Marvel symbol 2. All knotted up 24 . ___ River, N.J. County 52 . It may pound the pavement 3. Computer geek, e.g. 26 . ICU hookups 49 . Ribbed 53 . Repast 4. Not convinced 27 . Saintly symbol 50 . Big bash 54 . Diplomacy 5. Confess at the end? 28 . Mine entrance 51 . Protects the 57 . Breathtaking action? 6. Buzz Lightyear, for 29 . Twangy quarterback 59 . Word with lips or change one 30 . Perrier competitor 54 . Recipe amts. 63 . Added conditions 7. Late-night host 31 . Stop a ship in open 55 . If two silkworms 66 . Kind of bar or wire 8. Departed without water raced they'd end in ___ 67 . Harrow rival ceremony? 35 . Film spool 56 . Sticking point 68 . Fixture at a pottery 9. Gear tooth 36 . Future atty.'s exam 58 . Glut 69 . Hemmed without hawing? 10 . Uncompromising 38 . In immaculate 60 . Home to Columbus 70 . Minimal progress, so to position condition 61 . Egotist's concern speak 11 . Somewhat 40 . ''Out of My 62 . ''Show Boat'' 71 . Family room piece 12 . Physical starter League'' author author Ferber 13 . Entreat 41 . All there 64 . Show approval 18 . Burden of proof 44 . ''That's gross!'' 65 . Atlanta-based cable channel

47 Puzzle #47 Across 1. Round peg in a round hole 6. Delhi streetwear 10 . Goes to pot 14 . Poet's inspiration 15 . ''I agree!'' 16 . Euclid's lake 17 . Subliminal 20 . Impresario Hurok 21 . Time frames 22 . Parser's parts 23 . Word with sea or way 25 . Fateful March date 26 . Jack Benny catchword 28 . An F.D.R./Stalin meeting place 30 . Land of Esau's descendants 34 . In full voice 36 . Play opener 38 . See red? 39 . Stretched out on the mat 43 . Honshu shrine center 44 . Cartoon expletive 45 . Hearth bit 46 . Transfusion liquids 48 . Like Clouseau Down 51 . Prime Minister Moro 1. Early Socialist 19 . School builder? 47 . Incarcerate 52 . Kind of organ presidential candidate 24 . President Chester 49 . Turned the field 54 . Greene of ''Bonanza'' Eugene Arthur's middle name 50 . Burned rubber 56 . Sacred text of Islam 2. Popular cookie 25 . Reason for 53 . Cochlea locale 58 . Oliver Twist's request 3. Nondancer at the head-scratching 55 . Royal kingdom 59 . Greek letter dance 26 . Sinai streambeds 56 . Capped joint 62 . Indisposed 4. Ike's WWII domain 27 . Notched irregularly 57 . Tote board data 65 . Auerbach and Buttons 5. More humble in 29 . Strong, frothy 58 . Like a bagatelle? status 66 . Sovereign state begun in espresso 60 . Daughter of Cronus 1937 6. Libyan hot spot 31 . Dieter's bane 61 . Ruffled one's 67 . Longest river in France 7. ''Rag Mop'' brothers 32 . Held title feathers 68 . Robin's residence 8. Matter for the courts 33 . Way around 62 . Grecian object 69 . Paper for the house 9. Flood downtown, perhaps 63 . Giddyup! 70 . Single-celled microorganism 10 . Stuff destined for 35 . ''Mayberry ___'' 64 . ''Me ___ !'' the dump 37 . Vanilla of rap 11 . Port on the 40 . Got one's bearings Mediterranean 41 . Big name in 12 . Facial twitches cartography 13 . Come to 42 . Sultanate on the understand Gulf 18 . Deuce topper

48 Puzzle #48 Across 1. Part of the pkg. 5. Goggle 9. Jefferson, for one 14 . "Still Life with Old Shoe" artist 15 . Galba's successor 16 . Lassitude 17 . Duke, e.g.: Abbr. 18 . __ League 19 . Minute 20 . Wave recipients 23 . Old Testament prophet 24 . Casa cookware 25 . Grow into 27 . Epitome of Americanism? 31 . Rod Stewart's ex 32 . Toot 33 . "Star Trek" sequel, briefly 34 . Poirot was one: Abbr. 35 . Tasty 36 . "A Raisin in the Sun" heroine 37 . Singer Sumac 38 . Microwave-safe material 39 . Spent Down 40 . Big name in automotive 1. Stern rival 12 . Unerring 36 . Ball of energy products 2. Noted 15th-century 13 . Spanish kin 38 . Pelts (with) 42 . Fins sailer 21 . Buddhist monk 39 . Kind of box 43 . Creator of the Shmoos 3. Good reviews 22 . Figured (out), in 41 . Supporter of Isaac 44 . Pivot 4. "Old-fashioned" item slang Newton 46 . They may be camouflaged in a 1971 hit 25 . Child in a 1987 42 . Belongs 51 . Allan-__ 5. Network expert? landmark surrogate- 45 . It may be driven 52 . Composer Rorem et al. 6. Bright courts parent case between factions 53 . British theater immortal 7. "And now?" 26 . Perfume resin 46 . Got in Novello 8. Honshu seaport 28 . Grand __ 47 . Netherlands cheese 54 . Gold medalist skier Hermann 9. "Carousel" 29 . Hidden 48 . SSS category 55 . Vet choreographer 30 . "Zounds!" 49 . Blooming 56 . Staff symbol 10 . Strand, in a way 32 . Indian wrap 50 . Span. title 57 . Ventriloquist Shirley 11 . Like Macy's during 35 . Spirit in the sky Dinsdale won the first of them in the early '90s 1949 58 . Amenhotep IV's only god 59 . "A Day Without Rain" singer

49 Puzzle #49 Across 1. Like a clear path 5. Clears out 11 . Amount of money 14 . Skywalker mentor 15 . Former Mideast leader born in Jerusalem 16 . Lao-__ 17 . ''Ape'' man's study 19 . Middle muscles 20 . Bombshell 21 . Jim Jordan radio role 23 . Daisy starter 24 . Internet access points 25 . Button stuff 28 . Some tourist destinations 30 . Prefix with skeleton 31 . Sputnik stat 34 . Former CBS anchor 38 . ''The Ape Man'' 41 . Bed board 42 . ''West Side Story'' Oscar winner 43 . And the rest 44 . ''Good grief!'' 46 . Urban open space Down 48 . Heathens 1. Word with blood or 22 . Seinfeld friend 45 . Fairy-tale figures 51 . Capital of Samoa bold Kramer 47 . Soup kitchen 53 . Calliope's sister 2. ''Gilmore Girls'' girl 24 . Big name in volunteer 54 . Total 3. Comics-page dog fashion 48 . Insignificant 59 . __-headed (blond) 4. ''Chanson __'' (song 25 . Bills 49 . Sprang up 60 . Ape man, maybe of '58) 26 . Rink maneuver 50 . Stares densely 62 . Sound of disapproval 5. More than fills 27 . Fountain order 51 . Not on the level 63 . Art-class objects 6. Cohort 28 . Sikorsky and 52 . Johnny-jump-up 64 . This, in Tijuana 7. Breathing sound Stravinsky 54 . Greek peak 65 . ''All right'' 8. Get an __ effort 29 . Zaire's Mobutu __ 55 . Manipulative sort 66 . Grandstander 9. ''O'', e.g. Seko 56 . Seine tributary 67 . Vintage cars 10 . Block 32 . Big cats 57 . Biblical preposition 11 . Wapiti fighters 33 . Start of many 58 . Boxing stats hymns 12 . Turkic language 61 . ''__ the Walrus'' 13 . Sources of 35 . Pupil's locale inspiration 36 . Airhead 18 . Idol's attribute 37 . Geometry prefix 39 . Wore away 40 . Downcast

50 Puzzle #50 Across 1. Scatters 7. Raw information 11 . Double-platinum Steely Dan album 14 . Civil War site 15 . Unhappy exclamation 16 . Standard introduction? 17 . Cause of boredom, perhaps 19 . Ending for 28-Across 20 . Parlor item, perhaps 21 . Hot pants kin 22 . TV alien 25 . 1990 World Series champs 26 . Display disgust 28 . Famous French king 30 . Cork propellers 31 . Artist Chagall 32 . Helen of Troy's husband 35 . Tahiti sweetie 36 . Speak bombastically 37 . Docket entry 40 . Receptivity 42 . Antagonize 43 . Corresponds 45 . Comic superhero Down 46 . Oman's capital 1. New craft of '68 21 . "Sincerely" sisters 43 . Sovereign's 47 . "Will be," to Doris Day 2. Everyday article 22 . ___ mater concern 50 . It's sometimes bitter 3. Disencumber 23 . Good earth 44 . Starlike celestial 51 . Place on a Monopoly board 4. Some Ivy Leaguers 24 . Cause of wild object 52 . Principal ore of lead 5. Matrimonial hopefuls anger, perhaps 45 . Horse-drawn cab 54 . Rose-rose linkup 6. "On the Beach" 26 . Romeo and Juliet, 47 . Goes by water 55 . Cause of somberness, author Nevil for two 48 . "Don't Bring Me perhaps 7. Coolidge's veep 27 . Clean-air gp. Down" rockers, 60 . Unprestigious publication 8. Skin-cream additive 29 . Injury application, familiarly 61 . Mean business? 9. Smoke residue sometimes 49 . Be economical 62 . African republic inhabitant 10 . What it doesn't 30 . Dogs and cats 52 . Exude elation 63 . Poetic preposition hurt to do 32 . French 53 . Cartridge fill 64 . Change for a Jackson 11 . Cause of mental impressionist 55 . It begins love-love 65 . Chewed the scenery distress, perhaps 33 . They have eagle 56 . The night before 12 . Take part eyes 57 . Horse's bit 13 . Smithy implements 34 . Highlander's 58 . Shout of support, 18 . Pt. of PST negative somewhere 38 . Pizzazz 59 . Performed 39 . Fix, as socks 41 . La Guardia info

51 Puzzle #51 Across 1. Beseech 4. Foil 10 . It's surrounded 14 . Nobel Peace Prize winner of 1969 15 . One with good tidings 16 . Shadow 17 . Horned African 18 . Start of a jest about aging 20 . Coating of gold 22 . Negotiator with Yitzhak 23 . Comfy retreat 24 . Full of misgivings 27 . Spiffy 29 . Part 2 of the jest 35 . Peak 36 . Stony 37 . Word before noon? 41 . Where the Reuss River originates 42 . Blue gemstone 43 . Actress Gilbert of ''Roseanne'' 44 . Word with free or travel 46 . Part 3 of the jest Down 52 . Asset 1. Heavy-hitter 25 . Former stitch 47 . Heavyweight 53 . Engaged 2. Weather-changing location wrestler 54 . Hole creator current 26 . Slangy assent 48 . Sound of distaste 56 . Cattlemen of Kenya 3. ''Camelot'' star 28 . Turkish title (Var.) 49 . Professional 60 . Where all the workers are 4. TV Guide 30 . Moola companion female abbreviation 31 . Jibe 50 . Wear 61 . End of the jest 5. Au courant 32 . Boxer's ploy 51 . War ender 65 . Dead body? 6. On one's guard 33 . Uris hero 54 . ''Warts and all'' 66 . Teensy amount 7. La Scala highlight 34 . NFL advances 55 . Impressed 67 . Salad bar servers 8. Dream phenomena 37 . Shade of blond exclamation 68 . Sizzling 9. Apprentice 38 . JFK overseer 57 . Many an Eastern 69 . Bratty outburst 10 . Nagano Olympics 39 . Unusual delivery European 70 . Boob tubes flame lighter 40 . British aristocrat 58 . Makes a 71 . Word with how or where contribution 11 . Course obstacle 42 . French city once 12 . Hard-to-swallow known for silk 59 . Unfounded, as rumors verbiage 44 . Charge that comes 13 . Get-up-and-go with battery 62 . Historic verb? 19 . Selected, as straws 45 . ''Sweetheart of 63 . Still 21 . Mai ___ Sigma ___'' 64 . Half of 8?

52 Puzzle #52 Across 1. Lowdown 5. Word form for ''skin'' 9. Unruffled 14 . ''October Sky'' actress 15 . Part of QED 16 . Pipsqueak 17 . Small band 18 . Where reception is iffy 20 . Disinclination 22 . School in Troy, NY 23 . __-X 24 . Red hue 26 . Canadian prov. 30 . Turned red, maybe 32 . Jazz singer James 34 . Deli selection 35 . Game-show announcer Johnny 37 . Chinese dish 39 . It's an outrage 41 . ''Night Before Christmas'' noise 42 . Will Scarlet comrade 44 . Parcels, with ''out'' 45 . Summer hrs. in RI Down 46 . ''The Ballad of John and __'' 1. Luggage attachment 19 . Grimm youngster 43 . Ranch hand 47 . Still-life subject 2. Gall 21 . Broadway 47 . Electronic music 48 . Govt. watchdog 3. Close to background pioneer 50 . ''Seinfeld'' character 4. __ about 25 . Carrot alternative 49 . ''Shucks!'' 52 . New Deal agcy. 5. Stood up to 27 . Squander 51 . ''Water Lilies'' 55 . Lilliputian 6. Blunder 28 . French public painter 57 . Acts as 7. Cascades peak school 53 . Ones staring 59 . Yukon's locale 8. Peak: Abbr. 29 . Elk relatives 54 . Something of value 63 . Is in the red 9. Part of a process 31 . Jedi master 56 . One, in Weimar 64 . Safe place 10 . General Grant's 33 . Not budging 58 . Helps oneself to 65 . Turner et al. publisher 35 . Monteverdi opera 59 . Govt. loan 66 . Uncover 11 . Anthem preposition 36 . Embellishes guaranteer 67 . ''__, I remember it well'' 12 . Eng. neighbor 37 . Quirk of fate 60 . Stadium shout 68 . ''Our Gang'' dog 13 . Tax pro 38 . Hwys. 61 . Wall climber 69 . Part of SSS 40 . Performed 62 . Go quickly expiation

53 Puzzle #53 Across 1. Led Zeppelin member 5. Addis ___, Ethiopia 10 . Get ready for the move 14 . Role for Julia 15 . UCLA teammate 16 . "Am ___ bad guy here?" 17 . Look over a Clinton pet? 19 . Word after opera or church 20 . Olive stolen by Bluto 21 . He once borrowed Bert's nose for a sculpture 22 . Mike's unfortunately- nicknamed friend on "Growing Pains" 23 . Suffix for portrait or Satan 25 . Retrieves a Reagan pet? 27 . Language family including Bulgarian and Czech 30 . Can't stand 31 . Swimmer's assignment 32 . Supplements the recipe 36 . Nixon pet he took to Beijing? 42 . Consoles recalled in 2005 because of faulty power cords 43 . The yoke's on them Down 44 . Shinbone 1. Chihuahua currency 22 . Sauvignon ___ 44 . Rupert Boneham's 47 . Non ___ (moderately, in 2. Bohemian 24 . Ren's dim cousin distinctive "Survivor" music) 3. Politician who's done 26 . Most likely to wear 49 . Finally kill off an LBJ pet? cameos on "Seinfeld" retreat 45 . On-the-job learner 53 . Green around the gills and "Law & Order" 27 . "___ Punk!" (1998 46 . Like partisan critics 54 . Allow to attack 4. Terminus comedy set in Utah) 48 . They may be tricked out 55 . Strong loathing 5. Shortened, like this 28 . ___-di-dah answer? 49 . Suddenly goes nuts 57 . Payback without the 29 . The Clash rocked it payback 6. Carried along, to the 33 . Handel's "Gloria in 50 . "___ I look?" Clampetts 60 . Mid-month time Excelsis ___" 51 . Best-case scenario 7. WWII hero Murphy 61 . Worry about a Clinton pet? 34 . 610, to Cicero 52 . Mazda model 8. Post-dump cleanser introduced in 1989 63 . Combustible heap 35 . "___ Stoops to 9. Some amount Conquer" 56 . Tribe with a state 64 . Set ___ (schedule) 10 . Go for thirds, 37 . Live and breathe named after them 65 . Put on the payroll maybe 38 . Gang leader? 58 . Gumbo item 66 . Put a text message through 11 . Quickly 39 . Like lyrics that got 59 . Pothead, e.g. 67 . Vending machine options 12 . Dizzy Gillespie's Tipper Gore riled up 61 . Spider's pouch 68 . Tabloid near "OK!" and "The were huge 40 . Good name 62 . Surprised cries Enquirer" 13 . Candidate attacked 41 . ___-cone in the movie "Stolen Honor" 18 . Him a Himalayan

54 Puzzle #54 Across 1. It might be square 5. Just one of those things? 9. Is afraid of 14 . Suspicious of 15 . Hebrides island 16 . Individual of a clone 17 . Pitfall! 19 . Oranjestad's island 20 . Thread holders 21 . Horton's worry 23 . Verne's lunch? 24 . "Disco Duck" songwriter 26 . Rosie's hardware 28 . Afflicts with a heavy blow 32 . Sheer fabric 34 . Czech writer and president 35 . Pitfall! 39 . Jelly for germs 40 . Bering Sea ice cubes 41 . Fill to the gills 42 . Pitfall! 44 . Mortise's partner 45 . Moses' mount 46 . Burning with desire 47 . Merciful Down 50 . Oyster color 1. Teeming group 22 . Crisscrossed 44 . Convoy member 52 . Compass dir. 2. Seth's boy frameworks 46 . Betel nut palms 53 . Time frame 3. Cherry placement 25 . Rat fink 47 . Becomes well 55 . "Eye of newt" may be a part 4. Timber wolf 27 . Proficient 48 . Like a film before of it 5. Dust jacket headings 28 . Spurious imitation editing 59 . Lots and lots? 6. It may be taken for 29 . They made a star 49 . Highway sign 61 . Pitfall! a ride trek? 51 . Like new dollar bills 64 . Olympic sleds 7. Literary miscellany 30 . Terrible czar 54 . Water color 65 . Bear up there? 8. Cassette contents, 31 . Noted Mother 56 . Wight or Avalon 66 . Italian resort perhaps 33 . Was behind, in a 57 . Vessel for Jack and 67 . Inscribed tablet 9. Word on a crate way Jill 68 . Mont Blanc's range 10 . Mr. Potato Head 35 . One is often 58 . They may be loose 69 . "If all ___ fails ..." attachment copped or split 11 . Entertain 36 . Batman's creator 60 . Sea creature 12 . Offer refutation 37 . British prep school 62 . Internet address 13 . Guesstimates 38 . Swell fop 63 . Legalese surname 18 . Alpine song 40 . Of higher quality 43 . Diplomacy

55 Puzzle #55 Across 1. One of the three bears 5. Black Sea retreat 10 . Beer, slangily 14 . Lab culture 15 . Fitzgerald and Grasso 16 . About, formally speaking 17 . Campus grp. 18 . Got off the fence 19 . Anastasia's father 20 . What John Glenn had 23 . Kind of clam 25 . Indirect suggestions 26 . Hit record, 1976 30 . Penny metal 31 . Asian redhead 32 . The two for tennis? 33 . Knotty craft 36 . Uneven? 39 . Antiquated 40 . One fifth of DXXXV 41 . Noted pioneers 46 . Singles player, briefly 47 . Discover, in a way 48 . It's part of growing up 52 . Norwegian royal name Down 53 . Semilunar valve neighbor 1. Duffer's goal 21 . Certain 911 39 . Hanker after 54 . Edward Jones Dome team 2. Gettysburg Address respondent, briefly 40 . Vexation 57 . Nix, in the Oval Office word 22 . Excelled 41 . Frittered (away) 58 . Proficiency 3. Dressmaker's 23 . Fitting decision 42 . Work in shifts 59 . Author Dinesen collection 24 . Word with bed or 43 . Engage in an Old 60 . German river 4. Like erst or zounds bill West no-no 61 . Conical shelter 5. Mandate 27 . Biblical peak 44 . Marked down 62 . It precedes 10017 6. ''Java'' musician 28 . Slice of history 45 . Social event 7. Sabot 29 . ''Spider-Man'' 46 . Establish the truth 8. Greasy spoon fare director Raimi by argument 9. ''I hate to break up 33 . Myopic Mister 49 . Like some ___!'' (collector's 34 . Grate stuff inaccurate watches lament) 35 . Winter hrs. in 50 . Pig's place? 10 . Portrait session Wichita 51 . Give it ___ (swing 11 . Not celebrated 36 . Scrambled hard) 12 . Preliminary outlines alternative 55 . Staff 13 . Medieval figures 37 . Gossip 56 . Contrail milieu 38 . It fled with the spoon

56 Puzzle #56 Across 1. U2 lead singer 5. Post-marathon feeling 9. Really bothered 14 . Shake ___ (hurry) 15 . Branch headquarters 16 . ''It's done!'' 17 . In great shape 20 . Carrier 21 . ___ ballerina 22 . Beatty in ''Network'' 23 . Gift basket contents 25 . Best-selling author Umberto 27 . Only perfect World Series pitcher 29 . Lobsterlike crustacean 33 . Poem of praise 34 . Ending for sea 37 . Zero, in tennis 38 . Certain high-net-worth individual 42 . Fraternal fellows 43 . Really bother 44 . Baker's need 45 . Second-hand store transactions Down 48 . Tattered state 1. Thai money 19 . Part of U.S.A. 46 . Got a big lead, in a 50 . Center X 2. Grocery stick 24 . Move gradually way 51 . Uncorked, as champagne 3. Orderlies? 26 . Fly-by-night critters 47 . Off-the-wall 53 . Mariah Carey's label, once 4. Cousins of Peeping 27 . Berth choice response 56 . Moon stage Toms? 28 . Dancer Astaire 49 . Extremely popular 58 . Runs in place? 5. B-ball player, e.g. 29 . Minimal change 51 . Honshu port 61 . Vending machine choice 6. Subterranean 30 . John Hancock 52 . Kind of jury 64 . Type style chamber place 53 . Still life subject 65 . Analogous 7. Picks up some 31 . Debar 54 . Track event not in 66 . ___ about (circa) waves? 32 . Bruce and Laura the Olympics 67 . Lay down new turf 8. ''___ Can'' (Sammy 35 . Pro side 55 . Egyptian goddess 68 . Appointment Davis Jr. 36 . ___ mater (brain 57 . Hardly any 69 . Hardy character autobiography) covering) 59 . Grand verses 9. Cornell's locale 39 . Future DA's exam 60 . Lat. and Ukr., once 10 . Density symbol 40 . Ming treasure 62 . D.D.E.'s command 11 . Change 41 . Food category 63 . Hydrogen's atomic letterspacing number 12 . Gael's language 13 . Safe deposit box item 18 . Most faithful

57 Puzzle #57 Across 1. Googol follower 5. 1968 hit "In-A-___-Da-Vida" 10 . Bad thing to hear during surgery 14 . Petting zoo critter 15 . Brand name used in potato chips 16 . Soccer star with his name on a video game title 17 . Name at the gas pump 18 . Tasteless, but not crude 19 . Use a kiddie pool 20 . Ad slogan that suggests the little ones can play with huge dinosaurs? 23 . Look over 24 . Bounty Hunter Duane Chapman's nickname 25 . One, in Oberammergau 26 . Ad slogan that's Valleyspeak to egg someone on? 31 . Stubbing target 34 . Walk-___ (clients without appointments) 35 . Suffix for nod 36 . Fine-grained soil deposit Down 37 . Item with outtakes 1. Buffet handful 21 . Opposite of 41 . Golfer's problem 38 . It's neither now nor never 2. "Curb Your 62-across with nerves when 40 . ___ standstill Enthusiasm" star David 22 . Box set? putting 41 . Swinger's stand 3. Pageant host 26 . Nav. officers 42 . Odometer marking 42 . She battled Godzilla 4. "Project Gotham 27 . Talks deceptively 44 . Geena, in a 1991 43 . Ad slogan that explains why Racing 2" platform 28 . Sturm ___ Drang movie a Simpson kid is missing part of 5. Lose it completely? 29 . Robert who plays 45 . Put in stitches his candy bar? 6. Accuse without proof Tony's son on "The 46 . Lucille's owner 47 . "This ride is great!" 7. Like many Gallaudet Sopranos" 49 . Perform an 48 . Simple sandwich selection U. students 30 . One step more already-famous song 49 . Show whose 2004-5 season 8. "Hawaii Five-O" than giga- 50 . Get past third base finale was directed by Quentin nickname 31 . Spill the beans 51 . It may follow Tarantino 9. Ursula who played 32 . Letter after theta "Yeah, yeah" 52 . Ad slogan for some sort of one of the first 33 . Ten-speed bike 52 . Pacific salmon Gummi boulders? on-screen Bond Girls component variety 56 . Early host of "Mystery 10 . Bad place to be 37 . Narc's org. 53 . Petty of "Tank Girl" Science Theater 3000" near a sewage plant 38 . Led Zeppelin's 54 . Privy to 57 . Ancient region on the 11 . Migrate for the "Whole ___ Love" 55 . McNally's Aegean winter, maybe 39 . Took in mapmaking partner 58 . Shakespearean flower? 12 . Early automaker 56 . God, to a 59 . "Can I cut in?" noise Ransom Rastafarian 60 . Plug part 13 . Little laugh 61 . Emperor who committed suicide in 68 AD 62 . Opposite of 21-down

58 63 . Burn a bit 64 . Barrymore who shows up in "Donnie Darko"

59 Puzzle #58 Across 1. Countries in special alliance 5. Unprocessed 10 . Elevator inventor 14 . Iranian currency 15 . Highway construction crew's supplies 16 . Deep cut 17 . It's between the South Frigid Zone and South Temperate Zone 20 . India's first prime minister 21 . Set, as a goal 22 . Aardvark snacks 25 . ''Embraceable ___'' 26 . Some dosage units (Abbr.) 29 . Drink too much 31 . King Edward's love 36 . Ammonia compound 38 . Certain movie role 40 . Zero of the population 41 . Atlantic shipping nemesis 44 . ''Abdulla Bulbul ___'' (1877 song) 45 . Harvest 46 . Walton portrayer Down 47 . Formulator of the third law of thermodynamics 1. Muffin type 23 . Gave away verbally 50 . Baghdad's country 49 . Not yet final, in law 2. Come-on 24 . Primitive weapon 53 . Fort Knox slab 51 . Some NYC block separators 3. Pledge 26 . Desi Arnaz, for one 55 . Caribbean resort 52 . Alleged conjurer Geller 4. American Red Cross 27 . ___ de la ... 56 . Make art on glass, organizer Barton in a way 54 . Asta's mistress 28 . West African 5. Three hundred, in language closely 57 . Ontario native 56 . Command levels Roman numerals related to Fula 58 . Brinker of ''The 61 . Ann ___, Mich. 6. Decompose 30 . Polished off Silver Skates'' 65 . London landmark 7. Part of BTU 32 . Like some odds 59 . Immature newts 68 . Penny 8. Decompose 33 . Theater areas 60 . Pudding ingredient, 69 . Sayings of Jesus, e.g. 9. Money held by a 34 . Narrow water perhaps 70 . Small, slender nail third party passage 62 . Farm building 71 . Pianist Dame Myra 10 . Horrible boss 35 . Prognosticators 63 . Major Algerian port 72 . Cheap cigar 11 . Knowing when to 37 . Prayer ending word 64 . Make over 73 . Part of AD be silent, e.g. 39 . Place for a snake 66 . Manipulate 12 . Wight for one 42 . Actress Andress fraudulently 13 . Place for a mower 43 . ___ facto 67 . Articulate 18 . Litter member 48 . Fishes, in a way 19 . Tropical American lizard

60 Puzzle #59 Across 1. Syrupy 8. Took tiffin 15 . Psych up 16 . Do over 17 . Spectator, often 18 . From Washington 19 . Hair care 20 . Check for accuracy 22 . Bulrush 23 . Important decades 24 . Keep engaged 26 . Japanese legislature 27 . Derrick 28 . Got out 30 . Before 31 . Places for bells 33 . Laughed heartily 35 . Heavy metal 36 . Flower holders 37 . Cowboy gear 40 . Dali or Picasso 44 . Zoologists' mouths 45 . Copy 47 . 65 or so 48 . Tsp. and oz. Down 50 . Unmanned plane 1. Evensong 13 . Knickknack stand 39 . Daily grind 51 . It means ''huge'' 2. Be left 14 . Expunged 40 . Work hard 52 . Rock's frequent costar 3. Computer memory 21 . Party nights 41 . Quartet song 54 . Arab leader 4. They're close to you 24 . Like sisters subject 55 . Less tanned 5. Scoreboard data 25 . High-rise amenity 42 . Substitute rulers 56 . Betraying bile 6. Profit from 28 . Primitive weapon 43 . Honey 58 . Everyday 7. Maintained 29 . Richie Valens tune 46 . Beseeched 60 . Business wear 8. Brought up 32 . Ivy leaguer 49 . Alaska's first capital 61 . Short times 9. Navajo foe 34 . Faulkner title start 51 . Livy's parent 62 . Worked on axles 10 . Beatty et al. 36 . Peeved 53 . Mounts gemstones 63 . Most frugal 11 . Postmen have one 37 . Dock work 55 . Night prowler 12 . More robust 38 . Gunsmith 57 . Sprawl 59 . Alley follower

61 Puzzle #60 Across 1. Make-up specialist 5. Said further 10 . Shed door device 14 . An embarrassing problem to face? 15 . Turn the air blue 16 . ''Diana'' singer 17 . Not all there 20 . Very much involved 21 . Pressing 22 . Puts the finger on 23 . ''Go away!'' 25 . Slender stingers 28 . Brazilian resort 29 . Begin counterpart 33 . Gone 36 . Great-great-grandson of Augustus 37 . Poetic tribute 38 . Once known as 39 . Lord's Prayer opener 41 . Before now 42 . Hold on property 44 . Completely crazy 47 . Dog bottoms? Down 49 . Coffeemaker 1. Slender 19 . Slices of history 46 . By hook or by 50 . They might have kinks 2. Mouse's target 24 . Pupal protection crook 51 . Some like it hot 3. Actress Heche 25 . Cashmere and 48 . Misses 53 . Spade of fiction 4. There's no returning angora 52 . Where you may 54 . Put into words without it 26 . Video partner use ID to get mail 57 . Zip 5. Tippy-tops 27 . Drum material 53 . Projecting 62 . Screwy 6. Cat's-paw 28 . Despondent foundation piece 64 . Muslim prince 7. Stops over 30 . Type of list 54 . European 65 . Temporary housing 8. Start to sob? 31 . Make a case for merganser 66 . Out of round 9. Refuse to agree 32 . Trumpet sounds 55 . Busted 67 . Volstead's opponents 10 . Guessing game 34 . Regulus' 56 . Colliers' entry 68 . Like sumo wrestlers 11 . Pony up constellation 58 . Cinnabar, taconite, etc. 69 . Signs of disuse 12 . It's got you 35 . Horde member covered 40 . Discuss tiresomely 59 . Water drainer 13 . It's behind you 43 . Mythical drinks of 60 . Swoop up 18 . Most likely to the gods 61 . Some toothpastes succeed 45 . Naval escort 63 . Wild bunch member

62 Puzzle #61 Across 1. Stay to the finish 5. ''Candy is dandy ...'' writer 10 . Secure, as a contract 14 . West Indies citrus fruit 15 . Persons, places and things 16 . Leigh Hunt's ''___ Ben Adhem'' 17 . Some potatoes 20 . Nog ingredient 21 . One way to take it 22 . Boxer's quest 23 . ''Comus'' composer Thomas 24 . Football referee's need 26 . More potatoes 33 . Conglomerate 34 . London park name 35 . ''The Facts of Life'' actress 36 . Tijuana lad 37 . Out of whack 39 . Not yet final, in law 40 . Fish story suffix 41 . Nutmeg feature 42 . Apple and pear, e.g. 43 . Still more potatoes 47 . Hebrides island Down 48 . Snakeless isle 1. A head of Time 23 . Mr. Moto's 44 . Fragrant chemical 49 . Pressing 2. In a state of eager rejoinder compounds 52 . Smile from ear to ear anticipation 24 . Coral reef border 45 . Speedometer part 53 . 21st Greek letter 3. Belt islands 46 . Reach for rudely 56 . And still more potatoes 4. First ''O'' of O-O-O 25 . Alero or Intrigue, 49 . Bump up against 60 . Computer operator 5. Conveniently for short 50 . Sherlock's 61 . St. Teresa of ___ available 26 . Beasts' crowning undertaking 62 . Jail unit 6. Prods to action glories 51 . Luau music 63 . Polanski film 7. Military obligation 27 . Electricity- makers, for short 64 . British surgeon Sir James 8. The two for tennis? eschewing sect 52 . Naval lockup 65 . Harvard rival 9. Hush-hush govt. 28 . ___ Domingo 53 . ''Not guilty,'' e.g. grp. 29 . Hot dog spread 54 . High water's 10 . Hispanic American 30 . Word with donna alternative 11 . Assist in illegality or ballerina 55 . Type of chatter 12 . Christmas season 31 . Softens 57 . Chance occurrence 13 . Surfer's sobriquet, 32 . Certain believer 58 . Gardner of the stereotypically 37 . Full of pretensions screen 18 . ''___ Johnny!'' 38 . Grind to a halt 59 . Hardly gregarious 19 . Of some benefit 39 . Tiffin time 41 . Propositioned 42 . First-class, in slang

63 Puzzle #62 Across 1. Othello game piece 5. Postfixes 9. Humidifier output 14 . Comeback of a sort 15 . Clear a hurdle 16 . It may be airtight 17 . Ill-mannered one 18 . Verdi heroine 19 . ''Blondie'' or ''Cathy'' 20 . POOR 23 . Deep black 24 . Toupee 25 . Afternoon retreat 28 . Swan 30 . Joule fraction 33 . Poem's final stanza 34 . Teamster's rig 35 . Pelvic bones 36 . POUR 39 . Enough, for some 40 . Property claim 41 . Boxer's refuge, perhaps 42 . In need of changing 43 . Dixieland Al 44 . Unfrequented Down 45 . Earmark 1. Society rookie 21 . Shenanigan 38 . Something for your 46 . Turned on the waterworks 2. Sacred image 22 . Bride follower? eyes only 47 . PORE 3. ''Begone!'' 25 . Goat antelope 43 . Acclaimed 54 . Most suitable 4. Shot for an ailing 26 . Cockamamie 44 . Minify 55 . Lemons pitcher 27 . Send packing 45 . Taunt 56 . Coward of note 5. Seward's Folly 28 . Button on a 46 . Cheese chunk 58 . Car wash step 6. Exalt extremely disposal 47 . Put on the payroll 59 . Beat by a whisker 7. Carpenter's joint 29 . Sultanate 48 . Norse god of art 60 . ''Beetle Bailey'' pooch 8. Mix it up, in a way controlled by the and culture 61 . Came to a conclusion? 9. There's nothing in Portuguese 1508-1659 49 . Impart 62 . Spotted here 30 . Take the honey 50 . Celebratory poems 63 . Velvet ant, for one 10 . Word with sing or and run 51 . Revealing work of string 31 . Orion's left foot art? 11 . Fine cotton 32 . Much too talkative 52 . Tittle 12 . Passing notice 34 . Culinary direction 53 . Lets touch them 13 . Shanghai staple 35 . What a shrug 57 . One way to make a might mean bough break 37 . Set straight

64 Puzzle #63 Across 1. Bee of old TV 5. Discussion group 10 . Curved molding 14 . Recognize 15 . "The Downeaster ___" (Billy Joel song) 16 . Lone Ranger's cry 17 . "My Friend" at the movies 18 . "___ to Be You" 19 . Color shades 20 . Has the best intentions 23 . Sheriff's emblem 24 . Weather center? 25 . Hotel addition? 27 . "___ bodkins!" 28 . Alaskan king? 32 . "Well done!" 34 . Silo's purpose 37 . Nash's "___ lama" 38 . Uma Thurman and Lucy Liu, e.g. 42 . Soft drink nut 43 . "Mr. Apollinax" writer 44 . "No thanks!" 46 . Corset hardware Down 47 . "___ little teapot ..." 1. Hands on hips 21 . Factions 41 . True blue 50 . W-2 ID 2. Like junk mail, 22 . Tarantula's trap 45 . Petal-plucker's 51 . Pinafore's letters perhaps 26 . Bread basket word 54 . Equines that bray 3. Migratory sorts choice 47 . Introspective query 56 . "Relax!" 4. Steel guitar sound 29 . Horseradish source 48 . Rows 61 . It's credited 5. Percocet's target 30 . Greetings from 49 . On a tilt 62 . Unit of energy 6. Voice above tenor Fido 52 . Collegian's choice 63 . Virginia willow 7. Pop's name? 31 . Hardens, as clay 53 . Step on the plate 64 . "Das Rheingold" role 8. Praise 33 . Gen. Lee 55 . Olympic gold 65 . Electron's path 9. Little dipper 34 . Saragossa women, medalist Mark 66 . IRS agents 10 . "I wasn't expecting briefly 57 . New Jersey 67 . Printer's color you ..." 35 . Coating of gold university 68 . Pedometer button 11 . Ex-mayor, author 36 . Oscar winner 58 . City centers 69 . Piquancy of "Leadership" Kazan 59 . Nastase of tennis 12 . Natural viewing 38 . Picabo Street's 60 . Riga resident height gear 61 . VCR function 13 . Aurora's 39 . Front page item (Abbr.) counterpart 40 . "Same Time, Next Year" co-star

65 Puzzle #64 Across 1. Simple form of payment 5. Come to light 10 . Certain protest 14 . As soon as 15 . Philanthropist 16 . Mayberry resident 17 . Silenced 20 . It takes a licking and keeps on ticking 21 . Period of many years 22 . Canted 23 . Paper contents 25 . Baseball's Steve 26 . Sophisticated 29 . Fusillade 31 . Surfacing gunk 32 . Silenced 37 . Turkish dignitaries 40 . ''Is that so!'' 41 . Hold another hearing 42 . Silenced 45 . Fabulize 46 . Buttinsky 47 . They don't compare with oranges Down 50 . Kostof and Agnew 1. It can be checked 24 . Allowing alcohol 48 . Some intelligent 53 . Prepare the paint 2. Not in favor of 25 . Kind of shot animals 54 . Yuletide song 3. Cozenage 26 . Colorado natives 49 . Square-up ahead 55 . Conciliatory offering 4. Capital of Montana 27 . Incline of time 57 . Tropical lizard 5. Radio plugs 28 . Camembert relative 50 . Diving gear 61 . Silenced 6. Valentine favorite 29 . Dirty look 51 . Hysterical mood 64 . Take the bait 7. Insider dirt 30 . Grows wiser, e.g. 52 . At pique's peak? 65 . Lollygags 8. Before long 33 . Eye cheesecake, 53 . Shopping frenzy 66 . Natural emollient 9. Slip or trip, e.g. e.g. 55 . Oliver's Laurel 67 . Served up a winner 10 . Print below the text 34 . ''___ have to do'' 56 . Sludge 68 . Elbow counterparts 11 . Month of showers 35 . Canal of song 58 . Popular soft drink 69 . Deflects from a course 12 . Walk like a crab 36 . Isn't a natural 59 . Have no doubts 13 . Easily irritated blonde 60 . Keats feats 18 . The yoke's on 38 . Looked into again, 62 . It's game them as a criminal case 63 . Man of Steel 19 . Written exemption 39 . Move down a Web monogram site page 43 . How-do-you-dos 44 . Took a load off

66 Puzzle #65 Across 1. Time for matzo 6. Incise with acid 10 . Film on water 14 . Disintegrate 15 . Ration 16 . Leg enhancers 17 . "The Pink Panther" star 18 . Most elegant 20 . Diorama 21 . Always, versified 22 . Entertainer who is not really a physician 23 . Stirrup's site 24 . Easily duped 27 . Workers all abuzz 29 . Complete failure 32 . Pan pursuer 34 . Give out 37 . Diamond stat 39 . Domain 41 . Weekly weeder? 42 . Often-pulled muscle 44 . Big game org.? 45 . Light a fire under 48 . Bowls over Down 49 . Hartford skater 1. Have a funny feeling 19 . Canadian Grammy 46 . ___ up (accelerate) 51 . Time for a wake-up call, 2. "Fear of Fifty" author winner for country and 47 . Part of a prof's perhaps Jong pop address 53 . Ready to eat a horse 3. Matthew Arnold 25 . Dos Passos trilogy 50 . Military band? 56 . Smart remark poem 26 . Colossal 52 . Alley-oop toss, e.g. 59 . Sordid 4. Garden of delights 28 . Sargasso Sea 54 . Hardly everybody 62 . Meadow murmur 5. Go back on your breeder 55 . Kept 63 . Collander word 30 . Most prized asset 57 . Be of profit to 65 . Copying of a role model 6. Ford named for a 31 . Village Voice award 58 . Postage stamp 67 . Hawkeye booster Ford 32 . ___ Lanka comedian 68 . Mention 7. Low-tech hair dryer 33 . Cry from the 59 . Religious order 69 . Rice or Sexton 8. Sheds light on doorsill 60 . Abu Dhabi ruler 70 . Oktoberfest sight 9. Bantam, sometimes 35 . Harbor feature 61 . Compact, e.g. 71 . Workout gait 10 . English counties 36 . Pittance 64 . Minute amount 72 . Condition of misfortune 11 . Sorority inductee 38 . Members of the 66 . It adds color 73 . Add up 12 . NATO target elite 13 . Apportion 40 . Southeast Asian peninsula 43 . Inexperienced

67 Puzzle #66 Across 1. Some architectural add-ons 5. ''___ Zapata!'' 9. Antler-bearers 14 . Gondola, e.g. 15 . All tied up 16 . Vietnam capital 17 . Short break 20 . Skeleton in the closet, e.g. 21 . Marksman of Swiss legend 22 . Peg of Woods 23 . Fancy jug 25 . Bears the expenses of 27 . Saintly circle 30 . Malevolent 32 . Stout cousin 33 . Silver Gavel Award org. 34 . Buttinsky 36 . Opening words 40 . Clean break 43 . Pupil of Socrates 44 . Soothing substance 45 . Allen or Blanc 46 . Key on a keyboard 48 . Palter 49 . Start from scratch Down 50 . Drawing rooms 1. Falls back 19 . Emotional request 47 . Singer plus two, 54 . Yggdrasil, e.g. 2. Tales and such 24 . Spring events e.g. 56 . ''The Soul of a Butterfly'' 3. Not clergical 26 . It's overhead 49 . A man of the cloth memoirist 4. Binaural 27 . It's a lock when 50 . Cut counterpart 57 . Not naughty 5. Bone in a column pinned 51 . See ya in Hawaii? 59 . Record-holder 6. Suffix with correct 28 . Member of the first 52 . ''Blue'' singer 63 . Lucky break 7. Part of Maverick's family 53 . Reporter's goal 66 . The ones right here attire 29 . Molten spew 55 . Toreador's trophy 67 . Word of exclusivity 8. Made a larger pot? 31 . Burglar-alarm 58 . Buchanan or 68 . Balder's father 9. Product's freshness warning Ferber 69 . Lowered the pressure period 34 . Drawn-out 60 . Accolade 70 . Remunerates 10 . Old seaman 35 . Kindled again 61 . Camelot character 71 . Dim-light sensors 11 . ''West Side Story'' 37 . Word with study or 62 . Teller's stack character bomb 64 . Chin attachment? 12 . Overly sentimental 38 . Swamp thing 65 . Succeed, as a 13 . Contesting teams 39 . Holmenkollen proposal 18 . Oligarchical group overlooks it 41 . Plus others, briefly 42 . Fills with happiness

68 Puzzle #67 Across 1. React to an act 5. Pains partner 10 . Second Israeli ambassador to U.S. 14 . Decorative fabric 15 . Scold 16 . Somewhat blue 17 . Peru Indian 18 . Party line? 19 . Toward shelter 20 . Air makes it work 22 . Lush 23 . Jarreau and Hirt 24 . Court demand 25 . Joint part 27 . Kind of seating 29 . Unflappable 30 . Cut short 31 . Gulf city in the Sunshine State 34 . English longbow wood 35 . Certain football position 38 . Go astray 41 . Got one's feet wet 42 . Little bits Down 46 . Memorized 1. Environmental 21 . Community dance 43 . Kermit as a youth 48 . Pitch tents condition parties 44 . Soap-opera plot 49 . Farm areas 2. Wool fat 25 . Attack violently device 50 . Bod wetter? 3. Defendant 26 . Not used 45 . Michigan State 53 . ID factor 4. Soil enricher 28 . Cartoon canine athlete 54 . Mischief maker 5. Harmony 29 . Masseuse employer 47 . Does a florist's 55 . Pipette kin 6. Group of pitches 31 . Late Knight chore 57 . Nabisco nosh 7. Door part 32 . Allow to ripen 48 . Like a farm smell 58 . Characteristic 8. He spoke for 33 . Kind of pie 50 . Asian country 59 . Took the count Mortimer 36 . Posed for 51 . Disengages 60 . Traveled 9. Penn name? 37 . Dwarf with glasses 52 . King's order 61 . Something easy 10 . Counterpart of a 38 . Suspended 55 . Write on glass 62 . Director Kazan delete key transports 56 . Common man 63 . Butterfly snares 11 . ''Horsefeathers!'' 39 . AARP member 57 . ''My ___ Private 64 . Excessively quick 12 . Common solvent 40 . Attire Idaho'' 65 . Noggin 13 . PBS ''Science Guy''

69 Puzzle #68 Across 1. Pub missile 5. Tent show 11 . Derby 14 . Dairy case choice 15 . Stir to action 16 . Piece of corn 17 . Everywhere 19 . Bush spokesman Fleischer 20 . Work like a prima ballerina 21 . Certain finger 23 . Scrawny 24 . Uttered with contempt 25 . Setting for much of "The English Patient" 28 . Always 32 . Bluenoses 33 . Aristotle's teacher 34 . In shape 35 . Cuts trees 36 . Millionaire's intro? 37 . Milne bear 38 . "That feels g-o-o-o-d!" 39 . Controls 40 . Electron tube 41 . Recycling bin's counterpart Down 43 . Easy gallop 1. Internet address 18 . Smells 39 . In one end and out 44 . ___ a one component 22 . '60s war zone the other 45 . Sheltered bay 2. "Thanks ___!" 24 . Org. seeking "life 40 . Actor ___ Hyde 46 . Supplement 3. "___ Man" (Estevez out there" Pierce 48 . Hall of Fame shortstop Luis film) 25 . Water balloon 42 . Coll. hopeful's 52 . ___-Mart 4. PBS fund-raiser sound hurdle 53 . Twists of fortune thank-yous 26 . Cheering 43 . Police line 56 . From ___ Z 5. Bathhouse 27 . Everywhere 45 . Part of a Pound 57 . Explore 6. Wry twist 28 . Controversial poem 58 . "Aida" backdrop 7. Campus mil. org. 1990s sitcom 46 . First to putt, 59 . Fishtail 8. Adorable 29 . Fermenting tanks usually 60 . Epics star Charlton 9. Org. for which Bob 30 . ___ Janeiro 47 . Floppy filler 61 . New Age singer Hope did many shows 31 . Airwaves, so to 48 . Garage sale caveat 10 . Weekend warrior speak 49 . Have dog breath? 11 . Cap-a-pie range 33 . Mountain lion 50 . Victor's shout 12 . Swiss river 36 . William H. ___ of 51 . No more than 13 . "___ are for kids!" "Fargo" 54 . "The Cask of (cereal slogan) 37 . Douglas fir feature Amontillado" author 55 . Mermaid's milieu

70 Puzzle #69 Across 1. Active sort 5. Gandhi's land 10 . "Blast it!" 14 . Willy, notably 15 . Overawe 16 . At cross-purposes with, country-style 17 . Long-eared hare 19 . Requiem word 20 . Stan's pal 21 . Pop's Christina 23 . Broadcast interruption 26 . Oklahoma's first state capital 29 . Job listing initials 30 . One or more 31 . 1300 hrs., in the military 34 . Utility knife brand 38 . Whistling rabbitlike mammal 40 . Word that can precede the start of 17-, 23-, 52- and 63-Across 42 . "Harvey" hero Elwood P. __ 43 . Put forth, as effort 45 . Diet-conscious nursery Down rhyme fellow 47 . Offer 1. Judo school 22 . Goat with recurved 46 . Rome's Fontana di horns __ 48 . __ Kan dog food 2. Spoken 24 . Aborigine of Japan 49 . Go for eagerly, as 50 . Takes into custody 3. O.T. book 25 . Babysitters, often an opportunity 52 . Hoedown participant 4. Dashing 26 . Gawk 51 . Puts up 57 . Take flight 5. Journalist Tarbell 27 . Computer 52 . Flair 58 . Non-meat-eater 6. Slap the cuffs on operating system 53 . "The Caine Mutiny" 62 . Ayes 7. Persian Gulf emirate 28 . Wee one captain 63 . Far East countries, 8. Architect Jones 32 . Domino dot 54 . Heavens: Prefix collectively 9. Bring into harmony 33 . Capone rival 55 . Actress Keaton 66 . Grammy winner Horne 10 . Brakeman's 35 . Corn cores 56 . Foil maker 67 . Positive terminal employer 36 . Pinhead 59 . Moxie 68 . Wear out 11 . Side (with) 37 . Cross-purposes 60 . Light and breezy 69 . Prima donna problems 12 . Jeweled headdress 39 . Only US state with 61 . Roswell's st. 70 . Coquette 13 . Tiptoe a diamond mine 64 . Passports, e.g. 71 . River of Hades 18 . Fashionably old-fashioned 41 . Catcher of pushers 65 . Charge 44 . Small pie

71 Puzzle #70 Across 1. Matched pieces 5. Archaeological treasure 10 . Ensures victory 14 . Sanction in wrongdoing 15 . Ancient marketplace 16 . Genesis mariner 17 . Restyled Dr. Seuss title? 19 . Seasoned advisor? 20 . Main course 21 . Patron of Columbus 23 . Word with bed or head 25 . Kind of printer 26 . One way to think 29 . Hindu retreat 33 . Something to pitch 34 . Director's call 35 . It's right under your nose 38 . Restyled job-hunters ploy? 41 . Item for confession 42 . Most docile 43 . Is under the weather 44 . Mexican shawl 45 . Liability offset 46 . Send spirits soaring 49 . Exhale wistfully Down 51 . Hanukkah candelabras 1. Opposite of out 22 . Mel of cartoon 44 . Baby birds? 55 . Braved the rapids 2. Black, poetically voices 45 . Seaweed product 59 . ''Your turn,'' in 3. School book 24 . Washington city 46 . Overplay communications 4. Saddle features 26 . New Testament 47 . Simple machine 60 . Restyled Rex Harrison 5. Respiratory noises book 48 . Something to lend? classic? 6. Type of trip 27 . 100th part of a 50 . Coffee type 62 . Wood for decking 7. Central spots rupee 52 . In the center of 63 . False gods 8. Ruffles feathers 28 . Seer's sign 53 . London park name 64 . Dustbowl victim 9. Home for la familia 30 . Throat malady 54 . Scour for bargains 65 . Goes astray 10 . Pants measure 31 . Greets the villain 56 . Money in the till 66 . Downward measurement 11 . Barbecue materials 32 . Defeat soundly 57 . Make the final cut? 67 . Prohibitionists' foes 12 . 2 on a par 4 34 . Way over there 58 . They may provide 13 . Pilot's wind 35 . Grass skirt highlights problem accessories 61 . Computer key 18 . Basic requirement 36 . Speck of land 37 . Attention getter 39 . Provide guidance 40 . Business owner's concern

72 Puzzle #71 Across 1. Says goodbye without saying it 6. Passion Sunday period 10 . Some PCs 14 . The Little Mermaid 15 . New York canal 16 . ''Say, Say, Say'' say 17 . Street-sweeper's bane 19 . Online auction site 20 . Gen. Lee's gp. 21 . Port side if sailing south 22 . Maintaining equilibrium 24 . That WNBA player 25 . UPS delivery 26 . Con artist's accomplice 27 . Require a designated driver 29 . Comic Philips 32 . Worst case of burning desire? 35 . It's usually not covered 37 . QB Flutie 38 . Certain speed units 40 . Act the siren 41 . Variety store 43 . Cupolas Down 44 . Formerly called 1. Ascertain 18 . Profligate 42 . Mr. Descartes 45 . Finishing 2. Questions do it 23 . Baseball's Martinez 43 . Household tool 48 . Singer's asset 3. ''The --- of 26 . Religious splinter 46 . Tidy 50 . Goddess of the morning Wakefield'' group 47 . Gee's kin 51 . Pick, pick, pick 4. ''A mouse!'' 27 . For takeout 49 . Qui vive 54 . ''Taps'' necessities 5. Turn off the alarm 28 . Ruth's mother- 51 . Private reply, 56 . Dramatis personae 6. ''What are we in-law maybe 57 . Kin of bravo waiting for?'' 30 . What a hog wants 52 . Some choir 58 . Be all leers 7. The ''E'' in QED 31 . Keats creations members 59 . Dentifrice 8. Tuck's partner 32 . Mideast's Gulf of 53 . They travel in 62 . Speak like a tosspot 9. Drives --- formation 63 . Twice halved 10 . Just right 33 . Site of the 1960 54 . Petty officer, for 64 . Parting word, somewhere 11 . Penny purchase, Olympics short 65 . No, somewhere once 34 . Powerful adhesive 55 . Far from fair 66 . Time many chose to draw? 12 . Lunch or brunch 36 . Big failure 56 . Designer Chanel 67 . Odin's mythology 13 . Eye sore 38 . Jamaica's capital 60 . Lennon's widow 39 . Hosiery shade 61 . Fuss

73 Puzzle #72 Across 1. Platter spinner 5. Stomach complaint 10 . __Vista: Internet search engine 14 . Mediterranean seaport 15 . Nouveau __ 16 . Markers 17 . Dramatic game enders 20 . Not suitable 21 . When doubled, la-di-da 22 . Weighed down 23 . Workmanship 25 . Cooks' gadgets 27 . Formal meals 32 . Oklahoma city 33 . Skyrocket 34 . Exec's perk 35 . Paper mates 37 . Tibet's capital 39 . Stadium grounds crew's burden 43 . Historic period 45 . Knit one, __ two 47 . Laura's husband in '60s TV 48 . Problems in grammar class Down 52 . Most likely winner 1. "__ Spent My 19 . "Maria __": Jimmy 46 . Smallest 53 . Jump-starting org. Summer Vacation": Dorsey hit 48 . Like many 54 . Role first played on 1997 film 24 . Like many local vacationers' autos Broadway by 13-year-old Andrea 2. Persian Gulf land roads 49 . Victorious WWII McArdle 3. Onetime White 26 . Microsoft reference force at Midway 55 . Cooperstown's Mel House dog 27 . Weaken 50 . Like city traffic, 58 . Kettle's place 4. Rubber stamp 28 . Ox tail? often 62 . Comedy club acts companion 29 . Brown shade 51 . One with a flag 65 . Golf's Ballesteros 5. '70s pres. 30 . Slangy refusal 52 . Low men 66 . Percentage taker monogram 31 . Hang loosely 56 . Natural hist. 67 . Mayberry lush 6. Split 36 . Guard museum attraction 68 . Pastoral poem 7. Cinco y tres 38 . Light source 57 . Singer Tennille 69 . Roker of ''The Jeffersons'' 8. Self-titled 2003 40 . Bow shape 59 . Informed of 70 . Agnew's plea, briefly sitcom 41 . Caviar 60 . Bridal wear 9. Apollo vehicle, 42 . "This Old House" 61 . It's a gas briefly airer 63 . Former Mideast 10 . Pre-sortie signal 44 . Like judges alliance: Abbr. 11 . Frustrated shout 64 . Sporty truck, from the audience briefly 12 . Stereo components 13 . Leagues: Abbr. 18 . Others, in Oaxaca

74 Puzzle #73 Across 1. TV puppet of old 6. GWTW plantation 10 . Picket line crosser 14 . Legendary frontiersman 15 . Served a winner 16 . Verdi's ''Caro nome,'' e.g. 17 . Hidden enemy 20 . Sea bird 21 . Available for retail 22 . Enmities 25 . Tennis period 26 . It's made daily 27 . Collection of stories 28 . Kind of treat 30 . Simon's verb 32 . Cut 34 . Bud's old pal 35 . Pull, as ropes 36 . Avocado 41 . It's better than none 42 . Big bird 43 . Instruction at many a corner 45 . Small amphibian 47 . Formal affairs, usually 49 . Sigma follower Down 50 . Word with ''overboard'' 1. Broadcasting org. 18 . Enjoy to excess 44 . Place 51 . ''So that's it!'' 2. Indefinite period 19 . Arises 45 . Tightly defined 53 . On easy street 3. Part of a formal suit 22 . Possesses 46 . Register formally 55 . Vex 4. Printing press part 23 . Role for Jodie 47 . Philter 58 . Black 5. Ogled 24 . Greek portico 48 . Residential locale 59 . Paul Hogan's 63-Across 6. ''The Hundred Secret 29 . More baby-faced 50 . Prefix with 63 . Part Senses'' author 31 . ''...for children of management 64 . Oscar winner Crawford 7. Deeds all ---!'' 52 . Muslim pilgrim 65 . Walks like a tosspot 8. Go over again 33 . Farm implement 54 . Individualist 66 . Birds of prey 9. Fred Astaire's sister 35 . Took the trick 56 . Chills 67 . Hostelries 10 . Warshawski creator 37 . Completely 57 . Vivacity 68 . NW French port Paretsky 38 . Melville novel 60 . Print distances 11 . Testy 39 . Participant 61 . Hollow center? 12 . Nuptial paths 40 . Horse color 62 . Time zone 13 . Headquartered

75 Puzzle #74 Across 1. Ruler of Qatar 5. Divan 9. Cousins of the elites 14 . Fancy fabric 15 . OT book 16 . Apple variety? 17 . Prominent periods 18 . String instrument 19 . Bottled spirit 20 . Ocean racers 23 . Dogged 24 . "Now do you believe me?" 25 . H, in Greece 27 . First appearance 28 . Fantastic but vain hope 31 . Southdown male 32 . Engraved stamp 33 . Chic 34 . End of a hammerhead 36 . State of constant change 37 . Stands by for 40 . Fixed cost 41 . Way or wife beginning 44 . Golf scoring format 46 . Like an old bagel Down 48 . Works in the Prado 1. College member 21 . Soak thoroughly 40 . Motley mix 49 . "___ the ramparts . . ." who votes for president 22 . Bailey of the 41 . A feeling of 50 . Blanche's sister 2. Islands explored by comics discomfort 51 . Like a blimp Magellan in 1521 26 . Ms. Vanderbilt 42 . Not permitted 55 . Tropical eel or Scottish 3. Early 20th century 28 . Word with bobby 43 . Most precious county poetry movement or clothes 45 . Looked askance 56 . ___ avis 4. Used car deal 29 . R&B's ___ Hill 46 . B&O stop 57 . Heading on Santa's list 5. Hoarded 30 . Much-studied T. 47 . Court sport 58 . Lineage 6. Skip 32 . Totalitarian ruler 50 . What some trees 59 . Antiquated oath 7. It's played under the 34 . Photo provide 60 . Mythical fertility goddess table 35 . Ordinal number 52 . Dumbarton denizen 61 . Bewilder 8. In dreamland suffix 53 . Robert Louis 62 . Feature of St. Peter's 9. When doubled, a 36 . Whimsical Stevenson villain 63 . Stone paving block Pacific capital 37 . M.D.'s org. 54 . Airport conveyance 10 . Start of an 38 . Would-be dictator 55 . Corp. exec's invention 39 . Dressed degree 11 . Soldier's flask 12 . 1997 Spielberg movie 13 . NNW's antithesis

76 Puzzle #75 Across 1. City near Brigham City 6. Central idea 11 . Driver's helper 14 . Distress signal 15 . Blood line 16 . Dead-end job 17 . Instant message between you and 3 friends? 19 . Coffee server 20 . Abate 21 . Great time or great noise 22 . Winter warmer 24 . Oppressors 26 . Kind of top 27 . Pendulum direction? 28 . Some crime lab jobs 32 . Lane associate 35 . Big gulp 36 . Iridescent stone 37 . When repeated, a food fish 38 . Some mall rats 39 . Writer Ephron 40 . Beginning on 41 . Revolutionary with a regret 42 . Alluded to Down 43 . Toy for indoor play 1. Did in, mob-style 18 . Sax type 42 . Surprise blessing 45 . Ball chaser? 2. Schoolroom spinner 23 . Mano a mano 44 . Use the Web 46 . Actress Hatcher 3. Paints amateurishly 25 . Michelle of "I Am 45 . Kind of surgery 47 . Trials 4. "To ___ is human Sam" 47 . Chamber work 51 . Animated pet dog ..." 26 . Readies for sale 48 . Squirrel's treat 53 . "Star Wars" director 5. Recent arrival 28 . Reside 49 . "___ Entertain 55 . Bus. bigwig 6. Yucatan natives 29 . Number of Muses You" 56 . Court 7. Klutz's cry 30 . Skater Lipinski 50 . 1960 Everly 57 . Tea kettles, perhaps 8. Bouncy gait 31 . Narrow strip Brothers hit 60 . Chalet backdrop 9. Where-at link 32 . Arabian Sea 51 . Not home, on a 61 . Intuition 10 . Moneybags sultanate sports schedule 62 . Bellini opera 11 . Interstate diner, 33 . Perform high-tech 52 . Dover export 63 . "Indubitably" perhaps surgery 53 . Word before dance 64 . Wield, as force 12 . Continental cash 34 . Halters, e.g. or drive 65 . Made it through crunch 13 . Italian volcano 35 . Notary's tool 54 . Cold War rival time? 38 . Bangkok resident (Abbr.) 58 . Spell 59 . Luau dish

77 Puzzle #76 Across 1. Potatoes alternative 6. Delhi prince 10 . Subject to a library fine 14 . Parting word 15 . "American __" 16 . Representative symbol 17 . Body of principles 18 . Position of prominence 20 . Whine 22 . Kind of price 23 . Before, of yore 25 . Position of prominence 29 . Deplorable 31 . Was introduced to 32 . Convert to leather, as hide 33 . Granada's region 36 . Source of moos or baas 37 . Position of prominence 40 . China landmark 43 . Acid rain component 47 . Galoot 48 . "Let's call __ day!" 50 . Under consideration 51 . Position of prominence 55 . Sit-up beneficiaries Down 56 . __-sea 1. D.C. lobbying gp. 23 . Notable time 45 . Take into custody 57 . River rompers 2. Wash. neighbor 24 . Flow like water 46 . Cobb and 59 . Position of prominence 3. Paint oil source 26 . It may have Pennington 62 . Freed of leaves 4. Long time attachments 48 . "What a crock!" 65 . Turkish coin 5. Title word in a song 27 . Toothy fish 49 . Pope's silk scarf 66 . Proctor's purlieu that begins, "Some 28 . Finale 52 . Of the kidneys 67 . Clear the tape think the world is made 30 . Trip follower 53 . Boston airport 68 . Wiesbaden wheels for fun and frolic" 34 . Flower leaf 54 . Agenda details 69 . Pins on the far right 6. Come to fruition 35 . UN workers agcy. 58 . Like valued old 70 . Body shop concerns 7. Former minor 36 . URL initials books 8. Heist, say 38 . Flash of light 59 . "Alice" spin-off 9. Seductive quality 39 . Yearned (for) 60 . Hurtle 10 . Legal 40 . Is no longer 61 . Dismiss from the 11 . Overlay material 41 . Right-on staff 12 . Trifle (with) 42 . Galena, for one 63 . Pa. hours 13 . Benz- finish 44 . Like malamutes 64 . __ Plaines 19 . Sci. society 21 . Whence the uvula dangles

78 Puzzle #77 Across 1. Cairo's river 5. Wooded recess 10 . Cantata composer 14 . Actor Jannings 15 . "Swell!" 16 . Golfer Aoki 17 . Vacation postcard sentiment #1 20 . Like beer from the tap 21 . Gave lip to 22 . Suffix with ox- or sulf- 23 . Nabisco cracker 25 . "The Teflon Don" John __ 28 . What an MC wears 29 . Did some sniggling 34 . Avail oneself of 35 . Cold symptoms 38 . Not on time 39 . Vacation postcard sentiment #2 42 . Brother of Abel 43 . Campaign fund feeder 44 . Sea dog 45 . Online giant whose name is shouted in ads Down 47 . "__War": Shatner novel 1. Radar's quaff, on 23 . Restored to its 49 . Fungus-alga union 48 . "Family Ties" mother "M*A*S*H" original position, as a 51 . Like fudge 50 . Matured 2. Colorful computer fallen lamp 52 . Hex 52 . Inflation stat. 3. Not on tape 24 . Online bill-paying 53 . Skater Michelle 53 . Sticky-fingered type 4. Evoke method 54 . Low-cal 57 . Hostess product 5. Viewpoint 25 . Courageous 55 . Villa d'__ 61 . Vacation postcard sentiment 6. Try for a part 26 . "Ulysses" (1967) 56 . "Cool," updated #3 star Milo 7. Tea container 57 . Coin with Lincoln's 64 . "__ boy!" 8. Oklahoma native 27 . Gears and gums profile 65 . Waist-length jackets have them 9. Perch 58 . Aviator's prefix 66 . Emerald Isle 28 . Change in form 10 . Tiny amounts 59 . Kristofferson of 67 . Depilatory brand 30 . North Pole denizen 11 . Yard sale caveat "Blade" films 68 . "Fiddler on the Roof" 31 . Nonclergy 12 . Made the trip 60 . Start of a counting meddler 32 . Lab burners 13 . Weeded, in a way rhyme 69 . Like 68-Across 33 . Big name in farm 18 . "Not gonna 62 . Sport __: off-road equipment happen!" transport 36 . Hardly the graceful 19 . Stupefied state 63 . Carried the day type 37 . Lady of Sp. 40 . Reporter's query 41 . Eurasian treeless plain 46 . Like some cereals

79 Puzzle #78 Across 1. Planets, e.g. 5. Prefix meaning ''straight'' 10 . Divination practitioner 14 . Cheese concoction 15 . Revolutionary patriot Allen 16 . Like a Tussaud figure 17 . Lady Remington rival 18 . Get the ball rolling 19 . One of the Great Lakes 20 . NEWS 23 . August zodiac sign 24 . Med school subj. 25 . MONEY 33 . Sphere or system starter 34 . Prepare for cooking, as potatoes 35 . Saw wood, so to speak 36 . Blockheads 38 . Police leader, once 41 . Gill opening 42 . Fibber's admission 44 . Takes a turn 46 . Climber of small hills 47 . SPORTS 51 . Plane section Down 52 . Variety of whale 1. Old Dodge model 21 . Cradle grain 43 . Pass out hands 53 . LIFE 2. 500, to a stationer 22 . Car cleaning aids, 45 . Start a lawn 61 . Substitute in the kitchen 3. Plane on a radar briefly 48 . Qatari currencies 62 . Home in the mountains screen 25 . They may be full of 49 . Even though 63 . Get wind of 4. Walk in the park baloney 50 . Dark times 64 . Mideast gulf or port 5. Brings back 26 . Eye, in 53 . Shaving facilitator 65 . First name among the 6. Blues singer James combinations 54 . Last name in ''Dynasty'' cast 7. Jackie of action films 27 . Mr. Spock's forte classic TV sitcoms 66 . Barbershop request 8. Kilt pattern 28 . ''Quiet on the ___!'' 55 . Competition 67 . ''Welcome'' sites 9. Mean 29 . Correct a tire pull 56 . D-Day river 68 . Product of Bethlehem 10 . Adds, as to the pot 30 . Strikeout king Ryan 57 . White House 69 . Lab reagent 11 . Merit 31 . Singer Lopez staffer 12 . Noteworthy hotel 32 . Paving stones 58 . Start for ballistic or sign 37 . 20, 25, 47 and dynamic 13 . Bread and whisky 53-Across, e.g. 59 . Alice, on ''The 39 . Unspoken assent Brady Bunch'' 40 . Heeds Dr. Phil 60 . Funny Bombeck

80 Puzzle #79 Across 1. Knuckleheads 6. Taps with a sword 10 . Clicker's picture 14 . Dead to the world 15 . Pale brown 16 . Puppy pickup point 17 . Davis of "Commander in Chief" 18 . Take laborious steps 19 . Hardware item 20 . Distributing rabbit's-foot charms? 22 . Pianist Myra 23 . React to pollen, perhaps 24 . Data storage units 26 . Licorice flavoring 29 . Perceptive 32 . Follower of 'N or lip 36 . Machu Picchu builder 37 . Nike's swoosh, et al. 38 . Get the lions working together? 41 . Do-___ situation 42 . Geometry calculation 43 . 1962 James Bond film Down 44 . Swarms 1. Actor Taye of "Rent" 13 . Is left with 40 . Keep an ___ the 45 . Full of good cheer 2. "There's ___ every 21 . Guardian spirits ground 47 . Black tea from Sri Lanka crowd!" 25 . Baby's dusting 46 . Nosy Parkers 49 . Blue book filler 3. Source of irritation 27 . Not really 48 . Poseidon's place 54 . Kitty's comment 4. Journalist Pyle 28 . Period of panic 50 . What the nose 56 . The sound of ordinary 5. Part in a song 30 . Minor municipality knows crows? 6. "Ed Wood" star 31 . Gas brand in 51 . Ballroom dance 59 . Rick's "Casablanca" love Johnny Canada 52 . "The Seven Year 60 . Oklahoma city on the 7. The Bruins of the 32 . Dundee denizen Itch" costar Tom Cherokee Strip NCAA 33 . Times past 53 . Rival of Helena 61 . Group belief 8. Bully 34 . Bottle type 54 . Piggy's title 62 . Hood's blade 9. Like a bubble bath 35 . Outburst of outlaw 55 . Pertaining to most 63 . "___ fair in love ..." 10 . One way to be left activity students 64 . Try for trout out 39 . Newspaper 57 . Wire diameter units 65 . Web spot 11 . Sweetener that department 58 . Retailer's gds. 66 . NASDAQ counterpart can't be beet? 67 . Purloined 12 . Magnum follower

81 Puzzle #80 Across 1. Show __ 4. Cruise stopovers 9. Klutzy 14 . Debt to be paid 15 . Trigger's greeting 16 . "When pigs fly!" 17 . Wise bird 18 . Tact 20 . Spa rooms with heated stones 22 . Snick-or-__ 23 . Average grade 24 . "National Velvet" writer Bagnold 26 . Plumed waders 28 . Hardly diner grub 32 . Hwy. mishap respondent 33 . "Jeopardy!" millionaire Jennings 34 . Vaughan of jazz 37 . Friars Club event 40 . Kids' running game 42 . Place 44 . Wool source 46 . Actress Vardalos Down 48 . "Spring ahead" hrs. 1. Book jacket briefs 21 . New Jersey cager 47 . Unsuccessful 49 . Full discretionary power 2. Corn Belt state 25 . Steve and Eydie contender 53 . One of two evils 3. Bantu language number 50 . Swaps 55 . Exxon predecessor speaker 27 . Architect Saarinen 51 . Quakers in the 56 . Snaky swimmer 4. Wacko 28 . "And I Love __": forest? 57 . Stew veggies 5. Suffering from mal Beatles hit 52 . Ready alternative 59 . Science of light and vision de mer 29 . Hebrew prophet 53 . Clues, to a 63 . Life purpose 6. Actress Tyler 30 . 67-Across neighbor dectective 66 . Flyspeck 7. Self-images 31 . Like poppycock 54 . Inventor Howe 67 . Oregon neighbor 8. Gleams 35 . Elec. letters 56 . Buffalo's lake 68 . Fictional Frome 9. Hellish 36 . "Be quiet!" 58 . Adam's third son 69 . Historical segment 10 . PBS funder 38 . Jiffs 60 . Brainstorm 70 . German industrial city 11 . Throw out 39 . Measured dose 61 . Groan-evoking 71 . Abstains from 12 . French fathers 41 . Taunt humor 72 . Whatever 13 . Birch or alder 43 . Fr. holy woman 62 . Remain 19 . First name in talk 45 . Fuss over one's 64 . Any ship shows feathers 65 . Wed. follower

82 Puzzle #81 Across 1. Little whirler 10 . Glacial erosion result: Var. 15 . Behind closed doors 16 . Longtime Moore costar 17 . Material prone to meltdowns? 18 . Brisk 19 . With reverence 20 . Where to get a good deal 22 . Avis, formerly? 23 . Costa del __ 24 . Spring (for) 25 . Shankar, notably 29 . For each one 32 . Level borders? 33 . A fan of 34 . Kept away 35 . Prepared 37 . Elmore Leonard's "Get __" 40 . California's __ Valley 41 . MPG monitor 44 . "Get a bang out of life" product 45 . Dock-destroying rodent 47 . Had one's cake Down 48 . "__ questions?" 1. Get rid (of) 14 . Unmoved 41 . Religious recluse 50 . Prefix with ballistic 2. Rude 21 . Joe Namath's alma 42 . Balcony barrier 51 . Simpson attorney Robert 3. Develops quickly mater 43 . Make-up artists? 54 . Sailor 4. Major shock 23 . Pays a visit 46 . They follow iotas 57 . Gave an edge to 5. Market fluctuations 26 . Noosed rope 49 . Impossible 58 . Hookah, e.g. 6. Good opponent 27 . 2005 17-race series 52 . Skin 60 . Ezio's "South Pacific" role 7. Change 28 . Montreal map abbr. 53 . Ominous time in 61 . One working on camels 8. Nagano Olympic 30 . Kind of button old literature 62 . Accommodates, in a way cauldron lighter 31 . Return letters 54 . Marginal note 63 . Accounting figure 9. Slow, to Salieri 35 . "I pity the fool" 55 . "__ Rebel": 1962 10 . Canine speaker hit 11 . Horned goddess 36 . Short, in short 56 . Annoys 12 . In theory 37 . Hoards 59 . It can't be returned 13 . Succeed 38 . Struck a chord 39 . "1984" setting

83 Puzzle #82 Across 1. Make casseroles 5. Coral formations 10 . Caffeine's effect 14 . Postmortem bio 15 . Maker of silver linings? 16 . Hungarian politico Nagy 17 . Andrew's nickname 19 . Type of miss 20 . Able to bounce back 21 . Once more 22 . Desktop image 23 . Unisex skirts 25 . Lbs. and ozs. 27 . Gown designer Wang 30 . ''I want a doggy biscuit!'' 31 . Card player's cry 33 . Love, Spanish-style 35 . Influence 39 . River near Kassel, Germany 40 . Henry's nickname 41 . Andy's TV son 42 . Fledgling 43 . Eight states touch it (Abbr.) 44 . Church areas 45 . Wine label word Down 47 . Fight for breath 1. Party pooper 18 . ''___ Lucy'' 44 . Speed skater Ohno 49 . Super Bowl stats 2. Up to the job 21 . Airport monitor info 46 . Took off 50 . Muscle mag cover story, 3. Serena, to Venus 24 . Seniors org. 48 . California peak perhaps 4. Value system 25 . Sharpen 50 . Tale with a point 54 . Monk's head cover 5. City near Milwaukee 26 . Neaten 51 . Harry Hamlin 56 . Man Bonds is chasing 6. Sommer of film 28 . ''Seabiscuit'' vehicle 57 . Swell event? 7. Wharton School nail-biter 52 . Cropped up 62 . Amorphous form subj. 29 . In the company of 53 . Part of a barrel 63 . Like the people in today's 8. Garrisons 32 . Reggie's nickname 55 . Possessed theme 9. Put into words 34 . The last Mrs. 58 . ''___ See Clearly 64 . Emit coherent light 10 . Michael's nickname Chaplin Now'' 65 . ___-garde 11 . ''Y'know what 36 . Words to a baby 59 . Designer label 66 . Old station identification ___?'' on the rise? letters 67 . Still life object 12 . Jenny with the diet 37 . Emulated Pinocchio 60 . Still life object 68 . Lotte of ''From Russia With program 38 . It's said to be more 61 . Seth's boy Love'' 13 . Typeface 40 . Ticket's end 63 . Carrier to Tokyo 69 . Yarn colorings extensions

84 Puzzle #83 Across 1. Uncovered 5. College subj. 10 . Tough time for Caesar 14 . NASCAR track 15 . Actress Maureen 16 . Knotty swelling 17 . Fourth of July dessert 19 . City slicker 20 . CEO, e.g. 21 . Wee bit 22 . ''Ditto,'' in footnotes 23 . Italian autos, familiarly 26 . Where you might see Brownies with brownies 28 . Like a famous falcon 30 . Checkout nuisance 31 . Orchestra member 32 . Take in 35 . Bulletin board necessities 38 . This instant! 39 . Subject of this puzzle 41 . Dogg tracks 42 . Avian diver 44 . Truck stop sight 45 . Yellow Brick Road follower Down 46 . 1990 pennant winner 1. Present decoration 18 . Shine's partner 43 . Scolds 48 . Give Mom some time off 2. Frank's second 23 . In the middle of 45 . Pacific threat 50 . Powell or Rumsfeld 3. Gnawing problem? 24 . Blood, sweat and 47 . Rubbernecked 54 . Church areas 4. Lift tears 49 . Gala gathering 55 . ''I told you so!'' 5. Display of grandeur 25 . Hippie 50 . Ignominy 56 . Fish and chips follower, 6. That vessel 26 . Wampum units 51 . Cancel the sometimes 7. Site of 1945 Big 27 . Venue reservations 57 . Result of burnout? Three meeting 29 . Bishop's bailiwick 52 . One way to look 58 . Squabbling 8. Speak hoarsely 33 . 66, e.g. (Abbr.) 53 . Make merry 59 . Hippo 9. ''Hallelujah'' chorus 34 . ''Anywhere else!'' 57 . Bohemian 64 . Unit of distance composer acronym 60 . Historical period 65 . Champion with a 10 . Role for Harrison 36 . Couric of the news 61 . Possible result of a two-handed backhand 11 . Betray 37 . Some are blind sacrifice 66 . Toe the line 12 . WWI ace 39 . Eliot's Adam 62 . Not sweet, as wine 67 . Means' justifiers Rickenbacker 40 . Woody's ex 63 . Peeper 68 . Rain result, on some fields 13 . Does a farm job 69 . Charming

85 Puzzle #84 Across 1. Like some heads 5. "___ silly question ..." 9. Uncomfortable neckwear 14 . "I cannot tell ___" 15 . Fireside event 16 . Plied the oars 17 . Come to terms, with considerable effort 19 . Arcade pioneer 20 . Emigre's purchase? 22 . Pluck 25 . "God ___ our side" 26 . Slow start? 27 . Puzzled comments 28 . M.Sgt.'s inferior 31 . Type of tin 33 . Solidifies 35 . Flavorful dish 41 . Craft symbolizing a long wait 43 . Horses bred by the Nez Perce 44 . "Chestnuts roasting ___ open fire" 45 . Word between here and Down there 46 . Telecom giant 1. "Fat chance!" 21 . Highest of all 47 . Just beat 48 . Greek vowel 2. In the manner of 22 . "The Gondoliers" 49 . Thickheaded girl 49 . Brief party label 3. Goblet part 50 . Change 23 . Sassy youth requirement, 52 . Fool 4. Possessive spirit 24 . Put ___ to (halt) sometimes 55 . Beginnings of some pranks 5. God's ___ (churchyard) 29 . "Burn rubber!" 51 . Extremely tiny 57 . Preplanned funeral? 6. Tell partner 30 . "Later" 53 . "Live and Let Die" 61 . Chip type 7. The "Garden Isle" 32 . Reverberation villain 62 . Covered expenses 8. Firm parts, briefly 34 . Stately swimmer 54 . "Je ___ francais" 66 . "Skedaddle" 9. Comic book villain 36 . WWII boats 56 . Mayle's "___ in 67 . "Nasty" netman 10 . Campus mil. group 37 . Dateless Provence" 68 . General helper 11 . No longer out 38 . Legendary Pirates 58 . Comparative 69 . Some collars connector 12 . Roman goddess of slugger Ralph 70 . Fathoms agriculture 39 . Growing outward 59 . "There's nothing 71 . Squiggly music symbol ___!" 13 . Rewrites 40 . ___ an 60 . Achieves with 18 . MIT grads independent (campaigned, in a way) effort (with "out") 42 . Comes into one's 63 . Contend own 64 . The Begleys 65 . The puck stops here

86 Puzzle #85 Across 1. Certain house of worship 5. Neeson of ''Nell'' 9. Gov. division 13 . Artist Bonheur 14 . Tart role for Shirley 15 . Spreads on bread 17 . Cooler cousin 19 . Magus gift 20 . Sufficiently cooked 21 . Alpha's follow-up 23 . 1992 skating medalist 24 . Just when expected 26 . Building protrusion 28 . All the worse for shouting 30 . No matter who 31 . Bobby of the Bruins 32 . Steep rocks 35 . Tend to the batter 36 . Lopsided court count 39 . Sol's beginning? 42 . Black suit component 43 . Commencement wear 46 . Mint order? 49 . Unfortunate bottom line 51 . Fresh from the oven Down 54 . Tot's truck, perhaps 1. ___ Lanka 22 . Former U.S. carrier 43 . Take in 55 . Addams family cousin 2. Ad ___ committee 24 . ''So that's your 44 . Quiz 56 . Sticky gunk 3. Classified item, often game!'' 45 . Largest book of the 57 . Does a dog trick 4. Tony Blair's party 25 . Here / there OT 58 . Reprove 5. Cause of some head separator 47 . Take in 60 . Event for Jesse Owens scratching 26 . Young fussbudgets 48 . Prima donna's 64 . She raises a racket 6. Bug 27 . Wall St. landmark problem 65 . Gear for a trireme 7. Jellylike blob 29 . Mess up 50 . Bottleneck 66 . Girlfriend, in French 101 8. Tony Blair's chum 33 . Rook 52 . Vagrants 67 . It'll make you pull up stakes 9. Field of influence 34 . Partiality 53 . Sethe portrayer in 68 . Ayatollah's predecessor 10 . TV's Tarzan 36 . Centers of ''Beloved'' 69 . Heart and soul 11 . Green gem attention 57 . Shindig 12 . Ice cream 37 . Beethoven's ''___ 59 . Lion's locale confection to Joy'' 61 . ''... a man ___ 16 . Surprise for the 38 . Examined carefully mouse?'' bride 39 . Jelled juices 62 . Hamm of soccer 18 . World org. based in 40 . Disparaging fame Paris nickname 63 . Four-footed friend 41 . T. Rex, for one

87 Puzzle #86 Across 1. Chronicles 6. Puzzle type 12 . Progress 14 . Showed displeasure 16 . Barge helper 17 . Onetime Elton John collaborator 18 . Long Island university 19 . Godzilla creator 20 . Batter's aid 21 . They're often early risers 22 . Athletic reward 23 . High-pressure venue 24 . Shogun stronghold 25 . Imp 27 . Excite 28 . Member of the 1983 NBA champs 30 . Put under 34 . Chest material 36 . Intricate pattern 39 . 1950s Screen Actors Guild president 41 . Constellation formerly part of Argo Down 43 . Adds to the staff 1. Scrutinized 12 . Clip alternative 35 . Dump 44 . Measures of discrimination 2. Silver: Prefix 13 . Commotion 36 . Stable visitors 45 . Used a shuttle 3. Traditional gravy 15 . American 37 . Beg 46 . __ Mill ingredient revolutionary who 38 . Dog named for its 47 . Not at all consistent 4. Assumed recruited Lafayette low stature 49 . "Carmen" author 5. Sluglike mollusks 21 . In bundles 39 . Bouzouki and 50 . New venture 6. It was Idlewild until 23 . Rigs mandola 51 . Ogle 12/24/63 26 . Shortcomings 40 . Third digit 52 . Most artful 7. Eye inflammation 29 . Court game 42 . Stop working 53 . Lost one's balance? 8. Open racers 30 . Hits the road 44 . Beliefs 9. Trick 31 . Pulpitlike 48 . Cmdr.'s superior 10 . Bay of Bengal's __ 32 . Indivisible Islands 33 . Montreal daily 11 . Time for a getaway

88 Puzzle #87 Across 1. Site of the Taj Mahal 5. Faux --- (blunder) 8. "Edward Scissorhands" star 12 . Tries for the prize 13 . Exhorts 15 . Malarial fever 16 . Start of a Yogi Berra quip 19 . Disco guy on "The Simpsons" 20 . Hooded snake 21 . Weigh heavily on 22 . Jr.'s son 23 . Poison ivy problem 25 . Darling 26 . U.S. visitor since 1976 27 . Part 2 of the quip 31 . Once again 32 . Highway bailout 33 . Society newsmaker 34 . Low point 36 . Choose 38 . Lacquer ingredient 42 . --- cit. (where cited) 44 . "___-la-la!" 46 . Puerto --- Down 47 . Part 3 of the quip 1. Ovid's bird 17 . Manhattan border 43 . Officers in training 52 . Time of note 2. Kind of wrap river 45 . Souped-up wheels 53 . Nice notion? 3. Came full circle 18 . City in SW England 47 . Short-legged 54 . Musical Tommy 4. Grate stuff 24 . Freely hound 55 . Irving or Grant 5. Make ready 25 . Ranch hand 48 . "Knight Without 56 . Circus safeguard 6. Long trailer 27 . Pallid ---" (1937 Marlene 57 . Blow it 7. Nasal partition 28 . Santa --- wind Dietrich film) 58 . Good place to get in hot 8. '50s sitcom staple 29 . Soft murmur 49 . Hen's work water 9. Snob 30 . King of the fairies, 50 . Upgrade the 61 . End of the quip machinery 10 . Discipline in folklore 65 . Debussy's "Clair de ---" 51 . Baby's output 11 . Fashionably small 35 . Rodeo feat 66 . Silence breaker 57 . Sicilian landmark 13 . End result 37 . Truck scale unit 67 . Became frayed 59 . A Dumas 14 . On the agenda 39 . Supplement to the 68 . Cartesian conjunction main event 60 . Revival cry 69 . Grassy expanse 40 . Hostile, as a 62 . Prefix with classic 70 . Apt name for a guy in debt? reception 63 . "A Boy Named ---" 41 . Turn-downs 64 . Afternoon hour

89 Puzzle #88 Across 1. Prepare to wash, perhaps 5. Erases a debt 9. Old hat 14 . Remorseful soul 15 . Supplier in many cartoons 16 . Ignore in pronunciation 17 . Couch potato's workout result 18 . Bad habit 19 . Burdened 20 . What a mishandled debate can lead to 23 . Microscopic bit 24 . One of a personal trio 25 . Good host's offering 30 . Kept secret 33 . Or --- (bully's words) 34 . Christmas card greeting 35 . Low, marshy land 37 . The Fed's Greenspan 38 . Henry VIII family name 40 . European connection? 41 . Upper --- (now Burkina Faso) 43 . Judicious Down 44 . ''Take ---!'' 1. Mex. mama 21 . Haul out to the 47 . End of an accord? 45 . Some Trekkie costumes 2. Hard-hitting garage 48 . Faux follower 46 . Rabble-rouser's trademark response? 22 . Lapidary item 49 . Hunter's set-up 49 . Box office warning 3. Practice sessions 25 . Interlace 51 . Take the bait 50 . Old salts 4. Doctor's specialty 26 . Mete out 52 . Functions 51 . Zealot's motivation 5. It's right off Main 27 . It might make you 53 . Phooey! 58 . Stern with a bow Street, really a nit-picker 54 . Tickled pink 59 . Pirates' pelf 6. Battery fluid 28 . Iowa river with a 55 . Scrutinize (with 60 . Barrymore's ''--- After'' 7. Community org. rapids ''over'') 62 . Colorful aquarium fish since 1844 29 . Method conclusion? 56 . Superior 63 . Ponte Vecchio river 8. Carson's Carnac, for 30 . Discusses in detail 57 . Nautilus captain 64 . Trucker's wheels one 31 . Pelvis-related 61 . Disembarrass 65 . German city on the Ruhr 9. Downpours 32 . Fate of Miller's 66 . Profound 10 . Memorable mission salesman 67 . Walked on 11 . Surfer's concern 36 . Most diluted 12 . London hero 39 . Break for the driver 13 . Bad impression? 42 . Nelson Mandela, e.g.

90 Puzzle #89 Across 1. Toaster style 6. Party type 10 . Peaked 14 . Animal with striped legs 15 . Head of France 16 . Rodriguez behind the plate 17 . U.S. coin word 18 . Suspicious of 19 . Wither 20 . Gal of song 21 . Hollywood investment 24 . Transforms cod into bacalao 25 . 747 kitchen 26 . Ms. Lansbury 29 . Be revolting? 30 . Collector's ultimatum 33 . Dallas inst. 36 . Lawyer Dershowitz 37 . Be under the weather 38 . Famous septet 39 . Soak 40 . Impersonal mail 44 . Treats hides 45 . More cruel 46 . Attack Down 49 . Oriental 1. Kitchenware 23 . Relaxation 42 . Ludwig or Jannings 51 . Gridiron goof 2. Gumbo 24 . Leo's son, the actor 43 . Shredded and 53 . Russian fighter 3. ''Apostle to the 26 . Distant bagged item 56 . Sweet sandwich Gentiles'' 27 . Battle of the ___, 44 . Small drums 57 . Bedouin 4. FedEx rival 1798 46 . In advance 58 . Gray's churchyard poem 5. Trap 28 . Punkie 47 . More certain 60 . Bring up 6. Ermine 29 . Lunar valley 48 . Apply lipstick 61 . Urn 7. Big tops 31 . Skiff propellers poorly 62 . Fabulist 8. Aleutian isle 32 . Young Cratchit 49 . Humiliate 63 . Slips up 9. Virgil work 33 . Observed 50 . It has a duel 64 . Pitcher 10 . Nonsense 34 . Stable mom purpose 65 . They may be allayed 11 . Do the trick 35 . Cold War concern 52 . Tie 12 . Big dipper? 38 . Getz on the sax 53 . New Mexico 13 . One on a Nixon list 40 . Pass alternative silhouette 22 . Gung-ho spirit 41 . Vacationing 54 . Inventor Sikorsky 55 . Shortchanges 59 . Lighthorse Harry

91 Puzzle #90 Across 1. Unload, as stock 5. After-bath powders 10 . Planted listening devices 14 . Cream-filled cookie 15 . Henri's school 16 . Slender woodwind 17 . Milk-Bone product 19 . State of mind 20 . State positively 21 . All wet 23 . Sharp weapon 26 . Egg hunt holiday 27 . Bring to a halt 30 . Main church section 31 . Letters for lawyers 32 . Not imaginary 34 . Columbia launch gp. 36 . Personal instructor 40 . Gives four stars to, say 42 . Synonym for the first words of 17- and 65-Across and 10- and 33-Down 43 . Noncom nickname 44 . Snail mail need 45 . Outback birds Down 47 . "Doggone it!" 1. Teetotaler's order 18 . Afghanistan 46 . Cat breed 48 . Stable tidbit 2. Greek god of love neighbor 49 . Seafood sauce 50 . Whitney and Wallach 3. Baby grand supports 22 . Doesn't have a 51 . Linger 52 . Parakeet, perhaps 4. Pierced places thing 53 . Put to shame 53 . Plan for the meeting 5. Anti-nuke pact 24 . Give the slip 54 . WWII enlistee 56 . Utter 6. UNC's conference 25 . Job application 55 . Rub out 58 . Audubon Society members 7. Comic Costello attachments 57 . What a pass 60 . Hall of Famer Mickey 8. Muse of history 27 . Goes astray provides 64 . Not quite closed 9. Prearranged price 28 . Without ice 59 . "Without a doubt" 65 . Ragtime dance 10 . Police unit with 29 . Facts and figures 61 . The Stooges, for 68 . Run-of-the-mill canines 33 . Slightly sour candy one 69 . Sign after Pisces 11 . WWII attacker 35 . Chaperone, usually 62 . "Get a load of 70 . Mob scene 12 . V-formation flier 37 . Golfer's hazard that!" 71 . Dickens's Uriah 13 . Passover 38 . Cruel character 63 . Kitchen add-on 72 . Try another shade celebration 39 . Use U-Haul, e.g. 66 . Disencumber 73 . Oxen's harness 41 . Garden tool 67 . Door opener

92 Puzzle #91 Across 1. Engaged in battle 6. Tiny tiff 10 . Bloke 14 . Egypt's capital 15 . La Scala solo 16 . Was a passenger 17 . Spicy condiment 19 . Leak slowly 20 . Double curve 21 . Word before spirit or sport 22 . Subdued shade 24 . Demeanor 25 . Dairy animals 26 . Hawaii component 29 . Dresses to the nines 32 . Forest clearing 33 . Fortune's partner 34 . Turkey __: dance 36 . Amazed expressions 37 . Stepford women 38 . Allergic reaction 39 . Univ. recruiter 40 . Came down 41 . Prove false 42 . Oceangoing thieves Down 44 . Takes care of 1. Flu symptom 18 . Gardener's buy 41 . Hotel helper 45 . Connive with, as a crook 2. Southwestern art 23 . Hole-punching tool 43 . 1860s nickname 46 . Chamberlain of the NBA center 24 . Frantic situation 44 . River residue 47 . Hot season 3. Clever people 25 . Cleanser brand 46 . Cries 50 . Spill the beans 4. Lever on a casino 26 . Composer 47 . Fishtail on ice 51 . Air gun pellets "bandit" Stravinsky 48 . Remove, as a knot 54 . Radio dial 5. Everyday procedure 27 . "__ John B": Beach 49 . Caster of nocturnal 55 . Strep symptom 6. Beelzebub Boys hit beams 58 . Worshiped celeb 7. Bristol baby buggy 28 . Christine of 50 . Difficult journey 59 . "__ your chin up!" 8. Beach ball filler "Chicago Hope" 51 . Wild hog 60 . Fictional plantation family 9. Future frogs 29 . CSA president 52 . Sound from a name 10 . Intersecting Jefferson __ hound 61 . Finished roadway 30 . Europe/Asia divider 53 . Hang around 62 . Annoys 11 . Yowl from an owl 31 . Take as a given 56 . Above, in poetry 63 . Petunia's boyfriend 12 . Axe relative 33 . Boneless cut 57 . Pi follower 13 . Shed a sunburn 35 . Lieutenant Kojak, to friends 37 . Enjoy the lake, in a way

93 Puzzle #92 Across 1. Some boxes 6. Tupperware sound 10 . Turnpike concern 14 . Tons 15 . Grandson of Abraham 16 . Turkish dough 17 . Stroke in a parlor, maybe 18 . 1928 Oscar winner Jannings 19 . Newsman Colmes 20 . Satan? 23 . Japanese honorific 24 . They're highly recommended 25 . Stutz contemporary 26 . Go down 28 . Had the lead 32 . Jolly rejoinder 34 . Decorated, on a French menu 35 . Hoop edge 37 . Java? 41 . Eastern closer 42 . Makes big strides 43 . Super-duper 44 . Sullied Down 46 . Hung on to 1. Gentle ones 21 . Alley in a cave 40 . Rest 48 . Meteor's tail? 2. "Butterfield 8" 22 . Creepy 45 . "Mail Order Bride" 49 . Green target author 27 . Rhubarb actor 50 . Letters at sea 3. Common blessing 28 . Divided in the 46 . Reunion group 53 . Lament at a second-rate 4. Bridge seat forest? 47 . Calls the whole horse farm? 5. Apparel company 29 . Singer's syllables thing off 58 . Betting group with the Axcelerate 30 . Colonizer of 49 . Not in at all 59 . Mythical archer brand Greenland 51 . Kind of circus 60 . Big Apple restaurateur 6. Bellyaches 31 . Break bread 52 . Like a porcupine 61 . Tough test 7. DDE's alma mater 32 . "Carniv
" airer 53 . Yawn inducer 62 . Hebrew prophet 8. Commuter's option 33 . Peepers, poetically 54 . Horse hue 63 . Strand at the chalet, maybe 9. Exercise one's 34 . Rubberneck 55 . Humorist Bombeck 64 . Night star authority 36 . Brit. sports cars 56 . Apollo 11 65 . Passing __ 10 . Taste 38 . Type type destination 66 . NBC debut of 1/14/52 11 . 1953 Leslie Caron 39 . Successful 57 . Home of Baylor title role negotiation University 12 . Shrinking sea 58 . Seat seeker, briefly 13 . Neutral color

94 Puzzle #93 Across 1. Black fly 5. Model wood 10 . Russian despot 14 . Starlet's quest 15 . Gives off 16 . Make a lasting impression? 17 . Long narrative poem 18 . Aluminum silicate minerals 19 . Designate 20 . City frequently in the news, 2003 23 . Beverage choice 24 . Banks of baseball 25 . Being three in one 27 . Flows out 30 . More relaxed 33 . The Greatest 36 . They're made for walking 39 . Belgium/France river 40 . Behave! 44 . Where Napoleon was exiled 45 . Brings up 46 . ''C'___ la vie!'' 47 . Extended family members 50 . Mil. training Down 52 . Bank worker 1. Diving bird 22 . Status ___ 48 . Building addition 55 . ''Bellefleur'' author 2. Sort of stock 26 . Twelve o'clock in 49 . Lillehammer event 59 . Talk at length 3. Finish a tire job the day 51 . One of the three 61 . West Coast center 4. He's into gadgets 28 . Halloween haunted wise men 64 . Peter Fonda role 5. Synagogue platform house sound 53 . Steal away with 66 . Slow-moving lemur 6. Surrounded by 29 . Type of grapes? one's intended 67 . Lima's land 7. On the up and up 31 . Lawyers' abbr. 54 . More scarce 68 . At two-two, for one 8. Hall-of-Famer Bart 32 . It's left (with ''the'') 56 . ''___ Eyes'' (1969 69 . Admits the first customers 9. Beset 33 . Prayer ender hit) 70 . Lost 10 . Perfect score, for 34 . Dietrich's Marlene 57 . Sort of seal 71 . Without some 35 . Neither right nor 58 . Part of a platoon 72 . Combine 11 . In the continental wrong 59 . Protrudes 73 . Funnyman Foxx U.S. 37 . Uno e due 60 . Inter ___ 12 . Summit 38 . Box without 62 . Kind of snake or 13 . Flightless bird from harmful intentions crab South America 41 . Carp cousin 63 . Latin being 21 . Pat Boone's 42 . Hit sign 65 . They're handed musical daughter 43 . John Jacob sentences (Abbr.)

95 Puzzle #94 Across 1. Butte relative 5. Game of chance 10 . Alliance est. in 1949 14 . Without any warranty 15 . Shaq's surname 16 . Table spread 17 . On the pathway of enticement 20 . Caustic substance 21 . Stuffed carnival prize, perhaps 22 . Relieves 23 . What this gun's for? 24 . Churlish one 26 . Distinct feature 29 . Word with bank or student 30 . ___ canto 33 . Barton or Bow 34 . Boorish sort 35 . Trunk of a tree 36 . Pathway of the politically moderate 39 . They can be made to meet 40 . Party favorites 41 . Reach in amount Down 42 . It's the limit for some 1. Heavy hammer 19 . Tube gas 43 . It's home to Castro 43 . Buffalo Bill 2. See at a distance 23 . Range rovers 44 . Use the clothesline, 44 . Ascended 3. Planned setting 25 . It may be taken e.g. 45 . Major component of 4. Hearth bit with a Bible 45 . Wound-up soapstone 5. ''The Big Sleep'' star 26 . Highest stages 46 . Star in Cygnus 46 . ''Gorillas in the Mist'' author 27 . Move like Morticia 47 . Prepare for Fossey 6. Nonsensical 28 . Type of wagon publication 47 . Advances gradually 7. Uncool fellow 29 . Elevated 48 . Blockhead 50 . Out in the open 8. Movers, not shakers 30 . Timely blessings 49 . ''Alice'' actress 52 . Word in the Three 9. Flamenco Verdon Musketeers' motto exclamation 31 . Opposite of deject 51 . Start of a cheer 55 . On the pathway of futility 10 . Stock designation 32 . Teased, in a way 52 . Romeo lead-in 58 . Day of March madness? 11 . ''Poor me'' 34 . Hot pink, e.g. 53 . Mean partner 59 . Generic dog name 12 . The head of Henri 35 . You'll find one on ice in Boston 54 . Northern 60 . From a considerable 13 . Aahs' companion constellation distance 18 . Grand in scope 37 . Hydroxyl-carbon compound 56 . Lifting device? 61 . ''Don't use that ___ with 57 . Rapid escape me!'' 38 . Book slips? 62 . ''The Sheik of ___'' 63 . ''Give that ___ cigar!''

96 Puzzle #95 Across 1. Top of the line 5. Ghana's capital 10 . Box office sign 13 . Small suffix? 14 . Electrician, at times 15 . Portico 16 . Merit 17 . Important happening 18 . Steam engine designer James 19 . Three possibilities for 40-across 22 . It can be quite uplifting 23 . Captain's record 24 . Current measure 25 . Gold medal skier Tommy 27 . Tabby talk 29 . Thick dictionary section 31 . Toronto-to-Montreal dir. 34 . Joy Adamson subject 36 . Tourist's aid 38 . ''Imagine'' songwriter 40 . Proclamation from above 43 . Type of baby in the news 44 . Prefix with test Down 45 . Weak poker hand 1. Complaint 20 . Flood controller 48 . Peak 46 . African cobra 2. Plus everyone else 21 . Canvas holder 50 . Retiring 47 . Shag rug made in Sweden 3. Three possibilities 25 . Toast type 53 . Homecoming 49 . FedEx competitor for 40-across 26 . Butter alternatives attendee 51 . Porker's place 4. Andrea Bocelli, for 28 . Scratchy board 55 . Flight component? 52 . Writing tablet one 30 . Insomniac's lack 57 . Gladden 54 . Chi follower 5. Amazes 32 . Like seven Nolan 58 . Bugler's call 56 . Cooped-up brooder 6. Ken Burns' subject Ryan games 59 . Surveyor's measure 58 . Four possibilities for 7. Statement of belief 33 . Contest submission 60 . Make the grade 40-across 8. Change one's tune 35 . Spot for a money 61 . Jerky joint 64 . Bill of Rights defender 9. --- and sciences order? 62 . Contemptible 65 . For the second time 10 . Four possibilities 37 . Liveliness 63 . Novelist Ferber 66 . Like good wine and cheese for 40-across 39 . Bit of a bite 67 . Certain domain of a king 11 . Grp. for a future 41 . Targets of cattle and queen general calls 68 . Creator of banks in Paris? 12 . Inauguration 42 . Emotionally hurtful 69 . Better safe --- sorry recitation 70 . Put in rollers 15 . Went for a dip 71 . Suit fabric 72 . Landmark that blew its top

97 Puzzle #96 Across 1. Shoots the breeze 5. Ocean catches 10 . Remote stop? 13 . In ___ (consecutively) 14 . Tara family name 15 . Critic's swipe 16 . Mob's payment 18 . Fir feature 19 . '60s guru Timothy 20 . Hairdo crushers 21 . Coarse 22 . Respect 24 . Waited and wanted 26 . Hindu creator 29 . Provides with 32 . Plagiarize 35 . Pep rally cry 36 . Psycho 37 . Peyton Manning's brother 38 . Sleep inducer 40 . 2003 MVP Duncan's turf 41 . Prods 43 . Swell 44 . Pain in the neck 45 . Wise people Down 46 . Hamper 1. Best actor for ''It 17 . Batik artist 42 . Do a slow burn 48 . Long Happened One Night'' 23 . Palenque dweller 44 . Result of an 50 . Jimmy's defeater 2. Van Gogh town 25 . Schedule infraction 54 . Consumer pitfall 3. Show displeasure, as 27 . Cooped-up female 46 . Turn upside down 56 . Planetary path to a performer 28 . Start of a famous 47 . Small fishing boat 59 . Comparatively crude 4. Had faith in palindrome 49 . Cavorts 60 . Bryce Canyon site 5. Thumb, for one 30 . Dollops 51 . Apprised 61 . Nostalgic destination 6. Bad thing to hear at 31 . Sing nonsense 52 . Bolshevik hero 63 . Marathoner's concern a checkup syllables 53 . Bottom-of-the- 64 . One of the deadly sins 7. Neverland outsider 32 . Elementary grades barrel stuff 65 . Where you might get a tan? 8. ''Queen of Soul'' 33 . Gymnast Korbut 54 . Chump 66 . White-rumped westerner Franklin 34 . One way to ride 55 . Relative of etc. 67 . Don Quixote's Rosinante, 9. Authority 36 . Supreme Being 57 . Fontainebleau e.g. 10 . Euphoric state 38 . He smacked 66 in friend 68 . Hankerings 11 . Cigar collectible '98 58 . Metallic deposit 12 . Neverland bad guy 39 . Cleaning 62 . Checkers side 15 . Sun or smoke implement follower

98 Puzzle #97 Across 1. "___ lively!" 5. It's a blast 9. Kent, York, or Edinburgh 14 . Shepherd 15 . Ancient mariner? 16 . Come after 17 . Play by play 20 . Legless lizards, e.g. 21 . Short-order order, for short 22 . Play by play by play 30 . "Don't move!" 31 . Takes an evening course? 32 . Sound upstairs 33 . Downwind 34 . Yalta's peninsula 36 . Play by play by play 41 . Put or call 42 . "Star Trek II: The Wrath of ___" 43 . Laser light 44 . Guiding light? 45 . High-hat 49 . Play by play by play 53 . Sky lion 54 . Poi party porch Down 55 . Play by play 1. Soda sippers' 23 . "80's Ladies" singer 44 . "Exactly!" 62 . Stag film? suckers K.T. 45 . Makes fresh 63 . Hodgepodge 2. Setting for "The 24 . She's sorry now salmon? 64 . Mushers' March mecca Tempest"? 25 . Address 46 . Inuit star of a 1922 65 . Word before needle or 3. "Bewitched" witch 26 . "Like that would documentary probe 4. Sean Combs, by ever happen!" 47 . Outfit for G.I. Joe 66 . Word to a waiter another name 27 . Lady of Spain 48 . They backed 67 . "The ___ the limit!" 5. Blasted stuff 28 . "The ___ Gave My almost all hit singles 6. "I'm impressed!" Heart To" (1997 hit for 50 . Nostalgic number 7. Crew's control? Aaliyah) 51 . ___ États-Unis 8. Site of King Tut's 29 . Put on 52 . "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. tomb 33 . "Yo te ___" (Avila Hyde" monogram 9. The third dimension avowal) 55 . "Major Barbara" 10 . Primero numero 34 . County north of monogram 11 . Vegas show with Limerick and west of 56 . Bum ___ Miami and NY spin-offs Tipperary 57 . "I ___ Dancer" 12 . Barbarian 35 . "You eediot!" (1973 Rudolf Nureyev 13 . "Is it soup ___?" utterer documentary) 18 . ___Kosh B'Gosh 36 . Palms (off) 58 . "Medium" network 19 . Kays' followers 37 . "Well"-financed gp. 59 . Tapped tipple 38 . Where the Golden 60 . "No dice!" Spike was driven 61 . One of Fiji's three 39 . Star car 40 . Mouthful of tobacco

99 100 Puzzle #98 Across 1. Rappeler's hangout 6. Was in the hole 10 . Apprehends 14 . Hearing-related 15 . Hole up 16 . Sit in traffic 17 . Audience's enthusiastic response 18 . Fraternal order member, perhaps 20 . Men of La Mancha 22 . Pipe opening? 23 . Jack's predecessor 24 . Cattleman's spread 26 . Supple 28 . Old Testament temptress 31 . Kind of power 32 . Throw off 33 . Legal prefix 35 . Lira replacements 39 . Common transport 40 . Apiarist's woe 42 . Love points 43 . Part of a chignon 45 . Travail Down 46 . Arbiter's quality 1. They may be called 19 . Cream of the crop 44 . Impassive protest 47 . Like brilliantine on account of rain 21 . Loses one's cool 48 . Supercilious 49 . Street and seeds 2. Carrot on a stick, 25 . Talkative 50 . They may need a 51 . Crude structure e.g. 27 . One in the frontier, lift 54 . Military shade 3. Today's Persia perhaps 51 . Shallot relatives 55 . Dinosaur's start 4. Home state nominee 28 . It's outstanding 52 . Plumed wader 56 . Mineral supplement 5. Type of arrangement 29 . Middle Eastern title 53 . Consort 58 . Did a cook's job 6. ''What have we 30 . Simile word 54 . Hummock 62 . Office gofer, e.g. here!'' 31 . What a magician 57 . Reed section 65 . Atlanta university 7. Side-to-side extent may do instrument 66 . Intellectually acute 8. Icelandic epic 34 . Maracana Stadium 59 . Word with on, 67 . Entertainer Falana 9. Sully locale along or about 68 . Sweater material, perhaps 10 . Not a whit 36 . Gad about 60 . Canal of song 69 . Proofreader's notation 11 . Extemporize 37 . Almost never? 61 . Unnatural blonde, 70 . High-pitched cry 12 . Sheffield chap 38 . Matchmakers? e.g. 71 . Smile of contempt 13 . Ed Norton's 41 . Lambency 63 . Formicary resident workplace 64 . Peke's bark

101 Puzzle #99 Across 1. Some architectural add-ons 5. ''___ Zapata!'' 9. Antler-bearers 14 . Gondola, e.g. 15 . All tied up 16 . Vietnam capital 17 . Short break 20 . Skeleton in the closet, e.g. 21 . Marksman of Swiss legend 22 . Peg of Woods 23 . Fancy jug 25 . Bears the expenses of 27 . Saintly circle 30 . Malevolent 32 . Stout cousin 33 . Silver Gavel Award org. 34 . Buttinsky 36 . Opening words 40 . Clean break 43 . Pupil of Socrates 44 . Soothing substance 45 . Allen or Blanc 46 . Key on a keyboard 48 . Palter 49 . Start from scratch Down 50 . Drawing rooms 1. Falls back 19 . Emotional request 47 . Singer plus two, 54 . Yggdrasil, e.g. 2. Tales and such 24 . Spring events e.g. 56 . ''The Soul of a Butterfly'' 3. Not clergical 26 . It's overhead 49 . A man of the cloth memoirist 4. Binaural 27 . It's a lock when 50 . Cut counterpart 57 . Not naughty 5. Bone in a column pinned 51 . See ya in Hawaii? 59 . Record-holder 6. Suffix with correct 28 . Member of the first 52 . ''Blue'' singer 63 . Lucky break 7. Part of Maverick's family 53 . Reporter's goal 66 . The ones right here attire 29 . Molten spew 55 . Toreador's trophy 67 . Word of exclusivity 8. Made a larger pot? 31 . Burglar-alarm 58 . Buchanan or 68 . Balder's father 9. Product's freshness warning Ferber 69 . Lowered the pressure period 34 . Drawn-out 60 . Accolade 70 . Remunerates 10 . Old seaman 35 . Kindled again 61 . Camelot character 71 . Dim-light sensors 11 . ''West Side Story'' 37 . Word with study or 62 . Teller's stack character bomb 64 . Chin attachment? 12 . Overly sentimental 38 . Swamp thing 65 . Succeed, as a 13 . Contesting teams 39 . Holmenkollen proposal 18 . Oligarchical group overlooks it 41 . Plus others, briefly 42 . Fills with happiness

102 Puzzle #100 Across 1. Large crowd 4. God with a temple at Delphi 10 . Snappy 14 . Honest log cabin fellow 15 . Junction point 16 . Woodstock's Guthrie 17 . Jeanette MacDonald's partner 19 . Cayuse controller 20 . Parachute material 21 . Peer 23 . On the open water 24 . Spoil 27 . Building add-on 28 . Christmas card sentiment 34 . ''So there!'' 37 . Georgia nut 38 . Little garden guy 39 . Ankle bones 41 . Techie's address 42 . Lazy bum 43 . First Mexican pyramid- builders 44 . Some are tender 46 . Expire Down 47 . Bite protection, of a sort 1. Divine sustenance 22 . Thomas Gray, 48 . Writes indelibly 50 . Party brewer 2. Follows the leader notably 49 . Starch used as a 51 . Cat call 3. Debutante 24 . ''Norma ___'' food thickener 52 . USA Patriot Act opponent 4. English waterway (1979) 53 . Unrefined 56 . Yells 5. Put on paper 25 . Black magic 54 . French cubist 60 . Dungeons & Dragons 6. Vein contents 26 . London pub painter Fernand characters 7. UK company alternative 55 . Wedding 61 . Emulate Pisa's tower 8. ''___ and the Swan'' 29 . Discriminating participant 62 . In time (Yeats) diner 56 . Disparaging remark 66 . Impulse 9. Most abundant 30 . Connected, in a 57 . Companion of now 67 . Actress Sanford of ''The element in the earth's way 58 . Go ballistic Jeffersons'' crust 31 . Hollywood handout 59 . Middling 68 . Emmy winner Ruby 10 . Rich turf 32 . Capone's 60 . ''For Your Eyes 69 . Clarinet part 11 . Tiler's adversaries ___'' 70 . Frequent witness measurement 33 . Drover's charge 63 . Cereal grain 71 . Miss the mark 12 . Skirt feature 34 . Smasher input 64 . Org. for Bucks and 13 . Instrument quality 35 . Floating ring Bulls 18 . Detergent 36 . Venus de Milo 65 . Always, poetically deficiency 40 . Like fancy gowns 45 . Cutting-edge

103 Puzzle #101 Across 1. Strange sightings 5. Exodus plague 10 . Litmus-paper reactant 14 . Needing liniment 15 . It's noble and a gas! 16 . County in the Sunshine State 17 . Toward the sheltered side 18 . Gymnastically inclined 19 . Egyptian deity 20 . Aptly named evangelist 23 . Trains on high 24 . Rodeo necessity 25 . Rap sheet letters 26 . Ka ___ (southernmost Hawaiian point) 27 . Palindrome center 28 . Stamp on steak 32 . Runs a refinery 34 . Samantha's mother 36 . Scuttlebutt 37 . Russell-Grant comedy 41 . Confined (with "up") 42 . Is worthy of 43 . Word of preference Down 46 . Does lawn work 1. Suited for the 21 . Juvenescent 44 . Slip up 47 . Seasonal mall employee purpose 22 . Edible tuber 45 . Woodshop tool 50 . Plaint for "Billie Joe" 2. Pertaining to leaves 29 . Star Wars abbr. 47 . Salad plant 51 . Pal of Pooh 3. Threatening option 30 . Coed's digs 48 . Tilted 53 . Dean's 1955 co-star 4. Sews up the eyelids 31 . City northwest of 49 . Anterooms 55 . Prohibit of falcons Marseilles 52 . Past plump 56 . Rolling Stones classic 5. Titles for monks 33 . Byrnes and Roush 54 . Tiny land mass 60 . Part of a breakout 6. Prego competitor 34 . Bk. before Job 57 . Legend of the 62 . Swarms 7. Husband of Frigg 35 . Cornrows Himalayas 63 . Conga formation 8. First name among alternative 58 . IRS agents 64 . Comparison word Israeli PMs 37 . Cephalalgia 59 . Applications 65 . First name in cosmetics 9. Goes furtively 38 . Like some organs 61 . Print widths 66 . At all 10 . Byron's daughter 39 . Free (of) 67 . Sushi choices 11 . Roselike flower 40 . Self-identifying 68 . Bridle straps 12 . Worship of graven response 69 . Spreads hay images 41 . Court where last 13 . Most compact words are heard

104 Puzzle #102 Across 1. Cash stashes 5. Beach bag item 10 . One working on a good figure? 13 . Hajj destination 15 . Quickly 16 . Gear for a galley 17 . Make a show of wealth 19 . Figure in Italy 20 . Old saloon receptacle 21 . Tony-winning tap dancer 23 . Easy gait 24 . Laugh gleefully 26 . Infidels 29 . Teeny particles in physics 30 . Form of sarcasm, e.g. 31 . Add later, as sound 32 . Virginia specialty 35 . Salacious 36 . Less restricted 37 . Scorer of 12 World Cup goals 38 . ___-di-dah 39 . Orally 40 . Common refrigerant Down 41 . C to C 1. Mischief-makers 18 . Does better than 39 . Wasting away 43 . Felt one's way in the dark 2. Sign up for another 22 . Peeve 40 . Cavort 44 . Spend extravagantly tour 24 . More than doubled 42 . Cow's chew 46 . White-billed marsh bird 3. Plot introducer 25 . Show with 43 . Teutonic invader of 47 . Guiding principle 4. Robert Burns' ''Aquarius'' Rome 48 . Release birthplace 26 . Grumpy person 44 . Hot news item 52 . Gasp of delight 5. California-Nevada 27 . Sector 45 . Liable 53 . Make a show of bravery border lake 28 . Spare nothing 46 . Rhodes of 56 . ''Imagine'' album 6. Candid 29 . Line Rhodesia co-producer 7. Clump 31 . Chauffeured 48 . Ancient harp 57 . Painter Rousseau 8. System starter 33 . Medicinal plant 49 . Pods used in stew 58 . Took the heart out of 9. Small chicken 34 . Heal 50 . Leak through 59 . Hi-Q piece 10 . Advice to an 36 . Checkered 51 . What a ring lacks 60 . Sing Alpine-style insomniac race-ender 54 . Hall of Famer 61 . Baby seats 11 . Jury 37 . Code of correct Durocher 12 . Resulted (from) conduct 55 . Also 14 . Shakespeare title hero

105 Puzzle #103 Across 1. 1970s hitmakers 5. Some places that pamper 9. Bestow upon 14 . Beginning course, perhaps 15 . 2.2 lbs. 16 . Ham carrier 17 . Just what the doctor ordered, e.g. 20 . ''Lazy ___ Molly'' (Chubby Checker hit) 21 . It may be in a box in the corner 22 . Woman in cheap detective novels 24 . Trinity member 25 . It's big on Leno 28 . Wife of Abraham 30 . Hayes of Westerns 35 . Corrections agent? 37 . Part of a famous soliloquy 39 . Professor Plum's game 40 . Really does the trick 43 . Oscar's cousin 44 . Winner's take 45 . Capital of South Dakota Down 46 . Kind of beam 1. Courtly Arthur? 19 . ''Don't Bring Me 47 . Public esteem 48 . Archimedean world-mover 2. Spaghetti recipe Down'' grp. 49 . More extensive 50 . Longish span word 23 . Gibbs or Maples 52 . It's right under 51 . Pixie 3. Pesters 25 . It may be mounted your nose 53 . Foot part 4. Lacewing's munchie 26 . Free bakery 54 . Command to the 55 . Stage performers 5. Wild blue yonder advertisement band 60 . Butter beans 6. Textile joiner 27 . Follows a recipe 55 . ''Jabberwocky'' 64 . Quite capable 7. Romeo lead-in direction start 66 . Parcel out 8. Tap dancing sans 29 . Sprain site 56 . Desperate cry 67 . Foil's duller relative taps 31 . Tummy trouble 57 . Melodious 68 . Words of comprehension 9. Moving in a curved 32 . Strident sound Fitzgerald 69 . Sudden outpouring path 33 . Grand Canyon 58 . ATM feature 70 . ''Jurassic Park'' actress 10 . Unit of power worker 59 . Slangy negative 71 . Spring event 11 . Mine entrance 34 . Sheba, today 61 . Ground animal 12 . Tear apart 36 . Scottish terrier feed 13 . Proactive person 38 . Bring to a point 62 . Between ports 18 . Flat contracts 41 . Doomed 63 . Slant, as survey 42 . Geometric shape results 65 . She may feel cooped up

106 Puzzle #104 Across 1. Small star? 6. Bathroom powder 10 . Headed for foreign ports 14 . Hersey's bell site 15 . It's found in sticks 16 . Chip flavoring 17 . Chayefsky's Black Maria 19 . Subdivision of land 20 . Type widths 21 . Sonata finale, often 22 . Louise's friend 24 . New England fisherman's boat 25 . Old pal 26 . On the ball 29 . Euphoric 32 . Ready to drop 33 . Pool table material 34 . It's for the money 35 . Spare change? 36 . Moon stage 37 . Ever so proper 38 . Make muffs 39 . Some feud participants 40 . Pre-Xerox copy Down 41 . ''Hee Haw'' co-host 1. Attire for the 18 . Became threadbare 39 . Decent 43 . Certain punctuation mark Headless Horseman 23 . Place for a run 40 . Hereditary rulers 44 . Highly skilled 2. Cheese on a cracker, 24 . Windswept hill 42 . Friend of Friday 45 . Love points sometimes 25 . Word with upper or 43 . Pious 46 . Lead on 3. Striplings lower 45 . Baronial 48 . Cuba libre ingredient 4. It may be bitter 26 . Fall bloomer 46 . She can carry a 49 . Freud subject 5. Consumers' ploy 27 . Veep Agnew tune 52 . NYSE newcomers 6. Apple polisher 28 . Manly fabric? 47 . Colossal, 53 . Adolescent girl of the '40s 7. Microscopic 29 . Type of expression moviewise 56 . The head Corleone, once organism 30 . Marx's exhortation 48 . Radio-active driver 57 . First name in pitching 8. Singer Sayer 31 . Globetrotters' 49 . Type of poll 58 . Baler's need 9. Repentant Meadowlark 50 . Squire 59 . Workout aftermath 10 . They tremble in the 33 . Remora's ride 51 . Lunchbox treat 60 . Dry as dust breeze 36 . Certain test 54 . Smithsonite, e.g. 61 . Brief tussle 11 . Set out suddenly controls 55 . IOU verb 12 . Jack of old oaters 37 . Meerschaum or 13 . Start of an brier encouraging cry

107 Puzzle #105 Across 1. Comics' place 6. One of the Lesser Sundas 10 . In a skillful manner 14 . Kind of hole or layer 15 . Middle Eastern muck-a-muck (Var.) 16 . Professor Plum's game 17 . Zoologist's study 18 . Seneca's student 19 . Bamboozles 20 . Life imitator 21 . World Series precursor 24 . Achy 25 . Word after big, motor and bad 26 . The 75th meridian in the East 31 . Bindlestiffs 32 . Mighty trees 33 . ___ volente 36 . All over again 37 . ''Uncle!'' 39 . Globe production 40 . Happened upon 41 . ___ all-time high Down 42 . Bluffer's ploy 1. ''Nude Lying on a 23 . Some turkeys 42 . Tykes TV show or 43 . ''Mister Roberts'' role ___'' 24 . April or November movie 46 . Where many changes take 2. Former Winter surprise 43 . Philadelphia squad place Palace resident 26 . Bedding item 44 . Ambrosia 49 . Units of energy 3. Trounce 27 . Timbre accompaniment 50 . Captain's superior 4. Motor lodge 28 . Assist in 45 . Prior to 53 . Any ship at sea 5. Some legumes malfeasance 46 . Key of B 56 . Lounge about 6. Streamer 29 . ''Nothing ___!'' 47 . Wahine's welcome 57 . What little things mean? 7. Supplicant's 30 . 23rd letter of the 48 . Soothing rub-ons 58 . Bee-fitting description? conclusion Hebrew alphabet 51 . Love handles, 60 . Quaint sigh 8. One-time change in 33 . 554, in stone essentially 61 . Where water became wine Rome 34 . Natural 52 . Island close to Mull 62 . Dither 9. Tyson's moniker effortlessness 53 . S or XL, e.g. 63 . Former news agency 10 . Build up, as 35 . ___ and terminer 54 . Partially obscured 64 . Type of lift interest 37 . Phrase of 55 . ''Watermark'' 65 . ''So long!'' 11 . Puff up affirmation chanteuse 12 . Type of counter 38 . Moo goo ___ pan 59 . Chart type 13 . Acquiescent 39 . They hang answers together 22 . Memorable time 41 . Part of A.D.

108 Puzzle #106 Across 1. Not so new 6. Runaway hit 11 . It may be a crock 14 . Pinkish 15 . Silent show biz brother 16 . Arles pal 17 . Little. . . 19 . Letters for a Letterman 20 . Luxury hotel feature 21 . Pocket money 22 . Laugh shrilly 24 . Little. . . 26 . "Suzanne" songwriter 27 . Bonds' payoffs? 30 . Lake Erie port 32 . Acid type 33 . British invader of old 34 . Barrel into 37 . Determination 39 . Move forward 42 . London has two 43 . Panache 45 . Agenda entries 46 . You may have a hand in it 49 . Is obviously asleep Down 50 . Needle point 1. New Testament 23 . Fish sticks fish 47 . Medalist Midori 52 . Little. . . book 24 . City where you 48 . Violent pangs 54 . Destination for Rhodes 2. Sticky stuff might get a good deal? 49 . Actor Connery scholars 3. Title role for Shirley 25 . Hall of Famer Ryan 50 . Parcheesi spin-off 56 . Highchair feature 4. Post for a sixties GI 27 . Snowshoe, for one 51 . Roadside daisy 57 . European skyline sight 5. Syrupy alcohol used 28 . Broken mirror, to 53 . Halloween 60 . Ump's colleague as a sweetener some foolishness 61 . Little. . . 6. "Pipe down!" 29 . Little. . . 55 . "Oh, rats!" 64 . Ham holder 7. Cane cutter's knife 31 . UK business 57 . "Diana" crooner 65 . Scarfed down 8. Tablet holder 33 . Paparazzo's subject 58 . Norse explorer 66 . TV weatherman 9. Builder's 35 . High point Eriksson 67 . Thus far enumeration 36 . Clean-up target 59 . Saucy 68 . Type of naked 10 . "Go West" writer 38 . Spot checker? 62 . K-12 group 69 . Pre-publishing effort Greeley 40 . Muscat or 63 . Here-there link 11 . Little. . . muscadine locale 12 . Walk leisurely 41 . Upon 13 . Ascended, as from 44 . One more the grave 18 . Tiny amounts

109 Puzzle #107 Across 1. British surgeon Sir James 6. Nursery fixture 10 . Step down 14 . University of Maine locale 15 . Succotash bean 16 . Drive, say 17 . Crow 20 . Capt's. heading, perhaps 21 . Classic TV captain 22 . Scabbard 23 . Texas tea tower 25 . ER command 26 . Publicity, so to speak 27 . Short life story 28 . Piece of cake 32 . Hovering 35 . Buffoons 37 . Frehley of Kiss 38 . Show off 41 . Picador's cheer 42 . Brown-baggers? 43 . Barn baby 44 . Percussion instrument 46 . Morgan of the comics page 47 . Coaching great Parseghian Down 48 . Guns it 1. Presented, as a 19 . Inventor's cry 45 . Tough and 50 . Organic catalysts problem 24 . Ubiquitous courageous 54 . South of the Sahara 2. Come into being 25 . S, M, L and XL 47 . De novo 57 . Square measure 3. Hopeless case 27 . Fenway's nine, 49 . Author Umberto 58 . Seam material 4. Chang's Siamese familiarly 50 . Eat away at 59 . Crow twin 29 . Item often filed 51 . Archie and 62 . Give the boot 5. Conveyed 30 . Part of a plot, Jughead's buddy 63 . Dry as dust 6. Bob Cratchit's perhaps 52 . Committed a faux 64 . Administered medicine occupation 31 . Troublesome insect pas 65 . Predator's dinner 7. Peril 32 . Highly excited 53 . Transmits 66 . Not nuts or crackers 8. Mischief maker 33 . "___ and Stitch" 54 . Lying on 67 . Some newspaper essays 9. Lush berth 34 . Tandoor, for one 55 . Word with square 10 . Quells 35 . "Seinfeld" or star 11 . Heavenly bear character 56 . Kennedy family 12 . "___ Around" 36 . With force, matron (Beach Boys hit) musically 57 . Speller's phrase 13 . New Age composer 39 . Elysian fields 60 . Timeline section John 40 . Kind of baseball 61 . Bygone school 18 . Superficial wound game event

110 Puzzle #108 Across 1. Show approval, in a way 5. Like this ans. 11 . Spate of tears 14 . "Lilo and Stitch" dance 15 . Good thing to keep up 16 . Scratch (out) 17 . When Hamlet meets his father's ghost 18 . Dentist's concern 19 . "The ___ of Pooh" 20 . Swap meet locales? 23 . Medieval menials 24 . CIA predecessor 25 . Coral units 28 . Alley-___ 30 . Word in a 1980s scandal 31 . Scary component? 37 . Feather's partner 38 . Mare's tidbit 39 . "America the Beautiful" adjective 41 . "Bambi" doe 42 . Short noncom? 43 . Astronomer's job? 45 . Mexican wrap Down 48 . Remain unused 1. Uses ICQ, perhaps 21 . Departs 44 . Reduce to mist 49 . Sister of Terpsichore 2. "Filthy" stuff 22 . Velvet finish 46 . Put the food away 50 . Sunflower seed product 3. The rite place? 26 . Former European 47 . Constabulary 53 . Barbecue chef's implement 4. Not COD capital? 50 . Overly overweight 57 . Famous digger? 5. Word of agreement 27 . Jazzy Vaughan 51 . More than miffed 60 . Rat-a-___ 6. Drum played without 29 . Analyze a sentence 52 . Soda measure 62 . What an adman might do sticks 30 . Salad fodder 54 . "___ your life!" 63 . Sloping type (Abbr.) 7. Material for many a 31 . "Chicago" 55 . Endocrine or 64 . Be in another form light fixture choreographer pituitary 65 . Brahmins and Kshatriyas, for 8. Highway approaches 32 . Can't wait 56 . Tennis star born in example 9. Zeno's home 33 . Word in a pickup Novi Sad, Yugoslavia 66 . Basketball defense 10 . Fastener for a line, often 58 . Red-coated cheese 67 . Over the edge preschooler 34 . Stylist's job 59 . Ms. Trueheart 68 . Mideast bigwigs (Var.) 11 . One racking up the 35 . ___ Maria (coffee 60 . Highlands cap 69 . Prow and stern frequent-flier miles liqueur) 61 . Coach Parseghian 12 . Rap sheet abbr. 36 . Transportation via 13 . Erstwhile highway (Abbr.) automaker 40 . Receiver of prayers

111 Puzzle #109 Across 1. Football game intermission 5. Pesky little bug 9. English bloke 13 . Outfielder Moreno 14 . --- avis 15 . Samuel L. Jackson film 16 . Negri of Silents 17 . Mideast chief 18 . Cries of accomplishment 19 . ''Masked man'' formerly with the Indians 22 . --- of living 23 . Hot baseball mo. 24 . ''I --- Rock'' 27 . All-Century Team ''masked man'' 33 . Portuguese capital 35 . Replies at sea 36 . ''I double --- you!'' 37 . Spanish snack 38 . ''Wide World of Sports'' network 39 . Frisco gridder 40 . Cole Porter's ''I --- Love'' 41 . Reason for overtime Down 42 . Flimflammed 1. Infield bounce 20 . Martial arts schools 41 . Kind of effort 43 . Hall-of-Fame ''masked man'' 2. Outfielder Otis 21 . Legend in center 42 . Smashed, a la 46 . QB's gain 3. Fa follower field Bonds 47 . Narrow creek 4. Coin found in Paris 24 . Church feature 44 . Pulls the trigger 48 . Dog it fountains 25 . Orange Bowl site 45 . Twain summer 50 . Bronx Bombers ''masked 5. Dick ---, alias Robin 26 . Fish garnish home man'' 6. ''Broadway Joe'' 28 . U.S. Olympic 49 . Camera setting 56 . Tag attempt 7. Seed envelope gold-medal swimmer, 50 . Kirby Puckett, once 57 . Angler's offering 8. Poi base John 51 . Tip from Heloise 58 . Sound of a solid sack 9. Stormed the gates 29 . Yankee land, 52 . Eden fatality 60 . Milk allotments 10 . Pilgrimage to postally 53 . Thurmond of NBA 61 . Raison d'--- Mecca 30 . Fran Drescher role fame 62 . Like a treated mitt, maybe 11 . ''--- Off Place'' 31 . Balboa's ''Rocky'' 54 . Jacobs Field's state 63 . Picnic raiders (1993) opponent 55 . Void's partner 64 . Be atop the standings 12 . 6 for a TD, e.g. 32 . Livestock groups 56 . Whirlpool 65 . Thing down the foul line 15 . Baseball's Rusty 34 . Ruins financially whereabouts 38 . --- ball (total miss 59 . Outfielder Jermaine on a jumper) 39 . Flamethrower Ryan

112 Puzzle #110 Across 1. Hunting target 5. Gold or silver 10 . Wall St. newbies 14 . PBS science series 15 . On top of 16 . Yield, as property 17 . Tiny bit 18 . Pushed through a sieve 19 . New York county 20 . 1936 Margaret Mitchell novel 23 . Up to, informally 24 . Mock fanfare 25 . Leader of the first global circumnavigation 30 . Kinship symbols 34 . Put into play 35 . Word with floor or fashion 37 . Nobelist Wiesel 38 . 2002 William R. Trotter novel 42 . Camper's temporary home 43 . Newspaper article 44 . Cooking meas. 45 . Escargots Down 48 . Frying pans 1. Hitch 21 . Olympic runner 41 . Pilot's marker 50 . Type of tide 2. Baum canine Rudolph 46 . Bloomers around 52 . Moo ___ gai pan 3. Shakespeare's river 22 . Former name for the neck? 53 . 1974 Michael Shaara novel 4. Reproductive cell Tokyo 47 . Author Rushdie 61 . Something to get over 5. Tower bells 25 . Patrick McDonnell 49 . Accesses a 62 . Angry with 6. Notice in passing, comic strip computer 63 . Yacht's mooring site briefly 26 . White-faced 51 . Wood shaver 64 . It comes in rounds 7. Ness, for one 27 . ''Stuart Little'' 53 . Better safe ___ 65 . Rolling Stones classic 8. Sebastian Coe rival actress Davis sorry 66 . Edible pod 9. Cardinal feature 28 . Takes into a count? 54 . Cronyn of 67 . Orderly 10 . Restaurant freebie 29 . They may be ''Cocoon'' 68 . They may be pressing feathered 11 . Actress Gilpin of 55 . Diana in ''The 69 . Close to ''Frasier'' 31 . Top-of-the-line Avengers'' 12 . Frigg's husband 32 . Center 56 . Word with cutting or leading 13 . Kind of money 33 . Leaks slowly 36 . Facial expression 57 . Sally 39 . Despicable person 58 . Actress Sommer 40 . Mediterranean 59 . Old Modena money vessels 60 . Rigging support

113 Puzzle #111 Across 1. It'll give you an edge 6. Flimflam scheme 10 . Curve-billed wader 14 . Monastic officer 15 . Buffalo water 16 . It may be hitched 17 . Sophie Tucker was the last 19 . Curved molding 20 . ''Count me in!'' 21 . Wicker basket 22 . ''Arabian Nights'' hero 24 . Harmonizing minimums 25 . Piano technician 26 . Laughable 29 . Increase sales potential 32 . At large 33 . Fists, informally 34 . Likewise 35 . Stuff to the gills 36 . Needed TLC 37 . Mythical thunder god 38 . The whole enchilada 39 . Range measures 40 . Emancipates 41 . Crucial elements Down 43 . First name in fashion 1. Light on one's feet 18 . Stomped 39 . Princess Margaret's 44 . Word with city or workings 2. Branching diagram 23 . Loads a brayer niece 45 . Divide in two 3. Shakes off 24 . Sign of poor 40 . Andiron 46 . Fishy sign? 4. Aah partner housekeeping 42 . ''Again!'' 48 . Medicinal plant 5. Obtain 25 . Confiscates 43 . Substandard 49 . Above, in an ode 6. Tractor-trailers 26 . Pond scum 45 . Hooch holder 52 . Sax sort 7. Malcontent 27 . Where weevils may 46 . Orbit, for one 53 . Gold digger's mark 8. Zero in be 47 . Nastase of tennis 56 . Ticket info, maybe 9. Deliberate or 28 . Girl's best friend? fame 57 . ___ out (barely copes) calculated 29 . Equine hybrids 48 . Forever and a day 58 . Blast from the past 10 . Used a mangle 30 . Beau 49 . Pari-mutuel listing 59 . Present 11 . Intrusive 31 . Scandinavian 50 . Fix a draft 60 . Roll-top, e.g. government 33 . More appalling 51 . Some whiskeys 61 . Main points 12 . Comic lightbulb 36 . Gained entrance 54 . Small guitar 13 . Create a lawn 37 . Hard hike 55 . He ''stung like a bee''

114 Puzzle #112 Across 1. "I've ___ Be Me" 6. Anchor position 11 . Rolled dough? 14 . Israel's Sharon 15 . Popeye's rival 16 . "That's ___-brainer" 17 . Long Island UN headquarters from 1946-51 19 . Home of the NFL's Rams 20 . Loafers and pumps 21 . Decide on a dollar amount, in court 23 . "___ tu" (Verdi aria) 24 . Café au ___ 25 . Whitman volume published in 1855 31 . Spring resort 33 . Kind of academy 34 . Razzle-dazzle 35 . Vittles 37 . Criticize 39 . Where many a strike is called 40 . Inuit relative 42 . Hindu gods Down 44 . Stitch 1. Guys' partners 18 . Pioneer mainframe 43 . Shpoken thish way 45 . Hugo classic 2. Vocally expressed 22 . Type of beer 46 . Unruffled 48 . Get under control 3. Kon-___ 25 . Bulletin contents 47 . Keep, as a pet bird 49 . Compete in a meet 4. Cone on the plains 26 . Circumvent 50 . Beer, slangily 50 . Real 5. Loser 27 . Last relief pitcher, 51 . Home furnishings 53 . Dries completely 6. Basics often chain 57 . Strummed instrument 7. Pampering, briefly 28 . Three-time A.L. 52 . Square 58 . Dockers maker 8. Regrets batting champ Tony 53 . Jr.'s test 60 . Drops on the grass 9. What history often 29 . Identical 54 . Partner of kisses 61 . End of ___ repeats? 30 . Brood 55 . Morales of "The 62 . Samantha of "The Collector" 10 . Mail fee 31 . Close tightly Real Thing" 63 . Airline to Oslo 11 . Couldn't fathom 32 . Faint 56 . Georgia et al., once 64 . "The Maids" playwright Jean 12 . Opposed 36 . Poison plant (abbr.) 65 . Arnaz, Sr. and Jr. 13 . Raggedy Ann, e.g. 38 . Maze runner 59 . High dudgeon 41 . Period between related events

115 Puzzle #113 Across 1. Comic Carvey 5. Peke's double speak? 11 . Jamaican music that gave rise to reggae 14 . Regrets 15 . Lodge builder 16 . Plague or curse 17 . "Yes!" 19 . Strings of islands? 20 . Small, globular, and glistening 21 . Faux follower 22 . "My Wicked, Wicked Ways" author Flynn 24 . "Yes!" 27 . "Ignorance ___ excuse" 28 . Sham locks 29 . Sci-fi sighting 31 . "Yes!" 38 . Whoville creator 41 . Teamwork deterrent 42 . 1961 Charlton Heston role 43 . "Yes!" 46 . Cost-of-living stat 47 . Broken-down horse Down 48 . Soy-based Japanese soup 1. Olive ___ (Army 23 . Orion's left foot 45 . Five-octave singer 51 . "Yes!" uniforms) 25 . Blubber Sumac of Peru 57 . Reserved or preserved 2. Pot-___ (French dish 26 . A real fly-by-night 49 . "___ Anything" 59 . Mr. Nahasapeemapetilon of of boiled meat and 29 . The Beach Boys' ("Oliver!" song) "The Simpsons" vegetables) "Surfin' ___" 50 . French sisters 60 . Dissuade 3. Extremely wicked 30 . March lead-in 51 . Amusingly clever 61 . Private bed? 4. Back-of-the-hand (abbr.) 52 . "They Died With 62 . "Yes!" remarks 32 . "Is it soup ___?" Their Boots On," for 65 . Extremely popular 5. Gulf War Patriot, for 33 . What Dorian Gray one 66 . Media ___ (press short didn't do 53 . Ahead, but just conferences, e.g.) 6. Cuts the crop 34 . Chat room chuckle barely 67 . Roger of "Robin Hood: Men 7. Al ___ (PLO faction) 35 . Provides with gear, 54 . Clumps of grass in Tights" 8. Dispatch boat in Gloucester 55 . Attack from all 68 . Heavens 9. Prepare to drag 36 . Chill sides 69 . "___ Thou Now O Soul" 10 . Leisure hours 37 . Reagan R&D 56 . Head lock (Whitman poem) 11 . Rudely reject program 57 . "I Ain't Marching 70 . Once-grounded fliers 12 . "Shimmy, Shimmy, 39 . Kind of boom Anymore" singer Phil ___-Bop" (1960 Little 40 . Pool table 58 . Cubbyhole Anthony and the foundation 63 . Sch. founded by Imperials hit) 44 . "Blecch!" Thomas Jefferson 13 . Eddie in "Beverly 64 . Tenn. hours Hills Cop" 18 . Tom Clancy's Jack

116 Puzzle #114 Across 1. Partners of zigs 5. Some eastern Europeans 10 . CODs, e.g. 14 . Earthen pot 15 . Marisa of "My Cousin Vinny" 16 . "The Haj" author Leon 17 . Oil of __ 18 . Without __ in the world 19 . Bundle of hay 20 . Insomniac's repast 23 . Roo's donkey friend 24 . One in a contest 27 . Cavity filler's title: Abbr. 28 . Armory supply 31 . Hindu incarnation 32 . Catch some Zs 34 . Sported 35 . "Don't be so hard on the guy!" 40 . Lotion additive 41 . Slinks 42 . Do business with 45 . Scots Gaelic 46 . Doctors' org. 49 . "I"-minded? Down 51 . Like dusk 1. Closed (in on), as for 21 . Tehran resident 43 . South-of-the- 53 . Hit the ceiling a photo 22 . Off-road transport, border uncle 56 . Trendy cuisine 2. Like friendly nations for short 44 . Lake Ontario port 58 . "Christ Stopped at __" 3. Knight with Pips 25 . Pusher chaser 46 . Support group for 59 . Cross inscription 4. Refuse to give 26 . Taxing trip families of drinkers 60 . Spongy ball material permission 29 . Rolling stone's lack 47 . Millionth of a meter 61 . Gamete producer 5. Child actor's 30 . Damaged layer 48 . Diet maven 62 . Shortly chauffeur 32 . Product expiration 50 . Vagrants 63 . Wall St. letters 6. Lomond or Ness date factor 52 . Formal response to 64 . "__ Mio" 7. Amo, amas, __ 33 . The "E" in EMT: "Who's there?" 65 . Intimate stopovers 8. Poem part Abbr. 54 . It's forbidden 9. "Burnt" color 35 . Mama of pop 55 . Israeli flier 10 . Journeys from bar 36 . Peter Fonda role 56 . Former "Grand Ole to bar 37 . Turnpike gates Opry Live" network 11 . Island west of 38 . Manhattan area 57 . Attention getter Java, notwithstanding a 39 . Distorts 1969 film title 12 . Actor Bellows 13 . Opposite of NNW

117 Puzzle #115 Across 1. Rain clouds 6. Gussy up 11 . Soap boxes? 14 . Deux follower 15 . Hawaiian island 16 . National nonpro sports org. 17 . Animated magpie duo 20 . Keep one's __ the ground 21 . John __ (Lone Ranger's real name) 22 . Feminist buddy-movie duo 28 . Hat holder 29 . Diving seabird 30 . Super __: video game console 31 . Veep after Hubert 34 . Airport shed 37 . Husband-and-wife singing duo 41 . Tom Jones portrayer Albert 42 . Fancy fur 44 . CBS forensic drama 47 . Oui's opposite 48 . Scratch (out), as a living 49 . Fairy tale duo Down 56 . Gymnast Korbut 1. High degree 22 . The "Superstation" 44 . Selected 57 . Support for an artist 2. Hot temper 23 . Beer ingredient 45 . Kind of solution 58 . Magic duo 3. Soft shoe, briefly 24 . Program-ending 46 . Down, as food 65 . Uncanny trio? 4. Theodore of command 50 . Yield to gravity 66 . Ronstadt of song Broadway's "The Sound 25 . Fop 51 . Down-and-out 67 . Do salon work of Music" 26 . Olympic sled 52 . Early infant words 68 . Take-home pay 5. Religion of Allah 27 . Gives a thumbs-up 53 . Fed. property 69 . Follows orders 6. Spanish silver 32 . Court arbiter overseer 70 . Surrealist Max 7. Yakked and yakked 33 . Sheepish 54 . French income 8. Not Rep. nor Dem. 34 . Barbera's 55 . Church leader 9. Houlihan's rank, in cartooning partner 59 . Mel's Diner "M*A*S*H" 35 . Prop- or pent- waitress 10 . Cutie __ ending 60 . Beef cut 11 . Adopt 36 . Nutritional std. 61 . Suffix with 12 . Skycap's unit 38 . Organic compound Benedict 13 . Handbag materials 39 . "Not bloody likely" 62 . Was in charge of 18 . Important time 40 . Sommer of "A Shot 63 . WWII spy gp. 19 . French vineyard in the Dark" 64 . "Still and all..." 43 . That's a moray

118 Puzzle #116 Across 1. Theatre level 5. Cosmetics name 9. Vertices 14 . Crazy way to run 15 . ''Thank You'' singer 16 . Bowling unit 17 . Obligations requiring payment in hay? 19 . Museum artifact 20 . Yachting dir. 21 . More than plump 22 . Like neon 23 . City of west central France 25 . Late-night monologist 26 . Way across town, perhaps 27 . Plot outline 31 . Church niches 34 . Place for a witness 35 . Com frontrunner 36 . Battleship shade 37 . Draws nigh 38 . Second in a series 39 . Sushi bar order, perhaps 40 . Description of St. Nick 41 . Orderly formation Down 42 . Total alternative 1. Check this for size 18 . Like a slug 40 . Nervous 44 . Words before roll or whim 2. Gulf State resident 24 . Follow orders 41 . Lay ___ (flop) 45 . Rubber ducky occasion 3. Robot of Jewish 25 . Telescope piece 43 . Things to march 46 . Certain marital contracts, legend 27 . Celery serving for briefly 4. Just manage (with 28 . First name among 44 . Mean-tempered 50 . Give or take ''out'') Hollywood legends 46 . Furnace light 52 . Music genre 5. Pueblo homes 29 . Greek vowel 47 . Up to the time that 54 . Bit of whiskey 6. Transports for 30 . Buckwheat's assent 48 . Jigsaw part 55 . A renter may break it Tarzan 31 . Iron and Bronze, 49 . Shopaholic's binge 56 . Pregame storyteller? 7. They may be against for two 50 . Cry of dismay 58 . Take in or let out you 32 . Get ready, for 51 . Lugosi of ''The 59 . Landfill problem 8. Plane front short Raven'' 60 . Cinderella's horses, after 12 9. James Taylor song 33 . Cut-rate crafts? 52 . Organ part 61 . With a lot of lip title words 34 . Broker's order, 53 . Dry riverbed 62 . Crying shame 10 . Richard of perhaps 57 . Grp. with a noted 63 . Not aweather ''Rambo'' flicks 37 . Ark-eologist? journal 11 . How to buy a guy? 38 . Fiber source 12 . Abu Dhabi honcho 13 . Amish, for one

119 Puzzle #117 Across 1. Dentist's suggestion 6. Trac II alternative 10 . Isle of exile 14 . Should (with ''to'') 15 . Grandpa Walton's portrayer 16 . Hatcher of ''Lois and Clark'' 17 . Start of a colorful comment 20 . Lecherous look 21 . Field yield 22 . American range 23 . Notre Dame's Fighting --- 25 . Foolish fellow 26 . More of the comment 29 . Big shot 31 . They're raised in revelry 32 . Babies in blue 33 . Second person 35 . Temporary jobs 36 . More of the comment 38 . Small belt 39 . Earth or Moon, e.g. 40 . Mother of Jesus 41 . Rigg or Ross 42 . Raises, as a building 44 . More of the comment Down 46 . Suffix with differ 1. Aluminum sheet 19 . Signs of disinterest 41 . Banned pesticide 47 . Marseille menu 2. Truck treatment 24 . Matter for a judge 43 . Real poser 48 . Kids' song refrain 3. Look up and down 25 . Singer Tennille 44 . Comedic actor 50 . He eulogized Julius 4. TV's Andy Taylor 26 . Jason's vessel Lloyd 51 . Burglar's deterrent, maybe and others 27 . Bête follower 45 . Foot curve 55 . End of the comment 5. Short stop? 28 . One who picks the 47 . Furnish food 58 . Part of a pipe 6. All shook up pick of the litter, often 48 . It may be due 59 . Pitcher Hershiser 7. Comb projections 29 . Dirt chopper 49 . Very much a fan of 60 . ''Lemon Tree'' singer Lopez 8. Flick with Beatty and 30 . Like Bo Peep's herd 50 . Type of 61 . 1/3 of a war film title Keaton 32 . ''Look, up in the coincidence 62 . Socially challenged person 9. Supply with heaters ---!'' 52 . Rara --- 63 . Plus in the ledgers 10 . Kind of cuisine 34 . ''Yikes!'' 53 . Artist Magritte 11 . ''I'm right behind 36 . Not in time 54 . Heal, like a radius you!'' 37 . Its job is taxing 56 . Prefix for profit 12 . Camembert 38 . Trial conferences 57 . Cockpit alternative 40 . Marilyn of the Fifth approximation 13 . Snobs put them on Dimension 18 . Form spirals

120 Puzzle #118 Across 1. Start for a Moore poem 5. Recording label for Crosby 10 . Bait and switch is one 14 . What things may grind to 15 . Some nobles 16 . ''Not so fast!'' 17 . State positively 18 . Container for oil or vinegar 19 . Isn't the wrong way 20 . Where is Paris? 23 . Shake, as a finger 24 . Armored vehicle 25 . Leaf in many sculptures 28 . Indelicately 31 . Naja haje 34 . Unlearned 36 . Mozart's Trojan princess 37 . Where is Florence? 41 . Doughnut-shaped surfaces 42 . Sower's source? 43 . Costa del ___ 44 . Course or route 47 . Carbohydrate suffix 48 . Prefix for cast 49 . St. closest to the Bahamas Down 51 . Where is Waterloo? 1. Word with fancy or 22 . Word with takers 44 . Fairy-tale veggie 58 . Ferber or O'Brien imagine or time 45 . Winged 59 . City of a famed shroud 2. Acknowledge your 25 . Authoritative 46 . Like a musical note 60 . Part of a large plot? fans decrees held to its full time 61 . Chow follower 3. First name in game 26 . Hemispherical value 62 . Recital piece, perhaps show hosts home 48 . Nasal accent 63 . Backpacker's quarters, 4. Feeding tube? 27 . Tree trunk knot 50 . Striped stone perhaps 5. 0.3527 ounce 29 . Santa ___, Calif. 51 . Brainstorming 64 . Told all to an interrogator avoirdupois 30 . Hide the booty session result 65 . Like covered stadiums 6. Reap 31 . Fortress in San 52 . Getting ___ years 66 . Latin being 7. Grunge Antonio 53 . Starr-struck object? 8. Chin indentations 32 . Paul's prison mate 54 . ___ one's time 9. Emanating from 33 . Late golfer Stewart 55 . Clinches, as a stars 35 . Shogun's sash victory 10 . Posh 36 . Start of Mr. Rogers' 56 . Large vases 11 . Stylish song 57 . Dole (with ''out'') 12 . Top-drawer 38 . Just put on the 58 . Abbr. on an 13 . Word with door or market ambulance floor 39 . Overwhelmed with 21 . Certain vertebrae noise 40 . Pastoral poem

121 Puzzle #119 Across 1. Churlish sort 4. ''Taxi'' driver 10 . Rain-deprived 14 . TV home of ''WWE RAW'' 15 . Bus-depot rental 16 . Smart-alecky 17 . Admire greatly 20 . Book leaf 21 . Pointless fuss 22 . Mineralogy suffix 23 . Mound master Hershiser 24 . Negotiate a swap 27 . Negative aspect 28 . Checked off 29 . Forgetful actor's request 30 . Pancake-house freebies 32 . It may be held or bitten 34 . Gen. Robt. __ 35 . 2004 award for Sean Penn 38 . Sand-hauling boat 40 . Hardships 41 . Even chance 44 . Perform on the road 45 . Trucker's ''office'' 48 . Hosp. sites Down 49 . ''Odyssey'' singers 1. Win a battle of wits 18 . Without value 39 . City of Spain 51 . Like a carryout order with 19 . ''Gilmore Girls'' girl 42 . Secondhand 52 . First lady McKinley 2. On the beach 24 . Bit of trouble 43 . Rotates around a 53 . Holiday harbinger 3. Fell short 25 . Sorehead's point 54 . Hard work, so to speak 4. Nevada town emotion 45 . Exact by force 55 . Abandon fantasy 5. Parking place 26 . Bring together 46 . Hercule creator 60 . Biblical brother 6. ''Heck!'', in again 47 . Petty annoyance 61 . Harsh talking-to Heidelberg 29 . Chat-room guffaw 50 . Get back 62 . Señor Guevara 7. Tina Turner ex 31 . Civil War soldiers 51 . Pan Am rival, once 63 . Amusing escapade 8. Not yet skilled in 32 . Jobs for tugboats 54 . Bird-feeder tidbit 64 . Caught with a rope 9. Crumbles away 33 . Encourage 56 . Antlered animal 65 . Corncrib item 10 . Hole-punching tool 35 . Veil material 57 . New Deal agcy. 11 . Belittle 36 . Rawls and Gehrig 58 . Sea dog 12 . Uranium 238, e.g. 37 . Hockey star Bobby 59 . Verse of praise 13 . National Guard 38 . Far from emotional concern

122 Puzzle #120 Across 1. In midvoyage 5. Garage relatives 10 . Dungeons & Dragons creatures 14 . Criticize trivially 15 . Like an empty ship on the sea at midnight 16 . Kind of salmon 17 . Cream was one 18 . Slap site 19 . First son 20 . Type of dwelling 23 . Jug handle 24 . ''Outland'' penguin 25 . Suitor's song 30 . Cowpoke's tool 34 . ''What was ___ think?'' 35 . Scandal suffix 37 . Ionia's I's 38 . Insurance provision 42 . Diciembre-febrero link 43 . TV Actress Thompson 44 . West of Hollywood 45 . Determine if it's gold 46 . Most insolent Down 49 . Father's and Mother's 1. Pretenses 21 . Linked computers 41 . From Colorado to 52 . Kind of cup or horn 2. Draped Indian acronym Kansas 53 . Preakness, e.g. garment 22 . Jewish festival 47 . Fall from grace 61 . Shiva's spouse 3. Apt name for a 25 . It's usually played 48 . Encroachment 62 . Vacation spot near colleen first 50 . Millennium makeup Venezuela 4. Maximum altitude 26 . Some stiff collars 51 . Throw out 63 . ___ Roberts University 5. It's wasteful to Ed 27 . Men on the make 53 . Fight stoppers 64 . Leave out Norton 28 . Lectern platform 54 . Motorcycle 65 . Echolocation device 6. Protagonist 29 . Old lab equipment daredevil's prop 66 . Innocence and Aquarius 7. Derek, of Derek and 31 . ''___ to Kill'' 55 . Kulik on ice 67 . Bit of a tiff the Dominos (Grisham) 56 . Uncivil 68 . Save alternative 8. Type of ball or 32 . Suffolk send-offs 57 . Scottish seaport 69 . Type of deal dancer 33 . Till now 58 . Jason's command 9. Play matchmaker 36 . Scandinavian myth 59 . D-Day city target 10 . Wedding or 39 . ''Spy Game'' star 60 . Different birthday, e.g. 40 . Like man's best 11 . Reddish-brown friend 12 . ''Blondie'' creator Young 13 . Mitsubishi rival

123 Puzzle #121 Across 1. Shell, strip or Swiss, e.g. 6. Laundry cycle 10 . With 63-Across, event of 20-Across 14 . Cote d'Azur menu 15 . Result of cogitating 16 . Computer operator 17 . Skewed 18 . Invited a perjury charge 19 . Galileo's home 20 . Two-day Olympic contest 22 . Kind of fit 23 . Like the spelling of oyster- abstaining months 24 . Rickey ingredient 25 . Ice cream brand (with "Dazs") 28 . Event of 20-Across 32 . If not 33 . Somme school 35 . Verse prefix 36 . PC key 37 . Event of 20-Across 39 . Tricia Nixon's married name 40 . Ruin a birdie Down 41 . Commencement 1. Carangid food fish 22 . Homes for some 44 . Clothing retailer 42 . First 007 film 2. Westminster gallery busy workers since 1969 43 . Event of 20-Across 3. "Red" Viking 24 . Outburst of 45 . H. Rider Haggard 45 . Drive-in feature 4. Loose laughter novel 47 . Anti-fray border 5. Range whistler 25 . Dilapidated cars 46 . Some groups of 48 . Lake resort 6. Bequeaths 26 . God of the Koran thirteen 50 . "I Know Why the ___ Bird 7. Parting word 27 . Houston pro 48 . Pitch-related Sings" 8. Detected 28 . Start 49 . It should be 53 . Event of 20-Across airtight 9. Birthed 29 . Filthy stuff? 57 . Fashionable Cassini 50 . Connecting wd. 10 . Wolflike 30 . Words with hole or 58 . Author Morrison 51 . Name of three 11 . Psych suffix two 59 . Oscar host, e.g. baseball brothers 12 . Monster's loch 31 . He resigned August 60 . Jiggs' daughter 9, 1974 52 . Cold cause 13 . Ill-defined area 61 . Bedouin, for one 33 . It once meant once 53 . Hole in your head? 21 . One to brood 62 . Strikeout pitcher Ryan 34 . Alphabetical run 54 . Pac-10 team 63 . See 10-Across 37 . Crossed one's 55 . Parachute 64 . Where heroes come into fingers 56 . Perfect scores existence? 38 . E pluribus ___ 58 . Drop in the bucket 65 . Loses control 42 . "Don't you wish!"

124 Puzzle #122 Across 1. Neared maturity 5. Chest muscles 9. Door-frame pieces 14 . Paraprofessional, for one 15 . Personal energy field 16 . Like in nature (to) 17 . Stage-beard securer 19 . ''Filthy'' funds 20 . Registered, as an invention 21 . Quenched 22 . Flounder's flipper 23 . Zodiac predator 24 . Carnival dance 28 . Traits that may clash 30 . Throw out 34 . Teem 36 . Zeta follower 37 . Stench 38 . Linger in a person's mind 41 . ''__ She Lovely'' (Stevie Wonder song) 42 . Much of ''Deck the Halls'' 43 . Puts forth, as effort 44 . Croupier's collection 45 . Uttered untruths Down 47 . High point 1. Sound of shock 21 . Seed source 46 . US territory from 48 . ''__ Joey'' 2. Philbin's cohost 23 . Auction units 1861-89 49 . Latin greeting 3. Mark manuscripts 24 . Master, in Madras 48 . Prison-related 51 . Curiosity-piquing ad 4. Used to be 25 . Take down 50 . Sun shade 55 . Vail outerwear 5. Singer LaBelle 26 . Saddle horse 51 . Boom-box insert 60 . Dog-tired 6. Oregon city 27 . Bats gently 52 . Contemporary of 61 . Silver City, Idaho, e.g. 7. Gunk 29 . Gaggle members Bessie and Billie 62 . Public square 8. ''Casablanca'' pianist 30 . Talented tyro 53 . ''Sorry to say . . .'' 63 . Showroom product 9. Light dessert 31 . Regard lovingly 54 . Shoe salesman's 64 . La Scala solo 10 . Pastel shade 32 . Varieties query 65 . Painter's tripod 11 . Slimy mud 33 . Romantic 55 . Closed up 66 . Geppetto wished on one 12 . Unembellished rendezvous 56 . Not much 67 . ''__ Me'' (Roger Miller tune) 13 . Coasting toy 35 . Melbourne money 57 . Director Ephron 18 . Buggy passenger 39 . Tooth partner 58 . Mary-Kate, to 40 . With the exclusion Ashley of 59 . Hindrance to progress 61 . Fill-up fluid

125 Puzzle #123 Across 1. Toy glider wood 6. Northern Finn 10 . Fancy dance 14 . Nom de plume 15 . Director Kazan 16 . Dairy tubful 17 . Nebraska collegian 19 . MGM cofounder 20 . Use the stove 21 . Hush-hush org. 22 . Dreaded fly 24 . Nastase of tennis 26 . __-bitty 27 . Deli sandwich order 32 . Aunt Millie's competitor 33 . Freeway access 34 . Furniture wood 35 . Worth a C 36 . Weather, in verse 38 . Trig function 39 . Propel, as a shot 40 . Pupil controller 41 . Bubbly bandleader 42 . Shows liveliness 46 . Otherwise Down 47 . Fourth-down option 1. Baroque composer 23 . Go no further 41 . Hardly ruddy 48 . Shippers' cases 2. Skin soother 25 . Baton Rouge sch. 43 . College athlete's 51 . Yearbook sect. 3. Former Florentine 26 . Shi`ite leader award 52 . Shopper's guide money 27 . Fake jewelry 44 . Uses a mister 56 . Monthly outlay 4. South American 28 . Greet the day 45 . Give the boot to 57 . Coin last minted in 1958 capital 29 . Churns up 48 . Study hard 60 . Pot starter 5. Volcano spew 30 . American, to Brits 49 . Actress Russo 61 . Well-ventilated 6. Not as significant 31 . __ out a living 50 . Pro's foe 62 . Italian city 7. __-Seltzer 32 . Dissolute one 51 . Blood fluids 63 . Dayan colleague 8. Round food 35 . Tanning lotion 53 . Crucifix letters 64 . Thumbs-ups 9. Working afternoons, letters 54 . Peeved mood 65 . Ill will say 36 . Road intersector 55 . Newcastle's river 10 . Henry VIII's 37 . Place to wait 58 . Speed along second 38 . Pay one's debt 59 . Qt. halves 11 . ''Thanks __!'' 40 . Land in the sea 12 . Vintner's dregs 13 . Actor Rob or Chad 18 . ICU part

126 Puzzle #124 Across 1. Indisputable item 5. Underlying theme of "Se7en" 9. Gps. that may be charitable 13 . "It's ___ big misunderstanding!" 14 . Working away 15 . Created for a specific purpose, like a committee 16 . It's good to hear after a spill 17 . Out where the air is salty 18 . Bleaching target 19 . It's designed to be seen just above the beltline 22 . Movie composer Morricone 23 . Muntjac, for one 24 . Area of London 25 . Deg. involving 18-across 26 . Palindromic computer language 28 . Tap lightly, as with a paint brush 30 . Zoroastrianism, e.g.: abbr. 31 . The Cranberries' "___ My Family" 33 . Tries to be like 35 . It's seen on workers just Down above the beltline 1. Didn't even come 12 . Brown and Rice, 37 . Dominatrix duty 38 . Be derisive to close to acing for two 38 . Team where Matt 39 . "The Showbiz Show" host 2. Kiss insertion? 15 . ___ loss for words Jones plays wide David 3. Small-car occupants, 20 . It may pose a receiver 40 . Bug on a farm at the circus folding problem 42 . "You can be my 41 . The sticky icky 4. Shatner and Nimoy's 21 . Way to access wing man anytime" movie 43 . Get prepared for battle castmate mines 44 . Dark and 44 . "Don't let the door hit you 5. Makers of the 90, 27 . Oh, they owe contemplative on the way out," but nicer 900 and 9000 29 . Cartoon attorney 45 . Group address 47 . Awestruck response 6. "I'll meet you then!" Harvey 46 . Dinner special, 49 . Horse with whitish hairs 7. Maria Shriver, to 31 . Not just my John F. Kennedy usually 51 . Brown of CNN 32 . Where "scalpel" 8. Put up as a bet may be said, for short 48 . Certain subatomic 53 . They're seen (if you're not particles careful) just above the beltline 9. "Awake and Sing!" 34 . Author Rita ___ playwright Clifford Brown 50 . It's located just 56 . "Store in ___, dry place" 10 . Subject explored 35 . Acts of atonement above the heart 57 . Tic-tac-toe board by Plato 36 . "Sure, why not?" 52 . "Get ___!" 58 . Leonine noise 11 . Fall apart, politely 54 . Golfer Ernie 59 . Coach driver's handful speaking 55 . Mid-month time 60 . Magazine founder Eric 61 . Like computers with screen savers running 62 . Fast jets, for short 63 . Gets on one's case 64 . Gomer on the small screen

127 Puzzle #125 Across 1. Device that's sprung 5. Aerobic activity 10 . Heats in a microwave 14 . Gutter site 15 . Bounty's milieu 16 . Spot in the 15-Across 17 . On 18 . Burn but good 19 . Half-moon tide 20 . PARTY 23 . Unaffiliated: Abbr. 24 . Show stoppers? 25 . Toothpaste tube cover 28 . Sri Lanka's capital 32 . Mode lead-in 35 . Chaotic situation 37 . Seed covering 38 . Fires 39 . PARTY 42 . City in Yemen 43 . Prefix with physical 44 . Spin doctor's concern 45 . "Waking __ Devine": 1998 film 46 . Rhythmic pattern Down 48 . Developer's land unit 1. Relative of a 22 . "... and nothing but 46 . Porter Goss's org. 49 . Have a bug widgeon the truth?" response 47 . Chum 50 . World Series mo. 2. Pro __ 25 . It covers the Hill 49 . Broadcast 52 . PARTY 3. Declare openly 26 . Battery terminal 51 . Group in "Survivor" 61 . Letting in a little air 4. "It's the cola" 27 . Lost color 52 . With 64-Across, 62 . Iliac opening sloganeer 29 . Tightened, as Utah phenomenon 63 . Brainstorm 5. Back-to-back move shoes 53 . Resort town near 64 . See 52-Down at a hoedown 30 . Speechify Santa Barbara 65 . Typo, e.g. 6. IRA part: Abbr. 31 . La Scala site 54 . Wedding reception 66 . Enjoy an alley 7. "Hud" Best Actress 32 . Kind of skeleton piece 67 . In knots 8. Cartel city 33 . "Release me!" 55 . Actress Teri 68 . Lott of Mississippi 9. Living room piece 34 . Thus far 56 . Plower's unit 69 . Ultimatum ender 10 . Criticizes sharply 36 . "Jaws" omen 57 . 1982 Disney sci-fi 11 . Between ports 38 . 24-hr. financial aid film 12 . Course of action 40 . "Ready when you 58 . Object of worship 13 . When the US Open are!" 59 . Latest ends 41 . Family member 60 . Strong wind 21 . Not abridged

128 Puzzle #126 Across 1. Watch 6. Capital of Manche 10 . Range across Europe 14 . Meshed citizen 15 . Use the maxilla and mandible 16 . Bring exasperation 17 . Printing technique 19 . Fastening item 20 . Sidewinder's shape 21 . Balzac's birthplace 22 . Place for hope? 23 . Demonstration site, 1965 24 . Blackball 25 . Be agreeable 28 . Children's classic 32 . Cozenage 33 . ___ Raymond Cobb 34 . Word in the first sentence of the Gettysburg Address 35 . Meet expectations 38 . Lacking zest 40 . Hillary or Bill, but not Chelsea 41 . Nixon's undoing Down 43 . Expurgate, editorially 1. It has two jaws 22 . Game believed to 45 . ''His Master's 44 . ''Idylls of the King'' poet 2. Flag in the garden be of Indian origin Voice'' pooch 46 . Mushroom cells 3. Western womenfolk 23 . Truck stop sight 46 . Pudding base 48 . Suffer from lack of water 4. Publicity 24 . Cause to be 47 . In nothing flat 49 . Glum drops 5. ''I'm talking to you!'' immobile 50 . ''Welcome!'' 51 . Lightweight fabric 6. Rugby formation 25 . Bank account, e.g. 51 . Pinocchio's fish 53 . Down Under dog 7. Get well regimen 26 . Deli counter item 52 . Enjoy 44-Across 54 . ''Monster-in-Law'' star, 8. Bottom-of-the-barrel 27 . Interlacing 53 . Former Genoese briefly stuff technique magistrate 57 . Sudden transition 9. Have exclusively 29 . Discordia's 54 . Mate of a real 58 . White-scutted creature 10 . King in 44-Across counterpart swinger 60 . Roofer's concern 11 . Writing desk 30 . Like a ballerina 55 . Statements in a 61 . Give wolfish looks supply, perhaps 31 . Bumps on a log pack? 62 . With improved reception 12 . ''And . . .'' 33 . What thsi is 56 . Kind of shoppe 63 . Frankfurt's river 13 . Paving stone 36 . Editor's concern 58 . Picnicker's 64 . Cold one 18 . Belmont entry 37 . Religious throwaway 65 . Corpulent requirement, 59 . It may have claw sometimes feet 39 . Wedding announcements 42 . Make eligible

129 Puzzle #127 Across 1. Single computer instruction to replace many 6. King's area 11 . "___ my Party" 14 . Dole out 15 . Sesame Street resident 16 . Opposite of max. 17 . Banquet figure 19 . "Harper Valley ___" 20 . Cal. heading 21 . Cain's brother 22 . Bathtub sealant 24 . Emulates raptors 26 . One leaving one country to settle in another 28 . Kneading locale 31 . Cincinnati team 32 . "___ Town" (Wilder drama) 33 . Microbe 34 . Le Havre-to-Paris dir. 36 . Not docked 38 . Weave's go-with 40 . Weisbaden, Germany is its capital 44 . La-la preceder Down 46 . One sort of miss 1. Tumbling surfaces 18 . Wishy-washy reply 45 . Is for more than 48 . Nickel in a pocket, perhaps? 2. Lotion ingredient 23 . Come to a one 49 . Sans pizzazz 3. Percussion consensus 47 . Type of acid 52 . Street urchin instruments 25 . Ventriloquist 49 . Lullaby name 55 . Make an old kitchen new, 4. Orators' platforms Bergen 50 . One imposing a tax say 5. Polo Grounds 27 . Members of AMA 51 . French cathedral 57 . One, for one Hall-of-Famer 28 . It gives one a snug city 58 . Dispatch boat 6. Use a sponge twice feeling? 53 . Assert without 59 . Put into a horizontal position 7. Language spoken in 29 . The beaten path proof 61 . Make for shore Dingwall 30 . Honor ___ thieves 54 . Kind of policy 64 . Shake a leg 8. Buck's feature 35 . "Doesn't bother 56 . Administered a 65 . "It's a snap!" 9. Bald-faced bit me" gesture narcotic 68 . "___ in Black" (1997) 10 . French thank you 37 . Cultural mores 60 . They may be one 69 . Competitive advantages 11 . Unchaste 39 . Spangliest or eleven 70 . Hank, the home run king 12 . Having nobility 41 . Programmer's 62 . Sacred image 71 . Alums to be 13 . Hair of Medusa output (Var.) 72 . Performs, biblically 42 . ___ Lanka 63 . Darn socks 73 . Produce a uniform mixture 43 . Hallow ending? 66 . Testifier's phrase 67 . ___ Four (Beatles)

130 Puzzle #128 Across 1. Texas city 5. Sir __ Guinness 9. Trudge 13 . Nuptial vows 14 . Courageous 15 . Theater section 16 . Beatles song subject 18 . Small bit of land 19 . Invent 20 . Pointy-nosed animal 22 . Pronoun for a boat 23 . Couples 25 . Florentine river 26 . Part of a hammer head 27 . Bring up 30 . Exchange 33 . New Orleans streetcar 35 . Smidgen 36 . ''Why?'' 38 . __ and Bradstreet 39 . R2-D2 or C3PO 41 . ''. . . man __ mouse?'' 42 . Cut off, as whiskers 45 . Memorial Day race 46 . Eventful journey Down 48 . Mexican food 1. Hoisting machine 17 . Feminine suffix 43 . ''The Little Foxes'' 50 . Author Sheehy 2. Put on a pedestal 21 . Made a goof playwright 51 . Middle Eastern sandwich 3. Cringe 24 . Eventually 44 . Evolution theorist 52 . Faux __ 4. Workplace safety 26 . Second ltr. 47 . Fencing swords 55 . Columbus' patron org. addenda 49 . Trite humor 58 . Yuletide door decor 5. ''__ we there yet?'' 27 . Four score and ten 51 . Sudden inhalations 60 . Maggie Smith's title 6. Buddhist priests 28 . Sudden attack 52 . Name on a check 61 . Love-letter words 7. Author Hunter 29 . Whirlpool 53 . Observe Yom 63 . More than 8. Mythical horse/man 30 . ''Beat it!'' Kippur 64 . Colorado resort 9. Malleable 31 . Part of a phrase 54 . Closes 65 . Bloke 10 . Missed, as an 32 . Part of a team's 55 . Role model 66 . Not as much opportunity schedule 56 . Put in the bank 67 . ''Atlantis'' org. 11 . Stare at 34 . Soccer mom's 57 . Bart Simpson's 68 . Witnesses 12 . Roebuck, e.g. vehicle sister 14 . Made beer 37 . Actor Davis 59 . Omelet ingredient 40 . Bolivian river 62 . Ross or Red

131 Puzzle #129 Across 1. Slugger's pride 4. Rabbit coop 9. Hammer parts 14 . "___ better to have loved . . ." 15 . Mindless 16 . Copy, for short 17 . Poet born in Hailey, Idaho (1885) 19 . Did some sculling 20 . 50-and-up grp. 21 . Tail-regenerating creatures 23 . Legend mourned June 12, 2003 27 . NEA ally 29 . Folksy Guthrie 30 . Listen here! 31 . Support, as a ruling 33 . Naalehu memento 34 . Group of turtles 35 . Refreshment sites 36 . Former Interior Secretary 39 . Like a fine feathered friend 42 . ___ doute (certainly) 43 . Go downhill willfully Down 46 . Improvise 1. I-95, e.g. 22 . Former French coin 43 . Disk's function 48 . System starter 2. Freaky 23 . Guy's mate 44 . Relatives 49 . Hullabaloo 3. Begin, e.g. 24 . Juice 45 . Vexation 50 . Deep place? 4. Hefty ballerina in 25 . Bush alma mater 47 . Useful article 51 . "Casino" star "Fantasia" 26 . Wrinkle remover 49 . Legal delay 54 . Crazy Horse foe 5. Part of a Cancún 28 . Clio contenders 52 . Type of suit 56 . Nearly unsolvable count 32 . Chef's 53 . In a reserved way 57 . Ball girl? 6. Sigma-Upsilon accoutrement 55 . Horde 58 . NOW president elected in connection 34 . Railings 57 . Univ. degrees 1987 7. Letters for a King? 36 . Drinking bout 59 . Individual 63 . Inflame 8. Waffle 37 . Brazos River city 60 . Spike, notably 64 . Big man in Los Angeles 9. Slow cookers 38 . Soon, poetically 61 . Bannockburn boy 65 . Chevy model, once 10 . Surreptitious news 39 . Veneration 62 . Web address 66 . Frets disclosure 40 . Price of horror feature 67 . Oboe-like, in tone 11 . Fitting 41 . Mollycoddle 68 . Summer time at MIT 12 . Engage in a smackdown 13 . Landscaping material 18 . Mythical ship

132 Puzzle #130 Across 1. Drug agent 5. Prepares a lunch box 10 . Drains 14 . Director Kazan 15 . Heart chambers 16 . Catch in a sting 17 . Bunker, for one 18 . Nighttime visitor 20 . It might wind up on a boat 21 . Cell messenger 22 . Back talk 23 . Like a court witness 26 . Spills the beans 30 . Yawn-provoking 31 . Weapons stash 33 . New York island 36 . Old hand 37 . Cover-up of a sort 38 . Carouse 43 . Squirt from an octopus 44 . Mo. for back-to-school sales 45 . Pays attention to 46 . Well-known Palace 49 . Diesel fuel pollutant 51 . Opposing positions Down 52 . Winner of eight Tonys for 1. Indian independence 24 . Sign of a clunker 47 . Placid 2003 leader 25 . "Entertainment 48 . Marco Polo 57 . Copacabana city 2. Earth invader Tonight" anchor destination 59 . Old Ford 3. Irritated 27 . Tennis rival of 49 . TV standard 60 . Infrequent 4. Got on a radio talk 69-Across 50 . Directives 61 . Word to the wise show 28 . Howled 53 . Shock rocker 65 . One on a pedestal 5. Walk a beat 29 . Snowmobile Cooper 66 . Enduring symbol 6. Unkeyed, as some precursors 54 . Doppler device 67 . Remodeler's concern compositions 32 . Tigger's pal 55 . Scent 68 . Bivouac 7. Zagreb native 33 . Long chronicles 56 . Barks excitedly 69 . Tennis rival of 27-Down 8. Do-it-yourselfer's aid 34 . Veranda 58 . Lottery likelihood 70 . Checks 9. Comedian Mort 35 . Fancied 61 . Drink slowly 71 . Stretches of time 10 . Sugar or flour, e.g. 36 . Game board 62 . Straight start, 11 . "Exodus" hero jumper maybe 12 . Conclusion to a 39 . Nicotine partner 63 . Nabbed drive, perhaps 40 . "Quiet!" 64 . WWII fighter 13 . Person with 41 . Title word of an intelligence? Abbott and Costello 19 . Stretches the truth routine 42 . Bottom-line cost

133 Puzzle #131 Across 1. Australian region 5. Famed sidekick 10 . Turner and Eisenhower 14 . Early Andean 15 . New York city on the Allegheny 16 . Hide counterpart 17 . Reach across 18 . ''___ live in a yellow submarine'' 19 . Like a squid's squirt 20 . Guidelines for a politician 23 . Eliminates 24 . 180 degrees from SSW 25 . Howe'er 28 . Cases for EMTs 29 . One known for saving couples 32 . Napoleon's kin? 34 . First name in women's tennis 36 . Lunchbox snack, perhaps 37 . Ex-presidents may go on them 41 . Sterile pack animal Down 42 . Landscapers' needs 43 . Tempest site? 1. Informal restaurant 21 . Asia Minor region 41 . Shasta and Olympus, for short 46 . Cuba, to Castro 2. Like outstanding 22 . Electronics giant debts 44 . Sphere 47 . Use a straw 26 . Hurries 3. Burns 45 . Small hand drums 50 . Pig's place 27 . Spanish gold 4. Back-to-back Oscar 47 . Woody's wife 51 . ''A Yank in the ___'' (1941) 30 . What George winner Washington couldn't 48 . Dry cleaner's 53 . Corrida performer 5. Village inhabitants tell machine 55 . Bucolic sight, perhaps 6. Designer Cassini 31 . Indian language 49 . Fireplace supplies 59 . Some nest eggs, in brief 7. Type of tide 33 . Reed and Gehrig 52 . Play the coquette 61 . Two-thirds of a magnum 8. Branch grabber 34 . Beetle's sound? 54 . Kilmer classic 62 . Feminizing suffix 9. One place to shop 35 . Brunch staples 56 . Tennis great 63 . Dash gauge, briefly 10 . ''___ soup yet?'' 37 . Winter bird food 57 . ''Like ___ not'' 64 . Wine attribute 11 . One-time special 38 . Listen to a 58 . Skipper of the 65 . Voyeur prosecutor recording Nautilus 66 . Bambino 12 . ''A mouse!'' 39 . Wire 59 . Classic TV Cousin 67 . 1948 presidential candidate 13 . Optimist's limit 40 . Big name in 60 . Hope unit Thurmond toothbrushes 68 . Gentlemen

134 Puzzle #132 Across 1. Start of a hypothesis 5. Like some adapters 9. Plays the ponies 13 . Chief navigator on the Enterprise 14 . Get really high 15 . NFL Hall of Famer Matson 16 . "I smell __!" 17 . Colombian metropolis 18 . __ Dame 19 . Yew 22 . Be relevant to 25 . "I wish!" 26 . You 30 . Farsi speaker 31 . Like a loud crowd 32 . Weaken 35 . Columbia, e.g.: Abbr. 36 . Mandates 37 . Customary practice 38 . Big size 39 . __ Blue detergent 40 . Gulf state 41 . U 43 . Reception aid Down 46 . Inner city area 1. "This __ stickup" 20 . Burt's ex 39 . Does a double 47 . Ewe 2. Jet set garb 21 . Singer Loeb et al. take, e.g. 51 . "Stop, sailor!" 3. Patty Hearst's 22 . Relatively unknown 40 . Big name in 52 . Novelist Waugh abductors: Abbr. song, usually nonstick cookware 53 . DEA agent 4. In the lead 23 . Uncanny 41 . Isn't straight with 57 . They make a mint 5. Get higher 24 . Words after take, 42 . Early calculator 58 . Prego rival 6. Persuade gently make or break 43 . "The Man Without 59 . Handle user 7. St. Petersburg, 27 . Primer, say __": 1993 film 60 . ExxonMobil subsidiary Florida, museum 28 . Obliterate 44 . Polar crew 61 . Eve's grandson honoree 29 . Helicopter 45 . Brings up 62 . Knife handle 8. Rattle site assembly 48 . It may be a token 9. Cool, in a way 32 . Wachovia Center 49 . Pizazz 10 . John who toured player 50 . "Let __, Lover!": with Joel 33 . Pong maker '50s hit 11 . Alpine region of 34 . Trattoria topping 54 . Lawyers' org. Austria and Italy 36 . In a suitable 55 . Ring boss 12 . Run-down manner 56 . CPU attachment 15 . __ the road 37 . Cut down

135 Puzzle #133 Across 1. Fish with strings attached? 5. Some once-a-year travelers 10 . Zebulon's favorite fish? 14 . Queens' Arthur court? 15 . Piano piece 16 . I-80 et al. 17 . Putin's putoff? 18 . It's a good thing 19 . Gaels' Ireland 20 . Fool 21 . Curs' curers 22 . Annapolis monogram 23 . Fish that's part bovine? 25 . Profitable chickens for Col. Sanders 28 . Many millennia 29 . Nimbostratus output 31 . Cheese adjective 34 . It's paid as you go? 35 . Alleviate 36 . Chuckle in a chat room 37 . Fish that could double as a center? 40 . Vardalos of "My Big Fat Greek Wedding" Down 41 . Spherical intro 1. Where the inn crowd 22 . Decaf dispenser, 45 . Salon treatments 43 . Prefix meaning "peculiar" might stay perhaps 47 . "Soft & -___" 44 . In pursuit 2. "___ Like It" 24 . Commuter plane antiperspirant brand 46 . Not get hit, in a way 3. Hard covering trips 48 . Two nuts hold 48 . Traditional basketball 4. Colonist, for one 25 . Do a clerical job them in place? powerhouse 5. Blissful spot 26 . Riveter of note 51 . City in West 49 . Four-baggers 6. Perplexed 27 . Long weapon Yorkshire 50 . A fish that gets canned? 7. How to 30 . Certain food in a 52 . Prefix meaning 55 . "Just ___ suspected!" communicate with any bowl "bone" 56 . Spread in a tub? of the seven entries in 31 . Sweeping cut 53 . Sharp spur wheel 57 . "His eye ___ the sparrow" this puzzle 32 . Too ___ handle 54 . ___ nous 58 . A Catwoman portrayer 8. July 15th for Julius 33 . Grad's school 56 . Chocolate treat 60 . Disney's little mermaid Caesar 34 . Magician's fanfare 58 . Col. Sanders' Co. 61 . Certain soap, initially 9. Harden 38 . Bites like a puppy 59 . "Patriot Games" 62 . Like speech and the press, 10 . Act the chairperson 39 . Tabula ___ grp. ideally 11 . Traveling 42 . Dance in 2/4 time 60 . It may put holes in 63 . George who played Norm 12 . It's heard before shoes 64 . Suggestive look or grin plunk and plop 65 . A fish that nags? 13 . Linguist's suffix 66 . Fertile soil 67 . A fish out of school?

136 Puzzle #134 Across 1. Paycheck extra 6. Sudden inhalation 10 . Industrial storage containers 14 . Like Humpty Dumpty 15 . Bestselling cookie 16 . Cleveland's lake 17 . Not as high 18 . Having little fat 19 . Carnival attraction 20 . __ Moines, IA 21 . Gymnastics event 24 . Tinkerbell, for one 26 . Inconvenience 27 . Underground floor 29 . Catch sight of 31 . Jordanian, e.g. 32 . ''Beetle Bailey'' dog 34 . Mine passageway 39 . Freelancer's encl. 40 . Fabrics from sheep 42 . Spherical hairdo 43 . Hearth residue 45 . Italy's shape 46 . Recipe direction 47 . Frosted Down 49 . Bear witness 1. Intrepid 22 . Archer's weapon 44 . Emphatic Spanish 51 . Point a finger at 2. One of the 23 . Diner sign affirmative 55 . Not cloudy woodwinds 25 . Playwright Edward 48 . Core 56 . ''The West Wing'' star 3. Bulletin 27 . Hernando's home 50 . Apartment renter 59 . Certain MDs 4. __ only as directed 28 . Chapters of history 51 . Not quite right 62 . ''What's __ for me?'' 5. Balkan region 29 . Got out of one's 52 . Lake craft 63 . Pigeon-__ 6. ''Wow!'' chair 53 . Felony or 64 . God of Islam 7. Field of expertise 30 . Game on misdemeanor 66 . A few 8. Actor Penn horseback 54 . Speak 67 . Fashion mag 9. Blanketlike cloak 33 . One of Hamlet's 55 . Gives up, as 68 . Nary a soul 10 . Action words choices territory 69 . Crystal-ball user 11 . Spring zodiac sign 35 . ''__ la vista, baby!'' 57 . Filet fish 70 . Workout iterations 12 . Of ocean motion 36 . Pleasant 58 . Give assistance to 71 . Dragged behind 13 . ''If they could __ remembrance 60 . Window section now . . .'' 37 . TGIF days 61 . Lose fur 38 . Legal wrong 65 . Old card game 41 . No longer fresh

137 Puzzle #135 Across 1. Bath powder 5. Couples with a driver 9. Mortify 14 . Operatic solo 15 . City in Kansas 16 . About 1% of the atmosphere 17 . O 20 . Kind of guitar 21 . Genesis twin 22 . B'way postings 23 . Martha's Vineyard, for example (abbr.) 25 . Slow down 27 . "We're off ___ the Wizard ..." 30 . Object in many sports 31 . '60s Pontiac muscle car 34 . Crave 35 . Inlets 37 . "___ and the Night Visitors" 39 . O 42 . Aerobat's maneuvers 43 . Bear among the stars 44 . Kettle of fish, so to speak Down 45 . Boggy land 1. Pravda news source 19 . Fling 47 . Shriek 46 . Promote, and then some 2. In ___ (stuck) 24 . Balkan resident 49 . ___ fixe 48 . Sam played by Bogart 3. Sprightliness 26 . Jai ___ (restaurant charging 50 . Laundry appliance 4. Coffeehouse 27 . California-Nevada option) 52 . Pricing word 5. Repair border lake 51 . Disprove 53 . Facial tissue additive 6. Spur wheel 28 . Tower toppers on 52 . Juan of Argentina 55 . Unaccompanied 7. Some Ivy Leaguers Russian Orthodox 53 . "Right away!" 57 . Lacking sense 8. Record collections? churches 54 . Julia Roberts' ex 62 . O 9. Swiss river 29 . Word on a red sign Lovett 65 . Native Alaskan 10 . Pleasantly zestful 30 . Wilkes-___, PA 56 . Denier's words 66 . Collar type 11 . Brought together 32 . "___ Boots Are 58 . Det. Sipowicz's 67 . Jab with an elbow Made for Walkin'" employer 12 . District of London 68 . Tormentors 33 . Chevy's cousin 59 . Pearl Mosque city 13 . Tolkien's tree 69 . "... in the pot, ___ days old" creatures 34 . "The Situation 60 . Glowing gas 70 . Aykroyd and Fogelberg Room" journalist Blitzer 18 . Tennis great 61 . Conclusions Nastase 36 . Anti-inflammatory 63 . Bonus NFL periods choice 64 . Single 38 . Baby's call 40 . Colorless 41 . Rose bowl?

138 Puzzle #136 Across 1. China's ___ of Four 5. Lifting devices 11 . Brylcreem amount 14 . Natural emollient 15 . Play the siren 16 . Building projection 17 . Court woe 19 . Wizards locale 20 . Eagerly studying 21 . Gives gratuitously 23 . Lace end, perhaps 26 . Dine 27 . Gallop, for one 28 . It's cooked up 29 . More than perk up 32 . Some hot sandwiches 33 . How to take adversity 35 . Slangy term of address 36 . Track woes 39 . Beluga output 40 . Typical telephone elements 43 . Part filler 46 . Brown pigment 47 . Bemoan 48 . Fiber source Down 49 . Home of the cubs 1. Piece in a B-movie, 22 . Airline employees 43 . Lessens 50 . Council of ___ (1545-1563) perhaps 23 . Comeback maker 44 . Old town newsmen 52 . Wing part 2. Steak partner of 10/30/74 45 . Kind of scout 54 . ''Skedaddle!'' 3. Persona-grata link 24 . Game-ending 46 . Doddering 56 . Shirt type 4. Lamp spirit declaration 49 . Woodworking 57 . Pool woe 5. ''... why ___ thou 25 . More, proverbially joiner 62 . Fish-catching eagle forsaken me?'' 26 . King of horror 51 . Content of a derby 63 . Soft, velvety material 6. Margarine kin 30 . Hard-to-swallow winner's wreath 64 . New York canal 7. A way to be at ease verbiage 53 . Acknowledge an 65 . Mach 1 breaker, briefly 8. Overpower 31 . Product pitches invitation 66 . Public TV request 9. Boy Scouts' unit 32 . Authority giving 54 . Overly complacent 67 . Menial worker 10 . Mended, in a way specific orders 55 . Present for the 11 . Type of insurance 34 . It's fit for a king teacher? 12 . Even though 35 . Bus or van starter 58 . Old TV ''Squad'' 13 . Some sounds from 37 . Race division, 59 . Before, to Hamlet a trumpet perhaps 60 . It may be thin, hot 18 . Auto section 38 . Devoid of moisture or cold 41 . Wine cask 61 . Man in the ring 42 . Part of a musical gig

139 Puzzle #137 Across 1. Cold capital? 5. Roman statesman 9. Center of power 14 . Heavy landing sound 15 . Way off 16 . To one side 17 . 1957 Jimmie Rodgers hit 19 . Four farthings, in old England 20 . Sister of Zsa Zsa 21 . Oklahoma Indian 22 . Hawk 23 . Sign up 25 . Hopelessly ruined 28 . More shrewd 29 . Kitchen container 30 . The first U.S. one opened in Boston in 1851 31 . Erase a magnetic tape 34 . Clay, today 35 . Facetious "I see" 38 . Bit of tuneful nostalgia 39 . __ instant 40 . Lock (up) 41 . Meeting plans Down 43 . Domain 1. They may be 18 . "__ fired!" 42 . Loathe 45 . Up-point link significant 22 . Knowledgeable 44 . Within reach 46 . Cacophony 2. Work in the garden 24 . Fix up 47 . "Java" trumpeter 50 . Kind of stick 3. Extreme behavior 25 . Geographical 48 . Lodged 52 . Command level 4. "__ to Billie Joe" depression 49 . Logs 54 . For whom the bell tolls 5. Saguaros, e.g. 26 . Golden St. campus 51 . Like salsa 55 . Circle overhead 6. In progress 27 . Distress 52 . Donovan McNabb, 56 . Popular 7. Submissive 29 . Disputed Middle for one 57 . Half a '60s pop group 8. Heavenly body East region 53 . Say with assurance 59 . 1957 McGuire Sisters hit 9. Carnation site 32 . Sigmund Freud 55 . Former Justice 61 . Occurrence 10 . Without subterfuge feature Black 62 . Wrinkly fruit 11 . 1972 Sammy Davis 33 . Star in Perseus 57 . Each 63 . __ Rabbit Jr. hit 35 . "Pronto!" 58 . Map abbr. 64 . Prepared 12 . Coffee-hour need 36 . Munich address 59 . Dine 65 . Greeting card item 13 . Mudhole 37 . 1966 Tommy Roe 60 . Atlanta Braves TV 66 . Norms: Abbr. hit network 39 . Sea escape

140 Puzzle #138 Across 1. Civil rights concern 5. Classic clown 9. "Green Acres" co-star 14 . St. Louis landmark 15 . Poker declaration 16 . Much the same 17 . Actress Merrill 18 . Strongest man on The Planet? 19 . Manchester measurement 20 . Roll 23 . Bobby end 24 . Snockered 25 . Washington and McKinley (Abbr.) 28 . Serve 32 . Word with up or down 35 . Do blackboard duty 37 . Sound of time 38 . Out of kilter 39 . Roll 42 . "Watch it!" 43 . Opera's Gluck 44 . "___ a Nightingale" 45 . Cambridgeshire cathedral Down town 1. Good, in street talk 22 . Bit of serendipity 46 . Word of warning 46 . Rolling infield hit 2. Greek messenger of 25 . Barroom brawl, for 47 . Just get by 48 . Its tip may be felt the gods example 49 . Antisocial type 49 . Took by the hand 3. Teenager's torment 26 . Kafka subject 51 . Investment return 50 . Second name in cosmetics 4. Not flat 27 . Sarah Vaughan's 52 . Ergo 52 . Roll 5. It has two pieces sobriquet 53 . Service break? 60 . Risible beast 6. Presage 29 . Old hat 54 . Country's McEntire 61 . Double Delight snack 7. Throw barbs at 30 . Comment to a 55 . Turn over one's 62 . Pizzazz 8. Aware of blackjack dealer hand 64 . Brown shade 9. Chess opening 31 . Group of eight 56 . Kingston group 65 . Stead 10 . On one's toes 32 . Win every game 57 . Cad 66 . Draw in 11 . Angler's hope 33 . Mountain ridge 58 . Mustard and Plum 67 . Part of Ringo's set 12 . Some pods 34 . "Iron Mike" game 68 . Lamebrain 13 . Stalk by the river 36 . Unkempt abode 59 . Bring in 69 . Appreciable effect 21 . Part of VCR 38 . Recipe verb 63 . It can be a 40 . Nick of the links lifesaver 41 . "War Games" setting

141 Puzzle #139 Across 1. Pisan pronoun 5. Substantive part 9. Dome-shaped do 13 . Subject of introspection 14 . Top-flight 15 . Hardly colorful 16 . It often ends with a pun 19 . It may be hitched 20 . -osis : -oses :: -y : -___ 21 . Tyrolean refrain 22 . John's dance partner in ''Pulp Fiction'' 23 . It's pressed for cash 24 . Based on theory 26 . Completely wasted 29 . Say one's piece 30 . Heroine of ''Last Days of Pompeii'' 31 . It's dropped 34 . Trevi filler, once 35 . Fashionable Geoffrey 37 . Sociologist Shere 38 . Agent's due 39 . Only about 10 percent of it is visible Down 40 . Whoop it up 1. Frozen snack 18 . Mr. Mister song 39 . Scopes prosecutor 41 . Dawdle 2. Use Western Union, named after a prayer 40 . Pretoria's land 44 . List for hubby say 19 . Nureyev or Friml (Abbr.) 47 . Collector's suffix 3. Type of plum 23 . Took in a poor boy 41 . Remove, as a 48 . Kidnapping org. of 1974 4. Texans' org. 24 . The King's middle calcium compound 49 . Seat of Marion County, 5. Bully's dare name 42 . Port in the Loire Florida 6. Geologic divisions 25 . You can see right Valley 50 . Babylonian god of the sky 7. Year, south of the through it 43 . Sufficient, in 51 . What Simon does border 27 . Compass hdg. Dogpatch 52 . Without a clue 8. Gumshoe 28 . San follower 44 . Moonshiner's wares 56 . Symbol of silence 9. Append 31 . Pretends to be 45 . Prefix for ''eye'' 57 . Burns' hillside 10 . Ringbearer of film something one's not 46 . Present at birth 58 . Luke's sister and fiction 32 . ''Rikki Don't Lose 50 . At some distance 59 . Duffer's target 11 . Autumn toiler That Number'' group 51 . Penetrate slowly 60 . Some are jam-packed 12 . Old manuscript 33 . River formations 53 . Pres. with a ranch 61 . Dentist's request markings 35 . It's drawn with a 54 . A strike-out makes 17 . Kin kin rifle? it go down 36 . ''In conclusion'' 55 . U.N. agcy. 37 . Playboy Hugh, promoting social justice familiarly

142 Puzzle #140 Across 1. We all have one 5. CD player problems 10 . Once, once upon a time 14 . Palo ___ 15 . Some Muscle Beach types 16 . Move toward 17 . Film monster of 1958 18 . Filibuster, in a way 19 . Third-base coach's sign, perhaps 20 . Beginning of a witty eulogy 23 . Pained reactions 24 . It merged with Bell Atlantic 25 . Insurance figure 26 . Leafy shelters 28 . Make lean, in a way 32 . Skater Baiul 35 . Space-age affirmatives 37 . High ___ kite 38 . Eulogy, Part 2 39 . Nemo's creator 41 . Eulogy, Part 3 42 . Skye cap 43 . It's put before Descartes 44 . DeCarlo of ''The Munsters'' Down 46 . Not being used 1. First name among 21 . Designer von 43 . Type of home or 48 . Chickasaw and Choctaw, legendary artists Furstenberg room e.g. 2. Islamic deity 22 . LAX abbrs. 45 . Prez's stand-in 50 . Sputnik launcher 3. Shelves 26 . Howl at the moon 47 . Briefs 52 . Kind of hold 4. Unwanted name in 27 . More enticing, to a 49 . Defeated one's 53 . ___-crab soup ''Roots'' philatelist phrase 56 . End of the eulogy 5. Kind of radio 29 . ''The Marble ___'' 51 . Members of a 61 . Interjection of dejection 6. Olympian Jackie (Hawthorne) branch of Islam 62 . ''... bombs bursting ___'' (with Joyner) 30 . Pt. of NAACP 53 . Brown tint 63 . Literary work or composition 7. Single-named 31 . Westminster 54 . Frequently visited 64 . Niger neighbor supermodel gallery place 65 . Did something 8. Beer-guzzling Norm 32 . Number after sette 55 . Borden cow 66 . Type of camp or van 9. 1983 Indy 500 33 . Hayworth's royal 56 . Kind of duck or 67 . No longer one-sided winner Tom hubby brain 68 . Places for spades 10 . Course for a 34 . Next-to-last match 57 . Norwegian saint 69 . Crown of the head gourmand 36 . Home settings 58 . Telemarketer's aim 11 . One way to 40 . Establish firmly 59 . ''I can't believe ___ audition 41 . Alcott's ''___ Boys'' the whole thing!'' 12 . ''The Chronicles of 60 . Regal showing Clovis'' writer 13 . It has bark but no bite

143 Puzzle #141 Across 1. Biblical tower town 6. Resorts with hot springs 10 . New York Mets' home 14 . Fictional Scarlett 15 . Informal greeting 16 . Low in fat 17 . Shipping-box material 20 . Author Rand 21 . Takes an apartment 22 . Mean to say 23 . Arctic Ocean floater 24 . ''Othello'' bad guy 26 . Whiny-sounding 29 . Ungentle 31 . Toward the rear, at sea 34 . Polish an article 35 . Touch on the shoulder 36 . Slow-moving reptile 38 . Just not done 41 . Lover boys 42 . ''__ the fields we go . . .'' 43 . Almanac illustrations 44 . NATO member 45 . Things, grammatically speaking Down 47 . Deputized group 1. __ Raton, FL 19 . Affectionate 46 . Expends fully 48 . Swampy grounds 2. Nautical hello greeting 47 . Baker's holder 49 . Twosome 3. Hayloft locale 23 . Soak in the tub 48 . Multiple of eight 51 . Knight's protection 4. Go wrong 25 . Fall flower 50 . Find a sum 54 . Wear away 5. Oliver Hardy's 26 . Gandhi colleague 51 . Pinnacle 56 . Lt.'s subordinate partner 27 . Goodbye, in 52 . Sufficient space 59 . Carpenter's purchase 6. China's largest city Guatemala 53 . Polite term of 62 . Castle surrounder 7. Actor Brad 28 . Tau preceder address 63 . Floor coverings 8. Sailor's assent 30 . Kitchen cover-up 55 . Fury 64 . Really like 9. Unhappy 31 . Mythical world lifter 56 . Popular name for 65 . Television award 10 . Instant-replay 32 . Backs of envelopes Dalmatians 66 . Fencing weapon technique 33 . Pithy 57 . Microbe 67 . ''I didn't do it!'' 11 . Pile 35 . Boxer Mike 58 . Cherry or chestnut 12 . British noble 37 . Gossipy tidbit 60 . Before, in verse 13 . Rooney of ''60 39 . They don't socialize 61 . Ruckus Minutes'' 40 . Answer 18 . From Frankfurt: Abbr.

144 Puzzle #142 Across 1. Zero hour, e.g. 6. Son of Noah 10 . Asian conqueror 14 . Like a NASA module 15 . One of the Simpsons 16 . Appellation 17 . Beyond being uninterested? 19 . Rudolph storyteller 20 . Wife of Odysseus 21 . Common periodical name 23 . Caustic liquid 24 . Clockmaker Thomas 25 . Covers 29 . Scotch or sugar, e.g. 33 . Antler branches 34 . Upkeep 35 . ''September ___'' (Diamond) 36 . Social reformer Baker 37 . Participated in a rodeo event 38 . In the thick of 39 . ''The Loom of Youth'' author Waugh 40 . Country that got its current name in 1935 41 . It's supportive Down 42 . Lacking historical validity 1. Token punishment 18 . Eton students 41 . Robert Blake series 44 . Attendant of Dionysus 2. Sock type 22 . Graph ending 43 . IX square root 45 . Life sci. 3. Ever and ___ 24 . Storied temptress 44 . Go off target 46 . Michael Caine's address 4. Underground party 25 . Select group 46 . Like blue shoes of 47 . Subway tunnel art, perhaps 5. Garden structure 26 . Cowboy Hall of song 50 . Boeing body 6. Schusser's domain Famer Bob 47 . Caspar, Melchior 55 . Admit frankly 7. Add to the force 27 . Cardigan Bay, e.g. and Balthazar, e.g. 56 . Sound tempests? 8. Legal conclusion? 28 . Emotional seaside 48 . Elliptical shape 58 . Borden of condensed milk 9. Drove to drink, say moments? 49 . Garden material 59 . Sir Geraint's wife 10 . Gawain's equine? 29 . Concerning the 50 . Kickoff preface 60 . Forum garments 11 . Suffer from Vatican 51 . Spoils of war 61 . Pandora's boxful 12 . ''Daniel Boone'' 30 . Type of candle 52 . Jason's vessel 62 . Word with electrical or red actor 31 . Author Jong 53 . FBI guy 63 . Make a full apology 13 . Nutcracker suite? 32 . Broke off 54 . In ___ (existing) 34 . Key feature? 57 . Literary miscellany, 37 . Carom off e.g.

145 Puzzle #143 Across 1. "Let us know," initially 5. Inscribed pillar 10 . Turkish general 14 . Medley 15 . Look for 16 . Work through the night, maybe 17 . Imposing group? 20 . Way or means 21 . Checked from all sides 22 . Camp sights 23 . Full force 25 . Savings plan, briefly 28 . Series opener or closer? 29 . Honking swimmers 30 . Persia, today 31 . Two-footer 33 . Steak order 34 . Saying "What?," maybe 38 . Small part 39 . North Pole crew 40 . Over 41 . Kind of model 43 . Crude meas. 46 . Banned insecticide Down 47 . Hollow rock 1. Take turns 23 . "Where's the __?" 42 . Prairie howler 48 . Layered rock 2. Grinds 24 . Little Orphan 43 . Renoir subject 50 . Frightening 3. Ill-tempered females Annie, e.g. 44 . Runs, as dye 52 . In groups 4. "What's your __?" 26 . Resounded 45 . Flat dweller 53 . In the fitting room 5. Saltimbocca 27 . Chemical ending 47 . Pink lady liquor 57 . Bird's destination, at times seasoning 29 . Local mail ctr. 48 . __-pitch 58 . Decorative cases 6. Defunct airline 30 . Sacred bird of old 49 . Casino request 59 . Ancient 30-Across resident 7. Nice water Egypt 51 . Islets 60 . Makes doilies 8. It turns red in acid 31 . Steep 52 . Threat ender 61 . Horse trait? 9. Fuel gas 32 . Words before a 53 . You'll have a blast 62 . Scots Gaelic 10 . Generous lot kiss, maybe with it 11 . Place for Titans 33 . Three, in Napoli 54 . "Guinevere" actor and Giants 34 . It has five digits 55 . "Sister Act" extra 12 . Bonnet or derby 35 . February birthstone 56 . USSR successor 13 . TV's "Judging __" 36 . Vogue rival 18 . Followers of mus 37 . Old greeting 19 . Mel who hit 511 38 . Bounder homers 41 . Suit materials

146 Puzzle #144 Across 1. Sir Guinness 5. Island mementos 9. Garments made of camel's hair 13 . Seasoned rice dish 15 . Straddling 16 . Coin collector? 17 . ''I Still See ___'' (''Paint Your Wagon'' tune) 18 . Hockey term 20 . Canon 22 . It's not returnable 23 . This year's grads 24 . Florida citrus center 26 . Retained 28 . Strongbox 31 . Darts term 35 . Sternward 36 . Controversial Rose 37 . Kind of curtain 38 . Dream phenom 39 . Airport components 40 . Wells or Lupino 41 . Myanmar locale 43 . Tiresome routines Down 44 . French impressionist painter 1. Inhabitants of a 19 . Projectionist's unit 44 . Tomorrow, in a Claude certain sci-fi planet 21 . Roof covering, Peggy Lee song 46 . Squash term 2. Pleasant tune perhaps 45 . Fencing term 48 . Fabric press 3. Lamb's ''Essays of 25 . Assisted in crime 47 . Roosevelt Island 49 . Fantastic tale ___'' 27 . Abbreviation on transport 50 . ''Nothing ___!'' 4. Leave the pier tires in Greece? 48 . Wire measure 52 . Step one to be merry? 5. Jacket part 28 . Jeweler's weight 51 . Great expanse 54 . Verb used in recipes 6. D.D.E.'s WWII 29 . Needing to take 52 . Where el sol rises 56 . North Pole twosome command off? 53 . Word with rock, 60 . Rugby term 7. 29th state 30 . Genealogist's map rain or test 63 . Dewy-eyed 8. Trout features 32 . Salt Lake City 55 . Venture 64 . Piece of cake? 9. Nile creature students 57 . Rectangle part 65 . Section 10 . Supporting 33 . Sing on 58 . Uniform 66 . Actress Eve 11 . Many miles away Dufourspitze 59 . Dispatched 67 . Earthly paradise 12 . What Simon does 34 . Mother's relative 61 . Final resting place, 68 . ''... ___ and not heard'' 14 . Tap 36 . ''Bear'' Bryant's first for some 69 . Bang-up result? name 62 . Haw counterpart 39 . Family matriarchs 42 . King intro

147 Puzzle #145 Across 1. Commanded 5. Smoldering ruins 10 . Fleecing victims? 14 . Shepherd of Genesis 15 . Interlace 16 . King's "The Green ___" 17 . Farm foe 19 . "Hey, you!" 20 . Bandleader Shaw 21 . Coddle (with "on") 22 . Summer desserts 23 . Equilibrium 25 . Bay of Pigs figure 27 . Lunch box addition, perhaps 29 . Rips up 32 . Place to find stubble 35 . Fast, in music 39 . Porker's parent 40 . Holds 41 . Hardly artistic 42 . Film star Lupino 43 . It can be hydrogenated 44 . Winston Cup overseer 45 . Elitist 46 . Teacher of Aristotle Down 48 . It might be high 1. Rum cakes 18 . Water diverter 45 . Ledges 50 . Change, scf-fi style 2. Cut short 24 . Photo finish? 47 . Penguin suit 54 . Cool teen's transportation 3. Fourth Greek letter 26 . Schliemann's 49 . Scorch 58 . Spun fiber 4. "Invisible Man" discovery 51 . China setting? 60 . Danza sitcom author 28 . Dinner discards 52 . Russian forest 62 . Appropriate 5. Amazement 30 . Bird that's more 53 . Force out 63 . Couch potato's attire 6. Acorn, essentially than rare 55 . Upper crust 64 . Insincere support 7. Destruction 31 . Wound cleaner 56 . Nearby 66 . Oh my gosh! 8. Madonna role 32 . Word with sticks or 57 . Great! 67 . Insurance guy 9. Rival of Hingis shop 58 . Worry 68 . List catchall 10 . Dominion 33 . Nasty fall? 59 . Trademark 69 . Fuss 11 . Cheesy spot? 34 . Asian capital 61 . Common verbal 70 . Seasons, in a way 12 . Otherwise 36 . Key to exit? contraction 71 . Broker's instructions, 13 . Match components 37 . Away! 65 . Tabloid aviators sometimes 38 . Pitched 41 . Granny, e.g.

148 Puzzle #146 Across 1. Window part 5. Keep in check 9. When repeated, a Western city 14 . Burn balm 15 . Bread spread 16 . Like some bills of health 17 . Singer Falana 18 . Bridal accessory 19 . Famine alternative 20 . Grand slam 23 . More melancholic 24 . Request legal recompense 25 . Use a feathered implement 28 . Firstborn 33 . Self-satisfied 37 . Brandy flavor 39 . Beardless dwarf 40 . Grand slam 43 . Like the gong's origin 44 . It can be crimson or high 45 . Great-great grandson of Augustus 46 . Component of some canes 48 . Spadefoot, e.g. Down 50 . Done ___ turn 1. Landlubbers' 22 . Regret bitterly 47 . Hide ___ hair 52 . Hardly complicated opposites 26 . Kind of belt 49 . Make less bright 57 . Grand slam 2. Hawaii, the ___ 27 . Unsaid but 51 . Make ashamed 62 . Seven bones of the human State understood 53 . Catcalled? ankle 3. Physical state of ice 29 . Low-spirited 54 . Madrid museum 63 . Middle Eastern gulf 4. Caught wind of 30 . Fencing blade 55 . Like some cycles 64 . Taper off 5. They keep skeletons 31 . Oracle 56 . Opposite camp 65 . Montezuma, for instance in closets 32 . Theer or heer, e.g. 57 . Unnerve 66 . ''... ___, whatever will be, 6. Peter Fonda role 33 . Hollywood sighting, 58 . Scraps for Fido will be'' 7. Bridle part sometimes 59 . Makes a patsy of 67 . Dutch export 8. Scoots 34 . Southwestern land 60 . ___ fixe 68 . Olympian Owens 9. Star of ''The Bank formation 61 . It's not there 69 . Dog command Dick'' 35 . Type of pricing 62 . First name in 70 . Hunky mate 10 . Novelist Waugh 36 . Pesky pest tombs? 11 . Roof problem 38 . Decorate anew 12 . Glaswegian girl 41 . Very quickly 13 . Formicary resident 42 . Like some workers 21 . WJM's Baxter

149 Puzzle #147 Across 1. Major division of a long poem 6. ''Good for what ___ you'' 10 . Obey a sentry 14 . Blotch on one's record 15 . No-star meal 16 . Exchange fee 17 . Funny joke 19 . Octavia's husband 20 . Pump part 21 . Remark of the unimpressed 23 . ___-relief sculpture 26 . Young men 28 . Plays with masks 29 . High regard 31 . Chinese menu items 36 . ''My word!'' 37 . Early late-night host 39 . Be a poor winner 40 . Prominent 42 . Star Wars research prog. 43 . Draw out 44 . Spanish painter El ___ 45 . Kind of steak 47 . Actress Falco 48 . Boater, for one Down 50 . ''Silkwood'' star 1. EMT skill 18 . It has quite a grip 46 . Cockeyed 52 . Deadly fly, when doubled 2. Jackie's second 22 . Pass between 49 . Miami daily 53 . John's wife 3. Pencil part mountains 51 . Theme ideas 55 . B&O and D&RGW 4. Rug rats 23 . Human and 54 . Made a choice 56 . House of Blues event 5. Baltimore bird extraterrestrial 56 . Devoted following 60 . First name in skunks 6. Queried 24 . Pigeonhole 57 . Mayberry character 62 . Kings Peak state 7. Down with 25 . Antebellum 58 . Barrie dog 63 . Enforcer, essentially something northerner (with ''free'') 59 . Not quite a quartet 68 . Waiter's place 8. Leopold cohort 27 . Sailor's stint 61 . Birthright seller 69 . Green garnish 9. Break time 30 . It's hard to miss 64 . CCL x X 70 . Stone weight 10 . Mentor, essentially 32 . Smirky smile 65 . Cycle starter 71 . Romanov title (Var.) 11 . 1958 Pulitzer 33 . ''Speak up!'' 66 . To really enjoy a 72 . Longtime Connecticut author James 34 . More frilly meal, do this senator 12 . Old Milano money 35 . Brews, as tea 67 . Way with a no. 73 . Hotel offering 13 . Archaeological dig 38 . Hammett dog find, sometimes 41 . Do divine work?

150 Puzzle #148 Across 1. Fitness and beauty mag 5. Free from contamination 9. Securing attachment 14 . Italian farewell 15 . Gets better? 16 . Writing lacking meter 17 . Christmas gift for Blackbeard? 20 . The color of no money 21 . Churn up 22 . Like yesterday's news 23 . Audition prize 24 . Give out in small quantities 25 . Favorite dance of Henry Morgan? 32 . Bucolic and rustic 33 . Pay attention to 34 . Rock widow 35 . End of an illness? 36 . On display 38 . Realtor offering 39 . University of Miami home 40 . Mimicked 41 . Type of football 42 . Sitcom enjoyed by William Down Kidd? 1. Kind of tissue 19 . Like some caps 41 . Go off the script 46 . They're grounded 2. Galway locale 23 . Some TVs 43 . Feel bad about 47 . Corduroy rib 3. Cholesterol 24 . Delineated 44 . Looks forward to 48 . Where to find Eugene watcher's no-no 25 . ''Charlie's Angels'' 45 . C.S. Lewis fantasy 51 . Hindu dress 4. In favor of are one land 52 . Present location? 5. Alan Freed's offense 26 . Pet rabbit's abode 48 . Anonymous people 55 . Typical snack of 6. Cinderella's 27 . Author Jong 49 . Not the pick of the Bartholomew Roberts? stepsisters, by 28 . ''Mary Tyler Moore'' litter 58 . Walk onstage comparison spinoff 50 . Blues singer James 59 . Not a pro 7. It might wind up on 29 . Copier need 51 . Able to stand trial 60 . Aluminum silicate a lake? 30 . Cat-tails connector 52 . Invigoration 61 . Kind of fair 8. Half a figure eight 31 . Reason for ump's 53 . ''LOTR'' baddies 62 . Painted Desert feature 9. Was busy at a bee? safe call, perhaps 54 . Inside shot? 63 . Bouquet of flowers 10 . Carpentry and 36 . Released from 56 . Edward Jones plumbing, e.g. behind bars Dome athlete 11 . Kind of IRA 37 . Does some 57 . It's with the band 12 . On the open water tailoring 13 . Feeling one's oats 38 . Earnestly advocate 18 . Leader of the Foo 40 . Large wardrobe Fighters

151 Puzzle #149 Across 1. Piquancy 5. Economist Smith 9. Clinton's cat 14 . Cuba, to Carlos 15 . French seaport 16 . Qantas mascot 17 . Of ships: Abbr. 18 . Little bits 19 . Raised a notch 20 . Actor's acknowledgment 23 . Genealogy word 24 . Gymnast Korbut 25 . Like-minded voters 27 . Excessively ornate 30 . TD tossers 32 . Graceful mount 35 . That, in Tijuana 36 . When expected 38 . NFL coach Don 39 . Twain's ''Jumping Frog'' setting 42 . ''Go fly __!'' 43 . Shenanigan 44 . Whisper sweet nothings 45 . Written agreement Down 46 . Qty. 1. Brass component 21 . Small recess 41 . Judge Judy's 47 . Hindu god 2. Brother of Jacob 22 . Many oz. expertise 49 . Till fillers 3. Speak ill of 26 . Pearl Harbor locale 46 . __ rule (generally) 51 . Medicine bottle 4. ''Fantasy Island'' role 27 . News summary 48 . ''We try harder,'' 52 . Carpet cleaner, briefly 5. Sophocles tragedy 28 . Japanese city e.g. 54 . ''Minnie the Moocher'' singer 6. Artemis counterpart 29 . Multicolored pets 50 . Brilliance 60 . Send with a click 7. Flexible, electrically 30 . '60s British fashion 51 . Trumpet device 62 . Break in the action 8. Elevated plane designer 52 . Reject, as a bill 63 . Infatuated 9. ''Hamlet'' prop 31 . Top of the heap 53 . Church shout 64 . Aquarium fish 10 . ''Alley __!'' 33 . Illinois city 55 . Spill the beans 65 . Peace Nobelist __ Myrdal 11 . Skipper of cereals 34 . Mississippi inlet 56 . Winnow 66 . Leap on skates 12 . Swiss artist 37 . Study in a hurry 57 . Like crayons 67 . Dawning 13 . ''Smooth Operator'' 38 . Church mixer 58 . A long time 68 . Made a mess of singer 40 . Envelope abbr. 59 . Connecticut 69 . Wall Street letters campus 61 . Furious feeling

152 Puzzle #150 Across 1. Summer genre? 6. Like Santa's cheeks 10 . Persian for "king" 14 . Like some hives 15 . "Como __ usted?" 16 . Circle dance 17 . "The Love Boat" setting 19 . Part of FEMA: Abbr. 20 . Brick baker 21 . Hammer head 22 . Carolyn who created Nancy Drew 23 . What Bogart never said 26 . Min. division 27 . Attack 28 . Book after Daniel 31 . Medieval defense 33 . Take in 36 . What Weissmuller never said 40 . Hockey great Bobby 41 . Ticks off 42 . Elbow 43 . Merits 46 . TV spots Down 47 . What Shatner never said 1. Clark or Cheney 18 . "The Lord of the 39 . Slightly 53 . Twin of Romulus 2. "Let __!": "Go Rings," e.g. 44 . Tickles pink 54 . Bosc, for one ahead!" 22 . Family 45 . Apt. units 55 . Cries of discovery 3. Oar 24 . Leap __ 46 . One of the "north 57 . Son of Zeus and Hera 4. Taiwan is in it 25 . Mobile opening? forty" 58 . She drank poison to save 5. Distressed 28 . Med. plan 47 . Barroom melee Peter exclamations 29 . "The Star-Spangled 48 . Spooky 60 . Telegram 6. Bowling button Banner" preposition 49 . Tubes on the table 61 . Slack off 7. Milo of "Barbarella" 30 . Ornamental 50 . Rice brews 62 . Scenic view 8. Long-tailed ribbons 51 . "We hold __ truths 63 . Discounted swimmers 31 . Animal in a pouch to be self-evident" 64 . Pale brews 9. Pound sound 32 . Free-throw score 52 . "Big Three" 65 . It's a gas 10 . "For Your Eyes 34 . Lee who directed meeting spot Only" singer Easton "Hulk" 56 . Criticize harshly 11 . Dwelling 35 . Driving need? 58 . Bygone intl. flier 12 . Sporting site 37 . Mag 59 . Campers, briefly 13 . Sultan's women 38 . Loosen, as a knot

153 Puzzle #151 Across 1. Molten rock 6. Travelers' aids 10 . Wild guess 14 . Imam's faith 15 . Coup d'__ 16 . Game with mallets 17 . Future fern 18 . Big bash 19 . Unnamed auth. 20 . Multipurpose tool 23 . Bite like a pup 24 . ''Got it!'' 25 . Midpoint: Abbr. 26 . Barbecue bit 29 . ''. . . man __ mouse?'' 31 . Oater challenge 33 . Post-ER place 34 . Goes limp 37 . Check datum 40 . Home-based business 44 . Detractor 45 . Show disdain for 46 . Musical gift 47 . Former spouses 50 . Cut short Down 51 . Deli loaf 1. Wrong: Pref. 21 . Parsley bit 43 . Put away, as 52 . Guffaw syllable 2. Nile reptiles 22 . Prefix with plunk groceries 54 . Bonkers 3. Healthy look 26 . Costa __ 48 . Inventor Whitney 57 . Vintner's vessel 4. Sausalito's county 27 . Clickable symbol 49 . Church party 59 . Veterans' organization 5. Hawkeye State city 28 . Flattered 52 . It's wreaked 64 . ''Veni, __, vici'' 6. Prefix with bucks excessively 53 . Acid in proteins 65 . Passionate about 7. Video game pioneer 30 . Brewpub wares 55 . ''No problemo'' 66 . Xbox enthusiast 8. Where lifelines are 32 . Web pop-ups, e.g. 56 . In command 68 . Burden of proof 9. Hung around 35 . __-tac-toe 58 . Pageant topper 69 . Commotions 10 . Reach across 36 . Nose-in-the-air sort 60 . Heed the alarm 70 . Wipe clean 11 . Bar mixer 38 . Carhop's load 61 . Get whupped 71 . Manage somehow 12 . In the air 39 . Brontë governess 62 . Actor Epps 72 . Bound along 13 . Embarrassing error 41 . Theater passes, 63 . Hatchling's home 73 . Blowgun ammo slangily 67 . Scale notes 42 . Teed off

154 Puzzle #152 Across 1. Cattle mover 5. Goes bad 9. Hatfield's foe 14 . Crescent shape 15 . ''Hear no ___, speak no . . .'' 16 . Ray blocker 17 . Cruising 18 . Muscularity 19 . Three-legged and drag 20 . First course at the prison? 23 . Start for day 24 . 16 1/2 feet 25 . Not all there 28 . Australia's national blossom 30 . Trail 32 . Type of hold 33 . Like Christmas shopping 35 . Asian capital 37 . Second dinner course at the prison? 40 . Potato unit 41 . Become more complicated 42 . Time of the 75th meridian 43 . Part of FYI 44 . Appeased thirst Down 48 . SAT taker 1. Vein filler 21 . Joey or Ross, e.g. 40 . Term of 51 . Pussycat's partner 2. Log cabinish 22 . Snowball, famously endearment 52 . Chef's phrase 3. Lake in upstate New 26 . It's not always 43 . Swampy land 53 . Dessert course at the York proper 45 . Hawaiian medicine prison? 4. Highly valued 27 . Sniggler's catch man 57 . Range 5. Act in opposition 29 . Pull up to the bar 46 . Sends to 59 . Lo-fat 6. Out of round 30 . He's in for good Washington 60 . Hurt expression 7. Antler point 31 . Coyote's company 47 . Track events 61 . Male seal's devotees 8. Rosebud, famously of choice 49 . Narrow 62 . Modern summons 9. Dummkopf 34 . List heading 50 . Foe 63 . The first chip, usually 10 . Autocrats 35 . Blanche's sister 51 . Was decisive 64 . It could be on the board 11 . Crested bird 36 . It's active in Sicily 54 . Corsica neighbor 65 . Takes into a count? 12 . It's ''for the 37 . San ___, Calif. 55 . Conked out, as a 66 . Bonnie bairn money'' 38 . Leave your car 13 . Da, somewhere opponent with love? 56 . Scuttle's contents 39 . Old hairdos 57 . Petal-plucker's word 58 . Part of a rotating shaft

155 Puzzle #153 Across 1. Bandleader Shaw 6. Presidential campaign subject 10 . Video snippet 14 . Outdoor cookery (Var.) 15 . Partner of aid 16 . Word with strike or school 17 . SeaWorld attraction 18 . Force-ful teacher? 19 . Film canine 20 . TRAIN film 23 . Hinny's kin 26 . "The Gold Bug" writer 27 . Palindromic exclamation 28 . White House nickname 29 . Plenty of bread 31 . Word with T or dry 33 . Made a choice 35 . Archimedes' cry 37 . Gratify 39 . PLANE film (with "The") 44 . Native Alaskan 45 . Muppets creator 46 . Pin the blame on 49 . Daly of "Judging Amy" 51 . Korean border river Down 52 . "___ Not Unusual" (Tom 1. They look better 21 . Track down 43 . Cold-shoulder Jones hit) after crunching 22 . Flute sound 46 . More qualified 53 . Denouement 2. Stadium sound 23 . Pub potables 47 . Where charity 55 . "Double Fantasy" artist 3. Singing syllable 24 . Beginning course, begins? 57 . "When We Was ___" 4. Many are cloned often 48 . Log-on name (Harrison tune) 5. Outfit 25 . Indira's dress 50 . Bates of "Psycho" 58 . AUTOMOBILE film 6. Lower level team 30 . Wild 54 . "Swell!" 62 . Ran like heck 7. One of the reeds 32 . Koufax, notably 56 . Take place 63 . Democritus' unit 8. Cowpunchers' gear 34 . Indiana's state 59 . Understands 64 . Chocolate-yielding tree 9. Squirrel away flower 60 . Moldings at the 68 . Send forth 10 . Industrial mogul 36 . Out of ___ (awry) bases of columns 69 . More than mega- 11 . Go ballistic 38 . Goddess of wisdom 61 . Lighten, as a 70 . Loan shark's offense 12 . Consumption 40 . Not in vogue burden 71 . Pirates rivals 13 . Somewhat ill 41 . Letters on a jet 65 . Novice reporter 72 . Valkyries' master 42 . Thelma Harper's 66 . What may follow 73 . Union foe neighbor you 67 . Olive with a little salt?

156 Puzzle #154 Across 1. ___ vu 5. Manner of walking 9. Ballesteros, with driver 13 . Opera staple 14 . Active start 15 . Sextet X .5 16 . DOT worker? 18 . Game delayer 19 . Slackens 20 . Yankees, to the Red Sox 22 . Ripening agent 24 . Common John 25 . They're not fun to be behind 28 . Sally Field role 30 . It swims in a fur 34 . Some wear white hats 36 . ___ Schwarz (toy store) 38 . Up to the task 39 . No man's land? 42 . S-shaped molding 43 . Per team, in scores 44 . Points of view 45 . Man of the casa 47 . Article written by Wilhelm? 49 . Have ___ in one's bonnet Down 50 . Start of a U.S. capital 1. ''James and the 21 . Pasture sound 46 . ''The Crying Game'' 52 . Stitched Giant Peach'' author 23 . Some church actor 54 . Psychologist's prescription, 2. Jolliet discovery fundraisers 48 . When some dodge perhaps 3. Lively dances 25 . Yellowish brown a ball 58 . Atlantic swimmer 4. Sounds from a Dr.'s shade 51 . Relative of ''thud'' 63 . One of the Lesser Sundas office 26 . Forest in ''As You 53 . Donned 64 . Romantic place for bowlers? 5. Yellowstone sight Like It'' 54 . Half a fl. oz. 66 . Czech mate, perhaps 6. 24-hr. banker 27 . Cowpoke's place to 55 . Clearly in good 67 . Come to mind 7. It's south of Georgia take a spin? health 68 . Ostrichlike birds 8. Got in shape (with 29 . Finish the course 56 . Israeli airline 69 . Soccer great ''up'') 31 . Hearty steak 57 . Yesteryear 70 . Sawbucks 9. Homeless sheik? 32 . Cheer up 59 . Amscray 71 . Trails off 10 . Eventful times 33 . Skelton and 60 . Kind of poetic foot 11 . Sundial numeral Buttons 61 . Rebuff an offer 12 . Eternities 34 . Some health plans 62 . Dame Myra of the 14 . Summoned the 35 . Breeze source, keyboard butler perhaps 65 . Paris potable 17 . Animal in a kid's 37 . Raised-eyebrow song remarks 40 . Ancient 41 . African antelopes

157 Puzzle #155 Across 1. Bulletin-board fastener 5. Of unknown authorship: Abbr. 9. Sounds of shock 14 . Alda of ''M*A*S*H'' 15 . Volcano outflow 16 . Video game name 17 . Unaccompanied 18 . Seize 19 . From the sun 20 . Lightweight cotton fabric 23 . Sailor's yes 24 . Stray from the script 25 . Sulk 27 . Sandal feature 30 . Old-time oaths 32 . Ooh and __ 35 . With little effort 37 . Detest 39 . Shawls and stoles 41 . Debtor's letters 42 . Credit-card user 43 . Soup bean 44 . Showy ornament 46 . Health resort 47 . Stage whisper Down 49 . Take care of 1. Skin-powder 21 . Locations 44 . Boyfriend 51 . Dog's reward ingredient 22 . Deuce topper 45 . Beirut locale 53 . Help for a climber 2. Waikiki welcome 26 . Pearl Harbor's 48 . Gobi or Sahara 56 . Tavern 3. Repaired, as wicker island 50 . Lots and lots 58 . Less than adequate 4. Prepares to propose 28 . China's continent 52 . Steakhouse order 62 . Martini garnish 5. High-school math 29 . Devout 54 . Steam bath 64 . Store sign 6. Drug-fighting cop 31 . Dance move 55 . Characteristic 65 . Hawaiian feast 7. Egg-shaped 32 . Piercing tool 56 . Wild hog 66 . ''Lou Grant'' actor 8. Influential person 33 . Opera solo 57 . In addition 67 . Something prohibited 9. Uneconomical 34 . Leg tendon 59 . Dry cleaner's 68 . Oklahoma city vehicle, slangily 36 . Garage job challenge 69 . Thesaurus compiler 10 . From __ Z 38 . Historical period 60 . __'clock 70 . British prep school 11 . Times of youthful 40 . Set of socks (coffee-break time) 71 . Matinee days: Abbr. inexperience 42 . Support, as with a 61 . Clothing, informally 12 . Beseech wager 63 . Neckline shape 13 . Kingly address

158 Puzzle #156 Across 1. Sutter's ___ 5. Like an exclusive community 10 . Dud 14 . Rossini song 15 . Make ___ of (jot down) 16 . Modicum 17 . Disinfectant's target 18 . 18 holes, generally 19 . Business bigwig, or his attire 20 . Start of a question 23 . Ruby or Sandra 24 . Go ''waaaah'' 25 . Kind of rod or ring 29 . Mainframe fodder 31 . Angular opening? 34 . Clued in 35 . ''___ of Gilgamesh'' 37 . Easy to see or understand 39 . Second part of the question 42 . Analyze grammatically 43 . Entwine 44 . Exclusive 45 . Disbelief 46 . Lacerates 48 . Mensa entrance requirement Down 50 . Moral no-no 1. Famous gift givers 22 . Photo finish? 47 . Preferred payment 51 . Meteor tail? 2. Hot tempers 25 . Term for dad method 52 . Last part of the question 3. Euro predecessor 26 . Groom's acquisition 49 . Math proof abbr. 60 . Alpine bounceback 4. Pet of rhyme 27 . It may be vacant 50 . ''Go ahead and 61 . Actor Quinn 5. Green-thumbed one 28 . Stocking stuffers ask'' 62 . Word on a sale sign 6. Terminal type 29 . Wines' partner 51 . Hot under the 63 . Cookie bestseller 7. Rock group's agenda 30 . The best pair? collar 64 . Agenda 8. Europe's highest 31 . Lake near Carson 52 . Farmland division 65 . Telegram ''period'' volcano City 53 . Get one's teeth 66 . Eye of ___ (''Macbeth'' 9. Take away 32 . Iranian currency into recipe item) 10 . Suspicious 33 . Corner map 54 . Pot measure 67 . Bart's old man 11 . Lummox 36 . Magnificent display 55 . Dutch cheese town 68 . Former Yugoslav chief 12 . Mayberry tosspot 38 . Found's partner 56 . From pillar to ___ 13 . How some stand 40 . Ghostly 57 . Naysayer 21 . Hubbub 41 . Bleach, for one 58 . Vending-machine input 59 . Proofreader's concern 60 . Awfully long time

159 Puzzle #157 Across 1. Least furnished 7. Quahog, e.g. 11 . Bacillus shape 14 . Agcy. for global cooperation 15 . Places 16 . Wax trapper 17 . Wild and crazy 18 . New Year's word 19 . Four-stringed instrument, for short 20 . Doc wannabes 23 . Tadpole cousins 27 . Valentine's Day offering 28 . Pumas' pads 29 . Sour grapes? 31 . Seat for two or more 32 . Gain access 33 . Nullify 36 . Always, in verse 37 . In the thick of things 40 . Test starter 43 . Polyphonic song 44 . Old photo tint 48 . Go back 50 . Thoroughly Down 52 . Rousseau novel 1. Borrow, as a 22 . Nosh 45 . Snoop 53 . Draped dress cigarette 23 . Time before 46 . Kind 55 . Little one 2. Santa ___ anything 47 . Supporter's 56 . Garb for the jet set 3. Fifties epithet 24 . Radiator part response 59 . ''___ Gotta Be Me'' 4. ''Oops!'' key 25 . It does blowups 49 . Folklore being 60 . Walk with weariness 5. Pigeon drop, e.g. 26 . Look 51 . Jack Haley role 61 . Make-believe food 6. Loser in Brown v. 30 . Scythe-bearing 53 . What push comes 66 . Fractional monetary unit of Board of Education visitor to Japan 7. '03 or '04, e.g. 31 . Belgrade-to-Athens 54 . Executive's staff 67 . Water drainer 8. Oafs dir. 57 . Leave helpless with 68 . Krauss of bluegrass 9. Nonprofit org. since 34 . AAA suggestion laughter 69 . Time of the 75th meridian 1920 35 . Conductor 58 . Toni Morrison 70 . Cultivated grasses 10 . Global hot spot Toscanini novel 71 . Christening activity 11 . Get back together 38 . Hi and Lois' kid 62 . Not very bright, 12 . Yellow ribbon 39 . Satisfy, as really bearer demands 63 . Chi-omega 13 . Armoire kin 40 . Assumption connection 21 . Most urgent 41 . Withdraws 64 . It's never neutral 42 . Clear 65 . Noted twin

160 Puzzle #158 Across 1. Singer Ronstadt 6. Pond swimmer 10 . Pride of the pumped-up 14 . Bone in the middle ear 15 . King in I Kings 16 . Harmless, as threats 17 . Manila envelope closer 18 . Button or Butkus 19 . Outer covering 20 . Symbol of fertility 23 . Mil. training academy 24 . Predicaments 25 . Rock musician Brian 26 . Ernesto Guevara's nickname 27 . Cheaper, for now 30 . Pathetic 32 . Political essay 33 . '60s-'70s Saudi king 34 . Polio vaccine developer 35 . Reliever's stat 36 . Too 40 . Gets the lead out 42 . Miniature 43 . Bivouac sights 46 . Take off the books Down 47 . Cell component 1. Some parasites 21 . M.'s partner 42 . Elia or Boz 48 . Kind of limit 2. On Sunset Blvd., say 22 . "The Godfather" 43 . Dancer Juliet 49 . Rice-A-__ 3. Tar Heel St. composer Nino 44 . Relax 50 . Rice University player 4. Author bio site 27 . Fifth qtr. and such 45 . Warehouse 51 . Dirty tactics 5. It covers a lot of 28 . Org. with some big platform 56 . Volition ground on highways guns? 46 . Louis XIV, e.g. 58 . Nancy notion 6. Brouhahas 29 . Erie Canal mule 49 . Like May through 59 . Cliff hangar? 7. Discharge 30 . Surfing necessities August, letterwise 60 . Bygone blade 8. Bowmen's 31 . It's hurled from a 52 . Bear's decision 61 . Guitarist Lofgren equipment sets trap 53 . De-crease? 62 . Antlered beast 9. Image 33 . Minnesota Fats 54 . Not yet final, 63 . 1999 Ron Howard film 10 . Circle constants rival in a 1961 film legally 64 . Wriggly swimmers 11 . "I'm Not Done 35 . Cheerfully 55 . Pop music's Bee __ 65 . Capital of County Clare Yet!" author optimistic 57 . Bk. after Exodus 12 . Bit of predictable 37 . Bigger than med. prose 38 . Diminutive, in 13 . Had a hunch Dumbarton 39 . Popeye's Olive 41 . Chew (out)

161 Puzzle #159 Across 1. Feeling of dread 6. Barnum and 109 9. Stylebook concern 14 . It has two doors 15 . River in Costa Rica 16 . Fathered 17 . Tennyson publication 20 . Bandleader Arnaz 21 . North Pole peon 22 . Possible answer to ''Where are you?'' 23 . Ygdrasil or rowan 25 . Like the meek and the poor in spirit 26 . Like many teeth 29 . Marshal Dillon 30 . Match up 31 . Timber wolf 32 . Austen character 36 . 1935 adventure novel 39 . Indicates 40 . Part of BPOE 41 . Truman's defeat of Dewey, e.g. 42 . New Testament book Down 43 . Some cymbal sets 1. Type of test 19 . One place to stay 42 . Greek 101 44 . Cow catchers 2. Part of a stem in New York or Paris stumbling block 48 . Self-helper Orman 3. Dolls' dates 24 . Coral habitat 43 . Day some call 49 . Back in a boat 4. They might be in the 25 . Rum-laced cakes Wednesday 50 . Measure of resistance soup 26 . Musical that 44 . Shop tool 51 . Mutilate 5. Pt. of ITT opened in London in 45 . One of the 12 55 . Saint-Exupery classic 6. Member of the 1981 tribes of Israel 58 . Emulates a well-trained dog working class 27 . Turkish general 46 . See 62-Across 59 . Mature 7. Small quarrel 28 . Predator's dinner 47 . Takes the bears' 60 . Colorado park 8. W.C. Fields persona 29 . Ridicules advice 61 . Painter Max 9. Electronic bulletin 31 . Lively tunes 48 . Bishop Fulton or 62 . With 46-Down, Dutch artist board system 32 . Heck or darn, e.g. actor Martin 63 . ''Fresh Prince'' Will 10 . Some Indians 33 . Flat-topped hill 50 . Gymnast Korbut 11 . Person born on 34 . Rendezvous 52 . Oppositionist April 1st 35 . Myrmecologist's 53 . Refreshing rapper? 12 . Jazz or opera, e.g. study 54 . What gears are 13 . Sidled 37 . Late designed to do 18 . Pippin 38 . Pop test 56 . ___ Mahal 57 . Thing, legally

162 Puzzle #160 Across 1. They may lie around the house 5. Buzzing about 10 . Back talk? 14 . Miscellaneous mixture 15 . Guanaco relative 16 . Caprine deity 17 . Some provide relief 18 . Festive occasions 19 . Hotfoot it 20 . Sultanate founded by Osman I 23 . Conservative starter 24 . All the same 25 . Candlestick park? 28 . Cold hot spot 30 . Petal plucker's word 33 . Conclude with 34 . It runs through taps 36 . Pot for some ashes 38 . Border order, perhaps 39 . Battle critic 44 . Ocelot's spot 45 . Hope/Crosby destination 46 . Prominent rock pile Down 47 . Shower time 1. City near Los 21 . Black mimicker 43 . Bellini opera 49 . Officeholders Angeles 22 . Yamaguchi's milieu 48 . Romanian pocket 51 . ''Beetlejuice'' star 2. Makes jubilant 26 . Kind of leaves money 55 . Solid and gas, in physics 3. First-rate 27 . Carbon compound 50 . Person noting 57 . Engine part 4. Middlin' 29 . Writing desk errors 59 . Nursery rhyme pocketful 5. Photosynthetic 31 . Lake containing 52 . In a waggish way 60 . They have remote access organisms Saginaw Bay 53 . Quite a sight 64 . Fruit with a wrinkled rind 6. Viewpoints 32 . Foot-pound 54 . Thrift shop 66 . Uses auricular sense 7. Word in an Atwood subdivision objective 67 . A, in code novel title 35 . Tiger's usually 56 . Nincompoop 68 . Farsighted one? 8. Islamic leader under it 58 . ''Victory ___'' 69 . More than a scuffle 9. Stridulates 37 . It can make a (Rodgers score) 70 . Twelfth Hebrew month 10 . Brazen boldness swishing sound 61 . Uriah of ''David 71 . Word in a threat 11 . Its days are 39 . Sad commentary Copperfield'' 72 . It may be light or grand numbered 40 . All ears 62 . Blanch 73 . 1977 AL Cy Young Award 12 . Peach or orange 41 . Smokey's support 63 . 1.3 ounce Asian winner 13 . Eight bits 42 . Sundial figure weight 64 . Operation 65 . Cream alternative

163 Puzzle #161 Across 1. Kind of marker 6. Hairy Himalayan 10 . Follows a cookbook directive 14 . San Antonio shrine 15 . Present-day Persia 16 . Important thing to a golfer 17 . Cavorts 18 . Monopoly moneymaker 20 . ''Didn't I tell you?'' 21 . Military melody 23 . Tamed, as a bronco 24 . Brief ending? 25 . Like the last in a dash 26 . Underdog supporter 30 . Surrounded by 31 . Well-read 36 . Warm and friendly 37 . Butter lump 38 . ''___ La Douce'' 39 . Football field 42 . Some are honorary 44 . Center ice, in hockey 46 . Ham it up 50 . Partner in peace 51 . Zodiac twins Down 52 . Ship's staff 1. Utopia Planitia 22 . CEO's aide 42 . Fish story 53 . Once around the track setting 24 . Gave up 43 . Animosity 56 . When radio ad rates are 2. Succulent 25 . Irritated state 45 . Least available highest houseplant 26 . Summoned the 46 . Humorous Nash 58 . Taranto's locale 3. Ready for action butler 47 . Chapter's 60 . This, in Spain 4. Mischievous sort 27 . Middle Eastern companion 61 . Greek god of love 5. Gere and Roberts, chieftain 48 . Sends out 62 . Tear down e.g. 28 . Veni, Vidi, ___ 49 . Metal fastener 63 . Tree house 6. ''Wow! I won!'' 29 . Handwriting 52 . ''Let's go!'' 64 . Tin can flaw 7. Chapters of history feature 53 . Fuji's flow 65 . This might give you a flat 8. Old mariner 32 . Posh or snazzy 54 . British brews 9. Rorschach pattern 33 . Guthrie of song 55 . Nabors' role 10 . Radiant 34 . Some fed. agents 57 . Outrage 11 . Admiral Sir Francis 35 . Soothe 59 . Palmer's peg 12 . Follows another 37 . Sulk cookbook directive 40 . Pointless and silly 13 . Disbursed, as 41 . Said word for word dollars 19 . Examine

164 Puzzle #162 Across 1. Cairo league 5. Letter on a frat house, perhaps 10 . Kind of bag 14 . Oak support 15 . Punic Wars soldier 16 . Dude ranch prop 17 . Renders suspect 19 . Protected, nautically 20 . Tom and Dick, but no Harry 21 . Fruity-smelling chemical compounds 23 . Literary governess Jane 24 . Homesteader's stake 25 . Jane Smiley's ''A Thousand ___'' 27 . Comes into one's own 30 . Which cheek to turn? 31 . Percussion instruments 32 . Balmoral Castle's river 33 . Occasion at Minsky's 34 . Cleaners' concern 35 . Small price to pay 36 . Plumber's connection 37 . The Hatfields and the Down McCoys, e.g. 1. Lessons for the 18 . Less vocal 38 . Word with 38 . Teen hang-outs young 22 . Talk trash to depressive 39 . Having a finger in every pie 2. Gallivant 24 . Smackers 40 . Dissuades 41 . Stockholder of Roy Rogers? 3. To boot 25 . Whale of ___ 41 . Extreme introverts 42 . Appears 4. One-upped 26 . Simple task, e.g. 43 . Received, at NASA 43 . Columnist Barrett 5. They may be 27 . Word with up, 44 . Cry of concurrence 44 . Common airline carry-on marching down or about 45 . Kind of rug 46 . Certain relative 6. Boxing's Archie 28 . Edison's park 46 . ''Roots,'' e.g. 50 . Perry's creator 7. Layers of green eggs 29 . There may be 47 . (Has) reclined 51 . Way out West, once 8. Some consider it a three to a match 48 . Teenage problem 53 . Glum drop? gift 30 . Neighbor of Provo that breaks out 54 . More than merely ready 9. Deer playmate? 31 . Mission start? 49 . Sigh of relief 55 . Jasmine or morning glory, 10 . Without charge 34 . Sneaks a peek 52 . Tit for ___ e.g. 11 . They're often 35 . Amorously inclined 56 . Verbalizes emulated male 57 . Isn't supporting 12 . Copycat 37 . Asp victim, for 58 . Resurgently 13 . Some are killer short

165 Puzzle #163 Across 1. Discompose 6. Assemblage 11 . White House nickname 14 . Tattooed lady of song 15 . Trunk artery 16 . Actress Courteney 17 . Place to stay, for awhile 19 . PC attachment 20 . Start to a phone? 21 . Bladed pole 22 . Nota --- (take notice) 23 . Ostrich kin 26 . Part of TGIF 28 . Sky addition 30 . Place to stay, for awhile 33 . Place to stay, for awhile 34 . Brainchild 35 . Shacks 37 . Smallest degree 39 . Blood classification 40 . Odd-toed ungulate 44 . Elegant chest of drawers 47 . What a hog wants 48 . Place to stay, for awhile 51 . Place to stay, for awhile Down 53 . Rivalrous 1. Mass robe 22 . Fragrant firs 46 . Plant swelling 55 . Ex-QB Dawson 2. Last word, often 23 . Concert pianist problem 56 . Break off 3. Program Gilels 48 . Feel empathy 57 . Defeat interruptions 24 . Word with ready, 49 . Lacking values 58 . ''Norma ---'' 4. Warms the bench self or man 50 . Curator's employer 60 . Colin Powell's degree 5. Michener epic 25 . Component used 52 . Native 62 . ''We --- the World'' 6. Refined crude as fertilizer 54 . Fills fully 63 . Place to stay, for awhile 7. ''Portnoy's 27 . This can get let off 59 . Book before 68 . Sigma upsilon separator Complaint'' writer 29 . English act of 1715 Nehemiah 69 . Bitter 8. Treats with milk 31 . Buckwheat's 61 . Palo --- 70 . Piano pupil's piece 9. City south-east of buddies 63 . Meadow male 71 . Freddy Krueger's street Amsterdam 32 . Fifer's snare drum 64 . Becker's channel 72 . Tablelands 10 . Camera action 36 . Like lymphatic 65 . Large wine cask 73 . Gift getter 11 . Readily receive tissue 66 . Lyrical poem 12 . Third largest island 38 . Disturbance 67 . Born as in the world 41 . Prepare to be shot 13 . Nonresident doctor 42 . Tend to pressing 18 . Praise to the sky business? 43 . Divide 45 . Chevalier of ''Gigi''

166 Puzzle #164 Across 1. Round or minute 6. Having dogpaddled 10 . Springsteen, to fans 14 . Having some resemblance 15 . "--- Fan Tutte" 16 . World's fair 17 . Line 20 . Opposition response 21 . Vanished 22 . Favorite stomping grounds 23 . Slews 24 . TD callers 25 . Line 29 . Magi's origin 33 . Nick name? 34 . Immediately payable 35 . Snooker 36 . Show stoppers? 37 . Mediterranean resort area 41 . Problem in historical records 42 . Reposes 44 . Classic prefix 45 . Cessation of hostilities 47 . Pitch catcher 48 . Line Down 51 . Go around in circles 1. Postage stamp size, 19 . Lout 46 . Numbered hwy. 53 . Manage briefly 23 . Fore's partner 49 . Bakery toppers 54 . Mogadishu native 2. Salad type 24 . Bounder 50 . Come in behind the 57 . Mexican affirmative 3. Crossword puzzle 25 . Poem of King David others 58 . Memorable first baseman category 26 . Bicycle spokes, for 52 . Reaction to a good 61 . Line 4. Try / might link instance pass? 64 . Saturn feature 5. Play since 1605 27 . First appearance 54 . Twinkle-toed 65 . Ruffian 6. Clues for a 28 . "Talk turkey," e.g. 55 . Reds and Browns 66 . Narrow walkway bloodhound 30 . Predict from omens call it home 67 . It'll hold the team together 7. Abraded 31 . Novel by 9-Down 56 . Trappist, e.g. 68 . Reacts emotionally 8. Customary practice 32 . Plains home 57 . Give the cold 69 . It's on the Aire 9. "Alaska" author 38 . Imposes shoulder to 10 . Caused 39 . Scallopini choice 58 . Like Solomon bewilderment 40 . Odd 59 . Poker player's response 11 . Farm tractor 43 . Odd alternatives 60 . Change machine 12 . Predicament input 13 . Fred MacMurray's 62 . Sound of surprise three on TV 63 . Draw even with 18 . Cote sounds

167 Puzzle #165 Across 1. ''The Black Camel'' gumshoe 5. Gulf of California peninsula 9. Merit award 14 . White hat wearer 15 . Spanish pot 16 . Goodbye in Gascony 17 . New York state motto (''ever upward'') 19 . Plexus starter 20 . ''Hercules'' spin-off 21 . Calm 22 . Dark brown 25 . ''From ___ shining ...'' 28 . Shatner's war 29 . High pt. in Sicily 31 . The King's real first name 32 . Hindu sacred text 33 . Expos' ending 34 . Wide-screen movie process 37 . U.S. motto 41 . Flowed copiously 42 . ''Blame It on ___'' (Caine film) 44 . Board game implement? 47 . Whole shebang Down 48 . High-class 1. Fidel's compadre 21 . Some library tomes 44 . Maine motto (''I 50 . ''Now ___ seen everything!'' 2. Bewitch 22 . School of Mustangs direct'') 51 . Window alternative 3. ___ de Triomphe 23 . Raison d'___ 45 . Long-legged shore 53 . First name in photography 4. Play by Jean-Paul 24 . Use a chink bird 54 . Legendary French knight Sartre 26 . Size up 46 . Frank topping 56 . Try to tan 5. Cap'n's mate 27 . Gold, chemically 49 . Leg ornament 58 . Topper 6. False ID speaking 51 . Ruffle one's 59 . Montana motto (''gold and 7. Celeb in the news 30 . Reason to take feathers silver'') 8. Bern's river shelter 52 . Wood from Sri 64 . ''Beau ___'' 9. Ezio Pinza, for one 32 . Rental unit Lanka 65 . First-rate 10 . Big commotions 35 . First name in 55 . Fixed bet 66 . Company VIP 11 . Thin physics 57 . Verbal salutes 67 . Which cheek to turn? 12 . Ready (with ''up'') 36 . Stinging nest 59 . Bookshelf wood, 68 . Custodian's need perhaps 13 . California motto (''I builder 69 . Editor's material have found it!'') 38 . WWII landing craft 60 . Expensive eggs? 18 . Request to a 39 . Sizable servers 61 . Log splitter butcher 40 . Nichols or Wallace 62 . Cowhand's 43 . Olive family name nickname 63 . Don't hesitate

168 Puzzle #166 Across 1. Fraction of an inch 5. NYC hub 15 . Poetic adverb 16 . It has a green-and-white flag 17 . Numerical factoid 18 . Ship pole 19 . Unhealthful 21 . Squash, for example 22 . R&R provider 23 . New England seafood 25 . Opposed, in the Ozarks 26 . Supplements 29 . Word-processor command 31 . Quickly and lightly, in music 32 . Fuss 33 . Sentiment 34 . Unhappy spectators, perhaps 38 . Lodges 39 . Published 40 . Pro Football Hall of Fame charter member 43 . False front 44 . Be suspended Down 45 . Sierra __ (Mexican range) 1. Ago 14 . Jackson Hole locale 40 . Ibsen play 46 . Ft. Erie's home 2. Fond of 20 . Arch 41 . Place for a gaucho 47 . Seems to be 3. Push 24 . Exposition place 42 . Pollen holder 49 . Not seeing straight 4. Turning obsolete 25 . French toast 43 . Sense of taste 53 . Bus-seat sharer, perhaps 5. Fix 26 . Many a state 45 . Secretarial work 56 . Great-grandson of Marc 6. Causes a start name, in D.C. 47 . Baby zebra Antony 7. They sound funny 27 . It means ''realm'' 48 . Stop on the Pony 57 . Midwest region 8. Prominent '70s 28 . Gossip-column Express 58 . It's saved for a rainy day feminist subject 50 . Inner fire 59 . Ungracious ones 9. A.J. Soprano 29 . Norman athlete 51 . Stumbles 60 . Different portrayer 30 . Took up 52 . Bozo 10 . Split up 32 . New lieutenant 54 . Written tribute 11 . Martina's frequent general's acquisition 55 . Sinuous shape doubles partner 35 . A, in Alsace 12 . Toy-train scale 36 . BP takers 13 . Isaac Asimov's 37 . ''Femme birthplace canonisée'', for short

169 Puzzle #167 Across 1. Frigid and Torrid, e.g. 6. B.B. King's music 11 . Summer cooler 14 . Kind of acid 15 . Theater divider 16 . Ryan of "City of Angels" 17 . Body that sits in New York 20 . ___-cone (icy treat) 21 . Driver with a handle 22 . Spring bloomer 23 . Lawyers charge 24 . Most in need of liniment 26 . Bonds, e.g. 31 . Key material 32 . Track events 33 . Boar's beloved 36 . Engaged in litigation 37 . "Around the World in 80 Days" author 38 . Like an inaugural ball 39 . Farm enclosure 40 . Irritating to the nose 41 . Buenos ___, Argentina 42 . Swimmer with a striped body Down 44 . Unfavorable 1. Turns sharply 23 . Taken with (with 42 . Pt. of EMS 47 . ABA member 2. Straw in the wind "of") 43 . Zilch 48 . New Zealand native 3. Muchacho 24 . Plan for a meeting 44 . More than enough 49 . Scotch partner 4. Ending of some 25 . Quaintly attractive 45 . Took a chance 51 . Filer's convenience hydrocarbons 26 . Disorderly 46 . Invalidates 54 . What a lawyer may have 5. Harry Potter's thing accumulation 49 . Nimble 58 . Took the reins 6. Wrapped hay 27 . Border on 50 . Mine finds 59 . "Casablanca" actor Peter 7. Teller of stories 28 . Young kangaroo 51 . Wedding cake 60 . Mournful peal 8. Letters on an 29 . Come to light feature 61 . Sullivan and Walsh American flattop 30 . Eagle's nest 52 . Org. co-founded by 62 . Collar inserts 9. Upraised railroads 33 . Delhi wrap Helen Keller 63 . Vain walk 10 . Is very angry 34 . Some roars of 53 . Word with Corn or 11 . Walk leisurely approval Bible 12 . Sandwich shops 35 . Laundry 55 . Two-year-old 13 . Pyramid site 37 . TV attachments 56 . Big Band, for one 18 . Biblical brother 38 . Special ability 57 . Blaster's need 19 . "The Ghost and 40 . Boom box Mrs. ___" attachments 41 . Criticizes harshly

170 Puzzle #168 Across 1. Judge's decision 6. Pupil's place 10 . Brown truck co. 13 . Pith hat 14 . Science fiction, say 16 . It comes before view or text 17 . WWF capital? 19 . Garden implement 20 . Aural factory? 21 . Aristotle's instructor 22 . Assemblage 24 . Whichever 25 . Velvet finish 26 . Fleece 27 . ''Sesame Street'' capital 32 . Warn 35 . Desire 36 . Smallest prime number 37 . Spy 38 . Sworn body 40 . Root veggie 41 . Some cubes 42 . Short personal histories 43 . Supported 44 . Hollywood capital? Down 48 . Rara ___ 1. Befuddled 23 . French king 43 . Kid's transport 49 . Fond du ___ 2. Teutonic war god 26 . Remuneration 45 . Snake target 50 . Bruce or Robert 3. Imitative behavior 27 . Mineral 46 . Hebrew prophet 53 . Hammed it up 4. Gun the engine 28 . Actress Rene 47 . Shuttle org. 55 . A Duke's cousin 5. Most inscrutable 29 . Married woman 50 . Also-ran 57 . Hockey legend 6. Tropical lizard 30 . Notable Meany 51 . Wear away 58 . Miss Piggy's question 7. Take a breather 31 . A,B,C or D 52 . Dadaism 59 . Country capital? 8. Keen on 32 . Middle Eastern co-founder 62 . Groom's reply 9. ___ Lanka prince 53 . In the middle of 63 . Loma ___, Calif. 10 . Give padding and 33 . Sets of graph 54 . Musical conclusion 64 . River Aire city cover? points 55 . Funny Carvey 65 . ''Roseanne'' character 11 . Boat front 34 . Mile, for Denver 56 . No ifs, ___ or 66 . A little salt 12 . Rank 38 . Domino dots buts... 67 . Heron 15 . Cipher 39 . ___-la-la 60 . Chapeau 18 . A Baldwin 40 . Fight with fists 61 . Bash barrel 42 . Shower type

171 Puzzle #169 Across 1. Word with brass or rubber 5. Practical jokes 10 . Climb, as a pole 14 . Winged 15 . Grenoble is its capital 16 . Choreographer Tommy 17 . Auspicate 18 . Low point 19 . Induce 20 . Like some salons 22 . 11, in blackjack 23 . Vamoosed 24 . Smallest amount 25 . Strategy (With 29-Across) 27 . Namely 29 . See 25-Across 33 . Cartridge fill 36 . ___ about 38 . It comes right after the hour 39 . Word with love or hot 40 . Graham and Preminger 42 . Hullabaloo 43 . Midwestern city 45 . Words of dismay 46 . What some missiles seek Down 47 . Pass up 1. Acacia tree 21 . D.D.E.'s command 48 . ''Lord Jim'' star 49 . Martin Crane's pooch 2. In isolation 25 . Tonto's Scout, for 50 . Front end? 51 . First words of an Ira Levin 3. 1976 Olympics name one 52 . Semiconductor title 4. Look one's best 26 . How some stocks giant 53 . Goaded (with ''on'') 5. Nebulous cause of trade, briefly 54 . Leave the premises 57 . California resort town near misfortune 28 . Wine and dine 55 . Patsy's ''Absolutely Santa Barbara 6. Dry ___ bone 30 . Medicinal plant Fabulous'' sidekick 60 . Ending of most odds 7. Racer's term 31 . Composition's end 56 . Star in Cygnus 61 . Vacuum tube with three 8. Susan Lucci 32 . Group of toads 57 . Office on the elements character 33 . Dating from Potomac 62 . Word in a Carly Simon title 9. First name in tennis 34 . Staff note 58 . Mrs. Jetson 63 . Web-footed animal 10 . Gorge 35 . Volcano crater 59 . ''That ___ hay!'' 65 . Meat cut 11 . Make a pitch 37 . Typeface imitative 61 . Spanish crowd? 66 . Frank or Francis 12 . Pulitzer playwright of handwriting 64 . Second person in 67 . Sabbatical, e.g. William 41 . Landscaper's Genesis 68 . Crescent-shaped figure 13 . Have to have supply 69 . ''Why don't we?'' 44 . ''Many moons ___'' 70 . French pronouns 71 . Uneducated guess

172 Puzzle #170 Across 1. French philosopher Foucault 7. Used as a pillow 15 . Parent's reason 16 . They don't last 17 . Puts away 19 . Moose or mouse 20 . Not natural 21 . They might have it 22 . Vintage remainder 24 . Kicker's target 26 . Facilities, briefly 27 . Emulate 30 . Betrayed fright 36 . Legal questions 37 . No lost cause 38 . Tyrian purple, for one 39 . ''Under the __'' (Iris Murdoch novel) 40 . Title starter of the 14th Kinsey Millhone novel 41 . E-mail: Abbr. 43 . Westernmost American island with commercial air service 46 . Artery branching from the Down aorta 49 . Pointed up 1. Dimming agent 22 . Splash against 42 . Devour 53 . Erstwhile counterirritants 2. ''Oh'' 23 . Best Musical of 43 . Part of AST 1980 56 . Deep-sea bacterium 3. Jargons 44 . Spoilsports 24 . Where to ''eat 57 . Visits 4. Showy flower 45 . Legendary baloney on a roll'' storyteller 58 . By multiples 5. Foucault product 25 . __ least 46 . Religious leader 59 . Wild times 6. Watchmaker's aid 7. Like Ali: Abbr. 26 . Sanctioned 47 . '60s Soviet space 8. N.T. book 27 . Literally, '' at program 9. Boat pronoun another place'' 48 . ''My Stepmother __ 10 . Not roundabout 28 . Strips Alien'' 11 . Issues 29 . North Carolina 49 . Moved along motto starter 12 . Hindu goddess 50 . Mobutu __ Seko 30 . Encircle 13 . Nev. neighbor 51 . ''The Numerals'' 31 . Mars, e.g. artists 14 . __ a care 32 . Grommet 52 . Brit. decorations 18 . Situation: Abbr. 33 . Pump features 54 . Joey, for one 34 . Pithy comment 55 . Two horizontal 35 . Cutup lines, on a BB 41 . Yorkshire pal scorecard

173 Puzzle #171 Across 1. Oldsmobile model 6. "The Velvet Fog" 11 . Tennis shot 14 . Prehistoric creatures, for short 15 . Made bovine noises 16 . Words of praise 17 . Start of a Groucho Marx quote 19 . Portable bed 20 . Wood used for furniture 21 . "...bombs bursting ___..." 22 . Gumbo vegetable 23 . Son of, in Arabic names 25 . My girl cousin, to my mom 27 . Part 2 of the quote 33 . CA landing spot 34 . He watched Rome burn 35 . By no means long-winded 36 . Eight, in Emden 38 . Is bold 41 . Turn's partner 42 . Grouses 44 . Rat-___ 46 . Away from the office Down 47 . Part 3 of the quote 1. Mine entrance 22 . Group of eight 45 . Golfer's gadget 51 . Reject cruelly 2. Cereal or game 24 . Prohibition 48 . Syracuse players 52 . "___ Haw" name 26 . NYC winter setting 49 . Consolidator 53 . No ifs, ands, or ___ 3. One-named singer 27 . Iliac preceder 50 . Milne's donkey 55 . Market place 4. New New York 28 . Extreme weariness 53 . Worms, sometimes 58 . Safecracker Yankee, maybe 29 . ___ pro nobis 54 . Golden rule 62 . Black cuckoo 5. Columbus sch. 30 . Aesop's lesson preposition 63 . End of the quote 6. Fed. agent 31 . It's open for 56 . Place for a mower 65 . Ice skater Midori 7. Eugene O'Neill's discussion 57 . Minus 66 . Curved moldings daughter 32 . Nuisance 59 . Fold females 67 . Madison Square Garden is 8. Alternative to shells 33 . Like a doily 60 . Lady's man one 9. Type of system of 37 . Recipe amts. 61 . It's often touched 68 . It may be long or short measures 39 . Schedule abbr. up 69 . Geeks 10 . Tokyo before 1868 40 . Cummerbund's 63 . Charged particle 70 . Irritable 11 . Place for a pep talk cousins 64 . Ring toss item? 12 . Glade's enemy 43 . Moo ___ chicken 13 . Phi-Kappa middle 18 . Reacted to a vaccination, perhaps

174 Puzzle #172 Across 1. Gambling word 5. Twangy, as a voice 10 . Fly trap? 14 . Croc's home, maybe 15 . Playground marble 16 . Nabisco nibble 17 . Fail to include 18 . Mortise connection 19 . Three, in a casino 20 . Funny dynamic duo 23 . Football's Parseghian 24 . Timeworn 25 . Hindu disciplines 27 . 1987 U.S. Open tennis champ 29 . Conscious 33 . In the past 34 . Item in a lock 36 . The Crossed Harpoons, in ''Moby Dick'' 37 . Bouillabaisse, e.g. 38 . Magical dynamic duo 42 . Highland hillside 43 . Service charge 44 . Go a-courting Down 45 . For each 1. Without scruples 21 . Pitcher Ryan 42 . Modem speed 46 . Make recompense 2. Words before Mr. 22 . Corned beef 46 . Buccaneer's 48 . Shiver-inducing Nice Guy holder, sometimes affirmative 52 . Oversentimental 3. Formosa, now 26 . Piglet's mother 47 . Climatic 54 . China's Zhou En-___ 4. James of the blues 28 . Ready to serve phenomenon 56 . Lonely number 5. Dealing with delivery 30 . Extend 49 . Was imminent 57 . Smoky dynamic duo 6. To-do list 31 . Aardvark tidbit 50 . It consists of a top 62 . Kind of putter 7. Beach, basically 32 . Was familiar with and a bottom 63 . Afghanistan's Karzai 8. It's smashed in a lab 35 . Castaway's 51 . Standard 64 . Dubai VIP 9. Songstress Horne creation accreditation 65 . It's pitched 10 . ''All for one and 37 . Blackthorn fruit 53 . Small-minded 66 . Good-night girl of song one for all,'' e.g. 38 . One familiar with 55 . Scotland's only 67 . Surrealist painter Magritte 11 . Hose down the Gospel poisonous snake 68 . Mosquitoes, to dragonflies 12 . Adolescent 39 . Walkman part 58 . Restaurant check 69 . Gigli, e.g. 13 . Whirligig, e.g. 40 . Classic prefix 59 . Meadow denizen 70 . Beat by a nose 41 . Reasoning 60 . An ending to grace 61 . Sondheim's ''I'm Still ___'' 62 . Indy 500 logo

175 Puzzle #173 Across 1. Boohoo 5. ''Flashdance (What a Feeling)'' star 9. Immigrants' island 14 . ''Gotcha'' 15 . City north of Provo 16 . Buy alternative 17 . ''Forget about it!'' 20 . Damascene, e.g. 21 . Head of France? 22 . ''___ the land of the free . . .'' 23 . Big screen name 25 . The humanities 26 . Snake target 29 . Spooks 31 . ''It ain't gonna happen!'' (With 44-Across) 34 . Fancy 38 . Cpl. or sgt. 39 . Handwoven rug 40 . Yarn strand 41 . Level the playing field? 42 . Modus operandi 44 . See 31-Across Down 46 . Maintained the pace 1. Smithereens 19 . Catch off guard 44 . Without a sound 48 . Diner fixtures 2. Pallid 24 . Yuk 45 . Port sight 49 . Poi source 3. Become threadbare 25 . Catechize 47 . Deep furrow 52 . Resulting from 4. Forgive and forget 26 . Takes to the 49 . Dyes 55 . Words of commitment 5. Neologizes cleaners 50 . Sun-dried brick 56 . ''Trick'' joint 6. Sofa end 27 . Sitcom pioneer 51 . Comic Atkinson 57 . Chew out 7. Cold-blooded one 28 . Oklahoma Indians 53 . Actress Papas 61 . ''Not a chance!'' 8. Single-celled 30 . ''The Say-Hey Kid'' 54 . Improved partner 64 . Little League precursor organism 32 . Not tied down 56 . Richard Petty's 65 . Reunion group 9. Choice word 33 . Kettledrums racing son 66 . ''A Death in the Family'' 10 . Bloomers around 35 . Middle Eastern VIP 58 . Prevail upon author the neck 36 . Bugs or Daffy, e.g. 59 . ''Twittering 67 . Mother wit 11 . Mechanic's charge 37 . Defeats regularly Machine'' artist 68 . Mr. of fiction 12 . Archipelago 40 . Littermates 60 . Utopia 69 . Mall rat member 43 . Ref's ruling 62 . Capp and Gore 13 . Tea-leaf readers 63 . Possessed in the 18 . ___ Paulo, Brazil past

176 Puzzle #174 Across 1. Wile E. Coyote's brand 5. Singer LaBelle 10 . Went over the limit 14 . Like air in Denver 15 . UFO passenger 16 . Friend 17 . Sticker items 19 . Reflect deeply 20 . Some Oldsmobiles 21 . Believes tentatively 23 . Singer John's title 24 . Part of UCLA 26 . Rice side dish 27 . Odometer division 29 . Used something up 32 . Elaborate celebrations 35 . All gone, as food 37 . Site of the Tell legend 38 . Fired ruthlessly 39 . Like Al Yankovic 40 . Former QB Tarkenton 41 . Spot for a rubdown 42 . Syrup provider 43 . Row partner 44 . Alley prowler Down 46 . Twilled fabric 1. Country album? 18 . Magnet ends 42 . Shopper's heaven 48 . Partake in a parade 2. Texas foodstuff 22 . Scheme 43 . Former Veep Spiro 50 . Transgression 3. Muckworm 25 . Expensive 45 . Flag-waving 51 . Conductance unit 4. ___'acte 27 . One of the occasions 54 . Share the writing 5. Man of the cloth Kennedys 47 . Contract addenda 57 . Hold 6. Former boxing 28 . Calls, as a cab 49 . Gymnast's 59 . Endowments support them champ 30 . Russian mountain apparatus 60 . Theoretical structures 7. Involuntary range 51 . Thomas of ''That 62 . Hook's underling contractions 31 . Fork feature Girl'' 63 . ''The Odd Couple'' role 8. Prepare to drive? 32 . Go without food 52 . Path finder 64 . Happiness 9. Helped by a pep talk 33 . Certain NL baseball 53 . First sign 65 . Dame Myra 10 . Pacific islander player 54 . Word with crop or 66 . Brewpub's lineup 11 . Golf attire 34 . Those in matching register 67 . Separate by type 12 . ''May I get you uniforms 55 . ''Coffee, Tea ___?'' anything ___?'' 36 . Forest denizens 56 . It starts and ends 13 . Loses the gray, say 39 . Vest pocket item with a line 40 . Giant word? 58 . Clothing 61 . Just scratch the surface?

177 Puzzle #175 Across 1. Type of plate, bar or fork 6. Word with brake or jockey 10 . One of a pair 14 . Swiftly 15 . 45th state 16 . Two-dimensional measure 17 . Location 20 . Old flames 21 . It might be slippery 22 . Grapple, to Li'l Abner 23 . ___-relief sculpture 24 . Dunce 25 . Complicated situations 29 . Celestial major or minor 30 . Stage presence 31 . Tiny bit 32 . Restore accuracy 36 . Location 39 . Civil wrong 40 . Suspiciously suave 41 . Bob and Dolores 42 . Inconsiderate 43 . Moolah 44 . Footpad's weapon 48 . Pale Down 49 . 12:55, e.g. 1. Freelancer's encl. 23 . Parks or Lahr 43 . 20th century art 50 . Word with hearing or visual 2. Peak 24 . Stockholder's movement 51 . Munich missus 3. Wash prerogative 44 . Errand runner 55 . Location 4. Deck tetrad 25 . Joey portrayer on 45 . Old womanish 58 . Virginia's Robert 5. Thieves' place "Friends" 46 . Nourished anew 59 . "Exodus" author 6. Matters of honor 26 . Hollow response? 47 . Ceremonial 60 . Symbols of peace 7. Inventory entry 27 . One way to get it practices 61 . Beatty film of 1981 8. ___ Remo all together 48 . Oscar winner 62 . For fear that 9. Magnetism 28 . Classify Dianne 63 . Campaign abuse 10 . Wetland 29 . Useful 50 . Budget rival 11 . Responded to an 31 . Stage whisper 51 . Gift line alarm 32 . Disney 1982 sci-fi 52 . Wander 12 . Electronics pioneer film 53 . Under sail Nikola 33 . Hitchcock's first 54 . Old atlas 13 . Facilitated color film abbreviation 18 . Green and black, 34 . Friendly beginning? 56 . Anger e.g. 35 . Old station sign 57 . LP successors 19 . Galilee miracle site 37 . Vernal 38 . What to pull up to the bar? 42 . Promising

178 Puzzle #176 Across 1. Drug cop 5. Metal to be recycled 10 . One of the Feds 14 . Not ashore 15 . Cake portion 16 . Relaxed state 17 . Strutting rock star 19 . Muscle misery 20 . Charm 21 . Kissed soundly 23 . Type of conference 26 . Words before above the rest 27 . With 40-Down, quartet of the '60s 30 . Humble home 32 . Busy time for bookkeepers 35 . Whirled 36 . Deviated 38 . Lead-in for verse or cycle 39 . Sawbones 40 . They're sometimes grand 41 . Pool ball with no number 42 . Mork's homeland 43 . Detectives check them 44 . Pelt Down 45 . Razor sharpener 1. Implicate 18 . Crocks or shocks, 44 . You can get them 47 . Service charge 2. ''A --- apple'' take your pick on the beach 48 . Hungers 3. Shipping dept. term 22 . Private schools 46 . ''Just a moment!'' 49 . Med. sch. subject 4. Kitchen item used (Abbr.) 48 . Pinocchio, e.g. 51 . Bride's following near your birthday 24 . Zhivago's portrayer 50 . Runner's statistics 53 . Puts on an act 5. Fifth wheel 25 . No-lose situation 52 . ''Humble'' place to 56 . Scene of surrender, 1942 6. One of 20 pack 27 . It was booted live 60 . Islands in the Seine items, for short before Windows 53 . Grisham's ''The ---'' 61 . Syringa by another name 7. Gas pump opt. 28 . What's left, to 54 . Jai --- 64 . Steak order 8. They can be high or sailors 55 . Cause for legal 65 . Was human low 29 . Dirt disclosers action 66 . Fiddling emperor 9. Beginning with frost 31 . More minute 57 . One way to start 67 . Common file name or 23-Across 33 . Early Arctic 58 . Pearl Mosque city 68 . British weight 10 . China item inhabitant 59 . Gas in some bulbs 69 . Trumpeter on a lake 11 . Some big haulers 34 . Property securities 62 . ___ -Magnon 12 . Legendary tennis 36 . Batman portrayer 63 . Boy toy? star, Arthur Kilmer 13 . Canât do without 37 . Little green men, for short 40 . See 27-Across

179 Puzzle #177 Across 1. Brother of Prometheus 6. Rapper Dr. __ 9. Dreadlocks sporter 14 . Cricket call 15 . Nanny 17 . Blew hard 19 . N.J. summer hrs. 20 . Earthlink competitor 21 . Many ages 22 . Ames and Asner 23 . Creole veggie 24 . Mauna __ 26 . Experimental theater designation 33 . A Marx 34 . Son of, in Arabic names 35 . Urban haze 37 . Foul temper 38 . Prepares 42 . Gone by 43 . Trans-Siberian Railway stop 45 . Batman and Robin, e.g. 46 . __ left field 48 . Wanted poster site 52 . Prattle Down 53 . Biblical preposition 1. Feel sore 23 . Alley of Moo 49 . Kind of ticket 54 . Mineo of "Exodus" 2. Fall heavily 25 . Sympathetic 50 . Creedence 57 . Producer Ziegfeld, familiarly 3. Emotional boost sounds Clearwater Revival hit 59 . Anteater's sound effect in 4. Cartoon bark 26 . Kentucky neighbor 51 . "__ off?" the comic "B.C." 5. Represent 27 . Works the land 54 . Phased-out 60 . "The Simpsons" shop owner 6. "CSI" setting 28 . Just picked transports 63 . Some plush toys 7. Appear in print 29 . Free from 55 . Shaving brand 67 . Like some campgrounds 8. Earth, in Essen 30 . Kimono closer 56 . Island banquet 68 . Orange container 9. Got back together 31 . High-end violin 58 . Drooling dog of 69 . Fry 10 . Bowling equipment 32 . Like exercises on a comics 70 . Attorney's abbr. mfr. mat 60 . At some distance 71 . Had a scull session? 11 . Yegg's target 36 . Out of sight 61 . Townshend of The 12 . Even, as a score 39 . Chow Who 13 . Does some sums 40 . __ Wiedersehen 62 . Brought into play 16 . Gonzaga University 41 . Tortilla treat 64 . In shape city 44 . Campus party item 65 . Mdse. 18 . Diminutive Tim 47 . Disc in a tabloid 66 . Monk's title Conway character photo

180 Puzzle #178 Across 1. Silver Ghost, for short 6. Break down 10 . Courageous act 14 . Whopper topper, maybe 15 . Lab media 16 . Make goo-goo eyes at 17 . O 20 . River into the English Channel 21 . Bean-spillers 22 . Radio button 23 . Ring attachments 24 . Blacken on the grill 25 . The Grand Canyon, e.g. 27 . Tyne or Tim 28 . Healthy joint? 31 . Tie over, in music 32 . Proton's place 34 . Prohibit, in legalese 36 . O 39 . Bird-related 40 . "The Good Earth" heroine 41 . Answer man Trebek 42 . Type of meat 43 . Pride and envy, for two Down 45 . Old elevator cars 1. Secondhand gal of 19 . Took a look inside? 44 . Pitcher plant's 47 . Where the vein is song 23 . Lennon's "Instant snack 48 . Shank's ___ 2. Semiprecious stone ___!" 46 . Major thoroughfare 49 . Is in store for 3. Ade flavor 24 . Island group 47 . Chefs' protectors 52 . Seasoning and preservative 4. High return? studied by Mead 48 . "Politically 53 . Santa subordinate 5. Annoys a spouse, in 25 . Garlic unit Incorrect" Bill 56 . O a way 26 . Muggy 49 . Some miles away 59 . Work without ___ 6. Floats on the breeze 27 . Guys' Broadway 50 . Dipsomaniac 60 . Racer Yarborough 7. Some performers' counterparts 51 . "___ Good Men" 61 . Partner of lather and repeat problems 28 . Vogue 52 . French town of 62 . Column crossers 8. It may be pulled in 29 . Innocent and WWII fame 63 . Legendary hammer-wielder charades others 53 . Hot spot of Sicily 64 . Matzohs lack it 9. Move along 30 . Crest 54 . More, in a phrase 10 . Anteroom 31 . Unwanted line 55 . Be a worrywart 11 . They're all they're 33 . Porterhouse 57 . "I don't think so" cracked up to be alternative 58 . Score before 12 . Away from the 35 . Kind of coach overtime weather 37 . At the scene 13 . Place for a revival 38 . Standing by 18 . Nonprofessional

181 Puzzle #179 Across 1. Mark Twain, for one 11 . ''Residencia'' 15 . Begins 16 . Time callers 17 . Underdog, often 18 . Driving-home stat 19 . Have a cow 20 . Tuscany title 22 . ''That's __!'' 23 . Red character 24 . Parisian pronoun 25 . Not smart 27 . Sounds of thunder 28 . Makes groovy 29 . World's third-largest island 30 . Moses and Dorothy 34 . Equivoque master 35 . Stuck around 36 . Mustard family plant 37 . Western prowlers 38 . Did what was necessary 43 . Nip in the bud 44 . Sidekick 45 . River to the Rhine 46 . China/Korea separator Down 48 . Psychic fields 1. They have drawing 12 . Moving about 34 . Where running isn't 49 . It might be pending power 13 . ''Clockers'' director advisable 50 . Bringing in 2. Gulp down 14 . County official 36 . ''Gigi'' novelist 52 . Sept-__, Québec 3. Georgian 21 . Gives evidence 38 . Experienced 53 . Check revolutionary 23 . Given evidence 39 . Remove slack from 54 . Blackjack holdings 4. Personalities 26 . Carmaker Maserati 40 . Rope for reefing a 55 . Think-tank employee 5. Heraldic band 29 . Cumbersome sail 6. Run through 30 . Sarawak's locale 41 . Lippizaner move 7. Shirley Temple 31 . Mainly 42 . ''Where Have All feature 32 . Respondent in the the Flowers Gone'' 8. Admittance Inns of Court writer 9. They're on the field 33 . Like krypton 47 . African valley a lot 48 . It means ''height'' 10 . Norse goddess of 51 . Branch fate 11 . Rennet and such, for milk

182 Puzzle #180 Across 1. Obscure 7. Dance at a Jewish wedding 11 . Essen interjection 14 . Trusted (with ''on'') 15 . Corrosive stuff 16 . Caroler's syllable 17 . Definition of an egotist (Part 1) 19 . Behavioral quirk 20 . Artist's hat, perhaps 21 . Office abbr. 22 . Comic strip sound effect 23 . Needs to catch up 24 . Never say this 25 . Come together 26 . England's Isle of --- 27 . Seasonally decorated tree 28 . Friday program? 30 . Dr. King, for one 31 . Most frightful 32 . Definition of an egotist (Part 2) 34 . Perfunctory 36 . Gloomy guy 37 . Backslides Down 38 . A Turner 1. Suitable for plowing 18 . Hair removal brand 38 . You, once 39 . Letterman's network 2. Invalidate, as a law 22 . Commences 39 . Embezzlers, 42 . Massenet offering 3. Priests and ministers 24 . Sidetrack burglars, etc. 43 . Third degree? 4. River in England and 25 . Pillage 40 . Songwriter Taupin 44 . Algonquian living in Canada city in France 27 . Bogart's snap brim 41 . Has a funny feeling 45 . Pirates' quaffs 5. Branch 28 . 601, to Caesar 43 . Type sizes 46 . Wynken, BIynken and Nod, headquarters? 29 . Extended 44 . Hutch contents, e.g. 6. Old name for Tokyo 30 . Makes reference to often 48 . McCullough's ''The --- Birds'' 7. Part of a ship's bow 31 . Where to sweat it 46 . Ceramic slab 49 . Took the cake? 8. Baron in ''Der out? 47 . Party giver's abbr. 50 . Definition of an egotist (Part Rosenkavalier'' 32 . Symphonic 48 . Old despot 3) 9. Laughfest segment 50 . Drop the bait 52 . Pole footage? 10 . Pitched messages 33 . Printer's measures gently 53 . Edison's middle name 11 . Fictional Mason, for 34 . Assess 51 . Seashell seller? 54 . Monogram bearer one proportionally 55 . NYC zone 12 . Exhibits fear, in a 35 . Regards as 56 . Invigorates (with ''up'') way 57 . Takes back the lead? 13 . Comedian Buddy

183 Puzzle #181 Across 1. U.K. honor 4. Late-spring-blooming rhododendron 11 . Slow-spinning records 14 . Life imitator 15 . Singsong syllables 16 . Stable tidbit 17 . Important one 19 . Hoops pos. 20 . Word with muy or tres 21 . Lays down the lawn 22 . Dress for Indira 23 . Shakespearean character 26 . Creepy household area 27 . Toy train sound 31 . My ___, Vietnam 32 . Flue dirt 33 . Enter a contest 34 . Friday and Preston (Abbr.) 37 . Studied carefully, as a "joint" 39 . Meat quality 40 . Galley implement 41 . Soviet gymnast Korbut 42 . ___ Claire, Wisconsin Down 44 . Darned 1. Deadly African snake 18 . Grassy hills 41 . Gives the go-ahead 48 . Santa's craftsmen 2. Boston skater 22 . Letters on a for 49 . Felony charge 3. And others too Cardinal's cap 43 . ___ in apple 52 . Riverside plant numerous to mention 24 . Fifth day of 45 . The Simpsons' 53 . Assignment 4. Short way Kwanzaa neighbor, Flanders 56 . Supercomputer pioneer 5. Uneaten morsel 25 . Frozen spike 46 . Grocery store 57 . Org. with many inspectors 6. Assents verbally, in 26 . One of five in section 58 . Participate in a gabfest a way "Othello" 47 . Newsman Charles 61 . Parasite's egg 7. Lovable muppet 28 . Blue-book filler, 50 . Added punch to 62 . Emily Dickinson's hometown 8. Modem word perhaps the punch 63 . "To Kill a Mockingbird" 9. Baseball postseason 29 . Bunion site 51 . Nursery denizens author letters 30 . Alpine songs 53 . "Ashes to Ashes" 64 . Jocund 10 . Lhasa beast 34 . Type of thought author Hoag 65 . Quite tipsy 11 . Type of 35 . Spacious indoor 54 . Need liniment 66 . WR's scores grammatical case mall 55 . ___-Ball (arcade 12 . A Nixon 36 . Grotesque imitation game) 13 . Afflicted, as with 38 . FBI employee 58 . Mouth, slangily guilt 39 . Marx Brothers trait 59 . China's Lao-___ 60 . Financial rpt. heading

184 Puzzle #182 Across 1. Cab Calloway forte 5. One of a matching pair 9. Stock up on 14 . Word in a threat 15 . Leave off 16 . Kind of knife 17 . Open handbag 18 . Satisfy a hankering 19 . Combat center 20 . ''In Cold Blood'' writer 23 . Choosing unit 24 . Weeks in Augustus' year 25 . It's under wraps 29 . Vigorously strain 31 . Skipper's direction 33 . Steeped beverage 34 . L'Ouverture's land 36 . Brazzi's ''South Pacific'' co-star 39 . ''Die Another Day'' actor 42 . Fine table linen 43 . Salon offering 44 . Long-term investment 45 . Zagros Mountains locale 47 . Biographer Walton Down 51 . Like some bonds 1. Avoid a trial 21 . Sites for rites 42 . Telegraph signal 54 . Club stint 2. Bleach brand 22 . Where Eugene may 46 . Double-check, in a 56 . Hosp. procedure 3. Shrewd be found way 57 . ''Air Force One'' star 4. Abound 26 . It's active in Sicily 48 . Indifferent to right 60 . Coral ensemble? 5. Egypt's Mubarak 27 . Broadway gas and wrong 63 . Change one's story? 6. Make thinner 28 . Part of cigarette 49 . Make it big 64 . Like Death Valley 7. ''Lovely'' Beatles girl smoke 50 . Pulled the leg of 65 . Bog down 8. Grassy plain 30 . Mother of Poseidon 52 . Freddie Mac 66 . Star of a classic TV sitcom 9. Ease off 32 . The seventh sign 53 . Ed's downstairs 67 . Pew's place 10 . Cultural customs 35 . More repulsive neighbor 68 . It may be covered 11 . Leave 37 . Designate 55 . Tiny bits 69 . Food additives, sometimes open-mouthed 38 . California's Santa 58 . With indolence 70 . It's used for coasting 12 . Deadly or mortal ___ Valley 59 . Breeze producers thing 39 . Prefix with sailing 60 . Nile viper 13 . Type of horse 40 . Giant screen 61 . Tango requirement format 62 . Scull propeller 41 . Prime spot for a fight

185 Puzzle #183 Across 1. Apple output 5. Lord's laborers 10 . IRS employee 14 . One of the reeds 15 . Father of 6-Down 16 . Petrocelli of '60s-'70s baseball 17 . Noted Quaker 18 . "Of course!" 19 . Year, on a cornerstone 20 . "Soldier's shoulders," for one 23 . Where gulls gather 25 . Not first-class 26 . Geometry curve 29 . For the stock issue price 33 . Cultural interests 34 . What you say but don't mean 37 . Stat for Sosa 38 . Frodo's companion 39 . Washington's bill 40 . Paste's partner 41 . Fictional cuspid collector 44 . Author Janowitz Down 45 . Golfer with an "army" 1. Swab 21 . Wyo. neighbor 43 . "Don't try to hide!" 46 . Early explorer, of necessity 2. Tad's dad 22 . "Why should __?" 44 . Mead vessel 48 . James gang member 3. Human pretzel's act 23 . Peloponnesian 47 . Instead of 51 . Without interruption 4. Ladies of Linares stronghold 49 . Sandal feature 52 . Bungle things 5. Emulate Jewel 24 . Safe haven 50 . Con man's 57 . Trendy furniture store 6. Son of 15-Across 27 . Minnesota's St. __ accomplice 58 . Qatari currency 7. Loan document limit College 52 . Deride 59 . Marine shade 8. De __: actual 28 . Soup bean 53 . Four-stringed 62 . Noggin 9. The "e" sound in 30 . Like "Don Quixote instruments 63 . Without peers "the" de la Mancha" 54 . Ham or lamb 64 . Sign of decay 10 . Sensational 31 . Depth of 55 . Wish for 65 . This, in Tarragona programming, slangily perception 56 . Sub in a tub 66 . Disney pooch 11 . Make cents 32 . Slow down 60 . Take advantage of 67 . Consider 12 . Prom night woe 35 . Ticked off 61 . PIN requester 13 . King Hussein's 36 . New Age widow songstress 38 . Bo Peep's loss 42 . Mexican border city

186 Puzzle #184 Across 1. Like Santa Claus 6. PDQ relative 10 . A few (of) 14 . Storytelling Uncle of fiction 15 . Loafer, for example 16 . Sharpen, as an appetite 17 . Actor's negotiator 18 . Alphabetize 19 . ''__ Karenina'' 20 . T-shirt size 21 . Gaga over 23 . Fashions 25 . Kite part 26 . In the center of 28 . Private teachers 33 . Ballpark scoreboard posting 36 . Emily of etiquette 39 . Movie-studio bigwig 40 . Switchplate metal 42 . __ Paulo, Brazil 43 . Taco-chip topping 44 . Marsh bird 45 . Self-images 47 . Profound 48 . Polite assent Down 50 . Profit's opposite 1. Nonwritten exams 22 . Grads 46 . Piglet's mother 52 . Page of a book 2. Sired, in the Bible 24 . Small taste of tea 49 . Land, as a fish 55 . Finished-basement feature 3. Abrasive material 27 . Medicinal amount 51 . Small sofa 59 . Represses 4. Beachgoer's wear 29 . Poisonous 53 . All kidding __ 64 . Rich cake 5. High regard mushrooms 54 . Internalizes anger 65 . Nautical greeting 6. Special-interest org. 30 . Stare at 56 . Thin nails 66 . Citrus fruit 7. Holler 31 . Pretext 57 . Between ports 67 . ''Here's to you'' is one 8. Major blood vessel 32 . High-five, e.g. 58 . Have another go at 68 . Fine shirt fabric 9. Watch Mom's 33 . Follow directions it 69 . Notion parakeet, perhaps 34 . Press for 59 . Tenor's colleague 70 . Born first 10 . Ear cleaner 35 . Driveway coverings 60 . Cincinnati's state 71 . Filet fish 11 . ''This can't be!'' 37 . Droop 61 . Turnpike charge 72 . Loch __ monster 12 . Waiter's handout 38 . Wrench or pliers 62 . Youngster 73 . Homework assignment 13 . Coup d'__ 41 . Motionless 63 . Green veggies

187 Puzzle #185 Across 1. Word with heart 6. Pitcher's target 10 . Sign over 14 . Drive erratically 15 . Dental woe 16 . Within 17 . Pique condition? 18 . Commingle 19 . Where Tyson bit Holyfield 20 . MD 23 . When doubled, a shout of approval 24 . Lennon's missus 25 . Bewail 28 . Archer of film 30 . Suburban company 33 . Riding the waves 34 . ''Sweet!'' 36 . Donkey Kong fighter 38 . MD 41 . Surrealist Max 42 . Like the Negev 43 . Parasitic pests 44 . Fall into decay 45 . Tabloid staples Down 47 . Physiological reaction 1. Airline Howard 21 . ''Jack Sprat could 40 . Second showing 49 . Lofty verse Hughes bought in '39 ___ fat'' 46 . Like some attempts 50 . Jupiter's wife 2. They're often 22 . Agent type or excuses 51 . MD cooped up 25 . Certain beam 48 . Calls off the 58 . Act as a shill for, e.g. 3. Prego competitor 26 . Elroy's dog romance 59 . Word with has 4. Microwaves for too 27 . Intended 49 . Aquatic animal 60 . ''Me too'' relative long 28 . Pinnacles 50 . Inferior in quality 62 . Abduce 5. ''Murphy Brown'' star 29 . Warm, in searches 51 . It's incontrovertible 63 . Aquarist's annoyance 6. Collegian's 30 . Last Supper cup 52 . Venerated Nile bird 64 . Word with city or child declaration 31 . Recipe directive 53 . Greek deli 65 . Nicholas, for one 7. Object of esteem 32 . Manuscript volume purchase 66 . Circular current 8. The object at hand 35 . ''Should that be the 54 . Have to have 67 . Symbols of defeat 9. Muscle-bone case'' 55 . Hair raiser? connector 37 . Start of a famous 56 . Ferber or O'Brien 10 . Loadmaster's motto 57 . Take-charge type concern 39 . Chopin piece 61 . Apr. addressee 11 . Islamic head 12 . Enjoy Spago's 13 . Trim the lawn and hedge?

188 Puzzle #186 Across 1. Dressing gown 5. Work through 10 . Sail's spot 14 . Shakespeare's stream 15 . Lake near Carson City 16 . Solemn ceremony 17 . Admonish 19 . Champagne type 20 . Casting director's assignments 21 . Botch 22 . Repeatedly 25 . Saul's successor 27 . Comparative form of "-y" 28 . Comic Bill, briefly 29 . Calif. neighbor 30 . Second first lady 34 . Emphatic refusal 39 . They have something to lose 40 . Broadway Auntie 41 . "Shoot!" 44 . Heavy's heater 45 . Word-guessing game 46 . Proceeds with speed Down 51 . Assumed name 1. Rodent for the Pied 21 . Sausalito's county 41 . Graf's husband 52 . Palm leaf Piper 22 . Tel ___ 42 . Went alone 53 . Tipplers 2. Some gametes 23 . Mali neighbor 43 . Harvey of "The 54 . Mixed up 3. ___ choy (Chinese 24 . Loved ones Piano" 59 . Gets cabbage) 25 . Veep before Al 45 . Hera's Roman 60 . Garlic bulb 4. Invigorated 26 . "___ you getting counterpart 61 . Jazz singer Anita 5. Vodka brand, this?" 47 . Impudent 62 . Without purpose familiarly 30 . Lend ___ (be 48 . "Flow gently, sweet 63 . Hi-fi equipment 6. Grainy, in a way willing to listen) ___" 64 . Townshend of The Who 7. Tibet's capital 31 . Midler of "The 49 . Treasure cache 8. Columnist Marilyn Rose" 50 . Errand runner ___ Savant 32 . "___ Got a Secret" 54 . Columbus Day mo. 9. Comic strip cry 33 . Hard yellow candy 55 . Curved Alaskan 10 . Underworld boss, 35 . Bobby of tennis knife slangily spectacles 56 . HST follower 11 . Bird's buoyancy aid 36 . Fermenting tanks 57 . Chow down 12 . Apartment type 37 . Ambulance VIP 58 . Bar order 13 . Jackson Hole range 38 . Classic auto 18 . Grownup tadpole, perhaps

189 Puzzle #187 Across 1. Building toy 5. Get the ball rolling 10 . RPM dial 14 . NYSE counterpart 15 . Kind of eclipse 16 . Not a pretty fruit? 17 . Hollywood crosser 18 . Port of old Rome 19 . Crowd noise 20 . ''You're pulling my leg!'' 23 . List-ending abbr. 24 . Capitol Hill VIP 25 . Bell, Barker, Joad, etc. 28 . Lighter-air connection 31 . Subject of some tests 36 . ''Diana'' singer 38 . Notable periods 40 . Wheel spokes 41 . ''You're pulling my leg!'' 44 . Improvise 45 . Ticked off 46 . Inscribe with acid 47 . Hardly ever 49 . Toga party supply 51 . Film location Down 52 . Cabin component 1. Gas-grill rock 22 . Opening 48 . Roving 54 . Weight room unit 2. Mideast bigwig 25 . Yucatán peoples 50 . Gun in a car? 56 . ''You're pulling my leg!'' 3. Characteristic carrier 26 . Terminal type 53 . Go's mate 65 . Party pooper 4. Certain daisy 27 . Jolly Roger 55 . Freshwater food 66 . ''Try ___ see!'' 5. Is in a slump? depiction fish 67 . Pack of pennies 6. Elongated tooth 29 . Sciences partner 56 . Hieroglyphics bird 68 . Monthly occurrence 7. Apt to say nay 30 . Tycoon, for one 57 . Featherbrain 69 . Verdi's ''___ Miller'' 8. Bookies' nightmares 32 . Roué 58 . Nabisco treat 70 . Printer's primary color 9. Lines of work 33 . Makes a long story 59 . It may be 71 . Sweep's target 10 . Rotate short? feathered 72 . Disney World attraction 11 . Slack-jawed 34 . Inasmuch as 60 . Not of the clergy 73 . Georgetown player 12 . Nontalkative one 35 . Word with eye or 61 . Preceder of many 13 . What this gun's hind words? for? 37 . Within 62 . Show wild 21 . Polo Grounds 39 . Dried-up instability legend 42 . Letter-shaped 63 . Oil of ___ fastener 64 . Inner arm bone 43 . Made fun of

190 Puzzle #188 Across 1. Hannibal's challenge 5. Secure tightly 9. Squirrel treat 14 . A soldier working in a mess? 15 . S-shaped molding 16 . Off-limits 17 . Steppenwolf 1968 hit 20 . Tokyo, once 21 . Southern dish 22 . Animal in a kid's song 23 . Sounds of sorrow 24 . You might have a stake in it 25 . Buddhist religious center in Japan 27 . It may be heard in an aviary 31 . 19th-century mail transport 33 . Extinct bird 34 . Emulate the hare 35 . Hawaiian gift 36 . Diller's spouse, affectionately 37 . No longer divided 38 . Nickname for a joker 42 . Scuba gear 44 . Eagle's home Down 45 . Meal remains 1. Wile E. Coyote's 19 . Some still-life 40 . Tropical fruits 46 . In-box filler, perhaps supplier subjects 41 . Field 47 . Like some small seasonal 2. Put on the truck 23 . Isle of ___, 43 . In need of workers 3. Kind of stick Scotland laundering 50 . List shortener 4. Word with water or 24 . Promotional link 46 . One of fifty 51 . Tennis section jet 25 . Not you, I or them 47 . Bacheller's ''___ 54 . Possible loan enders 5. Portable security 26 . Not the big picture Holden'' 57 . Arab chieftain (Var.) device 27 . Makes coffee or 48 . Fabric with metallic 58 . Obsolete VCR format 6. Food thickeners beer threads 59 . A Sinatra 7. Part of Doris Day's 28 . Muscateer? 49 . Cut and run 60 . Dependent theme song 29 . Time being 50 . Fencing sword 61 . Civic boundaries? 8. Up on the latest 30 . British general in 51 . Agitated state 62 . Hollywood Boulevard sight 9. Is present at America, Thomas 52 . Volcanic mount 10 . Gem measures 31 . Truck attachment 53 . Title for Ivan (Var.) 11 . Kimono sashes 32 . They often have 55 . Peacock network 12 . Was a passenger twists 56 . Sci-fi figures 13 . ''The Seven Joys of 36 . Lawyer employer Mary,'' e.g. 38 . Perfunctory 18 . Journalist Alistair 39 . Kind of print, briefly

191 Puzzle #189 Across 1. Standard bearers 6. Per 10 . Enter a Pillsbury contest 14 . Birch of ''American Beauty'' 15 . Tinseltown's Turner 16 . State confidently 17 . Medieval war clubs 18 . Name that's quite fashionable 19 . One of Columbus' three 20 . Time to dress down 23 . Like Carter's presidency 25 . Egg ___ yung 26 . Scot's denial 27 . Neither follower 28 . Day in Granada 29 . U.S. airline, once 31 . Witty Bombeck 33 . One-time connection 35 . ___ Centauri 39 . John Updike novel 43 . Poorer, as excuses go 44 . Truncate 45 . Nile serpents 46 . Barrister's accessory Down 48 . ''The Crying Game'' actor 1. ''Rhoda'' production 21 . Heep of fiction 47 . Type of novel 50 . ''Get my drift?'' co. 22 . Citizen of the 29th 49 . Slowly, to Schubert 51 . Mensa measurements 2. ''So, there you are!'' state 51 . Muslim religion 54 . Mighty long time 3. Suburban stereotype 23 . Actor Ryan 52 . Allotment 56 . Perpetual 4. October handout 24 . Bellini opera 53 . Olympic swimming 58 . Campaign milestones 5. Answered 30 . Hawkeye portrayer legend 61 . Kind of cloth impudently of classic TV 55 . Loony 62 . Web address start 6. Former N.Y. Senator 32 . Starting freshly 57 . Janet and Loretta 63 . Troll 7. Water carrier 34 . Former gridiron 59 . Feminizing suffix 66 . Letter abbreviation 8. Kind of switch org. 60 . Kett or James 67 . ''That's all there ___ it!'' 9. Cockatiel 36 . Faints 64 . Double DI 68 . Arctic inhabitant 10 . Word with brass or 37 . Ballyhoos 65 . O'Hare stat 69 . Lab testing area, sometimes rubber 38 . Burros 70 . It can be checked 11 . Bird-related 40 . A judge, for one 71 . Port of ancient Rome 12 . Great Rift Valley 41 . Touchy subject land 42 . Overturn 13 . Obliterate

192 Puzzle #190 Across 1. Legitimate 6. Kinsmen 10 . Hippy entertainment? 14 . Bless with oil 15 . Aurora or Saturn 16 . Lengthy narrative 17 . Heroically conquered acrophobia 20 . Begets 21 . Brogan insert 22 . Operatives 23 . Upper regions 25 . Caldwell title word 26 . Angelic circle 28 . Salad choice 32 . Qui vive 34 . It's about a buck 35 . Supportive upper half? 38 . Gallantly fought unjust traditions 42 . Word with Plaines or Moines 43 . Orchard item 44 . Sky, perhaps 45 . Guillotine and Oscar, e.g. 48 . Marilyn Monroe feature Down 49 . Great pitchers do this 1. Cowboy star LaRue 19 . Spring White 45 . Adjective for Cain 51 . Republic since 1990 2. Pre-Columbian House event 46 . Gabby pets 53 . Cats may wear them? Peruvian 24 . Took off like a shot 47 . "Mine eyes have 55 . Place for padding or 3. Nonstop 26 . Word with labor or ___ ..." paddling 4. Conceived leader? candy 49 . Vacation 56 . ___ Lord's Prayer 5. Saw projections 27 . Therapeutic plant destination 59 . Courageously shunned 6. Judge's private office 29 . Like a doubting 50 . Roof features hatred 7. Mandolin's kin Thomas 52 . Asks for catnip 62 . Aphrodite's lover 8. Took mess 30 . Name 53 . Venetian strip 63 . Hyperbolic sine 9. Super star 31 . Assayer's subject 54 . Middlin' 64 . Cambria, now 10 . Concerning this 33 . Drank moderately 55 . Superman's cover 65 . Word with pattern or data 11 . Turn topsy-turvy but regularly 57 . Achilles' weak spot 66 . Decides on 12 . Letterman offerings 35 . Occurring every 58 . Gaelic tongue 67 . Early American, e.g. nine weeks, roughly 13 . Gospels follower 60 . Beat by a nose 36 . Churn 18 . Comedian Carey 61 . Feline, to Tweety 37 . Poker opener 39 . Role for Keanu 40 . Contended 41 . Whitewash ingredient

193 Puzzle #191 Across 1. ''... to thine own ___ be true'' 5. You may work or play in them 10 . Quaintly attractive 14 . Kind of frog 15 . Inuit domicile 16 . Tropical cuckoos 17 . Singles 18 . What waiters may wait for 20 . Transporting costs 22 . British standard measurement 23 . Cinches or clinches 24 . Crush the spirit 26 . Clemson and others 30 . Type of bar 31 . Water source 32 . ''For Me and My ___'' 35 . Aromatic herb 36 . Delete 38 . Provoke 39 . Capone and Green 40 . Novel necessity 41 . Prairie schooner 42 . Organizations with Greek letters Down 45 . Generally 1. Organ part 21 . Opposite of flunked 41 . Sagacious 48 . Direction in a Steinbeck title 2. Rubik, the cube 24 . Elevator innovator 42 . Fruit-flavored 49 . Father-in-law of Jacob inventor 25 . Good amount of frozen beverage 50 . Regulations against liquor 3. Sidelong glance money 43 . Yield sales, etc. 4. Word with film or 26 . Meat-inspecting 44 . Queasiness 54 . What good Monopoly music org. 45 . Homer's first letter players possess 5. Shot glass 27 . Tooth partner 46 . Plastic-wrap brand 57 . Eye part 6. Barnum's exit 28 . Troubles 47 . Scrub, NASA-style 58 . Instrument for a Marx 7. ''Unfortunately ...'' 29 . Livid 50 . ''Muy ___'' 59 . First name among ''The 8. Word in a famous 32 . Movie musical 51 . Neighborhood Beverly Hillbillies'' cast soliloquy based on a Colette 52 . Trace of smoke 60 . Bird sanctuary? 9. Almost worthless novel 53 . Tu-144 and 61 . Feed the pot French coin 33 . Shaving-cream Concorde 62 . One of a Columbian trio 10 . Provides with food additive, perhaps 55 . First name in 63 . Fissures 11 . Bring together 34 . Optician's creation legendary sleepers 12 . Stadium levels 36 . Carrier to Tel Aviv 56 . Prefix with angle or 13 . Lisper's hurdles 37 . Mechanical state 19 . Drive forward learning method 38 . Shaking, saber-style 40 . Trim limbs

194 Puzzle #192 Across 1. Slant unfairly 5. Some pocket money 9. Type of whale 14 . Basket and thatch palm 15 . Electrical measurement 16 . Cake type 17 . Mr. Stravinsky 18 . Madame Bovary 19 . Word on an express lane sign 20 . Mythical woman's classical CDs? 23 . Cambridgeshire isle 24 . It was dropped in the '60s 25 . What nudniks do 28 . Numskull 30 . Doodlebug's prey 32 . In the past 33 . Antipathetic 35 . Where some buns are made 37 . Mythical king gets in fender bender! 40 . St. ___ (isle S of Martinique) 41 . Moliere's method 42 . Feminine ending Down 43 . Bashful 1. Took potshots 21 . Ms. Newton-John 40 . Grazing land 44 . Pulpit figure 2. Rwanda capital 22 . Quick to learn 43 . You can do it on 48 . Go on the offensive 3. Penn, to 26 . Conceited people water or snow 51 . Bygone school event Pennsylvania have big ones 45 . Sister of Clio 52 . Weeder's tool 4. Beaver's dad 27 . One-time White 46 . Type of tea 53 . Mythical Greek hero 5. Go too far House nickname 47 . Puts back to zero recovers! 6. Wandering one 29 . Dry streambed 49 . Man of many parts 57 . ''My sentiments exactly'' 7. Shade trees 30 . Analyze for gold 50 . Selected 59 . Close relative 8. Acute onset content 51 . Therefore 60 . Cosmetics additive, perhaps 9. It's a piece of cake 31 . Salamander 54 . Track measures 61 . Goodbye in Toledo 10 . Primrose and bridle 34 . ''Shine'' Oscar 55 . Honolulu cookout 62 . Rate of speed 11 . Lobster part winner 56 . Consumes 63 . Give some color to 12 . ''What's the 35 . Angel of the first 57 . Karate level 64 . Mother-of-pearl order Frequency, Kenneth?'' 58 . Lupino of film 65 . Seeks damages band 36 . Blackjack 66 . Gives in to gravity 13 . Robinson of song components 37 . Expel 38 . Thrilled beyond words 39 . Clever comebacks

195 Puzzle #193 Across 1. British nanny's four-wheeler 5. Scarf or race track 10 . Feel the heat 14 . Corn holder, perhaps 15 . Hourglass, e.g. 16 . "Adieu!" 17 . Read at the supermarket? 18 . Melodic 19 . Thicke or King 20 . Accomplish a baseball feat 23 . Have coming 24 . Alphabet trio 25 . Blue or red ribbon 28 . Suspicious quality 33 . Kind of old story 34 . Goethe and Schiller died here 36 . Cologne complaint 37 . Seek compassion 40 . Evil Amin 41 . Hedge word 42 . Name of six popes 43 . Allows as true 45 . In a fitting way 46 . Mellow, in a way Down 47 . Fleetwood Mac hit 1. Letter add-ons 21 . Beanie Babies, e.g. 39 . Horror-stricken 49 . Take it on the lam (Abbr.) 22 . Bird's attempt at 44 . Lounging robe 56 . One of a kind? 2. Like cream puffs communication 45 . Jackie's second 57 . Sister of Euterpe 3. Jai ___ 25 . Savory garnish 47 . Bristly hairs 58 . Dissembled 4. California's capital, 26 . "Where's ___?" 48 . Salts' salutes 60 . Sicilian bubbler once (Kid's book title) 49 . Wishes otherwise 61 . Pass along 5. Mary of "The 27 . At full speed 50 . "Do ___ others ..." 62 . Lasting starter? Maltese Falcon" 28 . ___ up (gets 51 . Muchacho 63 . Momentarily 6. Clipped, like Samson smart) 52 . It has bark but no 64 . Three-time French Open 7. Defeatist's word 29 . Irving and Tan bite queen 8. Colorful fish 30 . "___ Joe's" 53 . Word with dance 65 . Just say no 9. Message carriers 31 . Synagogue or mess 10 . Call a raise 32 . In a demure 54 . Breathe partner 11 . It's lowest on the manner 55 . Witnessed Mohs scale 34 . Questioning folks 59 . Washday word 12 . List-finishing 35 . Lawyer/writer abbreviation, perhaps Gardner 13 . Lose power 38 . Tierra del ___

196 Puzzle #194 Across 1. Fountain treat 6. Experiment 10 . Host's request 14 . Sponsorship 15 . Dull 16 . Foil cousin 17 . Path for an Athens bride? 19 . Fourth of July sound 20 . Summer house 21 . Battle scars 23 . ''All Quiet on the Western Front'' subj. 26 . Talker for 34-across 27 . Russian writer Maksim 28 . Place to hold a derby? 30 . Generous gift-giving 33 . Grad student's grilling 34 . Petunia's partner 35 . Twain portrayer Holbrook 36 . Where Parisians come and go 37 . Classic mail-order name 38 . It might be quick 39 . Kennedy Library architect 40 . Middle age, roughly Down 41 . Half of a notorious film duo 1. Hang loosely 18 . ''Jeopardy!'' host 40 . Arctic mass 42 . Swiftly 2. Self starter? Trebek 41 . Double-deck card 44 . Onion sections 3. Wine consideration 22 . Bacchanalia game 45 . Ghost town's mayor or 4. Ukraine's capital 23 . Celie portrayer in 43 . Down-to-earth police chief? 5. They may break the ''The Color Purple'' 44 . Eye protectors 46 . Certain access code ice? 24 . Spahn or Moon 46 . Presented, as a 47 . Gathered dust 6. U.S. offering to 25 . Raised in Rome? problem 48 . Legendary investors 27 . ''Doonesbury'' 48 . Make a boo-boo 50 . Fountain treats 7. Movie lioness creator Trudeau 49 . Mercury or Saturn 52 . Wait in the shadows 8. Actor Mineo 29 . Around-the-world 50 . Label info 53 . Geneva poker pot? 9. Everything journalist 51 . Charon's river 58 . Southwestern natives 10 . Chastise 30 . Averse 54 . Misfortune 59 . Muck 11 . Madrid votes? 31 . Gidget, off screen 55 . Ring leader, once 60 . Aerosmith lead singer 12 . Peddle 32 . Inheritor under 56 . Griffey of baseball 61 . Kind of builder 13 . Cribbage pieces primogeniture 57 . Work unit 62 . Kernel 34 . In and of itself 63 . Downsizer's task 37 . No-goodniks 38 . Underhanded

197 Puzzle #195 Across 1. Room at the top 6. Talk over the back fence 9. Word with diary 13 . ''The Mary Tyler Moore Show'' spinoff 14 . Fossil feature 15 . Somewhat 16 . Definition of ''tact,'' Part 1 19 . Zurich-to-Munich dir. 20 . Geometrician's figuring 21 . Oscar winner McDaniel 22 . Landmark near Fairbanks 24 . Noted ball balancers 26 . ''So that's how it is!'' 28 . Mono- kin 29 . Peace offering 32 . Fighter pilot's worry 35 . Part 2 of the definition 38 . Football parts 40 . Ming of the Rockets 41 . Nobelist with Shimon and Yitzhak 42 . Part 3 of the definition 45 . Have status 46 . Tobacco chaw Down 47 . Equilibrium provider 1. Combat-ready 18 . Gold Coast country 44 . ''Wag the Dog'' star 48 . Sound from the kennel 2. ''Macbeth'' title 23 . Pulitzer Prize- Anne 50 . Stupifies 3. Keepsake winning poet Conrad 49 . London insurer 52 . They may give you the time 4. Dictator Amin 25 . Laudatory speech 50 . Marriage bounty of day 5. Venice attractions 27 . Gloomy Pooh pal 51 . ___ ease (relieve 56 . Oscar winner Kidman 6. Paid attendance 29 . He smacked 66 in one's mind) 59 . Canyon sound 7. Ottoman officials 1998 53 . Largest Greek 61 . Like steak tartare (Var.) 30 . Skip island 62 . End of the definition 8. Apiary resident 31 . Paris papa 54 . Silkwood or 65 . Back of the boat 9. Some singing 32 . Took to the air Valentine 66 . Ram's remark performances 33 . Obsidian source 55 . Greta Garbo, for 67 . Old hat 10 . ___ Timor 34 . Got a top grade in one 68 . A breeze 11 . Italian 36 . Lyon liquid 56 . Busy U.S. market 69 . He hit 511 career homers wine-growing province 37 . Speechless comic 57 . Minuscule amount 70 . Setting 12 . Get up 39 . Enter 58 . Verbal or nonverbal 15 . Attribute surreptitiously nudges 17 . Anguish 43 . Mists 60 . Talk over the back fence 63 . Cable surfer's option 64 . WWII ladies

198 Puzzle #196 Across 1. Vital vessel 6. Prepare (oneself) for a jolt 11 . Dash no. 14 . Done in 15 . Spinning part 16 . Spectra automaker 17 . Religious principle 18 . It tells you how high you are 20 . Dream component, some say 22 . Hang in there 23 . Shred 24 . Fillable breads 27 . Gobi, e.g. 31 . Relaxing resort 34 . Title holder 36 . "What's the big __?" 37 . Sting, for example 41 . "Jeopardy!" host, to contestants 42 . Dr. Watson portrayer __ Bruce 43 . Superhero's emblem 44 . Shipworms and pickleworms 47 . Saying Down 49 . Angry, with "off" 1. Soap staple ''__ 19 . Breaks up 40 . Hugo Award- 51 . River formations World Turns'' 21 . Mdse.-sans- winning novella 55 . Low-profile group 2. Liquid fat package measure "Flowers for __" 58 . Dietitian's forte 3. Corporate planning 25 . Soon, to a bard 45 . Cookbook entry 60 . Gunpowder component dept. 26 . Brown-tinted photo 46 . Some mattresses 61 . Start of a long-odds phrase 4. Unable to take a call 28 . Actress Falco 48 . "__ Madigan": 62 . Noodles 5. In front, 29 . Classic cars 1967 film 63 . Toothbrush brand anatomically 30 . Turns bronze 50 . Certain believer 64 . Get off the road? 6. "Dracula" author 31 . Strike replacement 52 . Tennessee player 65 . Legally preclude Stoker 32 . Traveler of the 53 . Amtrak's "bullet 66 . Grannies 7. Movie part 13th and 14th centuries train" 8. Rose oil 33 . Affirmatively allege 54 . Some Bosnians 9. Originated, as a 35 . Govt.-certified 55 . One-dish meal phrase 38 . Devonshire county 56 . Dog who exposed 10 . Regal fur seat a wizard 11 . Business school 39 . Aptly named 57 . Suddenly go nuts subj. novelist Charles 58 . "It's just __ in the 12 . It has some crust cards" 13 . Guffaw syllable 59 . Half dos

199 Puzzle #197 Across 1. Zoo critter 6. PTA milieu 10 . French family head 14 . Farewell, to 10-Across 15 . Claim to property 16 . Augury 17 . Take blame 19 . Good Hope, e.g. 20 . Public house potable 21 . Race part 22 . More in need of a plug 24 . Conical tooth 26 . Casals' instrument 27 . Yesterday, tomorrow 30 . Dessert choice 32 . Hungary was a member of it 33 . Old Ford 34 . Naval armament 38 . Former Andorra currency 40 . Excavation employee 41 . Kedge 42 . Cruces starter 43 . River through Nubia 44 . Laser alternative 46 . Relinquishes Down 47 . Put down 1. Stale joke reaction 23 . Bitter in taste 45 . ''Coat of many 50 . Street sign 2. False or golden thing 24 . Social worker's file colors'' wearer 52 . London midpoints? 3. Stack of chips 25 . Partner of Wynken 46 . Poles used in 54 . Pinch, in a way 4. Walker, on signs 27 . Spanish appetizer highland games 55 . Jacket named for West 5. Expenditure 28 . Paired pullers 47 . Ghana's capital 58 . Queen's nickname 6. Thomas Gray and 29 . Tiddlywink, e.g. 48 . Word in some 59 . Be fired John Milton 31 . Lea sounds temperatures 62 . Fireball sound 7. Freedom, in 33 . Carefree adventure 49 . Close by, poetically 63 . European import movements 35 . Lacking rain 51 . When doubled, an electric guitar sound 64 . Hindu noblewoman 8. Word sometimes 36 . Typographer's 65 . Not straight spoken with faith strike 53 . Clashers in Hollywood 66 . Holmes' ''wonderful 9. ''Where's Daddy?'' 37 . Mars, to Uranus 55 . Luxuriant locks one-hoss ___'' playwright 39 . Powder used in 67 . Luges, in essence 10 . Loose change xerography 56 . Didn't merely pass 11 . It might arrive with 40 . Having potential 57 . Makes do with out? a beep 42 . Super Bowl great 60 . Break in London 12 . Brush aside Dawson 61 . Gal of song 13 . Summertime in Argentina 18 . Biddy

200 Puzzle #198 Across 1. Menu item 5. Sicilian volcano 9. Last alternative? 14 . Popular fish 15 . MGM sound effect 16 . An ice place to live 17 . Culture medium 18 . Sour or bitter in taste 20 . Disparages 22 . What the rich live in? 23 . Blue triangle grp. 24 . Start of a kindergarten song 27 . "So what ___ is new?" 30 . Like a famous dodger 32 . Realize 35 . "... Rich and Famous" host 38 . Word with high pressure 39 . Disparages 43 . Part of NASCAR 44 . It may connect a limb to a branch 45 . Trunk contents, perhaps 46 . Batter or battered 49 . Pod pieces 51 . Cunning Down 52 . Chesterfield, e.g. 1. ERA and RBI, say 24 . Big hairstyles 48 . Larboard 55 . Beverage since 1898 2. Should (with "to") 25 . Vista or Park 50 . Pointillist painter 59 . Disparages 3. Having only one 26 . Brooch part Georges 62 . Range of skills in a particular component 28 . Red or Black 53 . Elevator stop occupation 4. Conditional release waterway 54 . Stage whisper 65 . Inveigh 5. Significant periods 29 . Manhattan border 56 . Locale 66 . Mindful 6. Eighty-six river 57 . Mixes 67 . Scent 7. Well-groomed 31 . Chi lead-in 58 . Key 68 . A lot, for many? 8. Directional sign 32 . Remnants of 59 . In this case 69 . Dissuade 9. Kind of equation healing 60 . Golf club 70 . Rive 10 . ___ Benedict 33 . Artist's stand 61 . Overly bookish 71 . Examination 11 . Steak partner 34 . "How I Spent My type, stereotypically 12 . Trinity member Summer Vacation," 62 . Swell, '90s-style maybe 13 . Nursery moppet 63 . Certain bleater 36 . Figure head? 19 . Andean of old 64 . Frisk (with "down") 37 . Household staff 21 . Partner of Fargo 40 . It does blowups 41 . Caviar 42 . Loses one's cool 47 . Hardhearted lender

201 Puzzle #199 Across 1. Casino VIP 8. Bombards 15 . Play the sycophant 16 . Vintage 17 . Preschooler 18 . British tradition 19 . Sweetie 20 . It may go right to the top 22 . Smash __ 23 . Didn't just pass 25 . Social Security reform, e.g. 26 . Bluster 27 . Tough synthetic 29 . Heart rendering, briefly 30 . Quit bothering 31 . Bush or Kerry 33 . Not as weighty 34 . Greenhorns 38 . Star seekers 39 . Quiet more squeaks 40 . Hooded "South Park" kid 41 . S.A. country that borders Central America 42 . Shuts up completely 46 . Writer Wiesel Down 47 . Spread rumors 1. Pashto speaker of 13 . Ignore the alarm 37 . High landing site, 49 . Layover Pakistan or Afghanistan 14 . Breaks up usually 50 . Goof indicator 2. Opposite of sheer 21 . Cold-water catch 41 . Drawer? 51 . Hearty pastry genius 24 . Senior woman 43 . In familiar territory 53 . It can turn up a plot 3. Surreptitious route 26 . Gets to the bottom 44 . Appeared 54 . Creature comfort 4. Noted globetrotting of? 45 . Prompt 56 . Routine staple journalist 28 . Foul 47 . Aquarium denizen 58 . Berated 5. Solemn declaration 30 . "Perelandra" also called a fighting 59 . Given an alias 6. Condescend author fish 60 . Prince William, for one 7. Get comfortable 32 . Fleur-de-__ 48 . One covering a 61 . "Antigone," e.g. 8. Nostalgic 33 . Folk singer Kottke home 9. Move stealthily 34 . Popular fund raiser 51 . Knees are seen 10 . Prudent 35 . Competition under one 11 . Hockey stick wood restriction, perhaps 52 . Dame from down 12 . "You don't say!" 36 . Treat well under 55 . "Delta of Venus" author 57 . Binge

202 Puzzle #200 Across 1. Piece of cake 6. Popular South African language group 11 . Bonds might catch it 14 . Words before and after "for" 15 . Mogul Carl 16 . Have regrets about 17 . Revealed privileged information 20 . Pestered 21 . Fit snugly one inside another 22 . Hem and haw sounds 23 . Ingredient in varnishes and inks 26 . Kind of Americano 27 . Beer mug 29 . Extremely enthusiastic 31 . Actress Hagen 32 . Start of a bad calculation? 34 . Bird bill 35 . Chi. Cub or NY Met, e.g. 36 . Many pro football fans 40 . Facial feature 41 . Detroit, Mich. union Down 42 . CSA soldier 1. Converts a check 18 . Sushi bar delicacy 44 . 2002 Al Pacino flick 43 . Serena's specialty 2. To some extent 19 . Paul Anka's "___ 45 . Impress deeply 44 . Expensive fiddle, for short 3. Oder-___ Line Beso" 47 . Is in store for 46 . "Easy ___" (German-Polish border) 24 . Famous racehorse, 48 . Lawn bowling, 50 . Mideastern inn 4. Autos' 4, 6, or 8, for retired in 1920 Italian style 52 . Palestinians short 25 . "Yeah, right" 49 . High school math 54 . Charm with flowers and 5. Greek 28 . Talk radio's Don subjects candy 6. Auction participant 30 . Steel support beam 51 . IRS review (Abbr.) 55 . Psychological injury 7. Circus routine 33 . Door position 53 . Pen name of 57 . Astrology diagrams 8. Slangy turndown 35 . Wealthy Londoners Charles Dickens 59 . Presidential security advisor 9. That time 36 . Sightseer's guide 56 . Arkin or Alda 62 . "... ___ Justice for All" 10 . Straighten out, as 37 . Objects of 58 . Hot tempers (Pacino flick) an iron bar computer instructions 60 . LAX display time 63 . Relating to birth 11 . "Freshmen do the 38 . Chute opening? 61 . Don the feedbag 64 . "___ Be" (Beatles) dishes...," e.g. 39 . American poet Sara 65 . Legal matter 12 . Crescent-shaped ("Strange Victory") 66 . On the mother's side sculptures 40 . Caboose, really 67 . Sharp curves 13 . Spouse's meek response

203 Puzzle #201 Across 1. The Bard's theatre 6. Espouses 10 . Rounds, clips and such 14 . Hearing-related 15 . Salute with enthusiasm 16 . Lender's security 17 . 5810 Wireless, e.g. 20 . Stew in one's own juices 21 . It's right on a map 22 . A Kwanzaa principle 23 . Pub measure 25 . Safecracker, in slang 27 . Excoriate 30 . Barley beards 31 . Pet rock, famously 34 . Harry Potter's nemesis Malfoy 35 . Wildly excited 36 . Predecessor of Nadia and Mary Lou 37 . Jim's raft mate 40 . Change parts? 41 . We suspect it has gas 42 . More than occasionally 43 . Massachusetts Cape Down 44 . Ashtray detritus 1. Chinwags 19 . Clowns for the 44 . Witch's concoction 45 . Definitely not come-as- 2. Whopper camera 45 . Abnegate you-are 3. Type of hygiene 24 . Unholy figurine 46 . Coffee and string 46 . Soft fromage 4. Hikers' burdens 26 . Cal. Tech. grad, 47 . Atomic number 5 47 . ''___ there, done that'' 5. Game animal perhaps 48 . Romanov ruler 48 . Pueblo or longhouse 6. Alternative to white 27 . For a specific (Var.) alternative or rye purpose 49 . Sicilian landmark 51 . Unstable subatomic particle 7. Lost pencils are 28 . Shoe designer 50 . Senior hop 53 . ___ gin fizz sometimes found Magli 52 . Official language of 57 . Children's home behind these 29 . Hurried Pakistan immortalized by the Beatles 8. Mucking out the 30 . Word with free or 54 . ''Mila 18'' author 60 . Soon, ere now pigs, e.g. secret Uris 61 . Take apart 9. Furtive 31 . Emulates a 55 . Hodgepodge 62 . Shaped like an egg 10 . Word with move, butterfly 56 . Norse literary 63 . St. Louis eleven tag or string 32 . Choreographer collection 64 . Use a taser 11 . Modest skirt length DeMille 58 . Partridge Family 65 . Columbus' hometown 12 . Make the 33 . Thomas or Kaye vehicle acquaintance of 35 . Reprieve from a 59 . Pea soup 13 . Just tax obligation 18 . Nota ___ 36 . Like some football tackles 38 . Needle case 39 . Time long past

204 Puzzle #202 Across 1. Place in a hold 5. Border on 9. Sister's attire 14 . Post-magma? 15 . Olfactory organ 16 . Paradigm 17 . Plant angle 18 . Russian monarch 19 . Home run king 20 . Cartographer's core locale? 23 . Use your scull 24 . Hydromassage facility 25 . Rather good with news? 28 . Rooftop fixture, sometimes 31 . Layers 36 . Epochal segments 38 . A little of this, a little of that 40 . Spells 41 . Physicist's core force? 44 . Wing 45 . Beguiling trick 46 . Tender to the touch 47 . Professional's antithesis 49 . Words with ''record'' or ''trap'' Down 51 . Grappler's milieu 1. The winning of all 22 . Rhea's counterpart 48 . ''The Matrix'' hero 52 . Grassy field the tricks 25 . Bumper sticker, 50 . Sacred chest 54 . Vein glory? 2. City conveyance e.g. 53 . Subsequently 56 . Insomniac's core 3. ''Tristia'' poet 26 . Fight card locale 55 . Provide with surrounding? 4. He exists to be 27 . Type of goat income 65 . Boredom found 29 . Lose velocity 56 . One of a matching 66 . Lemony 5. Frontal 30 . Elvis played on pair 67 . Goal of a personal ad, 6. Legendary clown them 57 . Organic compound maybe 7. Mil. branch 32 . Guns the engine 58 . ___ Eleanor 68 . 1998 De Niro film 8. Gull cousins 33 . Widely accepted Roosevelt 69 . View from Toledo 9. Native American saying 59 . Destroy 70 . Wear gloves when working chieftain 34 . Brightly colored 60 . Challenge in here 10 . Asian nursemaid aquarium fish 61 . Elaborate solo 71 . Informal vernacular 11 . Desolate 35 . Thus far 62 . Icicle hangout 72 . Enjoy a good yarn 12 . Grandpa Munster's 37 . Mushroom part 63 . Footfall 73 . ''Jesus ___'' (Bible's shortest bat 39 . Look at with 64 . Making its way verse) 13 . Color quality amorous intentions 21 . Chap 42 . Glorifying 43 . Came back

205 Puzzle #203 Across 1. Cautionary tale 6. Like a ballerina's body 11 . Medicine meas. 14 . Sharp-smelling 15 . ''Talk turkey,'' e.g. 16 . Feeling off 17 . Bogart film 19 . Screw cutter 20 . In a calm way 21 . Andean transporter 23 . Muscular condition 24 . Like many a brat 26 . Byzantine or Ottoman 29 . Bridges of ''Airplane!'' 30 . Hawaiian tuber 31 . Reason for celebration 32 . Mauna ___ 35 . What bears experience 39 . Took command of 40 . West Wing workers 41 . Protected inlet 42 . Santa's subordinates 43 . Treats vengefully 45 . Inspirational phrases 48 . Partner of sink Down 49 . Extended and dramatic 1. Pool pro Minnesota 22 . Maximum 42 . Writing shortcut narratives 2. Reason for a 24 . Narrow incisions 43 . Trumpeter, for one 50 . Certain charming quality backrub 25 . Put forward 44 . Copy illegally 54 . Long-winged sea eagle 3. Produced 26 . And others 45 . Wrestling contests 55 . See 35-Across 4. Wine poured to 27 . Possessing a Y 46 . ''Beloved'' Winfrey 58 . Game for children honor a deity chromosome 47 . Slight coloring 59 . Lose underpinnings, e.g. 5. Copyreader's 28 . Nudge 48 . Evidence unit? 60 . Raptor's spur superior 29 . Where most strikes 50 . Give away 61 . Any boat 6. Sturdy stocking stuff occur 51 . Cylindrical storage 62 . Hemstitched 7. In a laid-back 31 . Gets a lift tower 63 . Notched, as a maple leaf fashion 32 . Nautical mile 52 . Noises from a milk 8. Bind 33 . Icicle's locale container? 9. Down front? 34 . They go bananas 53 . A Windsor 10 . Boss over bananas 56 . That steamed 11 . Word with basin or 36 . Winter footwear feeling wave 37 . Marry a woman 57 . Lose, in sports 12 . ''Ghostbusters'' goo 38 . Turkish saber headlines 13 . State ''Not guilty'' 18 . Biological trait carrier

206 Puzzle #204 Across 1. Word of reproach 6. Roseanne, once 10 . Curse 14 . Expressed wonder 15 . Dies --- 16 . Apt name for a colleen 17 . What the fat lady sings 18 . Babe in the woods 19 . Exploit 20 . Multiplication aid 22 . Never again? 23 . --- a soul 24 . Emulated Huck Finn 26 . Obey 30 . Child of fortune? 31 . 2000 presidential also-ran 32 . Rural festivities 36 . Old measures equal to 45 inches 37 . Slowly trickles 39 . Sole support 40 . They're not accessible on Sunday (or Saturday) 42 . Let fly 43 . Hipster's lingo Down 44 . Like some average reviews 1. Chimney sweep's 21 . Filer's convenience 41 . Cacophony 46 . ''Cheers'' proprietor coat? 25 . Lend a hand 42 . Chop shop 49 . Coffeehouse reader 2. Pueblo people 26 . All over inventory 50 . ''Lawrence of Arabia,'' e.g. 3. ''Excuse me!'' 27 . Bound bundle 44 . Discards 51 . Orchestra position 4. Measly 28 . Between 45 . Freshly painted 57 . Hazard 5. Mary Tyler Moore engagements 46 . Like some raises 58 . Warts and all co-star 29 . Typical office 47 . Given to imitation 59 . Blood line 6. Consisting of two worker 48 . Knit goods thread 60 . Maroon's locale components 30 . High school dance 49 . First class 61 . Show up 7. Sheik's land, in film 32 . ''--- a real nowhere 52 . ''Time --- My Side'' 62 . What rookies must learn 8. Get a grip on it man ...'' (Stones song) 63 . Group's pronoun 9. Court officials 33 . Come again? 53 . Knee-slapper 64 . Genesis grandchild 10 . Comfortable 34 . Observatory 54 . Florentine angel's 65 . It's stuck in the corner situation observation instrument 11 . ''--- you the clever 35 . Future witness 55 . Checklist bit one!'' 37 . Avoid 56 . Carpenter's tool 12 . One who cries embarrassment ''Uncle'' 38 . Needle part 13 . All over

207 Puzzle #205 Across 1. Musical phrase mark 5. ''___ got a ticket to ride'' 9. Noted fur trader 14 . Sound quality 15 . Like a sourball 16 . Porter's beer 17 . Opera about an Ethiopian slave girl 18 . Inter ___ (among others) 19 . ''King Kong'' star 20 . ''Before the Next Teardrop Falls'' singer 23 . Units of length, in physics 24 . Apportions 28 . Under favorable circumstances 32 . Swap words 35 . Oddsmaker's last words? 36 . Quiz choice, perhaps 37 . Biker's mount 38 . Not just any 39 . Oceanic eagle 40 . Untold centuries 42 . Property encumbrances 44 . ___ buco (Italian dish) Down 45 . Negotiate 1. Supply with workers 21 . Confused noise 43 . Worldly, not 48 . Blew a gasket 2. Valley of the 22 . Miami-___ (Florida spiritual 49 . The Entertainer chateaux county) 44 . Veteran 53 . Calf-length slacks 3. Word with wear or 25 . Frightful giants 46 . Elbowroom 57 . Avoid cancellation stand 26 . Calendar col. 47 . D.D.E. beat him 60 . Not virtual 4. Allow in again heading twice 61 . What you can take from 5. Diligently pursues or 27 . Shorthand pro 50 . Rally to even the me? resides 29 . Successfully score again 62 . Sports center 6. Football game crashed the gate 51 . One of a Chekhov 63 . ''Young Frankenstein'' segment 30 . Was audibly trio character 7. Weird-sounding lake impressed 52 . Poli-sci buff's cable 64 . 15th-century maritime name 8. First name in 31 . Without a break station 65 . Trivial slapstick comedy 32 . Masticates 54 . Sun-baked 66 . No layabout 9. Too 33 . Fracas 55 . He ''jaws'' at night 67 . Faculty boss 10 . Like a moonless 34 . One of Nixon's 56 . Doctor's sky vices? interruption 11 . Nursery moppet 41 . Biblical reptile 57 . Grammy category 12 . Caught stealing 42 . Cheryl or Alan 58 . Prior to, to Prior 13 . AAA offerings 59 . Place to surf without a board

208 Puzzle #206 Across 1. Ultimatum word 5. Egyptian cobras, e.g. 9. Takes off, as one's hat 14 . Import tax 15 . Modeler's adhesive 16 . Practical 17 . Rookie 19 . Drinking aid 20 . Tree with flexible wood 21 . Loosens up 22 . Trial runs 23 . Gala event 24 . Unmoving 26 . Snappy comeback 29 . Paparazzi prey 30 . Draw 33 . Follows orders 34 . Turns over, as a pancake 35 . Lupino of Hollywood 36 . Operatic Lily 37 . Speakeasy attraction 38 . Skyline obscurer 39 . Wind up 40 . Mournful song 41 . "Peachy!" Down 42 . Salon supply 1. Uptight 18 . Approaches 41 . "Stars and Bars" 43 . Varieties 2. Tackle box item 23 . Little shavers land 44 . Rough around the edges 3. Bouillabaisse, for 25 . Neck's scruff 44 . Singled out 45 . Whoop it up one 26 . Caught with a lasso 46 . Chopin piece 47 . Close 4. Watch carefully 27 . Jet black 47 . Tuscany cathedral 48 . Civilian garb 5. Horror-stricken 28 . Novice city 50 . __ box: TV 6. Wade indelicately 29 . Walks with effort 48 . Polite address to a 52 . Bird's bill 7. Unsullied 31 . Fan magazine lady 55 . For all to hear 8. Make responsive to subjects 49 . Arm stiffener, at 56 . New kid on the block others' feelings 32 . Colonel's insignia times 58 . Cathode's counterpart 9. House-cleaning tools 34 . Warehouse movers 51 . Hint of rain 59 . Inflection 10 . Web-footed 37 . Peevishness 52 . California wine country 60 . "Once __ a time..." mammal 38 . Go after a gnat 53 . Computer graphic 61 . Pub pals 11 . Neophyte 40 . Splits up 62 . Extend across 12 . Lacking pizazz 54 . Leaning 63 . Babble angrily 13 . Puts in stitches 57 . Animal rights group's concern

209 Puzzle #207 Across 1. Round number 5. Rajiv Gandhi's grandfather 10 . A little open 14 . Harrow's cricket rival 15 . In great haste, at sea 16 . Drawn fish 17 . Love-in-a-mist bouquet 19 . Hit the ground 20 . Geeky 21 . Love of life 22 . Club that sings 23 . Allison of jazz 25 . Off the beaten track 27 . Veto 30 . Cast of characters? 34 . Stat that's good when low 35 . Songstress Lena 37 . End, in the Bible 38 . Word with base or summer 40 . It's removed by a stripper 42 . Cutty ___ (historic ship) 43 . Sure-footed creatures 45 . ''The Love Boat'' employee 47 . Old name preceder 48 . Security feature Down 50 . Cockscombs 1. Form of cattle with a 18 . Historic time 44 . Doo-wop syllable 52 . Child's reward, perhaps hump 24 . Telegram 46 . Morsel 53 . Proper word, at times 2. Vingt-___ punctuation 49 . Greenhouse plant 54 . Tableland (twenty-one, in cards) 26 . One of the five W's 51 . ''Stop it!'' 56 . Muse of history 3. IRA type 27 . Go over again 53 . ''. . . with ___ in 59 . Humidified 4. Like many 28 . Do blackboard duty sight'' 63 . Czech runner Zatopek departures 29 . Impromptu jazz 54 . Food group 64 . Term of endearment 5. Veep under G.R.F. performance 55 . 1993 Oscar winner 66 . Without self-control 6. One who runs the 30 . Cookie flavoring Thompson 67 . Massey of old movies show 31 . Horne of ''Stormy 57 . Singer Falana 68 . You can stick with it? 7. Carry by truck Weather'' fame 58 . Barge ___ 69 . Turns into leather 8. Regis sidekick Kelly 32 . Plume's source (interrupt) 70 . Fine and ___ 9. Open, as a change 33 . Confiscates 60 . ''To Live and Die 71 . Powerful emotion purse 36 . Guard on the deck ___'' (1985) 10 . Word games 39 . Morale builders 61 . Bunny tail 11 . Reagan's love 41 . Sandwich with a 62 . ''Of ___ I sing'' 12 . Tahiti sweetie crunch 65 . ''Yippee!'' 13 . Memorization method

210 Puzzle #208 Across 1. Dances, in a way 5. Make fit 10 . Mop 14 . Minor leader 15 . Type of dish 16 . Somewhat, musically 17 . It may be burned for light 19 . Lovesick, e.g. 20 . Call tails, e.g. 21 . It may be required for entrance 22 . Turned nothing into nothin' 24 . Offensive expression 25 . Secluded valleys 26 . City conduits 29 . Simple shelters 31 . Double-edged literary device 32 . Heavenly provisions 33 . Milne critter 35 . Landlocked nation in SE Asia 36 . Word with truth or ambition 37 . Evangelist's suggestion 38 . British inc. 39 . McMahon's intro word 40 . Separate by sifting Down 41 . Certain reed blowers 1. Kind of shell 18 . Openly distrustful 39 . CD player ancestor 43 . Stag feature 2. Chop-chop! 23 . Olin in ''Romeo Is 40 . Whiplash's 44 . Fissures 3. Four gills Bleeding'' expression 45 . ''Diamonds ___ Girl's Best 4. Elegiac 24 . It helps you focus 42 . Old NFL team Friend'' 5. Mountaintops, e.g. 25 . Families share 43 . Dahl or Francis 46 . Scottish magistrate 6. Flask type them 45 . Turkish military 48 . What some beach loungers 7. Quark's place 26 . Place for a plant leaders do 8. Certain basketball 27 . Relative of 46 . Tended to the 49 . Article you've read many player Euterpe, Polymnia and radiators times 9. Coastal land Thalia 47 . Five-star 52 . Source of riches regularly submerged 28 . Man-made span or 48 . Exposed 53 . Ark material 10 . You may use it New Jersey city 49 . Like take-out food 56 . Tech sch. grad, perhaps after a break 29 . Great quintet 50 . Like a famous 57 . Harvest 11 . Oxalis 30 . Dry, white Italian Welles radio broadcast 58 . ''My word!'' 12 . State in west Brazil wine 51 . Christian Science 59 . ''Disco Duck'' singer 13 . No's foe 32 . Rialtos founder 60 . Intuition 34 . Court hearing 54 . Bullring cheer 61 . Like old Volvos 36 . Money reserves 55 . WWW's last W 37 . Bread with tabbouleh, perhaps

211 Puzzle #209 Across 1. Kind of marker 6. Hairy Himalayan 10 . Follows a cookbook directive 14 . San Antonio shrine 15 . Present-day Persia 16 . Important thing to a golfer 17 . Cavorts 18 . Monopoly moneymaker 20 . "Didn't I tell you?" 21 . Military melody 23 . Tamed, as a bronco 24 . Brief ending? 25 . Like the last in a dash 26 . Underdog supporter 30 . Surrounded by 31 . Well-read 36 . Warm and friendly 37 . Butter lump 38 . "___ La Douce" 39 . Football field 42 . Some are honorary 44 . Center ice, in hockey 46 . Ham it up 50 . Partner in peace 51 . Zodiac twins Down 52 . Ship's staff 1. Utopia Planitia 22 . CEO's aide 42 . Fish story 53 . Once around the track setting 24 . Gave up 43 . Animosity 56 . When radio ad rates are 2. Succulent 25 . Irritated state 45 . Least available highest houseplant 26 . Summoned the 46 . Humorous Nash 58 . Taranto's locale 3. Ready for action butler 47 . Chapter's 60 . This, in Spain 4. Mischievous sort 27 . Middle Eastern companion 61 . Greek god of love 5. Gere and Roberts, chieftain 48 . Sends out 62 . Tear down e.g. 28 . Veni, Vidi, ___ 49 . Metal fastener 63 . Tree house 6. "Wow! I won!" 29 . Handwriting 52 . "Let's go!" 64 . Tin can flaw 7. Chapters of history feature 53 . Fuji's flow 65 . This might give you a flat 8. Old mariner 32 . Posh or snazzy 54 . British brews 9. Rorschach pattern 33 . Guthrie of song 55 . Nabors' role 10 . Radiant 34 . Some fed. agents 57 . Outrage 11 . Admiral Sir Francis 35 . Soothe 59 . Palmer's peg 12 . Follows another 37 . Sulk cookbook directive 40 . Pointless and silly 13 . Disbursed, as 41 . Said word for word dollars 19 . Examine

212 Puzzle #210 Across 1. Prepares for the holidays 6. Rural producer 9. Like a piano 14 . Order out 15 . Eagle on a par three 16 . Word in a Graham Greene title 17 . ''Fear of Fifty'' novelist Jong 18 . Powerful D.C. lobby 19 . First name in jazz 20 . Promoting, in a way 23 . ''The Time Machine'' race 24 . Cairo killer 25 . Souce of fries 28 . Serpentine 31 . Some typewriter keys 35 . Distribute proportionately 37 . Make a joyful noise 39 . Gal of song 40 . Purring 44 . Doctors' org. 45 . Johnnycake 46 . What great crosswords contain 47 . Dickens' Uriah Down 49 . Pear-shaped instruments 1. Play a child's game 22 . Nancy's advice 48 . Annoy by upsetting 52 . Former world power, briefly 2. Spy Mata 25 . Isaac's mother Streep? 53 . Important time 3. Auricular 26 . Hat adornment 50 . Avoided capture 55 . Ananias, e.g. 4. How a bully's prey 27 . Arm bones 51 . A famous Caesar 57 . Proscribing feels 29 . Good feature 54 . Like thin ice 65 . Fences the loot 5. Creepy one, really 30 . Actress Novak 56 . Come to terms 66 . Disencumber 6. Tough out 32 . Fireplace find 57 . Tense description? 67 . Wankel engine part 7. Designer color 33 . Salves 58 . Part of a ready trio 68 . Stylishly glossy 8. Lowest high tide 34 . Trickier 59 . Tarot user 69 . ''Greetings, Caesar!'' 9. British poet John 36 . 10 percent, if 60 . Sort of bag 70 . --- nous (just between us) 10 . Glued to the tube you're cheap 61 . Swing music 71 . QB Bradshaw 11 . Abominable 38 . Stumped 62 . Kett of the comics 72 . Roses' place snowman 41 . First name in whiffs 63 . Standard 73 . Wax-coated cheeses 12 . Ruler, somewhere 42 . Bearded grazer 64 . Three, somewhere in the world 43 . Nate of of NBA in the world 13 . They may provide highlights 21 . Figs. 1 and 7?

213 Puzzle #211 Across 1. Metered works 6. Media workers' union 11 . Nutty-fruitcake center 14 . Room with spider webs, often 15 . Uses Elmer's 16 . HDTV feature 17 . Quick, intensive instruction 19 . Foot part 20 . Salad preparer 21 . Fragments 23 . Mosque official 25 . Analogy words 26 . Like broadcasts for the hearing-impaired 33 . Harry Potter's pal Weasley 34 . Croat or Bulgar 35 . It's measured in barrels 36 . Prior to, in poems 37 . Early computer 40 . __F: end-of-the-week sigh 41 . Pitfall 44 . Shakespeare title starter 46 . Legal thing 47 . Where to find Pismo Beach Down and Big Sur 1. Formal agreement 18 . Baby rocker 43 . Personal property 51 . "For the life __ ..." 2. Another: Span. 22 . Penniless 45 . Nerve often 52 . "Like, no way!" 3. HHH, in Athens 24 . Thom of footwear affected by disk 53 . Zero 4. Wife 26 . Getting gradually problems 57 . Weekly wage 5. Sly plots louder, in mus. 48 . 1998 Masters 61 . Arg. neighbor 6. Previously 27 . __ Luft, daughter winner Mark 62 . Outmoded library system 7. Causes of fevers of Judy Garland 49 . Rue 64 . E-mail options, and this 8. Rutabaga, for one 28 . Ryan of "Love 50 . In recent days puzzle's theme 9. Fight temptation Story" 53 . Slime 65 . Tire pattern 10 . Germfree 29 . Dovish or hawkish, 54 . Shamu, for one 66 . Novelist Calvino e.g. 11 . Der __: Adenauer 55 . Force out 67 . Kit__ : candy bar 30 . __Sweet: 12 . Burns or Kidd 56 . Sydney salutation 68 . Lascivious deity aspartame 13 . Sugary drinks 58 . "When I was __ 69 . Surrenderer of property 31 . Sidles ...": GIlbert & Sullivan 32 . Certain believer lyric 38 . Et __: and others 59 . Stage part 39 . It's three levels 60 . "Son of below the major Frankenstein" role leagues 63 . Medium for a 42 . Ricardo's rivers computer "burner," briefly

214 Puzzle #212 Across 1. Peasants 6. ''Too bad!'' 10 . First name in a Tolstoy novel 14 . Cherish greatly 15 . Hercules' captive 16 . ''Don't --- on my parade!'' 17 . Discourage from proceeding 18 . Gum flavor 20 . Group of performers 22 . Entire 23 . Folk tale 24 . Mr. Gynt 25 . Capital of Cuba 28 . Parasitic insect 29 . Strike sticking point 32 . 1936 Olympian Jesse 33 . Place for a band 34 . Green gem 35 . Antony's first name 36 . Welding phenomenon 37 . Sticks on 38 . To be, for Caesar 39 . Just dandy 40 . Landslide debris Down 41 . Seashell seller, in a tongue 1. Nigerian-born pop 19 . Moon of Saturn 40 . Beethoven output twister singer discovered in 1672 42 . Provide provender 42 . Some Christmas trees 2. Garden of earthly 21 . Swimwear item for 43 . Fireplace equipment delights 24 . Finish in the top 43 . It's slapstick 44 . Some costs 3. Doesn't keep three material 45 . Sound for Old MacDonald 4. Like many writers 25 . Development 44 . Strong point 46 . Parts of brake mechanisms 5. Preacher's speeches developments 45 . Earthen water jars 48 . Purges, as bad thoughts 6. Nuptial lane 26 . Up to one's ears 46 . Trumpeting bird 52 . Aquarium fish 7. Trot easily 27 . Chapter's partner 47 . Warning device 54 . S‹o Paulo has one 8. Andy Capp's quaff 28 . Flowerless plants 48 . Quote as fact 55 . Constituent 9. Pelagic plant 29 . Army chaplain 49 . Fruit of the 56 . --- Sanctorum 10 . Knight's load 30 . Venomous viper blackthorn 57 . In progress 11 . Item often filed 31 . Nods of the head 50 . Ancient Dead Sea 58 . Designer Klein 12 . ''The Whole --- 33 . Split --- (be picky) land 59 . Seize homophone Yards'' 34 . Fancy dive 51 . Theatrical 60 . Looks as if 13 . Colony resident 39 . Galas trappings 52 . Place to unwind 53 . Valuable diamond?

215 Puzzle #213 Across 1. Navigate 6. Of long standing 9. Poles for jibs 14 . Maureen of "Miracle on 34th Street" 15 . Central Park attraction 16 . Perfect 17 . Lives it up 19 . Pearly shell layer 20 . Need to pay 21 . Good performance enders 22 . Crummy 23 . Prima donna 24 . Bobby of rock 'n roll 25 . "In Cold Blood" author 28 . Bulk mail requirement 31 . Double-reed instruments 32 . Asian peninsula 33 . Sodden 34 . Theater line-ups 35 . Reacts breathlessly 36 . Put on the payroll 37 . Flop 38 . Drew on TV 39 . Aladdin's benefactor Down 40 . Office tablet 1. New York or London 18 . It comes with 38 . Longed for 42 . Given an A, maybe locale hearts and flowers 39 . Famous Moses 43 . Metal fastener 2. Defrost 22 . Parts of necks 41 . Sucker's reward? 44 . Fake pearl, e.g. 3. Leisure 23 . John and Jane, 42 . Paraphernalia 45 . Sneeze cause 4. Time scale section notably 44 . Dreary 47 . Actor Alda 5. Mr. MacGregor's 24 . Unscrupulous, as a 45 . Andean territory 48 . Fuel for a Zeppelin trespassers fighter 46 . Best Actress role 51 . Blow one's stack 6. Former Boston 25 . Wood orders for Julia 52 . Withdrawal problem Symphony director Seiji 26 . Give or take 47 . Shakespeare's river 54 . Chuck Connors trademark 7. Sack result, in 27 . Pad in a purse 48 . Shindig 55 . Flapper garb football 28 . Divided into 49 . A ways away 56 . Kuala Lumpur native 8. Polka ending? districts 50 . Eye annoyance 57 . Needing nourishment 9. Island off the coast 29 . Like a King story 52 . ___-Wan Kenobi of Spain 58 . Rorschach material 30 . Derby runner 53 . Sushi-like 59 . In the know 10 . Symphony's slow 32 . Jeweler's measure movement 35 . Checkout option 11 . Renewed energy 36 . Beer topper 12 . Starchy tropical root 13 . Musher's conveyance

216 Puzzle #214 Across 1. Peasants 6. ''Too bad!'' 10 . First name in a Tolstoy novel 14 . Cherish greatly 15 . Hercules' captive 16 . ''Don't --- on my parade!'' 17 . Discourage from proceeding 18 . Gum flavor 20 . Group of performers 22 . Entire 23 . Folk tale 24 . Mr. Gynt 25 . Capital of Cuba 28 . Parasitic insect 29 . Strike sticking point 32 . 1936 Olympian Jesse 33 . Place for a band 34 . Green gem 35 . Antony's first name 36 . Welding phenomenon 37 . Sticks on 38 . To be, for Caesar 39 . Just dandy 40 . Landslide debris Down 41 . Seashell seller, in a tongue 1. Nigerian-born pop 19 . Moon of Saturn 40 . Beethoven output twister singer discovered in 1672 42 . Provide provender 42 . Some Christmas trees 2. Garden of earthly 21 . Swimwear item for 43 . Fireplace equipment delights 24 . Finish in the top 43 . It's slapstick 44 . Some costs 3. Doesn't keep three material 45 . Sound for Old MacDonald 4. Like many writers 25 . Development 44 . Strong point 46 . Parts of brake mechanisms 5. Preacher's speeches developments 45 . Earthen water jars 48 . Purges, as bad thoughts 6. Nuptial lane 26 . Up to one's ears 46 . Trumpeting bird 52 . Aquarium fish 7. Trot easily 27 . Chapter's partner 47 . Warning device 54 . São Paulo has one 8. Andy Capp's quaff 28 . Flowerless plants 48 . Quote as fact 55 . Constituent 9. Pelagic plant 29 . Army chaplain 49 . Fruit of the 56 . --- Sanctorum 10 . Knight's load 30 . Venomous viper blackthorn 57 . In progress 11 . Item often filed 31 . Nods of the head 50 . Ancient Dead Sea 58 . Designer Klein 12 . ''The Whole --- 33 . Split --- (be picky) land 59 . Seize homophone Yards'' 34 . Fancy dive 51 . Theatrical 60 . Looks as if 13 . Colony resident 39 . Galas trappings 52 . Place to unwind 53 . Valuable diamond?

217 Puzzle #215 Across 1. Shipwreck refuges 6. Winter sports mecca 10 . Indian bigwig 14 . Anticipate 15 . Turn on the faucets 16 . Time spans 17 . Phone call? 18 . Some meat 19 . Tone start 20 . BLUES 23 . Witty West 25 . Out of commission 26 . Yet 27 . It was defeated in 1588 29 . Hardly mild 31 . Fe 32 . American pioneer born 1734 33 . Site site 36 . BLUES 40 . Polyphemus' weak spot 41 . Cartoon hazards 42 . Pro ___ 43 . Word of grace 44 . Agendas 46 . ''Flash Gordon,'' e.g. Down 49 . ''So it was YOU!'' 1. Bowl cry 21 . Schnozz ending 39 . ''... man ___ 50 . It can move mountains 2. Bowl over 22 . Kitchen gadget mouse?'' 51 . BLUES 3. Threatening action 23 . King's state 43 . Humans, among 55 . Go hither and yon 4. Feature of the Earth 24 . Dress in finery others 56 . Butterfly marking 5. Unemotional 28 . Whatsoever 44 . H. Rider Haggard 57 . Certain writing tool 6. Just terrible 29 . Paddock adventure 60 . Played follow the leader 7. ''Great'' pope inhabitants 45 . Picadors' weapons 61 . Unlike this clue number 8. Some benches 30 . Cyclotron bits 46 . Miscellaneous metal 62 . Paranormal, to some 9. Hair problem 32 . Playoff coups 47 . Skip the fancy 63 . Coolers 10 . Curative 33 . Wild West figure ceremony 64 . Hanging on every word 11 . Starbucks lure 34 . In the stomach 48 . Title animal in a 65 . Mawkish 12 . A Jackson 35 . Entertaining time famed poem 13 . In unison 37 . Gooey sound 49 . Smith, in ''The 38 . Faint Matrix'' 52 . Bright spot in space 53 . Instruction unit 54 . Carla's portrayer 58 . Backtalk 59 . F, G, but not H

218 Puzzle #216 Across 1. Have the nerve 5. Actress Davis 10 . Ratted 14 . Newspaper opinion page 15 . Sour 16 . Levee 17 . Airport maintenance group 19 . It's right on the money 20 . DI doubled 21 . Nail file material 22 . Impressive deeds 23 . Among the league's best 25 . "I smell ___" 26 . Abby's output 32 . Kuwaiti bigwig 35 . Ducks 36 . "The Facts of Life" actress Charlotte 37 . Lose one's cool 39 . Work unit 40 . "___ fightin' words!" 42 . Ambulance sites, briefly 43 . Threw with effort 46 . Corrida cheers 47 . Pre-trial storage site Down 50 . Scott of slavery 1. Church holding 22 . "Dust of Snow" 45 . Annual Madison 51 . Folklore codgers 2. Shower time poet Square Garden event 55 . Stream 3. Lubricate anew 24 . ___-mutuel (type 48 . Given to reverie 57 . Assumed appearance 4. Part of a student's of betting) 49 . Ten sawbucks 60 . Fireman's tool address, maybe 25 . Star pitcher 52 . Mount Vernon, e.g. 61 . Hindu noble 5. It might cost you the 27 . Intestinal 53 . Praise 62 . Labor-intensive locale? game 28 . Tough pitch to hit 54 . Monica of the 64 . Bit to split 6. With 41-Down, 29 . Gardener's aid courts 65 . Dispatch boat words spoken by Pilate 30 . Broadway title gal 55 . Constant 66 . Pocket problem upon delivering Christ 31 . Loch ___ monster complainer 67 . Eater of puréed peas to his accusers 32 . Pentathlon event 56 . Pro ___ 68 . Met with again 7. Alaska, once (abbr.) 33 . Sportscaster Albert 57 . Word that can 69 . They may be liberal 8. It beats a deuce 34 . Suspicious heist, precede the first word 9. "Charlotte's Web" perhaps of 17-, 26-, 47-, and monogram 38 . Tot's pinchable 62-Across 10 . Rat part 58 . "Topaz" author 11 . Ready to 41 . See 6-Down 59 . "___ sin to ..." skinny-dip 44 . Conclusion 62 . Exclude 12 . Suffix with cosmo- 63 . "Just as I thought!" 13 . Workout sites 18 . Hardly a BMOC

219 Puzzle #217 Across 1. Tara resident 6. Carpet type 10 . Norwegian saint 14 . Freeway fillers 15 . Grant name 16 . Naldi of silent films 17 . Carburetor part 19 . Mild oath 20 . Keanu's ''Speed'' co-star 21 . 48-card game 23 . Talk about endlessly 25 . Was worthy of notice 26 . Syllogist's word 29 . Thee, updated 30 . First name in old talk shows 31 . Eat greedily 33 . Bar fixture 35 . Stud setting 38 . Loses one's cool 40 . Get popular all over 42 . Jamaican music 43 . Fountain selections 45 . Follow 46 . Fearsome creature of old, briefly Down 48 . Word with down, key or 1. Blockheads 18 . Diversify 44 . Pie choice blow 2. Luau entertainment 22 . Threat ending 47 . Fend off 50 . Notary's tool 3. Plenty 24 . Sat for a portrait 49 . Float on the breeze 51 . Hammer on a bench 4. Selfish drivers 26 . Spawn 51 . Staff leader? 53 . Hat made from jipijapa 5. ''Ad ___ per aspera'' 27 . Corner piece 52 . One of the 55 . Social bias (Kansas motto) 28 . A steal Kramdens 57 . Takes after 6. Sauna site 30 . A Howard 53 . ''I don't believe 61 . 1953 Leslie Caron film 7. Lend a hand 32 . Canvas supports that!'' 62 . Apple has one 8. Chipmunk of song 34 . Welles of film 54 . Song thrush 64 . Old French coins 9. Narrow valley 36 . Rio contents 56 . Minute land mass 65 . Take on cargo 10 . Kind of garage 37 . Line holder 58 . ''The Virginian'' 66 . ''Goodnight ___'' 11 . Limerick, e.g. 39 . Curse author Wister 67 . Mile portions 12 . ''___ of Two Cities'' 41 . Distasteful 59 . Clinton cabinet 68 . Meadow moms 13 . Less colorful member 69 . Church council 60 . Downhill conveyance 63 . Legal thing

220 Puzzle #218 Across 1. Goblet feature 5. Chums 9. Watch sounds 14 . Typewriter type 15 . Diabolical 16 . Layer with a ''hole'' 17 . ''This weighs __!'' 18 . Censor of ancient Rome 19 . Scout's job, for short 20 . ''Tea for Two'' musical 23 . Mel in Cooperstown 24 . Refuses to 25 . Rocker Clapton 27 . Damon of ''Mo' Money'' 30 . Rainy-day footwear 34 . Be wild about 35 . Dosage unit 36 . Angelic topper 37 . Wray of ''King Kong'' 38 . Group of guys, familiarly 41 . French diarist 42 . Clashers in Hollywood 44 . Blunted blade 45 . Eta follower 47 . Closed up again Down 49 . Bucket-brigade member 1. Reach across 21 . Trio times three 43 . ''I told you so!'' 50 . Spill the beans 2. Onetime leader of 22 . Brit's appliance 46 . Thumbs a ride 51 . Touched down Yugoslavia 26 . It means ''kind of'' 48 . Dick Cheney's 52 . Title for Mick Jagger 3. Business-school 27 . Thin cookie predecessor 54 . Discotheque employees subj. 28 . Old saw 49 . Siren sounds 60 . Chum 4. Legendary racehorse 29 . Part of a ''sleeping'' 51 . Take as one's own 62 . Limburger quality 5. Praline nuts toy 52 . Epic tale 63 . Flag down 6. __-garde 30 . Mocked 53 . ''__ a roll!'' 64 . Hopeless case 7. Lo-cal 31 . Natural emollient 55 . Formal dress 65 . Use a dishtowel 8. Coin taker 32 . A-list 56 . Garfield's pal 66 . Art deco master 9. Corrida celebrity 33 . Sub detector 57 . Wyatt of the West 67 . Hidden agenda 10 . Suffix with lion 35 . Toon Le Pew 58 . Baptism, e.g. 68 . They hang from basketball 11 . French fashion 39 . Nametag word 59 . Winter conveyance hoops designer 40 . Wood finish 61 . Hair goo 69 . Floored it 12 . Board flaw 13 . Shipped out

221 Puzzle #219 Across 1. Hypothetical time irregularity 5. Haunted house sound 10 . "Waterloo" singers 14 . Former lakeshore tribe 15 . Conclusion lead-in 16 . Not a happy fate 17 . Online administrative program 19 . Slow flow 20 . Remove 21 . Leftists 23 . Good, to Gaston 24 . Debussy's "__ de Lune" 25 . Add 28 . Percussionists' purchases 31 . Inept climber's need 32 . Drudges 33 . Old soldier 34 . Landed 35 . Word that can precede the first words of 17- and 52-Across and 11- and 27-Down 36 . Movie 37 . Forbid 38 . Tusked grunters Down 39 . Distance Running Hall of 1. Ornamental shoe 18 . Nicholas or Peter 39 . Arrived Famer Waitz strip 22 . Big name in pet 41 . Greeting words 40 . Theater showing esoteric 2. La Scala highlight foods films 42 . "Gracias" reply 3. Hazard 24 . Gators' kin 42 . The Ink Spots' genre 44 . "Life with __": 4. Beatle drummer 25 . Addis __ 1993 Michael J. Fox 43 . Pretty woman before Ringo 26 . Utterly opposite film 44 . Team first managed by 5. Scolded, with "out" 45 . Toni Morrison Casey Stengel 27 . At close range 6. Aired again novel 45 . Have as a customer 28 . Tractor maker 7. A deadly sin 46 . Start of a Cockney 47 . Complete 29 . Approaching the 8. King topper hour toast 51 . Caspian Sea feeder 9. With a thud 30 . Tough to climb 47 . Without charge 52 . Caesar's friend 10 . Aphrodite's love 32 . Project segment 48 . Takes more than 54 . Letterman rival 11 . Critic's piece, 35 . Units of electrical one's share of 55 . Extort money from perhaps charge 49 . Juan's ones 56 . Marty's "Young 12 . Goofball 36 . Railroad track 50 . Technical Frankenstein" role 13 . Double agent component beginner? 57 . Quizzes Aldrich 38 . Head for the hills 53 . Pub serving 58 . "Ciao!" 59 . "Happy motoring" company

222 Puzzle #220 Across 1. Starbuck's captain 5. Like pigtails 11 . Square in a breadbasket 14 . "I forgot the words" syllables 15 . French novelist ___ de Balzac 16 . In the style of 17 . With 38-Across, Wilder's Pulitzer novel of 1927, with "The" 19 . Back talk 20 . "Angel," vis-à-vis "Buffy, the Vampire Slayer," e.g. 21 . Stressed feet, in poetry 23 . Caracas hrs. 24 . With 50-Across, 1999 Stephen King novel 27 . Rascals 30 . Self-evident truth 31 . City in a Porter song title 32 . Sci. of the stars 33 . "Alas!" accompaniment, maybe 37 . ___-Magnon 38 . See 17-Across Down 41 . ___ chi 1. Priests' vestments 22 . PIN requesters 46 . Resentful feeling 42 . Says further 2. Plucked instrument 24 . Inconveniences 48 . Worked on a bone 44 . Vincent Lopez's theme song 3. Et ___ (and others) 25 . More than 49 . Like goose eggs in 45 . Red-wrapped cheeses 4. Lousy reputation necessary a fairy tale 47 . Light on one's feet 5. Unlawful removals 26 . Billion add-on 50 . Grand Union 49 . Hams' neighbors 6. Worst rating from 27 . Humane org. since competitor 50 . See 24-Across the VideoHound movie 1824 51 . Character part 53 . Done to death guide 28 . With 35-Down, 52 . Harsh criticism what the novels in this 54 . Caribbean resort island 7. Having one flat, 55 . Cut with a knife, musically puzzle begin with old-style 55 . Homer's creator 8. Refusals 29 . Wealthy Texas 56 . Stare 59 . "Platoon" setting, briefly 9. Mesozoic or shortstop, familiarly open-mouthed 60 . Classic Tolstoy novel Cenozoic 32 . Garlic mayonnaise 57 . Old French coins 64 . Show-offish dance 10 . "Analyze This" 34 . "Let's leave ___ 58 . Others maneuver actor that" 61 . Draft choice 65 . French president's residence 11 . Conceals, 35 . See 28-Down 62 . Reuben bread 66 . Catalogued work magician-style 36 . Bad reception 63 . Nile reptile 67 . Parts of qts. 12 . Not always a likely 39 . Single item 68 . Become more intense story 40 . Call, as to someone 69 . Eggs site 13 . Easy putt on a roof 18 . New Testament 43 . Swedish import component

223 Puzzle #221 Across 1. Daffodil source 5. Radio switch 9. Yegg's specialty 14 . Taft's state 15 . Bunch of bunk 16 . Ocean's shoreline incursion 17 . Crummy place 18 . Like an egg 19 . Get used to 20 . Four words with strings attached 23 . Countless centuries 24 . Tosspot 25 . Three words with strings attached 34 . Useful info at Dulles 35 . Shine partner 36 . Performer's minimum wage 37 . Philbin's partner 39 . "Unforgettable" singers 42 . Greek promenade 43 . Whodunit necessities 45 . Think tank product 47 . NCO 48 . Three words with strings Down attached 1. Muscle mag features 22 . Tumultuous quarrel 46 . Fusses 52 . It's at the end of strings? 2. Nope 25 . Robin's branch 49 . Uzbekistan, in 1990 53 . Common intensifier 3. Long ride? 26 . Of practical 50 . Kind of dog or Pie 54 . Three words with strings 4. Girl holding a crook assistance 51 . "Count on it!" attached 5. NATO word 27 . New Guinea's Gulf 54 . Ready and willing 63 . Anthology of artwork 6. One way to address of ___ 55 . Bator's leader 64 . Screen image a lady 28 . Brit. military 56 . In the same place, 65 . Legendary clown 7. Making light of the decoration in footnotes (Abbr.) 66 . Caribou locale serious 29 . Archaeological 57 . Whistle a happy 67 . Grand Marquis, in car lingo 8. Her looks were treasure one 68 . Fails to catch a pop-up petrifying 30 . Mac rivals 58 . Baker's assistant 69 . Attachment for open or rear 9. Naps under 31 . Role for Dustin 59 . Tattered 70 . Where to find Camembert sombreros 32 . Branch of learning 60 . Candidate for a 71 . Afternoon events 10 . Heche in "Wag the 33 . "Outta sight!" minimizing agent Dog" 38 . ___ Lingus 61 . Pound the poet 11 . Make a blunder 40 . Tokyo's former 62 . "Friends" friend 12 . Eliel's son name 13 . Burgoo, e.g. 41 . Set the penalty 21 . Farmer, at times 44 . Like some shrimp

224 Puzzle #222 Across 1. Stately mount 5. Not fiction 9. Dance it or dip it 14 . Avian mimic 15 . Eastern European 16 . Like Travolta's Cowboy 17 . Dash, for one 20 . Plumber's tool 21 . They're uneven 22 . Cheerful sound? 23 . Module 26 . Klutz's cry 28 . Mechanical impossibility 35 . "___ to Joy" 36 . Expression 37 . Partner of firma or cotta 38 . Landing on the water 40 . Part of a drum kit 43 . Sinclair Lewis "Street" 44 . Pitch-black 46 . Soapstone, mostly 48 . Teachers org. 49 . Dairy offering 53 . Greek philosopher 54 . Goose egg Down 55 . Stand-in 1. Voice projectors 24 . Suffix denoting 50 . Golden rule word 58 . Historic Normandy town 2. Former mile-run residents of 51 . Painting aid 60 . Gibbon cousin record holder, Jim 25 . Reason for 52 . Esprit de corps 64 . Collegiate Dr. Phil wannabe 3. "Black Beauty" signaling 55 . Narrow strip of 68 . Playground retort author Sewell 27 . Check land 69 . Old Testament book 4. Put it in reverse 28 . Kind of kid's book 56 . Locale in a Beatles 70 . Hot stuff 5. Seminoles home 29 . Patsy's "Ab Fab" title spot 71 . English river 6. Eggs ___ suisse friend 57 . Group of bits 72 . Cause a stench 7. Roman orator 30 . Holders of many 59 . Move like The Blob 73 . Course climax 8. Small-screen frames 61 . Achilles cohort heartthrob 31 . Stradivari tutor 62 . Celestial event 9. Solar blemish 32 . Certain Persian 63 . Metric measure 10 . Equip Gulf native 65 . Hoodwink 11 . Angled 33 . Corbeled bay 66 . Univ. senior's test window construction beam 67 . Jabber 12 . Name in an 34 . Indian founder of Eastwood film title Sikhism 13 . Egyptian symbol of 39 . "Puttin' on the ___" life 41 . Heckle 18 . Credo 42 . Gen. Robert 19 . Baseball's "Blue 45 . Tiger Woods forte Moon" 47 . PC insert

225 Puzzle #223 Across 1. Cornfield noises 5. Zhivago's beloved 9. Minty drink 14 . Minimally 15 . Norwegian royal name 16 . Computer of the '40s 17 . Green gem 18 . Verdi masterpiece 19 . Roger the reviewer 20 . Complete washout 23 . '60s jacket style 24 . Linger in the tub 25 . 18 Across solo 29 . Compass reading 31 . Straightens up 33 . Churl 36 . Imperturbable one 39 . Brief fracas 40 . Annual televised address 43 . Comic-strip frame 44 . Has a hunch 45 . Flock member 46 . Acid neutralizers 48 . Java holder 50 . Bard's adverb Down 51 . Pet lovers' grp. 1. Louisiana cuisine 21 . British 42 . Source of shade 54 . Caribbean island 2. Taper off philosopher/mathematician 47 . DSL offerer 58 . ''12 items or less'' places 3. Loafer specification 22 . Guitar relative 49 . Rough road 61 . Windmill part 4. Takes the tiller 26 . Fix a loose lace surface 64 . ''What time __?'' 5. Bakery purchase 27 . Following behind 52 . Labor activist 65 . Contends 6. Assumed name 28 . Without dissent Chavez 66 . Large-eyed primate 7. Satellite medium 30 . WWII arena 53 . Out of the way 67 . Zilch 8. Himalayan hazard 32 . Unsurprisingly 55 . Bring together 68 . Novel ending 9. Catcall 33 . House broadcaster 56 . Red veggies 69 . Baseball-card giant 10 . Without a loss 34 . Dickens title starter 57 . Plus 70 . One of the ''Brady Bunch'' 11 . Golf position 35 . Thanks, in Thuringia 59 . Gen-__ (baby boys 12 . Sense of pitch 37 . Kids boomer's 37 Down) 71 . For fear that 13 . Batting avg., e.g. 38 . Follower's suffix 60 . Antlered animal 41 . Got misty 61 . Diner order 62 . Heavenly lion 63 . Band booster

226 Puzzle #224 Across 1. Rite site 6. Off-the-cuff 11 . Refreshing place 14 . A Trump ex 15 . Earth mover 16 . It's a crock 17 . Measure of liquid assets? 19 . "How cute!" 20 . Homer Simpson's bartender 21 . Be a contender 22 . Slow, in music 24 . Rye, for one 27 . Venus, e.g. 29 . Nyctophobic 32 . Geometrical figure 33 . Laughfest 34 . Kind of crystal 35 . It may be wild 37 . Sweet on, with "of" 41 . Allude to 42 . Dugout, for one 43 . Talked to the Almighty 49 . 1994 Van Damme film 50 . Tangle, or disentangle 51 . Practical joke Down 52 . Guy Fawkes Day mo. 1. Radio type 25 . Impetuous 43 . City on Tampa Bay, 53 . Vow hidden in this puzzle's 2. French composer 26 . Zero in Fla. four longest answers Édouard 27 . Bluesman Redding 44 . Pellet shooter 56 . Home to a future flier, 3. Movie for which 28 . Frat letters 45 . Conceptualized maybe John Wayne won Best 29 . LAPD alert 46 . Hideout 57 . "That's enough!" Actor 30 . Brother 47 . Manual laborers 62 . Datebook abbr. 4. "Thrilla in Manila" 31 . Lets loose 48 . Sitarist Shankar 63 . Occupied boxer 35 . NFL Hall of Famer 52 . Tweed's 64 . It happens 5. Way cool Marchetti caricaturist 65 . Gridiron speedster 6. Marcos's successor 36 . Lone Star State 54 . Car scar 66 . Student's needs 7. Mojave hill sch. 55 . Conductor 67 . North Dakota border city 8. Varnish ingredient 37 . Dunaway who Klemperer 9. Likable prez? played Bonnie 58 . One in Québec 10 . Wisest choice 38 . Steven Wright 59 . Affair wear 11 . Ancient Athens foe specialty 60 . Dict. entry 12 . Loose snow 39 . Here-there 61 . 56-Across cells 13 . On the job connector 18 . "Ars amatoria" poet 40 . Paris's Pont __ Arts 23 . Support 41 . Ace's place 42 . Cleveland cager, for short

227 Puzzle #225 Across 1. Keg access 4. Endures 9. Biblical tower site 14 . Had a bite 15 . Rose oil 16 . Botanical seed 17 . Shad delicacy 18 . Start of a riddle 20 . Paint guns, e.g. 22 . Type sizes 23 . Corral 24 . Variegated 25 . Riddle, part 2 30 . Filing aid 33 . Running things 34 . Canonical hour 35 . Anti-smoking org. 36 . "__ la Douce" 37 . Ink mishap 38 . Dark, to Donne 39 . Place to start driving 40 . Commandment verb 41 . Solo 42 . Pluralizer 43 . End of the riddle Down 45 . Cook, in a way 1. Salts 19 . Minnow catcher 40 . More chilling 46 . "__ fallen ..." 2. Over 21 . Sleep disruption 41 . Makes 47 . Round shape 3. Nobleman 24 . Fiesta feature recommendations to 50 . Some brass 4. Many John Grisham 25 . Overused 44 . Like a 55 . Answer to the riddle characters 26 . Rabbits' kin nursery-rhyme Jack 57 . Gossip 5. Wise goddess 27 . Pinnacles 45 . Ball standout 58 . Mac, for one 6. Have the lead 28 . Con 47 . Counterfeit 59 . Hair affair 7. Makes lace 29 . Door-to-door 48 . One of the bears 60 . Pseudonymous letters 8. Hindu honorific offerings, maybe 49 . Rose fruit 61 . Electromagnetic wave 9. Stereotypical 30 . Not allowed 50 . Performs enhancer cowboy feature 31 . In with 51 . Desirable work 62 . Jacks and jennies 10 . Go around 32 . Curses shift 63 . Seller, briefly 11 . Songwriter 37 . Visibly distressed 52 . Not quite shut Bacharach 38 . Respected member 53 . Okeechobee, for 12 . Alternative word one 13 . Some jeans 54 . Barter 56 . Fed. purchasing group

228 Puzzle #226 Across 1. Pinto's foot 5. Where ''Falstaff'' premiered in 1893 10 . Orchestral instrument 14 . Jason's ship 15 . Avoid, as responsibility 16 . Cattle goad 17 . Character in a Lehar work 19 . Mozart's ''--- Kleine Nachtmusik'' 20 . Word in a Tom Hanks film title 21 . Liver, for one 22 . Wilbur Post's horse 23 . Bryce and Zion locale 24 . Repeated exactly 27 . Its capital is Bamako 29 . First X 32 . Certain skirt material 33 . Jackson and Winslet 34 . Reconstruction, for one 35 . Engrossed 36 . Dugout vessel 37 . Some whiskies 38 . Second sight, for short Down 39 . Sturdy fabric 1. Some bad actors 18 . World War I 39 . Stupor 40 . Vista or Park 2. City on the Oka battleground 40 . More despicable 41 . ''...where is --- sting?'' 3. Shrek, for one 21 . Elevator man 43 . Dionysian 42 . Subject of study 4. First in order 23 . Peter Fonda title attendants 43 . Gets cheeky with 5. Whimpered role 45 . Call on the main 44 . Unnerve 6. Like Princeton walls 24 . White-plumed 46 . In better health 46 . Truck stop entree 7. Ones wearing heron 47 . Strike-breaker 47 . Martin or Lawrence knickers 25 . Dive or land 48 . Trouble's partner 49 . Honduras neighbor 8. Bustling commotions preceder 49 . Decamped 54 . Fizzy drink 9. Never used 26 . ''The Most ---'' 50 . A human bone 55 . Flag for Blackbeard (stage musical) 10 . It may be light or 51 . Quite a spell 56 . ''Good for what --- you'' 27 . Craze grand 52 . Word with 57 . Like some circles 11 . 1934 Shirley 28 . Basic building block quantum 58 . Clean a pipe Temple film 30 . ''Goodnight'' lady 53 . War wager 59 . Sheep sound 12 . O'Neill, Charlie's 31 . Oaxacan homes 55 . Triangular sail 60 . Bad news beasts wife 33 . Welles character 61 . Descry 13 . First place 36 . Part of a bird's beak 37 . Where Washington is mounted?

229 Puzzle #227 Across 1. It's wreaked 6. British cleaning woman 10 . Recess at St. Peter's 14 . Baker or O'Day 15 . Singular 16 . One way to buy staples (with ''in'') 17 . Epiphany, e.g. 20 . Start of a promise 21 . It may have a twist 22 . Split to unite? 23 . Chanoyu beverage servers 25 . Proust novel ''Remembrance of Things ___'' 26 . Move quickly 27 . Hors d'oeuvre selection, perhaps 28 . Morning condensation 31 . Prepare for company 34 . Overcome difficulties 35 . Troika 36 . Ocean predator 39 . Peak of perfection 40 . Contract loopholes 41 . Tries to persuade Down 42 . Kind of jacket 1. It may be hard to 19 . Choice word? 43 . One or twenty, e.g. 43 . Some Eutherian mammals break 24 . Public humiliation 44 . Cat or engine 44 . Something many amateurs 2. American chameleon 25 . Hemingway and sound turn 3. Country estate Haydn, for two 45 . Certain ball-goer 45 . It may be before one's 4. Giant who wore four 27 . Frost and Burns, 46 . More attractive time? 5. Coffee's kick for two 47 . Respond to, as 46 . Panacea 6. Coagulates 28 . Bummer good advice 50 . Strong supporters of art? 7. Word with sick or 29 . Yeats' country 48 . No longer caged 53 . Mark replacement work 30 . Chinese pans 49 . Spaces just under 54 . Dove chat 8. Doodlebug's prey 31 . Guy in a pub a bird's eyes 55 . Certain 9. Prepared leftovers 32 . It's fit to be tied 50 . On pins and noncommissioned officer 10 . Monastic superior 33 . Aurora Greenway's needles 58 . Flounder's filter 11 . Orange juice daughter 51 . La Scala highlight 59 . Show senility feature, sometimes 34 . Waterslide feature 52 . Place to cool a pie 60 . Gallows' loop 12 . Turn on an axis 35 . Spasm of pain 53 . Boiardo's patron 61 . Elihu's college 13 . Supplemented 37 . Fruit stand locale, 56 . Response to 62 . Fancy jug (with ''out'') often ''When do we want it?'' 63 . Units of force 18 . Have status 38 . Encircle 57 . Demure

230 Puzzle #228 Across 1. Type of bear 6. Super Bowl sight 11 . Borrower's concern, briefly 14 . Mushroom stem 15 . One with parts 16 . Bud's comedy cohort 17 . Greek dish? 19 . Letter addenda, for short 20 . Tried and true 21 . Graceland locale 23 . Tack room item 26 . Send to seventh heaven 27 . It can get you into and out of jams 30 . Some deli breads 31 . Purim's month 32 . One of the Three Musketeers 34 . Neighbor of Minn. 36 . ''J'accuse'' author Emile 39 . Word with natural or mental 41 . Mom may have laid them out for you 43 . Stretched to the limit 44 . Type of jet Down 46 . Deplete 1. Call to share a 22 . Public squares 48 . Respiratory ailment 47 . Carson predecessor secret? 24 . Hard to penetrate 50 . He's Terrible, 49 . Enter 2. Will-___-wisp 25 . Dropped drug historically 51 . ''___ bodkins!'' 3. Big fibs 27 . Kirk's rank, briefly 52 . Perhaps 52 . Planetary satellites 4. Dr. visits 28 . Gillette product 53 . Big man Shaq 54 . ''Rocky Mountain High'' 5. Prepare to perform 29 . Formation of a 54 . Where to catch a singer 6. Form for candy lengthy Greek parade? Greyhound 56 . Bening of ''American 7. Type of modern TV 31 . Alias indicator 55 . Prince Charles, for Beauty'' 8. Grammatically 33 . Fuel rating one 58 . Part of a conductor's cry incorrect answer to 35 . Driveway part 57 . Famed artists' 62 . ''___ out!'' (ump's call) ''Who's there?'' 37 . Speak highly of colony 63 . Greek greeting on January 9. Engage in self-pity 59 . Prefix with space 1st? 38 . Egyptian cobras 10 . Ready for a new 60 . Like some finds 66 . Dickensian epithet 40 . Popular camera coat? type, for short 61 . Temperance 67 . Yellowstone creature 11 . Greek sports car? 42 . Some leaf-eaters advocates 68 . Comic Shandling 12 . Assume 45 . Form datum, often 64 . Fraternity letter, 69 . ''Roll Over Beethoven'' rock 13 . Ballet ___ perhaps grp. 18 . Whirlpool 65 . Hokkaido currency 70 . He portrayed Gomez Addams on TV 71 . Blackthorn fruits

231 Puzzle #229 Across 1. HI hi 6. Featherbrain 10 . Crushing news 14 . King's work 15 . Anagram of vile 16 . Anagram of vile 17 . Knot in a tree 18 . Cry out for 19 . Atlas datum 20 . Fluoresces 23 . Shade tree 24 . Fire, so to speak 25 . Move out 29 . Overdo the TLC 31 . Play piece 34 . Revered image 35 . Plumbing problem 37 . Charmed animal? 39 . Polishes the pumps 42 . E-mail predecessor 43 . Fast time? 44 . Remote button 45 . Balaam's transport 46 . Word in a song performed at midnight Down 48 . TV screen grid 1. Director Lee 22 . Biz bigwigs 47 . Northbound, on 50 . Roadie's load 2. Crave 25 . Panoramic view maps 51 . Perched 3. Decorative window 26 . Charley horses 49 . Courtyard 52 . Feels puffed up shape 27 . Spring features 50 . Change a bill 60 . Cornfield measure 4. Apt lunch for 28 . Diarist Frank 51 . Ream component 61 . Chills and fever Superman 29 . Went to Spago 52 . Cotton stuffing 62 . Mixologist on "The Love 5. Completely mistaken 30 . Candid 53 . Sound effect Boat" 6. Levi's material 31 . Give or take 54 . High point at the 64 . Companion of thick 7. Word with Dutch or 32 . Minoan's island Met 65 . Kimono cousin gas 33 . Stun gun 55 . Humpbacked 66 . Part of UHF 8. Japan's legislature 36 . 50 pennies helper 67 . Type of stool 9. Outdated 38 . Resistance units 56 . Brass member 68 . "Phooey!" 10 . Wesley Snipes flick 40 . Finals 57 . Avalon, for one 69 . Implied 11 . It equals 100 kurus 41 . Bikini part 58 . Facts and figures 12 . Partner of "done 59 . Bring in with" 63 . Kind of burglar 13 . Like light-colored coffee 21 . Bob's vehicles?

232 Puzzle #230 Across 1. Interest of Percival Lowell 6. Floating slammer 10 . Planetarium sights 14 . Remark to the audience 15 . Type of part 16 . He ran beside a Ford 17 . Humdinger 19 . School near Slough 20 . General Arnold's nickname 21 . It doesn't detonate 22 . Sketches over 24 . ''Miss ___ Regrets'' (Porter tune) 26 . Ray on ''Everybody Loves Raymond'' 28 . In addition 29 . St. Peter's sculpture 31 . Tit for ___ 32 . Use steel wool and elbow grease 34 . Horror movie sound 36 . Church bench 38 . Scraps of food 39 . Archie Bunker statement 42 . Connors defeater, 1975 Down 45 . Serpent's mark? 1. Early fast-food 18 . Lord's Prayer 47 . Dribbled 46 . With less tread employees opener 48 . Saying 'ere or 'ead, 50 . Reprove mildly 2. Continental flu? 23 . Uno uno e.g. 52 . Transgress 3. More biting, in 25 . Simmered slowly 49 . Publicity piece 54 . ''Okie From Muskogee'' January 27 . Topographers 51 . Pollution agcy. Haggard 4. They may be 30 . A patient 53 . Full-bodied 55 . Towel embroidery, classified or personal response? 57 . First name in sometimes 5. Advance 33 . Beverage chest photography 56 . Rector 6. Bombshell Brigitte 35 . Curly's brother 58 . Hide ___ hair 59 . Muddy the waters 7. What some people 37 . Charlotte had one 61 . Ball balancers 60 . Kind of coffee are stuck in 40 . Pull ahead of 63 . One way to begin 62 . Slithering squeezer 8. Repeated 41 . Water container? 67 . Offensive of 1968 64 . Poetic form 9. Lawyer turned 42 . Be successful 68 . ''Hail, Caesar!'' 65 . Falco of ''The Sopranos'' bridge wiz 43 . Big bash 66 . Wild revelry 10 . Frankfurt's river 44 . Sounding like a 69 . Hollywood cross street 11 . Pitcher's cuff mad cat 70 . Barely makes do ( with 12 . Wingding ''out'') 13 . They detect heat 71 . Makes level or motion 72 . Baker's dozen? 73 . Native of Latvia 74 . Certain golf club

233 Puzzle #231 Across 1. Like some audio books 9. Field workers 15 . A real Renaissance man 16 . Sort of paint 17 . Bomb big-time 18 . Stem (from) 19 . Where to hear Farsi 20 . Unseld of the NBA 21 . Nicked 22 . Conger catcher 24 . Poker player's giveaway 26 . Groovy, today 27 . Dr. of rap 28 . Marked down 31 . Whitish 32 . On deck 33 . Diminish, with ''out'' 34 . Spelunker hangout 36 . Pulled down 38 . Sari wearers 39 . Have collected 41 . Some ceramics 42 . Part of the Corn Belt 43 . German 101 verb 46 . Egg __ yung Down 47 . Tight gripper 1. In the pact 13 . Made public 38 . Frilly 48 . Stately home 2. Bwana's helper 14 . Luge driver 40 . Left over 50 . Conductor's concern 3. Isle __ National Park 23 . Duds with belts 42 . Touched lightly 52 . Floor 4. Nonsensical 25 . Chief's advisers 43 . Prepare for service 55 . Actress Falco 5. Martial-arts level 29 . Postal creed word 44 . Evening gala 56 . Cruise carriers 6. Matured 30 . Year-end temps 45 . General drifts 57 . Reluctant to talk 7. Trim 31 . Madonna ex 47 . Lines from Lowell 59 . Box up 8. Canis Major 32 . Bird: Lat. 49 . Hartford 60 . Heightened component 33 . Geometric solid competitor 61 . Regarded as 9. Get snoopy 34 . Former First 51 . Wagon pullers 62 . Newborns 10 . TV newsman Roger Daughter 53 . Dwindle 11 . Put on guard 35 . Make public 54 . Repeat 12 . Change citizenship 37 . Literary miscellany 58 . Auric's creator

234 Puzzle #232 Across 1. Places for earrings 6. Moonshine containers 10 . Bank conveniences 14 . Separated 15 . Archipelago component 16 . Gather what's been sown 17 . Clark's boss 18 . Butcher's inventory 19 . Doll's word 20 . ''. . . __ saw Elba'' 21 . Tom, Dick and Harry 23 . Collie of TV 25 . Winter toy 26 . Oriole's home 29 . Magazine bigwig 33 . Pre-owned 38 . Istanbul money 39 . Now! 40 . Blackjack card 41 . Tilt 42 . Trade center 43 . Underdeveloped countries 46 . Author Welty 48 . Take a show on the road 49 . Fall flowers, for short Down 51 . Place for shadow 1. Boutonniere site 22 . Actor Beatty 45 . Humorously 56 . Stay-at-home spouses 2. Puccini output 24 . Place for the night mocking 61 . Sole 3. Reveals 27 . Former Iranian 47 . Daiquiri ingredient 62 . All the time 4. ''To __ human . . .'' leader 50 . Enjoy the ice 63 . Be durable 5. Farmyard enclosure 28 . Unspoken but 52 . Keep away from 64 . Handbag 6. Guitarist Hendrix understood 53 . Christmas song 65 . Raise, as a child 7. __-friendly 30 . Wedding-cake leapers 66 . Diminutive ending 8. Tumbler layer 54 . Map detail 67 . Annexed 9. Took up residence 31 . Spoken 55 . Actions 68 . Small equine 10 . Tanklike mammal 32 . ''The 56 . Arthur Marx's Fountainhead'' writer 69 . Caspian and Red 11 . Home or Visitors instrument 33 . Unchanged 70 . ''The defense __!'' 12 . Role for Roz 57 . Scone spread 34 . Jacob's twin 13 . Hot tubs 58 . Response to a pun 35 . Cut-up 21 . Rancher's purchase 59 . ''Como __ usted?'' 36 . Vision science 60 . Numbered rds. 37 . Sleuth Wolfe 64 . Norm 43 . Mexican meal 44 . Club fees

235 Puzzle #233 Across 1. Visits 7. Not very well padded 11 . Go one better 14 . Texas Hold 'Em phrase 15 . Smack back? 16 . "Ben-__" 17 . "Friendly" toon 18 . Like a no-brainer 19 . Letter whose symbol is an H 20 . Cinco de Mayo 23 . Soil-related prefix 25 . Site for 3-Down 26 . Craving 27 . Ingredient in some bars 30 . Robert B. Parker detective 33 . Cap with a pompon 34 . Not opt. 36 . H.S. subject 37 . Cinco de Mayo, this year 42 . Take in 43 . Surrealist influenced by Freud 44 . Galley measures 46 . Site of a noted Santa Monica, Calif., promenade Down 50 . Makes sleepy, hopefully, as 1. Shot, for short 21 . Basra resident 45 . Plastered one a tot 2. Mouths, in zoology 22 . Mold and mildew 46 . Den combos 52 . Tenn. athletes 3. Deli choice 23 . Deal maker: Abbr. 47 . Cycler's haven 53 . Bucket or pack filler 4. Draining tool 24 . Agassi's wife 48 . "And how!" 55 . Toss out 5. "Oh" 28 . Mountain nymph 49 . Copenhagen's __ 56 . Cinco de Mayo, MMV? 6. Soft ball 29 . Set-up punches, Gardens 61 . Monetary amts. 7. Opposite of 7-Across usually 51 . Shout to a Yankee 62 . Court target 8. Pontificates 31 . 1777 54 . It covers the House 63 . Little Red Book follower 9. Snack Philadelphia-area battle 57 . Lose part of a coat 66 . Stephen of "The Crying 10 . Toy once called a site 58 . Graph opening Game" bandelore 32 . Fairylike 59 . Former African 67 . First name in scat 11 . Better half 35 . Netflix rental despot 68 . Like one who never gets 12 . Power problem 38 . Vice can precede it 60 . "Ditto" anything? 13 . Nightly ritual for 39 . Stand for the arts 64 . __-Globe: common 69 . Surreptitious many 40 . Pompeii destroyer paperweight 70 . Slay 41 . Crash respondents: 65 . Looker, numerically 71 . Actor Liam Abbr.

236 Puzzle #234 Across 1. Mentioned as a reference 6. Atkins no-no, briefly 10 . It has six sides 14 . Without dissent 15 . Nautical direction 16 . Royal sport 17 . Butcher's tools for negotiations? 20 . Cowboys' emblem 21 . Prescribed ceremony 22 . Dentist's direction 23 . Stravinsky ballet 25 . Ancient France 27 . Where the butcher's money is kept? 33 . Chops finely 34 . Patsy created by Jim Davis 35 . Harper Valley org. 36 . Word in a Poitier film title 37 . Sugar portions 39 . Methodical 40 . Backwash creator 41 . Sound unit 42 . Singer Haggard 43 . Tease the butcher? Down 47 . "Trading Spaces" activity 1. They form an airport 19 . Oil, before refining 42 . Movie studio inits. 48 . Canine holders queue 24 . Grunts 44 . Choctaw and 49 . Foolish time 2. "The time ___ hand" 26 . Black tropical Chickasaw 52 . Norse goddess of fate 3. Pearl Harbor movie American cuckoo 45 . Shrek's mate, e.g. 54 . Dull sound word 27 . Mountain for Moses 46 . Sisters 58 . What the high-rolling 4. Finalizes a trophy 28 . Bitter 49 . Fired gardener butcher does? 5. Initials of a crack 29 . Not pickled 50 . Johnnycake 61 . Henry VIII's fourth wife team? 30 . Lincoln Center 51 . Sprints 62 . Hilo neckwear 6. Flogging show 53 . Cuyahoga Falls 63 . "Quo ___?" 7. Dismounted 31 . Asti locale locale 64 . Shambles 8. Loose cannon 32 . Basketball great 55 . Put aboard 65 . Promising exchanges 9. Entreat Archibald 56 . "The Grapes of 66 . Sport with clay pigeons 10 . Type of battle 33 . Way in or out Wrath" type 11 . "Who Framed 37 . Like some dorms 57 . Verbal elbow in the Roger Rabbit" character 38 . Out of the ordinary ribs 12 . "The Magic 39 . "1984" utterances 59 . Old Testament Mountain" locale 41 . Beach find judge 13 . Flexible tube 60 . Some RCAs 18 . Driver's selection

237 Puzzle #235 Across 1. Gunk 5. Packs away 10 . In a different way 14 . Letter for Gandalf 15 . Word with show or artillery 16 . Function 17 . Colossal, moviewise 18 . Skylit lobbies 19 . Land in the sea, e.g. 20 . 1711 loser 23 . T, in physics 24 . Rebuilt city north of Cologne 25 . Husband of Fatima 28 . J.F.K. abbr. 30 . Searched with intent to steal 32 . Rouse 35 . ___ gin fizz 39 . Kind of bag 40 . A sandwich filler 41 . Ratchet-wheel gizmos 43 . Iranian money 44 . Emulates a fence 46 . In-tray item 47 . Kind of drink or tale 48 . Bench-clearing brawls Down 50 . Cargo or Botany 1. Went on all fours, 21 . Informer 45 . Anabaptists, for 52 . Prefix with school e.g. 22 . Arthurian lady one 53 . Evidence left behind 2. Madras moola 26 . Kind of eagle or 49 . Broken-glass 57 . Some alley sounds 3. Blood measures, e.g. advice residue 61 . Understand clearly 4. Brake 27 . Pastoral poem 51 . Van Druten's ''I 64 . One with no capacity for 5. Part of a white- 29 . Egyptian cobra ___ Camera'' veracity picket fence 31 . Stars in a 1958 flag 54 . City near Syracuse 66 . Curriculum ___ 6. Keep 90 percent 32 . Philatelist's love 55 . Medieval sword 67 . Elation 7. Villains of fables and 33 . Potato, for one 56 . Flat and tasteless 68 . Author Ferber rhymes 34 . Unpolished 58 . Peeping Tom, for 69 . Eleves' place 8. Walpole's group 36 . Escape, as from jail one 70 . Title for Helmut Kohl 9. Amazed onlooker, 37 . Be in hock 59 . Word with any or some 71 . Gangland guns e.g. 38 . Sturdy tree 60 . One cubic meter 72 . Did a 440, e.g. 10 . ___ cantabile 42 . Whimper 73 . Kind of surgeon 11 . Longing for ''the 62 . Periods of note good old days'' 63 . Thatcher's need 12 . Corner letter? 64 . You can shake it or 13 . Teeny break it 65 . Cantor or Lupino

238 Puzzle #236 Across 1. What's more 5. Florida seaport 10 . ''Reflections on Ice-Breaking'' poet 14 . Word between in and of 15 . Certain woodwinds 16 . ''A-Tisket, A-Tasket'' first name 17 . Important time periods 18 . They could be hard to swallow 19 . Magic wand feature 20 . Spade 23 . ___ out a living 24 . ''Do the Right Thing'' pizzeria owner 25 . Diamond 34 . Buzzing, as with excitement 35 . Syngman of Korea 36 . Sovereign symbol 37 . ''Cheers'' bartender Woody 38 . Burn with steam, e.g. 40 . Barbed remark 41 . ___ Jima 42 . Relative of etc. Down 43 . Joker portrayer Romero 1. Some are stout ones 22 . Word with man or 43 . Spoils shares 44 . Club 2. Foreign currency of dweller 45 . Public lead-in 48 . Sports legend Bobby old 25 . Former 46 . Cobbler's piece 49 . Word with cold or loud 3. Line of clothing? undersecretary of state 47 . Steal livestock 50 . Heart 4. Expel Philip 50 . Grammatical 59 . Code lead-in 5. Capital of Kansas 26 . ''Life is Just ___ of category 60 . Not on all fours 6. One who waits Cherries'' 51 . Love deified 61 . Something to pass 7. Source of a leak 27 . ''Oh, ___ don't!'' 52 . Minimal high tide 62 . Skyrocket 8. Neanderthal's wear 28 . Young ibex 53 . City south of 63 . Kidney-related 9. Did a taxing task? 29 . Medical student's Moscow 64 . Color for a little boy hurdles 10 . Hershey rival 54 . Quicky-marriage 65 . Descry 30 . Org. for Sharks and 11 . Prefix meaning locale 66 . Skier's challenge Penguins ''high'' 55 . Peters out 67 . Appear 31 . Kind of pollution 12 . Pole, e.g. 56 . It has banks in 32 . Word with blight or 13 . Tortoise's victim Africa guerrilla 21 . Mend 57 . Popular board 33 . Movie critic Roger game 38 . Swizzle sticks, e.g. 58 . Kind of sch. 39 . Recyclable item 40 . Lapidarist's item 42 . Raison d'___

239 Puzzle #237 Across 1. Low heels? 5. Recover 9. O. Henry, in the literary world 14 . Help a felon 15 . Humerus connector 16 . Gifted person? 17 . St. Nick accessory 18 . Children's tale villain 20 . For the umpteenth time 22 . Slithery catch 23 . Greek meeting place 24 . Rural nester that eats insects on the wing 28 . Word with box or trick 29 . Put a match to 30 . Rotating part under the hood 31 . Lose one's cool 33 . Joy Adamson trainee 35 . Fate 37 . Broadcasts, as the Super Bowl 38 . Women's accessory, perhaps 42 . Actor Arkin Down 44 . Crux of some riddles 1. Skilled 19 . Skin-soothing 46 . Put in solitary 45 . Bathroom floor piece 2. John Quincy's ingredient confinement 49 . Enjoys enthusiastically mother 21 . U.S. defense 47 . Actress Gish 52 . Genetic carrier 3. Hits the road strategizer 48 . Degrees or 54 . "___ Degrees of Separation" 4. It's hoisted in a pub 25 . Ancient Chinese magnitudes 55 . Devoted attention 5. Major airport creation 50 . "I don't think so" 56 . Real shocker 6. Actor Wallach 26 . Wild 51 . Delay 59 . President's prerogative 7. Stained glass figure 27 . Erode 53 . Gallery sight 61 . Shoshonean 8. Stereotypes 32 . Break in relations 55 . VCR necessity 62 . Prom dress material, 9. Go on to say 34 . Shortly, shortly 57 . Not in a month of perhaps 10 . Knocks one's socks 36 . Recipe amt. Sundays 63 . Driveway clearer, sometimes off 39 . "Meet Me ___ 58 . Sudden spurt 67 . Word with dance or bow 11 . Bar request Louis" 60 . "A Prayer for ___ 68 . Fifties flub 12 . Puts in more film 40 . Coagulated milk Meany" 69 . Greek salad addition 13 . Get the lard out 41 . "Wag the Dog" star 64 . Furtive 70 . Rebounds, points scored, Heche 65 . Seventh Greek e.g. 42 . Chilean coup victim letter 71 . Pint-sized 43 . Source of 66 . Put in position, as 72 . Unravel intolerance bricks 73 . Duo in a score

240 Puzzle #238 Across 1. Coarse file 5. All het up 9. Arizona city 13 . ___'acte 14 . Do a cover-up job? 15 . It's pulled occasionally 16 . About, formally 17 . Seaweed product 18 . Cellar-dweller's victory 19 . Oceanographer's measure 22 . Catch in a net 23 . Methuselah's claim to fame 27 . Kuwait noble 30 . ''The Virginian'' author, Owen 31 . Kublai ___ 34 . Halos of light 36 . Philosophical ''way'' 37 . British sleuths' center 41 . Ob-gyn's gp. 42 . Off the couch 43 . Highland tongue 44 . Spoken 46 . Great bargain 49 . Salad plant Down 50 . ''It's about time!'' 1. Queen of France 20 . Attachment for 40 . Attacked vocally 54 . Municipal coin collector 2. Kofi of the UN skeptic or cynic 45 . Humans, e.g. 58 . Kindly 3. Play guitar 21 . Sioux City Sue, e.g. 47 . Aerie inhabitant 61 . One on a pedestal 4. Years of innocence, 24 . Floral essence 48 . Modern money 62 . Ready to come off the stove perhaps 25 . They may be source 63 . Stove covers 5. Western warrior stripped 51 . Set things square 64 . Fishtail 6. Bitten by the love 26 . Lose underpinnings 52 . 1990-91 World 65 . Queen before George I bug 28 . Digs in Grand Prix champion 66 . Wistful thinking 7. Face form 29 . Criterions 53 . Linden and litchi 67 . Caused a swoon 8. Bug's beginning? 31 . Jack in the deck 55 . Glancing contact, 68 . Hot or iced drinks 9. Lightweight road 32 . Macho guys in billiards vehicles 33 . Blue ribbon, e.g. 56 . Between 10 . Bananas have two 35 . Talk up a storm assignments 11 . ''Told you so!'' 38 . Neckpieces 57 . Part of speech 12 . Hanging display 39 . Houston athlete, 58 . Like Bashful 15 . Picked on once 59 . Agony 60 . L-o-n-g time period

241 Puzzle #239 Across 1. It may follow an attorney 6. Went down 10 . Came down 14 . Place to spend centimes 15 . Canal to the Hudson River 16 . Prom sight 17 . Burdened Titan 18 . Seductress 19 . Land map 20 . Canvas cost? 22 . It's 17 miles from the Loop 23 . Legal right 24 . Cajun dinner chaser, perhaps 26 . Modem pair 29 . Monumental 31 . Physicist with a law 32 . Act up 34 . Like one snuggled in a blanket 38 . De-ported? 39 . Bio lab specimen 41 . "Make __": "Star Trek: TNG" catchphrase 42 . Prophet in Babylon Down 44 . Court burden 1. Words of discovery 21 . Legislature, at 45 . Distill 46 . Bar order 2. Later relative times 49 . One skilled at 47 . Fort south of Louisville 3. Actress Palmer 22 . Roman emperor in taking in 48 . Duffy's foe in the 1966 4. In any way 69 A.D. 50 . Duel action MSU-Notre Dame game 5. Harder to make out, 25 . Nobody 51 . Sanctuaries 49 . They'll chew you out as smoke 26 . "Yikes!" 52 . Old weapon 53 . Moxie 6. Ms. movement 27 . Flat formation 54 . Peninsula 55 . Doesn't age well 7. Red explorer? 28 . British shooter bordering the Negev 56 . Contract addition for a bit of 8. Top of a form, 30 . Tab desert sandbox equipment? perhaps 33 . Sprite's 57 . Actress Jillian et al. 61 . "The Cherry Orchard" role 9. Latin law appendage? 58 . Peacenik 62 . Ivy in Philly 10 . Pile into which 35 . Acropolis locale 59 . Cut, say 63 . Voltaic cell terminal letters to Aristotle are 36 . Leader until 1917 60 . Move, to a realtor 64 . Jamaican fruit sorted? 37 . "Do or do not. 62 . Super Bowl 65 . Carry on 11 . Lavender cousin There is no try" participant 66 . Carp 12 . Japanese porcelain speaker 67 . "Agreed!" 13 . Carried 40 . Hit hard 68 . Just about 43 . They're vital for 69 . Connect with good looks

242 Puzzle #240 Across 1. Runner-up, essentially 6. Most have big mouths 10 . Word with baking or cream 14 . "I give!" 15 . 1997 Peter Fonda role 16 . "Famous" cookie name 17 . Came and got it 20 . Check at the bar 21 . Excessive 22 . Hip-length pullover 23 . Let off the hook 25 . Dissuade 27 . Stick on the table 29 . Eaves dropper? 33 . Came and got it 38 . Bucket material, often 39 . ___ in on (moved toward a goal) 40 . Doe in "Bambi" 41 . Brett of the Packers 43 . Writer Rand 44 . Came and got it 46 . Capital of Taiwan 49 . Make less boring, in a way 50 . Luggage marker Down 53 . Weekly gig 1. Commits a deadly 24 . Poet laureate 47 . California wine 57 . Thunderstorm byproduct sin Nicholas grapes 60 . Late-night host Kilborn 2. Scheduled next 26 . Solder metal 48 . Setting of the fall 62 . You will often appear to the 3. Diver's gear 28 . River between 51 . It may precede a left of it 4. Prankish imaginary Germany and Poland blessing 63 . Came and got it being 30 . Sheltered nook 52 . Legal analyst Van 66 . Troop group 5. Made a pit stop 31 . "___ Croft: Tomb Susteren 67 . Tittle 6. Ashley or Hirsch Raider" 54 . Han Solo captor 68 . Chevalier 7. Within earshot 32 . Just managed 55 . Some tough exams 69 . Sets the dogs (on) 8. 1966 hit "Walk Away (with "out") 56 . Father 70 . Ride air currents ___" 33 . Talk casually 57 . Numbered work 71 . Wedding-reception ritual 9. "What did I tell 34 . Georgetown 58 . Pueblo Indian you?" hoopster 59 . Psych attachment? 10 . Hunting expedition 35 . Attachment for 61 . Way off yonder 11 . Epps of "Against science or bus 64 . "Whether ___ the Ropes" 36 . Lennon's widow nobler ..." 12 . Marina slip 37 . Waves from a boat 65 . "Yabba dabba __!" 13 . Befuddled 41 . Certain operative 18 . Said and done 42 . Pretentious 19 . Blueprint detail 44 . A chuck holds it 45 . "Leave it to Beaver" character

243 Puzzle #241 Across 1. Senegal's capital 6. Edible tubers 11 . Do garden work 14 . Ammonia compound 15 . Skirt shape 16 . Ornamental vase 17 . Free-for-all 19 . Stewed to the gills 20 . Birthplace of St. Francis 21 . Colonizer 23 . Military greeting 26 . Former Irish Nationalist Timothy 27 . Be in debt 30 . Public speaker's platform 31 . ''Sink'' or ''swim'' 32 . Dot on a monitor 34 . Highland hillside 36 . Gangsta recitals 39 . Ill-defined 41 . Squealer 43 . Glance over 44 . Moist 46 . Hag 47 . One of the Jackson 5 Down 49 . Policeman's route 1. Baby's first word, 22 . Hardly a little angel 48 . What a cozy covers 51 . Bard's above perhaps 24 . Blackest part of a 50 . ''Bonanza'' son 52 . Farm implement inventor 2. ''Lucky Jim'' author shadow 52 . Lifeboat support 54 . Indiscriminate Kingsley 25 . Feather bed? 53 . 1930s song ''Maria 56 . Kazakhstan's capital 3. Affectionate smack 27 . ''Mr. Holland's ___'' ___'' 58 . Moonshot program 4. Nay sayers (1996) 54 . Cattle land 62 . Churchill gesture 5. Not designed to be 28 . Subtle come-on 55 . French 63 . Extreme confusion and thrown away 29 . Commotion impressionist painter disorder 6. Pop-top 31 . November 11 (1840-1926) 66 . ''Holiday ___'' (1942) 7. What's put before marcher 57 . Container weight 67 . Church instrument the carte? 33 . City in southern 59 . Canine pests 68 . Bing Crosby's record label 8. Shampoo instruction New York 60 . He made ''Time'' 69 . Feline, to Tweety 9. Fairy-tale beginning 35 . Colorado resort 61 . Land in the Mideast 70 . Group between 12 and 20 10 . Be boiling mad town 64 . Comic Aykroyd 71 . Dutch painter Jan 11 . Loud clamor 37 . Evergreen 65 . Annapolis grad. 12 . Bay window 38 . Fortuneteller 13 . Doorway 40 . Hubbub 18 . Stir up 42 . Eight-armed creatures 45 . Wharton degree (Abbr.)

244 Puzzle #242 Across 1. He eulogized Julius 5. ''Do ___ others as ...'' 9. It may be thrown at you 13 . Word with staging or wilderness 14 . Borden of condensed milk 15 . Daughter of Helios and Perse 16 . Croat or Bulgar, e.g. 17 . Hale and hearty 19 . Type of occasion 21 . Globe 22 . A sucker holds it 23 . Palindromic title 26 . Atomic number 53 28 . Hale and hearty 32 . Meat cuts from above the hips 33 . Oldest of the Brady kids 34 . Carpenter's nail 38 . Chowed down 39 . Feeling guilt or remorse 42 . Good feller 43 . Seat of Irish kings 45 . Silver hair? Down 46 . ''Concerto for the Left Hand'' 1. Father's concern 20 . Italian city near the 47 . Edible marine composer 2. One of the singing Ligurian Sea gastropod 48 . Hale and hearty Guthries 24 . Thick-haired hound 49 . Christian art figure 51 . On ship 3. Tangible 25 . Satellite of Uranus 50 . Recipe direction 54 . Persona's opposite 4. Troglodyte 27 . Society inductee 51 . One born on April 1 55 . Ring or rink figure 5. Kampala's country 28 . Without fizz 52 . Joe Camp's dog 56 . Get long in the tooth 6. Apprehend 29 . Greek vowel 53 . Put on the market 58 . Sweet fortified wine 7. Sesame plant 30 . Layer 57 . Young newts 62 . Hale and hearty 8. Bread spread 31 . Put down 59 . Eager-beaverish 66 . Not quite a circle 9. Action at Christie's 35 . Underground 60 . Predatory group 67 . Cassette player button 10 . Small African dance party 61 . Sheltered, 68 . Veracious antelope 36 . Figure skating nautically 69 . Love potion's number 11 . Kind of breeze jump 63 . Hotel sign 70 . Father on the farm 12 . Light anchor 37 . ''Moon Calf'' 64 . Underground 71 . Chiromancer, e.g. 15 . Computer novelist deposit 72 . Word in a Maugham title programming language 40 . Makeup mishap 65 . Lament 18 . Song section 41 . Euripides creation 44 . Simile words

245 Puzzle #243 Across 1. Setting for many jokes 4. Former N.Y.C. mayor 8. Snowball fight sound 13 . Andy's radio partner 15 . "Cavalleria Rusticana" role 16 . Unaccompanied 17 . Green 20 . Pupal protection 21 . Half a rebellion started in Kenya 22 . Evergreen trees 23 . Designer Gernreich 25 . Pudding thickener 27 . Green 33 . She played Lacey 34 . "Rock and Roll, Hoochie ___" 35 . "If ___" (Beatles song) 36 . South end? 37 . Green 40 . Member of the musical scale 41 . Nintendo's precursor 43 . Big Ten sch. 44 . Pressure cookers 45 . Green Down 49 . Lincoln's coin 1. Judge's seat, in law 19 . Waikiki feast 44 . Prepare to get 50 . Lima's land 2. "Here ___, there ..." 24 . "Are you ___ out?" juice? 51 . Wild way to run? (kids' song refrain) (poker query) 46 . Calvary inscription 54 . Bravo or Grande 3. College marching 26 . "True ___" (John 47 . Work with needles 56 . Member of the mob org. Wayne movie) 48 . Kind of vaccine 60 . Green 4. 1890s gold rush site 27 . Soiree 51 . Works by sculptor 63 . Greek thinker 5. Alley of the comics 28 . Relating to the Jean 64 . Burn the midnight oil 6. Mr. Kadiddlehopper forearm bone 52 . Uris' "___ 18" 65 . Boris' refusal of classic TV 29 . Beckett's "Waiting 53 . In the blink ___ 66 . Japanese electronics giant 7. Annoy persistently For ___" eye 67 . Common chutney ingredient 8. Utter 30 . "The Goose with 55 . Elbe tributary 68 . Balaam's transport 9. Postseason game the Golden Eggs" 57 . "I Know Why the 10 . Opera house box author Caged Bird Sings" 11 . Freshly 31 . Man of the ___ author Angelou (clergyman) 12 . Knight and Koppel 58 . Has another 32 . Plumbing joints 14 . Energetic and birthday spirited 33 . It may follow a 59 . Circus safety shuffle 18 . Win decisively equipment 37 . Bad habit 61 . Charm with flowers 38 . "Immediately, if and candy not sooner" letters 62 . Where the 39 . Maxwell Smart film successful go (with "The") 42 . Unsteady

246 Puzzle #244 Across 1. Kindergarten basics 5. Abs exercise 10 . Quart parts: Abbr. 13 . Piece of land 15 . Caribbean resort island 16 . Go bad, as fruit 17 . Physical work 19 . Neighbor of Wash. 20 . New __, India 21 . Teachers' org. 22 . Urban pollution 23 . Engine noise 25 . Michigan or Minnesota 27 . Splash droplets on 30 . Drinks noisily 33 . Large coffee maker 34 . Figure of speech 37 . Game-show host 38 . Lollobrigida of film 40 . L-P link 41 . Skin opening 42 . Grownup 44 . Copper or aluminum 47 . Prepare to shoot 48 . Broadcasts again Down 50 . Bridge support 1. 24-hr. bank feature 18 . Like notebook 45 . Knight suit 52 . Cake section 2. Actor Pitt paper 46 . One of the Beatles 54 . Prefix for present 3. 27 Down source 22 . Tree-trunk 49 . Come to terms 55 . Six o'clock broadcast 4. Carve, as a statue remainder 51 . ''Cheers'' or 57 . Harbor boat 5. Actor Mineo 24 . Fairy-tale writing ''Friends'' 59 . In first place 6. Teheran's country brother 53 . Measuring stick 62 . Gardner of Hollywood 7. Toothpaste 26 . Stein contents 55 . Back of the neck 63 . Onetime NASA satellite containers 27 . Coffee additive 56 . Hardly __ (rarely) launcher 8. WWII subs 28 . __ and joy 58 . Clothing 66 . Wooden pin 9. __ for the course 29 . Yearly earnings 60 . Gumbo veggie 67 . Watchful 10 . Painter's 31 . Danger 61 . Flea, e.g. 68 . Ancient Scandinavian application 32 . Teacher's request 63 . Sound of 69 . Before, in verse 11 . Fuss 35 . Afternoon hour satisfaction 70 . Oregano and basil 12 . Guys-only event 36 . Maxim 64 . City roads: Abbr. 71 . Spouse 14 . South Pacific island 39 . Fictitious name 65 . Golf platform 43 . Have a go at

247 Puzzle #245 Across 1. D'Urbervilles damsel 5. Clobber, biblical-style 10 . ''Not gonna happen'' 14 . Regarding 15 . Anchorite 16 . Not certifiable 17 . Symbol of the first word of 53-Across 20 . Eloise's creator Thompson 21 . Emperor with strings attached? 22 . Complex parts? 23 . ''Raiders of the Lost Ark'' menace 24 . Getty competitor, once 25 . Keenness 28 . Hurl violently 29 . Leamington's attraction 32 . ''___ Cane'' (1963) 33 . Biography opener? 34 . Needling remark 35 . It became legal in 1941 38 . Envisages 39 . ___-do-well 40 . 22-Across, for example Down 41 . Pre-1991 map abbr. 1. It's a real piece of 19 . Nonsense 42 . Just managed 42 . Brinks work 23 . Some West Wing (with ''out'') 43 . Value 2. ''Cómo ___ usted?'' workers 43 . San Marino locale 44 . Cargo platform 3. Shirt collar stiffener 24 . ''Purple People 44 . Nullifies a dele 45 . Sounds of reproof 4. One having trouble ___'' 45 . Third canonical 46 . Wrongful dispossession passing the bar? 25 . Not quite right hour 49 . Aviation prefix 5. Happy colleague 26 . Things stacked in a 46 . ''Make nothing 50 . Resident animal 6. Alhambra's builders parlor ___'' 53 . One of four proclaimed by 7. News you can use 27 . Ground opening? 47 . Bear constellation FDR 8. Evangelist 28 . Ranch hands 48 . Transmit 56 . Ain't right? attachment 29 . Maugham's Miss 49 . Way off yonder 57 . Kweisi Mfume's org. 9. Norwegian navigator Thompson 50 . Soccer great 58 . ''And another thing . . .'' 10 . ''___ Hooks'' (crate 30 . Talk idly 51 . Life of Riley 59 . Young boys warning) 31 . Immeasurable void 52 . 1982 Disney thriller 60 . River in E. Germany 11 . Word with boil or 33 . On ___-to-know 54 . Orienteering need 61 . Mall habitue line basis 55 . Type of chance 12 . Old preposition 34 . Inclinations 13 . Attention-getters 36 . Surrounding area 18 . Clear the drain 37 . Accepted practice

248 Puzzle #246 Across 1. Doesn't just sit there 5. Eniwetok, for one 10 . Place east of Java 14 . River to the Caspian 15 . Electrical unit named for an inventor 16 . Applications 17 . Kimono cousin 18 . Brilliant achievement 19 . Longest sentence 20 . Top mark 22 . Place for scores 24 . Kett of comics 26 . Starting from 27 . Over the hill 31 . Seuss' Yertle 35 . Kind of cord 36 . Places for drawings? 38 . Scoundrels 39 . One way to run 41 . Gastropod 43 . Summer pest 44 . Lowly workers 46 . Shenanigan 48 . "___ Got a Secret" Down 49 . Highest in rank 1. Angelic atmosphere 21 . Crockpot 45 . Linger in the tub 51 . Pick-up owner's purchase 2. Jockey's need concoction 47 . Tribe 53 . Something to raise 3. Add 15 to this for a 23 . Serve the coffee 50 . Salon tasks 55 . Spilled the beans cup 25 . Lemon and lime 52 . Bound by routine 56 . Semi hazard 4. Lead follower drinks 54 . Glycerin lead-in 61 . 1993 treaty, briefly 5. Had one's whey? 27 . Does seasonal mall 56 . Shade of green 64 . Kind of grease 6. Word in many work 57 . Skater's stunt 65 . It may be impounded college names 28 . Evangelist 58 . Happy mollusk? McPherson 67 . Kind of service 7. Munch Museum site 59 . Pal of Ollie 29 . Radius neighbor 68 . Honeybunch 8. Altiplano animal 60 . "Slow down" 30 . Fallback strategy 69 . Take off the board 9. Gossip (with "the") 62 . Take-out words 32 . It gives off good 70 . Cajole 10 . Jeremiah of song 63 . Iowa State's home vibes 71 . Some street liners 11 . A large chunk of 66 . Doorbell- 33 . Split 72 . Some TVs Earth answerer's word 73 . Some brief ring feats 12 . Hit the road 34 . Chemical 13 . "Understood!" compound 37 . Something to build on 40 . Midi-pants 42 . Tops

249 Puzzle #247 Across 1. Velvety ground cover 5. E=mc² component 9. Thick chunks 14 . --- even keel 15 . Rover's repast 16 . French bonnet 17 . Riviera's San --- 18 . Short video 19 . Stir the soul 20 . Why Noah couldn't trust all the animals? 23 . Car club 24 . Rocky hilltop 25 . Young prankster 26 . Director David 28 . Kind of bag 30 . Emulated 34 . Lofty abode 36 . Black Sea port 38 . Only things Noah could afford to take? 42 . Regard with respect 43 . Sarandon, played Louise 44 . Served perfectly 45 . First victim Down 47 . Annapolis Academy 1. A human being 21 . Welding gas 41 . Type of acid 51 . ___-Magnon man 2. Type of street 22 . Carve in relief 46 . Bugaboos 52 . Swampy land 3. Pago Pago person 27 . Wasn't indifferent 48 . Poughkeepsie 54 . Marcus Welby's org. 4. Tundra blanket 29 . Pee Wee, in college 55 . Where the wildebeests came 5. Prefix meaning large Cooperstown 49 . Ms. Earhart from? 6. Kind of reaction 30 . One place to call 50 . Coats of paint 61 . Greene, played Ben 7. --- and span for added insurance 51 . Words to live by Cartwright 8. Best Actress, 1961 31 . Omega preceder 53 . DVD button 62 . Shaman's wisdom 9. Throat trouble 32 . Compass point 55 . Unappetizing 63 . Capri, for one 10 . Spoils of war 33 . Prosecuting attys. cafeteria serving 64 . Egg-shaped 11 . Greenish blue 35 . It may be 56 . PBS series 65 . ''Ben-Hur,'' e.g. 12 . Thicket defamatory 57 . Europe - Asia 66 . Hosiery purchase 13 . Goes out with 37 . 1994 Oscar winner boundary 67 . --- in comparison regularly Wiest 58 . Pay to play 68 . Splinter group 38 . Arthur of ''Maude'' 59 . Slangy dissent 69 . Time spans 39 . Computer key 60 . Ready for plucking 40 . Had seconds

250 Puzzle #248 Across 1. Spoils 5. Loopy 9. Regional foliage 14 . Discomfort source 15 . Miss Cinders of old comics 16 . Spill the beans 17 . "At once!" 18 . Music genre 19 . Consumed 20 . PI, at times? 23 . Saintly ambience 24 . Fence or sausage factory worker? 28 . Pale imitation 31 . "The Afternoon of a ___" (Nijinsky ballet) 33 . Coronado's quest 34 . Oscar-winning actress in "Sayonara" 35 . Hops security precaution? 37 . Vitamin B3 source 38 . Computer buffer 39 . Word with pension or game 40 . Not-so-tender roaster? 42 . Pilot's command Down 43 . Society page word 1. Window part 21 . Cosmonaut Gagarin 41 . Relaxed 44 . Place for brooding 2. Org. for Carry Nation 22 . Fonda film 42 . Mr. Gynt 45 . Spirited 3. Captain of literature 25 . San Francisco Zoo 45 . Eats heartily 46 . Scatters 4. Fix but good attraction 47 . 1942 Pulitzer 48 . Complaint 5. Catch sight of 26 . Error-prone novelist Glasgow 49 . Get nothing from the 6. Maui greeting 27 . Comedian 48 . Reveille instrument machine? 7. Where there's smoke Dangerfield 50 . Fashionable 55 . WWI French soldier 8. After-shower powder 28 . Japanese Schiaparelli 58 . Hauls 9. Running away mattresses 51 . Witty remark 59 . First czar of Russia 10 . Discover 29 . Good luck charm 52 . Like 6, 8 or 10 60 . Like the old bucket of song 11 . Mel, the Giant 30 . Melt down, as fat 53 . --- avis 61 . River sediment slugger 31 . Component 54 . Angel-making 62 . Famous Roman despot 12 . Fish eggs 32 . Pale as a ghost material 63 . Where opinion is headed 13 . Massachusetts 35 . Mighty symbols of 55 . Word with shot or 64 . Copies cape strength belly 65 . Chew on 36 . Inspirational 56 . Ripple maker 38 . Salad green 57 . Presidential nickname

251 Puzzle #249 Across 1. Shakespeare's theatre 6. --- Cong 10 . PBS science series 14 . Shorten again, as a skirt 15 . ''--- Angel'' (Mae West movie) 16 . Designer St. Laurent 17 . Computer game pioneer 18 . Marc Antony's loan request 19 . Hide's partner 20 . Oscar winner for ''Elmer Gantry'' 23 . Compass heading 24 . --- Saud (former Saudi king) 25 . Architect I.M. 26 . Steve Martin song ''King ---'' 29 . Oscar winner for ''Raging Bull'' 32 . What Washington couldn't tell 35 . Fit-fiddle connector 36 . Flying Disney character 37 . Shelley of ''Cheers'' 38 . Feudal workers 41 . Freshwater duck Down 42 . Bride's destination 1. Seizes, as a brass 21 . Title for Coptic 47 . Mr. Khrushchev 44 . TV's Tarzan ring bishops 48 . Playful chitchat 45 . IDs of a sort 2. ''--- pray'' 22 . ''Fit to Be ---'' 49 . Some electron 46 . Oscar winner for ''The 3. Chicago terminal (1952) tubes Godfather'' 4. Lahr or Parks 27 . ''--- Legend'' 53 . Likely --- 50 . Bear, in Barcelona 5. Estevez of ''Repo (1998) (probably) 51 . Aunt, in Acapulco Man'' 28 . Do-it-yourself 54 . ''The --- Mack 52 . Cable company that merged 6. Like some waltzes needs Show'' with AT&T 7. Translucent Apple 29 . Fit for a king 55 . Contemptuous 53 . Infomercials, e.g. 8. Mesmerized 30 . Less well-done smile 56 . Oscar winner for ''As Good 31 . Bonkers 57 . Linkletter and As It Gets'' 9. Mixed, as a salad 32 . ''--- Bay'' (1985) Carney 60 . Bedstand pitcher 10 . Wall Street initials 33 . Falana and Montez 58 . ''Out of Africa'' 62 . ''--- Wonderful Life'' 11 . They may follow regulation play 34 . Incorporate author Dinesen 63 . ''Inferno'' author 12 . ''Rubber Ball'' attitudes into one's own 59 . Tibetan holy man 64 . Religious splinter group singer Bobby personality 60 . Clairvoyance, for 65 . ''--- It Down'' (1997) 13 . Set, as a price 39 . Some freight train short 66 . Ham it up components 61 . Like Willie Winkie 67 . Teachers' favorites 40 . Harmony or accord 68 . Torah holders 43 . Campus cadet org. 69 . Half-man-half-goat creature

252 Puzzle #250 Across 1. West African republic 6. Armory supply, briefly 10 . 90-degree shapes 14 . ''___ at last!'' 15 . Withdraw by degrees 16 . Heavy hammer 17 . Scatter 18 . Touched down 19 . Subject to a draft 20 . All of a sudden 23 . Blow away 24 . Bubba, to Forrest 25 . Endeavor 29 . Synthesizer pioneer 31 . Where to find porters 34 . Aging star 36 . Name used in exclamations 37 . ''As You Like It'' forest 38 . Muckraker Tarbell 39 . Bride's following 40 . Abound 41 . ''It's a'' and ''after all'' link in a song 43 . Part of HRH 44 . Equinox mo. Down 45 . A truckload 1. Word with tank or 22 . ''You're it!'' 42 . Trickster god 46 . Hoedown partner range 25 . Mowed strip 44 . Anatomical pouch 47 . Endorses 2. Lowest female voice 26 . Wee hour 46 . Dean's last film 48 . Fairy tale alarmist 3. Word with free or 27 . Legal addendum 47 . ''Full House'' twins 55 . Goddess of the earth yesterday 28 . Bit of gossip 48 . Put in an 56 . Tennessee's state flower 4. The two of eleven? 29 . Angry with appearance 57 . Sports facility 5. Connecticut college 30 . Type of surgeon 49 . Part of one's sole 59 . Grace period? town 31 . Gem of the ocean 50 . Sal's canal 60 . Part of a bridal shower 6. In the know 32 . Helpful 51 . Riviera resort 61 . Part of a willing trio 7. Hot sandwich 33 . Barre exercises 52 . Newspaper source 62 . Big shot? 8. Open ocean 35 . Milquetoast 53 . Sprat cuisine 63 . On the bright side 9. Astride 36 . Cow poke? 54 . Partner of odds 64 . Have a hunch 10 . Net receipt? 39 . Mediocre rating 55 . Tie up the line 11 . Not of the clergy 41 . Crusoe's supposed 58 . Senate approval 12 . Entice prototype 13 . Foxy 21 . Ran a tab

253 Puzzle #251 Across 1. Had the biggest part of 10 . Run slowly 14 . Making a humble retraction 17 . Be formal 18 . Piquant 19 . __ level 20 . Kid's proud retort 21 . Winged statuettes 23 . Werner Erhard's therapy fad 25 . Green land 27 . "...__ time to do't": Lady Macbeth 28 . Racing family 31 . "Madame Chrysanthème" writer Pierre 32 . Mideast gp. 33 . Space heater? 34 . Part of 35 . Visit 39 . Estate adjoining a manor house 41 . Genesis shepherd 42 . H.S. subject 44 . According to 45 . Lean and muscular Down 46 . "__ Fideles" 1. Italian sonnet 15 . Indian title 43 . Trial by jury 48 . Bud closing 16 . "Aren't __ pair?" amendment 51 . Has __ ear: lacks sensitivity 2. Japanese mat 22 . Kirk underling 47 . Stew 52 . Second name? 3. Sergeant __ 24 . Stepped 48 . Court request 53 . Pledged virtue 4. Rusty's dog, to 26 . Berlin article 49 . This minute 55 . Flatten Rusty 29 . Title soprano who 50 . Moonscape? 58 . Some Ga. Tech grads 5. Three-min. period sings the aria "Casta 54 . King of kids' books 60 . Siouan speaker 6. They sometimes diva" 56 . Reason to atone 61 . Speaks truthfully need boosts 30 . Was out for a while 57 . Map lines: Abbr. 64 . Challenging way to race 7. Churches, e.g. 32 . Where lavalavas 59 . "__ a Lady" 65 . Clinton's transportation 8. How beer may be are worn 61 . Waist-to-knees secretary sold 35 . "You look like you area, at times 66 . "Gimme Shelter" group 9. Once known as __ ghost!" 62 . Giant legend 10 . Cellar figure 36 . Place for closing 63 . Outer: prefix 11 . Landfalls? lines 12 . Art Carney role 37 . "Boston Public" 13 . College dept. actress 38 . Museum piece 40 . Run into

254 Puzzle #252 Across 1. Inundated 6. Lift in Aspen 10 . Wild way to run? 14 . Very, to Ozawa 15 . First name in courtroom fiction 16 . Prom-goer's pursuit 17 . Provide funding 18 . Word with act or gear 19 . Hardly ruddy 20 . Snitcher 23 . Peg of the links 24 . For each 25 . Fast North American snakes 27 . Start for day or wife 30 . Forster's had a view 33 . Peter the Great, e.g. 34 . Sal the mule's canal 36 . Lustrous gem 38 . Aluminum manufacturer 41 . Fall guy 44 . Shenanigan 45 . House of Lords title 46 . Jidda native 47 . Swedish chain Down 49 . Gestured greeting 1. Singing brothers 21 . Smoking gun 43 . Famous chipmunk 51 . Like some wines 2. Pattern of behavior 22 . Stuffy-sounding 48 . Member of a 52 . Singled out 3. Designer Gucci 26 . Lily variety certain kingdom 54 . ''Monsters, ___'' 4. Old neighborhood 27 . Flat tableland with 50 . Mesh gears 56 . She may feel cooped up hangout steep edges 52 . Gyrating guitarist 57 . Easy target 5. Sidesplitter 28 . It's south of 53 . Defender of Castle 64 . Asian caregiver 6. First name among Georgia Greyskull 66 . Tie at anchor the ''Desperate 29 . Definitive book? 55 . Drive insert 67 . Insurance ploy Housewives'' cast 31 . Mayberry resident 58 . Tuning fork's 68 . One in a million 7. Cell at sea 32 . Colorful parrot output 69 . Oppositionist 8. Succulent perennial 35 . Satie and Estrada 59 . Kind of bag 70 . Berry's Johnny B. 9. Witty reply 37 . Italian coin no 60 . Subject for Monet 71 . Cameo stone 10 . Nabokov heroine longer minted 61 . Sports org. based 72 . Pinky and Spike 11 . Plastic supplier? 39 . General Bradley in Colorado 73 . Toaster, often 12 . Wise leader 40 . Noted adviser 62 . Secret language 13 . 2004 loser to 42 . Slurpees 63 . Dummy's perch Obama competitors 65 . Evil spell

255 Puzzle #253 Across 1. Drafting aids 9. Slow 15 . Start of a fight 16 . Spoil, as a picnic 17 . Extract used in perfumery 18 . Wide-open spaces 19 . Bit 20 . Suburban Russian residence 22 . Top number? 23 . Play 26 . "Tell __": 1963 hit 27 . Org. with an oft-quoted journal 28 . Really loved 29 . Director's bane 31 . Titan housings 33 . "See __!" 34 . Cracks up 40 . Unimaginative 41 . Hardly sterile 42 . Celebrate, in a way 45 . Some MIT grads 49 . Function 50 . Eastern tie 51 . Long puff Down 53 . Appomattox surrender mo. 1. Part of one's 14 . Captures 43 . Senior __ 54 . One of the Dwarfs, say inheritance 21 . Beer, sometimes 44 . Bears 57 . Auréole wearer 2. Arizona neighbor 24 . One of the deadly 46 . Sugar coats 58 . Cheated, in slang 3. "Enough!" sins 47 . Expired 60 . King novel, with "The" 4. Risky 25 . Certain church 48 . Man of Milan 63 . Rating at a station 5. "The Sultan of Sulu" mem. 52 . Like atolls 64 . Replacing playwright 29 . Brushes (up) 55 . Cut, perhaps 65 . Acts frugally 6. Outback hopper 30 . McBride of "Boston 56 . Designer Rowan 66 . Decorator's suggestion 7. Markey who played Public" 59 . "Gee!" Jane in "Tarzan of the 32 . Enters a password, 61 . Jungfrau, e.g. Apes" (1918) say 62 . Break down 8. Ward of film 34 . Desert homes for 9. Lady's-slipper, e.g. Gila woodpeckers 10 . __ Islands 35 . Comer 11 . Acapulco aunt 36 . Intelligentsia 12 . Tacit 37 . Words from a 13 . Additional witness 38 . Barrie pirate 39 . Make harmonious

256 Puzzle #254 Across 1. Immature newts 5. Sabrina's cat 10 . ''Against All ---'' 14 . Not a hit 15 . Actress Valli of ''The Third Man'' 16 . ''--- For Love'' Sam Shepard film 17 . Popular TV game show (with ''The'') 19 . Red Hot Chili Peppers member 20 . ''Alphabet City'' star Vincent 21 . ''The --- Sack'' (1957) 22 . ''--- in Show'' 23 . Vegetable pod 26 . Mrs. Tom Hanks 28 . Former host of 17-Across 33 . ''Star Wars'' character Boba --- 34 . In favor of 35 . ''---, Indiana'' 37 . Plumb of ''The Brady Bunch'' 38 . Musical police drama 41 . Items in Caesar's omelet? Down 42 . Donnie with a vicious rabbit friend 1. Failing grades 24 . ''--- Man'' (1984 45 . ''--- Jones'' 44 . ''The Sum of --- Fears'' 2. Envelope part film comedy) 47 . ''Specimen of 45 . ''The Defiant ---'' (1958) 3. Tony Musante's TV 25 . Modern Maturity Human Life'' writer org. Uriel 46 . Former host of 17-Across policeman 27 . ''Star ---'' 48 . ''The --- of the Pink 50 . Clear conclusion? 4. Elvis Presley racing movie 28 . Actor Burton of Panther'' (1975) 51 . Emulate Esther Williams 5. ''Don't --- a Word'' ''Roots'' 49 . Guileful 52 . JLo thriller (with ''The'') 6. Furry TV alien 29 . Cheri of SNL 52 . --- circles, signs in 55 . Non-Rx 7. ''True ---'' 30 . Military acronym ''Signs'' 57 . Hard candy, in Britain (Schwarzenegger film) 31 . College town near 53 . Banjo-plucking 61 . Julia of ''The Addams 8. Franz of ''The Thing Bangor Scruggs Family'' From Another World'' 32 . Filmdom's Phileas 54 . ''The Godfather'' 62 . Catchphrase on 17-Across 9. Cybill's role on Fogg villain Brasi 65 . Shark boat in ''Jaws'' ''Moonlighting'' 33 . Disobeyed a zoo 56 . Rugged cliff 66 . ''Soul ----'' (show created by 10 . AWOL sign 58 . Put on cargo Don Cornelius) 11 . Clinton's debate 36 . --- in ''easy'' 59 . Actor Waggoner 67 . Eric in ''Life of Brian'' opponent on ''60 38 . ''Citizen ---'' (1992 60 . 1914 battle river 68 . ''A Simple ---'' Minutes'' film) 63 . Super Bowl in 69 . ''Agent Cody Banks'' actress 12 . Female deer 39 . Cutlass maker, which Miami beat Harmon 13 . Part of a louvered briefly Washington 70 . Carnac the Magnificent, for door 40 . Inspector Gadget's 64 . NYC-to-Boston dir. one 18 . Evil Norse god nemesis 43 . Clark Kent's mom on ''Lois and Clark''

257 Puzzle #255 Across 1. Not exactly the brightest bulb on the tree 9. Dressy accessory 15 . Asian part of Turkey 16 . Ancient Greek state 17 . Chiefs 18 . One waiting casually, maybe 19 . "Love Me, I'm a Liberal" songwriter 20 . Earth tones 22 . Co. involved with basket making? 23 . Unduly 24 . Takes off 25 . Swindled 26 . 1968 self-titled folk album 28 . Main call 29 . Quai d'Orsay's river 30 . Enters for free, maybe 32 . "I am the captain of my soul" poet 33 . Refreshing spots 35 . Dash 38 . Steel industry pioneer 42 . Corrupt Down 43 . Pandora's boxful 1. Missouri River site, 13 . Organic solvent 37 . Metaphorical 44 . Prefix with -gon with "the" 14 . High-tech access warning 45 . Enthralled 2. Mythical prancer 21 . Del __ Books: sci-fi 39 . Insurance concern 46 . "The __ see it..." 3. Subterranean publisher 40 . Gulf of Guayaquil 47 . Rum __ Tugger: "Cats" opening 25 . Got tight locale character 4. Board events: Abbr. 27 . Working with a 41 . Butters 48 . Bad mood 5. Keystone flatfoot crew, maybe 43 . Adverb ending 49 . Scholar who wrote "If not 6. Mixed bag 28 . Gal Fri. 46 . Comparatively now, when?" 7. Stepped in (for) 29 . High __ spread out 51 . Pomp and glitter, informally 8. Like a guest of 31 . Maidstone's county 49 . X, on a map 52 . Flush honor, at times 32 . 1949 medicine 50 . Clytemnestra's 54 . "Guys and Dolls" lamenter 9. Chaucer works Nobelist Walter Rudolf mother 56 . It's not in the program 10 . Urban addition __ 51 . Iona College 57 . Super 11 . Letter from the 34 . Trusted athlete 58 . One preparing for a spike Corinthians 35 . Reality TV shows, 53 . URL part 59 . They make things possible 12 . It may be put on these days 55 . Quiet place: Abbr. leftovers 36 . Kind of news

258 Puzzle #256 Across 1. Welcoming word 6. Assuage 10 . Obstruction 14 . Recruiter de personnel 16 . Perfect 17 . Quaff served à une Irish pub 18 . Turkmenistan neighbor 19 . Formerly 20 . Composes 21 . Banks known for hitting 22 . Jeb Bush's st. 23 . Aides 25 . Musical avec Barbra Streisand 30 . Alternative to digital 31 . "Cope Book" name 32 . Media regulating gp. 35 . Claudius's adoptive son 36 . Date 37 . Horse of the Century Man __ 38 . PC key 39 . Commotion 41 . Noted test site 43 . Le Internet Down 45 . Without notice to the other 1. 46-Down's 54, e.g.: 22 . Egg __ yung 42 . First name in side, in law Abbr. 24 . Popular street despots 48 . Hitter's stat 2. Boxer Spinks name 43 . Bricklayers 49 . Ebbets Field favorite 3. Suffix with orth- 25 . Dennis, to Mr. 44 . Tropical fish with 50 . Yemeni dough 4. "You are __" Wilson powerful teeth 52 . Focal points 5. Solver's shout 26 . "The Defiant __": 45 . Susan Lucci role 56 . Obsessed by 6. Win over 1958 film 46 . One of the noble 57 . Equine qui speaks 7. Memo abbr. 27 . Stash finder gases 59 . Invent, in a way 8. Place to surf 28 . Ben's ex-squeeze 47 . __ jury 60 . Medical practice que is rare 9. 8-Down flier 29 . Tractor maker 51 . "Last one __ ..." nowadays 10 . Like a bird 32 . E-mail opinion 52 . One of LBJ's 61 . Certain colonists sanctuary qualifier, briefly daughters 62 . Dept. store inventory 11 . "SNL" producer 33 . Sugar source 53 . Kind of surgeon 63 . Bad way to be knocked Michaels 34 . Illicit exam aid 54 . Pen unit 12 . Walking __ 36 . Part of a shortcut, 55 . Without purpose 13 . Pool components perhaps 57 . "Delicious!" 15 . Disconnect 37 . Informal 58 . USN rank 21 . Scat queen agreement Fitzgerald 39 . Upset 40 . Rubble creator 41 . Book opening?

259 Puzzle #257 Across 1. Northern Norwegian 5. Cement ingredient 9. Bills 13 . Prima donna performances 15 . Object of veneration 16 . Inactive 17 . Scotland Yard yard? 18 . Cold War weapon 20 . Masseur's offering 22 . Panama pronoun 23 . Final stage 24 . Crones 25 . Fixed payments, as for students 27 . Many a GI 29 . Dueler's choice 31 . Kind of treatment 32 . Israeli flier 34 . Way out West, once 39 . ''Ben-Hur'' setting 40 . Atty. group 41 . Algonquian tribe 42 . Economic elite 46 . Kind of quarter 47 . Corp. ladder topper Down 48 . Goad 1. Creche figure 19 . Subject 44 . Less couth 50 . It holds fortified swine? 2. Tiler's calculation 21 . FedEx rival 45 . Sport for 51 . Where drinks come at a 3. Begin a night in the 25 . Saltwater catch heavyweights price woods, perhaps 26 . Noteworthy period 49 . R&B singer Lou 55 . Spinnaker support 4. Coat for the slopes of history 51 . Social position 57 . Well-chosen 5. Appendage 27 . Llama land 52 . Plant louse 58 . Site of the Tell legend 6. First name in 28 . Turkey 53 . Item used in 59 . Cattle place in the boonies despots 30 . Latin shortcut curling 62 . One between second and 7. Painter of water lilies 33 . Real sucker 54 . Posh third 8. Hard to get 35 . Utter breathlessly 56 . Mug for a chug 65 . River through Hades 9. Dead heat 36 . Alexander the 59 . Bus. degree 66 . Ike's partner, once 10 . Jingle writers Great's teacher holders 67 . Biblical author 11 . Rather dull 37 . Dollar portion 60 . ''Slow down!'' 68 . Spots for 18-Across 12 . Transports 38 . ''Algiers'' actress 61 . Place for a clutch 69 . Paradise lost 14 . Suit fabric Lamarr 63 . Campaigned 70 . Some sandwich breads 43 . Refute 64 . Miner's bonanza 71 . Without a mixer

260 Puzzle #258 Across 1. Make-up specialist 5. Said further 10 . Shed door device 14 . An embarrassing problem to face? 15 . Turn the air blue 16 . "Diana" singer 17 . Not all there 20 . Very much involved 21 . Pressing 22 . Puts the finger on 23 . "Go away!" 25 . Slender stingers 28 . Brazilian resort 29 . Begin counterpart 33 . Gone 36 . Great-great-grandson of Augustus 37 . Poetic tribute 38 . Once known as 39 . Lord's Prayer opener 41 . Before now 42 . Hold on property 44 . Completely crazy 47 . Dog bottoms? Down 49 . Coffeemaker 1. Slender 19 . Slices of history 46 . By hook or by 50 . They might have kinks 2. Mouse's target 24 . Pupal protection crook 51 . Some like it hot 3. Actress Heche 25 . Cashmere and 48 . Misses 53 . Spade of fiction 4. There's no returning angora 52 . Where you may 54 . Put into words without it 26 . Video partner use ID to get mail 57 . Zip 5. Tippy-tops 27 . Drum material 53 . Projecting 62 . Screwy 6. Cat's-paw 28 . Despondent foundation piece 64 . Muslim prince 7. Stops over 30 . Type of list 54 . European 65 . Temporary housing 8. Start to sob? 31 . Make a case for merganser 66 . Out of round 9. Refuse to agree 32 . Trumpet sounds 55 . Busted 67 . Volstead's opponents 10 . Guessing game 34 . Regulus' 56 . Colliers' entry 68 . Like sumo wrestlers 11 . Pony up constellation 58 . Cinnabar, taconite, etc. 69 . Signs of disuse 12 . It's got you 35 . Horde member covered 40 . Discuss tiresomely 59 . Water drainer 13 . It's behind you 43 . Mythical drinks of 60 . Swoop up 18 . Most likely to the gods 61 . Some toothpastes succeed 45 . Naval escort 63 . Wild bunch member

261 Puzzle #259 Across 1. Splendid display 5. Pleasant scent 10 . King Kong's cousins 14 . At any time 15 . Talked nonstop 16 . Lacking color 17 . H.S. gym instructors 19 . Sibilant "Hey!" 20 . Steal, as a purse 21 . Summer shirt 22 . Seaman's yeses 23 . Spot in the ocean 24 . Yells 26 . Regal address 28 . Do not disturb 31 . Part of a GP's schedule 34 . Prints and paintings 36 . Mystery author Queen 37 . "It's chilly out here!" 38 . WWII vessels 40 . Dogpatch's Daisy __ 41 . Pasta shape 43 . Postpone, with "off" 44 . Former fast fliers 45 . Cook's cover-up Down 46 . Robin's residence 1. Soft drink since 1898 18 . Overture follower 42 . Removed, as a 48 . Words of emphasis 2. Where roasts roast 24 . Sage, for one magazine page 52 . Sported 3. Silver or steel 25 . Angled additions 44 . Enactment 56 . Not punctual 4. Diagnostic school 27 . Charge 47 . In pumps, for 58 . Electrical unit exam 29 . Tantrum thrower instance 59 . Picnic salad ingredient 5. Foot feature 30 . Peepers 49 . Staples staple 60 . Sandwich-style sweet 6. Pep rally word 31 . "Fernando" pop 50 . Game show host 61 . CRTs and keyboards 7. __ a customer group 51 . Kind of butter or 63 . Brazil neighbor 8. Edible mushroom 32 . Gun on stage, e.g. brandy 64 . Fished for morays 9. Photographer Adams 33 . Promo pros 53 . Russian country 65 . You, biblically 10 . Clothing 35 . Blouse, say home 66 . Bridge position 11 . Elec. 36 . Kitchen add-on 54 . Aquatic fun lover 67 . Coral phenomena announcement 38 . Cone bearer 55 . Pries (into) 68 . Teacup handles facilitators 39 . Em, to Dorothy 56 . Easy stride 12 . Otherwise 57 . General vicinity 13 . Complete 59 . Pea containers collections 62 . Flag thrower

262 Puzzle #260 Across 1. Leavened rum cake 5. Dusky gray 10 . Robinson's weapon 14 . Vertex 15 . Eagle's nail 16 . First Olympic venue for giant slalom 17 . Every family has one 18 . Public opinion in the Middle East 20 . Computer part 22 . Acquiesce 23 . Hawaiian strings 24 . TV rating period 25 . Elevating device 29 . Interpretations 31 . Composers' milieu 34 . Ball club? 37 . Florence flower? 38 . A victim of Artemis 39 . Golden Fleece transporter 40 . Kin of "Golly!" 41 . Mel Gibson film (with "The") 43 . Pasta selection 44 . The end for Socrates Down 45 . First name among divas 1. Something to draw 24 . City south of 43 . Jockey Laffit 48 . Cup rim 2. Harbor or Port of Florence 45 . "Arsenic and Old 50 . Independently Guam 25 . For the boys Lace" director 51 . 2003 Oscar nominee 3. Kind of belly 26 . Trunk item 46 . Island off 57 . They indicate where one 4. Hewn 27 . One of the Manhattan should sit 5. Severely simple Windsors 47 . Averse 59 . Trojan War figure 6. Scientist Curie 28 . Debut on Wall St. 48 . It may be found in 60 . Lovely meter maid 7. Norwegian hero 29 . Item with a ladder a stew 61 . Hopping joint? 8. 1995 earthquake site 30 . Snow-clearing 49 . Photo closeup 62 . --- Hari 9. Ems halved vehicle 51 . Swede's neighbor 63 . Cinereous 10 . Copies fraudulently 32 . Nary a person 52 . Bugs 64 . Assailed 11 . Miss Liberty ship 33 . Island off Ireland 53 . Item with a 65 . May event, for many 12 . Hypnotist's word 34 . Ripened cheese gooseneck 13 . Capacious bags 35 . Highly excited 54 . Propped open 19 . Brownish-orange 36 . When said three 55 . Defense grp. since color times, a 1970 film 1949 21 . --- mater (brain 39 . Escort's offering 56 . Course ender, membrane) 41 . Zellweger in often "Chicago" 58 . Trucker's spot 42 . Tug-of-war need

263 Puzzle #261 Across 1. Wanted-poster name 6. Catchall abbr. 10 . React to a bad performance? 14 . "Knock it off!" 15 . Plan of action 16 . "Black Beauty" author Sewell 17 . Las Vegas big shot 19 . Cried over spilled milk 20 . Ming of the NBA 21 . Bore for ore 22 . Old Testament book 24 . Sharpen 25 . "Good effort!" 26 . Expose as false 29 . Payment for services rendered 30 . First Vice President to become President 31 . Capital of Peru 32 . Bouillabaisse, for one 36 . Houston agcy. 37 . Some members of the wedding Down 38 . Pro ___ 39 . "Preach!" 1. Sore, as a back 18 . Farm cry 41 . Roy Hobbs (with "the") 40 . Kin of "Uh-oh!" 2. Film princess 23 . Roddick specialty 43 . Free throw total 41 . Malicious 3. Shakespearean role 24 . Principles shared by everyone 44 . Lofty place? 42 . Spacious 4. Louisville Slugger wood 25 . Groucho, Harpo, 45 . Member of the Fab 44 . Voice of Mr. Magoo 5. Homiletical products Chico and Zeppo, e.g. Four 45 . Cues 6. Christopher Robin's 26 . Comedian Carvey 46 . Letters on a screen 48 . Scandalous suffix creator 27 . It's coated with red 47 . Shot by Minnesota 49 . Public personae 7. Like a couch potato wax Fats 50 . Revered leader 8. "Comprende?" 28 . Word with pay or 48 . Take a stab at 51 . ___ Lingus 9. Pullover alternative price 50 . ___ onto (take 54 . "I Can See Clearly Now" 10 . Standardbred 29 . Popeye associate hold of) singer competition 31 . Carpet makers 51 . Sums up 55 . "Delta Dawn" singer 11 . Alaskan native 33 . "Honey do" list 52 . Carmela on "The 58 . Essence 12 . Contemptuous look item Sopranos" 59 . Greek god of love 13 . How some are 34 . Caesar's 53 . Stiff drinks 60 . MacDowell of "Groundhog mistaken penultimate words 56 . Cenozoic or Day" 35 . Means partners Mesozoic 61 . They're heard in rings 37 . A trip here means 57 . Brian, formerly of 62 . Hoover and Glen Canyon trouble! Roxy Music 63 . Takes it on the chin

264 Puzzle #262 Across 1. Didn't hand off 5. Deadly African snake 10 . Type of candy or cider 14 . Repose 15 . Classic video game name 16 . Sailing 101 word 17 . Standout testee, say 18 . Gunpowder ingredient 19 . Bona fide 20 . Weatherperson's timepiece? 23 . ''The Aba ___ Honeymoon'' 24 . Conductor Antal 25 . Weatherperson's greeting? 30 . Major or Minor constellation 31 . Transparent linen fabric 32 . Coal container 35 . ___ Mawr College 36 . Start a tennis match 37 . Martial art 38 . Orange veggie 39 . Historic ship to be remembered 40 . Evans and Carnegie 41 . Weatherperson's back street? Down 43 . Professional obi-wearer 1. Mauna ___, Hawaii 21 . Hank Aaron's 2,297 40 . Not all wet 46 . Wd. on a seasonal gift tag 2. Per person 22 . Used a loom 41 . Dangerous African 47 . Weatherperson's vessel? 3. Mark Twain, to 25 . Frozen dessert insect 52 . Use an atomizer Samuel Langhorne chain 42 . Zinc and calcium 53 . Like Mork's spacecraft Clemens 26 . Word before avis 43 . More courageous 54 . Removed spud buds 4. Aquatic turtle 27 . Cooked one's own 44 . Best of a group 56 . Hot times on the Riviera 5. Song from goose? 45 . ''Hedda Gabler'' 57 . History or mystery, e.g. ''Flashdance'' 28 . Judy Garland's playwright 58 . Old Testament mountain 6. Problem ender? daughter 48 . Allege as fact 59 . French jeweler Lalique 7. ___ Hari 29 . Took her hand in 49 . Fir feature 60 . Expanses 8. Clip-fed submachine marriage 50 . Italian currency, 61 . Peak in the ''Odyssey'' gun 32 . You aim for them once 9. Large terrier 33 . Notion in 51 . Yanks' opponents 10 . Capital of Normandy 55 . Classic Edmond Zimbabwe 34 . Meddlesome, like O'Brien film 11 . Wife of Prince certain neighbors Valiant 36 . Jean Harlow's last 12 . Bounce back film 13 . Territory in 37 . It may heat up a northern India dish 39 . ''Silent Night'' writer Joseph

265 Puzzle #263 Across 1. Green gem 8. Makes more expensive 15 . Private, at times 16 . Tree-trimming tools 17 . Blabbed 19 . Skin softener 20 . Madrid Mrs. 21 . Once, once 22 . Nevertheless 23 . Upper crusts 27 . Actress Russell, to friends 30 . Genesis locale 31 . "___ walks in beauty..." (Byron) 34 . Mountain-related 37 . Unwrap quickly, as a parcel 39 . Blabbed 41 . Master copy 42 . Kampala's country 43 . Devotee 44 . Dickens lass 45 . Sword vanquisher, figuratively 46 . Contract adverb 48 . Muppeteer Henson Down 51 . Big name in auctions 1. Written composition 24 . "The very ___!" 47 . Comes close 54 . Teachers' org. 2. Syrup source 25 . Oolong holder 48 . 1-Across, for 56 . "___ and the Swan" (Yeats) 3. Poet T.S. ___ 26 . Anger example 57 . Blabbed 4. Govern 27 . Actress Diana of 49 . "___ you!" ("Go 62 . Said "Cheese" 5. Iceland's ocean "The Avengers" right ahead!") 63 . Straight swords (abbr.) 28 . Connected, 50 . Might, 64 . Tranquilizes 6. Sediments computer-style Scriptures-style 65 . Young actress 7. Eminem producer 29 . Type of fishing 51 . Quiche ingredients 8. Speed limit letters boat 52 . In one's birthday 9. "We ___ not 31 . Interval suit amused" 32 . Range rover 53 . Zealous 10 . Chafe 33 . Single-named New 55 . Part of a Latin 101 11 . Pants parts Age singer trio 12 . Scorch 34 . ___ now 56 . Den 13 . Large vases (immediately) 58 . Blaster's letters 14 . "Hey, you!" 35 . "Dr. Zhivago" 59 . "___ Haw!" heroine 18 . Alternate title for 60 . Both Begleys this crossword 36 . Nabokov novel 61 . Pollution monitor 38 . ___ upswing (abbr.) (improving) 40 . Hardy cabbage 46 . Laughing beast

266 Puzzle #264 Across 1. Initial 6. End of an Ali quote 10 . Duel prelude 14 . Take ___ (lose big) 15 . Dizzy on the mound 16 . Freight train hopper 17 . Way to the altar 18 . The "m" in F = ma 19 . Encumbrance 20 . Athletic know-it-all at the docks? 23 . Ball chaser? 24 . Bean spiller 25 . Symbol of cuteness 29 . Touched down 31 . Luxury locale? 34 . Fire proof 35 . 1980s Disney film 36 . Big rig 37 . Peter jammin' to Fats Waller? 40 . Windshield shading 41 . Soothing plant 42 . Bridge bid, briefly 43 . Palindromist's preposition Down 44 . Warning sign 1. J.F.K. watchdog 22 . Horse's tidbit 44 . Crystal ball, e.g. 45 . Encourage 2. Sacred bird, to some 25 . Tend to the turkey 45 . Mentalist Geller 46 . Extension 3. Carpentry tool 26 . Old Pan Am rival 46 . Lay ___ (flop) 47 . Asian Mr. 4. Normandy battle site 27 . "... ___ is the 47 . It may pour from 48 . Professional bowler? 5. It's ruled (two kingdom" pores 56 . Excellent words) 28 . It may be pitched 48 . Potato holder 57 . Pained expression 6. Specialist in spots 29 . Hot crime 49 . Game with mallets 58 . Part of a floral carpel 7. Gal's sweetheart 30 . Brain part 50 . A party to 60 . Basin blocker 8. It may be Far or 31 . Mississippi restraint 51 . Epitome of 61 . Greek vowel Near 32 . Kind of acid craziness 62 . "Honest!" 9. Put in the Hall of 33 . Attach, as a brooch 52 . Mandolin cousin 63 . Early film King Fame 35 . Bit of mosaic 53 . Assert 64 . Without ___ (daringly) 10 . Lacking a quorum 36 . Spilled the beans 54 . Breathing sound 65 . Won every game 11 . An ex of Burt 38 . Musical based on 55 . Plumbing problem 12 . Touch on ABBA songs 59 . So far 13 . Bride's throwaway 39 . Sunrise and sunset 21 . Cargo measure, locales perhaps

267 Puzzle #265 Across 1. Wake up 6. Fully stretched 10 . ''The Gift of the ___'' 14 . Word with city or workings 15 . It may be irresistible 16 . You said it! 17 . PBS children's program 20 . Tarsus site 21 . French dance 22 . Dominate, in sports lingo 24 . Brewski 27 . Audacity 28 . Blocks for small projects 31 . It's felt for life 33 . Easy mark 34 . Flood-prone areas 36 . Fictional Marner 38 . 1984 World Series champs 42 . Certain Middle Easterner 43 . No more than 45 . Media initials since 1926 48 . Shoe holders 50 . Transition 51 . Greek muse of poetry 53 . Length X width Down 55 . Long-term investment 1. Type of cage 19 . Ancestry 45 . Imbedded, in a 56 . Untamed beast 2. Opening number? 22 . Dated way 58 . Decorate 3. Straighten out 23 . Tend to the garden 46 . Hindu God 61 . 1976 Matthau film 4. Stitched 25 . More in need of 47 . Mine disaster 66 . Runner Zatopek 5. Arduous voyage housecleaning 49 . Ocean access route 67 . Asta's mistress 6. Gap plugs, etc. 26 . Narrow opening 52 . Postpone a 68 . Arm of the sea 7. Lichtenstein's forte 29 . Cards traded for discussion 69 . German's neighbor 8. Yuck! Gehrigs, perhaps 54 . Magazine filler 70 . Vacationing 9. Pour 30 . Site of two 1777 57 . Author Ferber 71 . Nightie 10 . King's state battles 59 . Last ''write''? 11 . Lothario's hobby 32 . Skinny 60 . ''Get Shorty'' 12 . Convention site 35 . Word with grapes actress Russo or milk 13 . Foot part 62 . This minute! 37 . Withered 18 . Links luminary 63 . Pitcher's concern Ernie 39 . It might make you 64 . Wine color, say ''Aha!'' sometimes 40 . Elton's real name 65 . Farm enclosure 41 . Speak sloppily 44 . Indeed, in Psalms

268 Puzzle #266 Across 1. Words of understanding 5. Saudis and others 10 . Immediately, to a surgeon 14 . Approach, with "for" 15 . "By the ___ Get to Phoenix" 16 . Second-generation first name in folk music 17 . England's wharves? 20 . Brouhaha 21 . Coppertone rating letters 22 . Language suffix 23 . Rank below cpl. 24 . Occupied 26 . Dogie catcher 28 . 1988 Meg Ryan film 29 . Type of IRA 30 . Press conference activity 31 . Chacun à son ___ (everyone to his own taste) 32 . Roy of C and W 34 . Rude folks 35 . Generous undertaker's offer? 39 . It's a long story 40 . Bridle attachments Down 41 . Sign of things to come 1. Make worse 18 . U-turn from NNW 42 . Have ups and 42 . Seattle athlete, for short 2. Refused 19 . Stephen of "The downs 44 . Full of excitement 3. Barely make Crying Game" 43 . Kind of pool or 48 . President pro ___ 4. Eternally, in poetry 25 . Like a smooth park 49 . Clear moisture from 5. Lying on head, perhaps 45 . Happened 50 . Range's site 6. Unrespected people 27 . "Divine Comedy" 46 . Indulge to excess 51 . Parseghian of Notre Dame 7. Invoice abbr. opening 47 . Prepare 52 . Rock's ___ Leppard 8. Blow the foam off a 30 . Sine ___ non 49 . Banned bug killer 53 . Cable movie channel brew? 31 . Undertakes 50 . Boozer 55 . Circus catcher 9. Nap after noon 33 . Animation frame 54 . Dithers, to 56 . Falls on the wedding cake? 10 . Letter enc., maybe 34 . Coal container Bumstead 60 . "Nasty" first name in tennis 11 . Magician's secret 35 . Local 57 . Theological sch. 61 . Workout reminders exit self-government 58 . Islanders' org. 62 . Gave a hard time to 12 . One's hands and 36 . Prayer to the Virgin 59 . Tick off 63 . Plow puller feet 37 . Having a burden 64 . Fuses metal 13 . Males that meow 38 . Pen name 65 . Shoelace problem 39 . In no way

269 Puzzle #267 Across 1. Audiophile's purchase, once 5. Elevators 11 . Light stroke 14 . Layered cookie 15 . Temptress's asset 16 . Building projection 17 . Sampras shuns it 19 . Heat setting? 20 . Engrossed with 21 . Gives gratuitously 23 . Dye 26 . Dine 27 . Gallop, for one 28 . Hole in one 29 . Buoy one's spirits 32 . Some hot sandwiches 33 . Straddle 35 . Slangy term of address 36 . Carl Lewis shuns them 39 . --- v. Wade 40 . Electronic communication devices 43 . Spencer Tracy, for one 46 . Brown pigment 47 . Blanche in ''The Golden Down Girls'' 1. Enjoying a win 22 . Airline employees 43 . Lessens 48 . Fiber source streak 23 . Running total 44 . Old town newsmen 49 . Retreat 2. Wrath 24 . Sculpture material 45 . Kind of scout 50 . Council of --- (l545-1563) 3. Wetland 25 . Cape 46 . Doddering 52 . Part of a plane's wing 4. Greek column style 26 . King of horror 49 . Woodworking 54 . Skedaddle! 5. ''... why --- thou 30 . Hard-to-swallow joiner 56 . Shirt type forsaken me?'' verbiage 51 . Derby winner's 57 . Janet Evans shuns it 6. Margarine kin 31 . Product pitches wreath 62 . Fish-catching eagle 7. A way to be at ease 32 . Authority giving 53 . Acknowledge an 63 . Soft, velvety material 8. Overpower specific orders invitation 64 . New York canal 9. Boy Scouts' unit 34 . It's fit for a king 54 . Overly complacent 65 . Mach 1 breaker 10 . Mended, in a way 35 . Bus or van starter 55 . Present for the 66 . Public TV request 11 . Type of insurance 37 . Race division, teacher? 67 . Menial worker 12 . Even though perhaps 58 . Old TV ''Squad'' 13 . Denounces 38 . Devoid of moisture 59 . Before, to Hamlet 18 . Auto section 41 . Wine cask 60 . It may be thin, hot 42 . Part of a musical or cold gig 61 . Fight figure

270 Puzzle #268 Across 1. Clark's partner 6. Dillinger foe 10 . Presidential heavyweight 14 . Boxing locale 15 . Declaim wildly 16 . Stagnating 17 . Microscope sample 18 . ''Pretty maids all in ___'' 19 . Timely benefit 20 . Like Baker's sack 21 . Put an early end to 24 . Elevator inventor Otis 26 . Shoot-em-ups 27 . Kind of saw or tire 29 . Carpenter, for one 30 . Love deity 31 . Grayish yellow 34 . Flammable liquid 39 . Make a statue 41 . Van Gogh had one later in life 42 . It's full of holes 43 . Uses a knapsack 44 . Sweetheart 46 . Paradisiacal place Down 47 . Orangutan 1. Bonnie one 22 . Wight, e.g. 45 . Delivery locale, 49 . Displaced person 2. Bombeck of wit 23 . Finds intolerable often 51 . Historic Harlem theater 3. Uprooted 25 . Sturdy stocking 48 . Kind of justice 55 . Mother of Sir Galahad 4. ''MS. Found ___ stuff 50 . Weather forecast 57 . Celeste Holm musical Bottle'' (Poe) 27 . Word with bed or 51 . More than dislike 59 . It comes between Hannah 5. Lake Huron port head 52 . Carpenter's tool and Sisters 6. Economics textbook 28 . Sacramento's 53 . Seeped slowly 62 . Smoky mist feature arena 54 . Rich soil deposit 63 . Semester 7. ''West Side Story'' 29 . Daughter of Ming 55 . Everglades resident 64 . Two-terminal semiconductor song the Merciless 56 . Succotash beans 66 . It takes two to make eleven 8. Shakespeare's river 32 . Give it up 58 . Give a face-lift 67 . Brainstorming session result 9. Noted 33 . ''Diff'rent Strokes'' 60 . Entertaining Adams actress Charlotte 68 . NBA Hall-of-Famer Baylor mathematician 61 . Musical based on 69 . McCarthy's prey 10 . Brahmaputra River 35 . Link ''La Bohème'' 70 . Futons kin locale 36 . Some insectivores 65 . ___ de France 71 . Bowler's button 11 . Taos dwelling 37 . At all times 12 . Ground grain 38 . Russo of ''Buddy'' 13 . Works the garden 40 . Davidic verse

271 Puzzle #269 Across 1. White confederate? 6. Book reviewer, so to speak 9. Flat-headed fasteners 14 . Give the slip 15 . Trendy 16 . Seat belt restraint 17 . Some Halloween handouts 19 . ''The Republic'' author 20 . Hog follower 21 . Hit repeatedly 23 . Met singer Pinza 24 . Distort 25 . Painter's device 27 . Musician's advantage, say 30 . Cheat on one's diet 31 . Sty reply 32 . Microbiology gel 34 . Lagoon encloser 37 . Clay transformation? 38 . Bright ray 40 . ___ Bravo 41 . Plant life 43 . Asia and thereabouts 44 . Eddie Murphy flick 45 . Unduly interested Down 47 . Diatribes 1. Religious subgroup 18 . Dresser 42 . Destination for 49 . More severe 2. Jai ___ 22 . MD's assistant Shackleton 52 . Pad 3. Time for a marriage 24 . Round-bottomed 44 . Entrance 53 . ''Topaz'' novelist surge, perhaps pan requirements, 54 . Laura's 2004 rival 4. Put in 26 . Take to the road sometimes 56 . Daisy follower 5. It's at your fingertips 27 . Skate part 46 . Thus far 59 . Intelligence-gathering 6. Toast 28 . Fries alternatives 48 . Century plants group? accompaniment 29 . Morocco's capital 49 . Kind of cannonball 61 . Brinks stop, at times 7. Salon treatment 31 . Lummox 50 . Staging ground 63 . Perfect little darling 8. Basilica features 33 . Mailing address 51 . Insurrectionist 64 . Odds and ends abbreviation 9. Salt meas. 35 . Pitcher projections 55 . Appraise 65 . ''Sea of Love'' star Barkin 10 . Minimally 36 . ''The Thin Man'' 56 . Think (over) 66 . Like some voices 11 . Little Bighorn actress 57 . Pub quaffs 67 . Victor at Fredericksburg fighter 38 . Kimono accessory 58 . Europe's highest 68 . Ketchup rival 12 . Joey on ''Dawson's 39 . In jeopardy volcano Creek'' 60 . Every bit 13 . Wild animal trace 62 . Menu phrase

272 Puzzle #270 Across 1. Ebenezer's outbursts 5. Carp 10 . Kind of party 14 . Comply with a command 15 . Reviewed, as a film 16 . Fisherman's gadget 17 . Start of an adage 20 . Courtyard 21 . Dairy stick 22 . Time measured in ages 23 . Verbal sigh 25 . Shore bird 27 . Salsa, for one 30 . Shady overhangs 32 . Trench builder 36 . Slaughter of Cooperstown 38 . Push button predecessor 40 . Boxer's restraint? 41 . Middle of the adage 44 . Clumsy 45 . ''___ Kleine Nachtmusik'' 46 . It's often lower than dirt 47 . Boredom 49 . Type of man or boy 51 . Doctor of rap Down 52 . Bustles 1. ___ Raton 19 . First name in 48 . Crescent-shaped 54 . Frighten away 2. Blind as ___ clowns 50 . Singer Tennille 56 . Discouraging word? 3. Man of the haus 24 . Wallop, biblically 53 . Pad user 59 . Ninth Greek letter 4. Golan Heights 26 . Olympic weapons 55 . Podded plants 61 . Low sock claimant 27 . Relinquish 56 . Sci-fi monster 65 . End of the adage 5. Big name in Monaco 28 . Laughable 57 . Like a freshly 68 . Heavily spiced meat stew 6. Printed 29 . Elbowed prepped baseball mitt, 69 . Mother's brother, for 7. Let ___ (decline to 31 . Colonial Indian title perhaps example take action) of respect 58 . ''Think nothing 70 . Siam visitor 8. American painting 33 . Trimmed a pippin ___'' 71 . It's made up of bits, but not family 34 . Perfume compound 60 . ''. . . and make it pieces 9. Trimming tools 35 . ___ Island Red snappy!'' 72 . Drugged, as a horse 10 . Kind of shot (chicken) 62 . Railroad track 73 . Cauterize 11 . Discourteous 37 . Dark brown 63 . Erupter of 475 B.C. 12 . Vessel of myth pigment 64 . Old ruler 13 . It follows four but 39 . Sites of passage? 66 . Wing tip part not five 42 . Artist's workplace 67 . Fr. holy woman 18 . Kind of tide? 43 . Changed the contour, as clay

273 Puzzle #271 Across 1. Served well? 5. Source of eye color 9. Intensifying word 14 . Cotton quantity 15 . Poor dog's portion 16 . Living in the city 17 . Sets the sights 18 . Bombay dress 19 . Old-time oath 20 . Dangerous area 23 . Much more than warm 24 . N.Y. hours 25 . River of southern Kazakhstan 28 . Overflows 31 . Billboard genre 33 . A Brady 36 . Most puzzle constructors 38 . ''Young Frankenstein'' role 40 . Good feller? 41 . Spray container? 42 . Relaxed 47 . SE Asian celebration 48 . Grand larceny, e.g. 49 . Send-up Down 51 . ''But of course!'' 1. To the rear 22 . Fed. workers' 45 . Best way to drive 52 . Mil. award 2. Africa's largest city protection group 46 . Days past 54 . Target of a televised police 3. Hunter Fudd 25 . Deceive 50 . Word before chase 4. Dry region 26 . Equine Bergère (Paris music 58 . Happy-go-lucky 5. One in the know 27 . Knock off the hall) 61 . Musical toy 6. Pride's sound favorite 53 . Brainy organization 64 . At no time, poetically 7. Concerning, in 29 . ''Coming of Age in 55 . Kol ___ (Yom 65 . ''American ___'' legalspeak Samoa'' author Kippur prayer) 66 . Japanese porcelain 8. Wrest 30 . Proverbial battlers 56 . $100 bill 67 . Shades' stopping point 9. Director Tarantino 32 . Automotive ''valve'' 57 . Gave the eye to 68 . Art deco artist 10 . The munchies, e.g. 33 . In a ___ (quickly) 58 . Golfer's alert 69 . Summoned, nowadays 11 . Basketball Hall of 34 . Have the same 59 . ''The Truman 70 . Word with ant, general or Fame coach Hank views Show'' director brat 12 . Little shaver 35 . Yule tunes 60 . Navigator's position 71 . Bit of finch fare 13 . Tilde carriers 37 . Lambeau ___ 61 . Olympic hero Keino 21 . Feudal inherited 39 . 1930s auto, ___ 62 . ''I ___ lineman for land Royale the county'' 43 . Futuristic 63 . Zig's end automaton 44 . Financial section letters

274 Puzzle #272 Across 1. Picnic dish 5. Where good deals may seem rare 9. Dishable item 13 . Tops 14 . In the thick of 15 . Home for the high-born? 16 . Three things to read 19 . Amarillo-to-Tulsa dir. 20 . Parts of a fair competition? 21 . Expounds upon 22 . Stadium stratum 23 . Author Kingsley 24 . Study of morality 27 . Keyboard feature 31 . Cliched 32 . Go sour, as milk 33 . Santa ___ winds 34 . Two things to read 38 . A Gabor 39 . Inspires reverence 40 . Rub out 41 . Recollect 44 . Throws into confusion 45 . Trip around the sun Down 46 . Bird of Old Rome 1. Matching 18 . Paul's longest letter 42 . Embroidered hole 47 . Scattered 2. Cut of veal 22 . Yugoslav boss 43 . Asked for Friskies? 50 . Plato's covered walk 3. She married Henry 23 . ___-ski 44 . Web-footed 51 . Conciliatory gesture VIII 24 . Old-style shorebird 54 . Two things to read 4. Hitched anesthetic 46 . Between ports 57 . Didn't dilly-dally 5. Lustrous fibers 25 . Cache of treasure 47 . Alone at the prom 58 . Protected, nautically 6. Islamic ruler (Var.) 26 . King of Tyre 48 . Georgia or Virginia 59 . Phyllis' TV husband 7. They're sometimes 27 . Perky accolade follower 60 . Stairway to the Ganges picked 28 . ___ metabolism 49 . Pro ___ (in 61 . Louver component 8. Lyric poem 29 . Flavorful herb proportion) 62 . Exclamation of dismay 9. Termination of 30 . Events for horses 50 . Unload, so to operation and cars speak 10 . Formerly Persia 32 . Babel, for one 51 . Mark that lingers 11 . Mature 35 . Beach shelter 52 . Stew ingredient, 12 . Hardy heroine 36 . In the center perhaps 15 . Savory gelatin dish 37 . Black Asian beans 53 . ''Hey, you!'' 17 . Items in a rack 55 . Anatomical duct 56 . 11-Down to the max

275 Puzzle #273 Across 1. Personality asset 6. Turns in alternating directions 10 . Energy source in a small package 14 . Sun porch 15 . Brainstorm in Brest 16 . Word with horse or gum 17 . Bubbling on the range 18 . Government certificate 19 . Superman's surname 20 . Like much of suburbia 23 . Vivacious West 24 . Knight mares? 25 . Poem section 27 . Cry created by Schulz 29 . They are often belted 32 . Lah-di-___ 35 . Boxing great Archie 38 . Suggest 39 . Item in Tiger's bag 41 . Dull, as text 43 . Hawaiian goose 44 . Walt Disney's middle name 46 . Ancient Mexican 48 . Part of a musical gig Down 49 . Talking points 1. Geoduck and 21 . Bar at the bar 45 . Simba's uncle 51 . Cries of triumph quahog 22 . Crackle and Pop's 47 . Wisconsin dairy 53 . Addresses the audience 2. Cloister garb partner product 56 . Underlying cause 3. Positive terminal 26 . Utah national park 50 . Is a first-stringer 60 . Pussycat's shipmate 4. Football pro out 28 . Carolina rail 52 . Kenyan excursion 62 . Average citizens West 30 . Prong 54 . Diciembre follower 64 . Word before on or up 5. Pond creator 31 . Do not cut 55 . Coil of worsted 66 . Dance in a barn dance 6. Bluish-white metal 32 . Food regimen yarn 67 . One of "The Little Rascals" 7. Objects of 33 . "___ & Janis" 57 . Big city wail 68 . Plant used in cosmetics admiration (comic strip) 58 . Earthen jars 69 . Take a header 8. Gain access to 34 . Everyday crowd 59 . Football 70 . "He's ___ nowhere man . . 9. Playground item 36 . Frasier's producer Hall-of-Famer Greasy ." (Beatles) 10 . Pop the question 37 . Book after Neh. 60 . Colorful food fish 71 . Next in line 11 . Lots of ordinary 40 . Lady Remington 61 . Shenanigan 72 . "Three" of classic TV people rival 63 . Salzburg vista 73 . Washing machine cycle 12 . O'Neill's daughter 42 . Long for 65 . Musket end 13 . Apportion (with "out")

276 Puzzle #274 Across 1. Monks' head 6. Fuzzy surface textures 10 . Dish on the side 14 . Plain as the nose on your face 15 . U.S. plot? 16 . Stalactite site 17 . Pfeiffer film 20 . Barely make (with ''out'') 21 . Follows suit 22 . Muscle connectors 23 . Homesteader 25 . California alternative 26 . ''We Three Kings of Orient ___'' 27 . Hardly hit 28 . Strawberry field, once 32 . A big mess 35 . Chihuahua's coins 37 . Electrical measure 38 . Bonnie and Clyde, e.g. 41 . Garden party? 42 . Inconsequential 43 . Chill 44 . Not hearing you Down 46 . Org. in a Jeannie C. Riley 1. Top spots 19 . How-do-you-dos 45 . Equip song 2. Director Edwards 24 . 27th U.S. president 47 . Entertainer Amos 47 . Color with lines? 3. Visorless cap 25 . ''Fawlty Towers'' or Spelling 48 . Seagirt land 4. Backwash creator character 49 . Scale note 50 . Hollowed-out muffin 5. Testing sessions 27 . Electrical pioneer 50 . Results of public 54 . It's only skin-deep 6. ''Unsafe at Any Nikola opinion 57 . Fit for a King? Speed'' author 29 . Icy shower 51 . Not shy 58 . Prospector's find 7. It follows John 30 . Oscar winner 52 . Pitch, in a way 59 . Wicked combinations 8. Old hand Thompson 53 . Parts of scores 62 . Gentleman caller 9. Attacks viciously 31 . High spot 54 . Quantities of 63 . Heinous 10 . Liz Taylor's 32 . Accelerated spread 64 . Do a double-take, e.g. obsession? 33 . Section flanked by 55 . One way to begin 65 . Actress Loretta 11 . Unconvincing, as aisles 56 . Restaurant choice 66 . Artist's light touches an excuse 34 . Region 57 . Smooth-tongued 67 . Blockheads 12 . Declare frankly 35 . Yakety-yak 60 . Sinatra's Gardner 13 . Networks 36 . Old wreck's home 61 . Opposite of paleo 18 . One-on-one sport 39 . Working 40 . It has many slots

277 Puzzle #275 Across 1. Shut forcefully 5. Arms and legs 10 . Moby Dick pursuer 14 . Game played on horses 15 . Early hr. 16 . Wearisome speaker 17 . Highly excited 18 . Asp or cobra 19 . Takes to court 20 . Tenderized beef 23 . Squealer 24 . Stringed instrument 25 . Boxing locale 27 . Diver's gear 30 . Post-office devices 33 . Naughty 36 . School session 38 . Special talent 39 . Hawaiian feast 41 . Historic period 42 . Arthur of tennis 43 . Secret meeting 45 . Heavy weights 47 . Pig's mother 48 . Talks back to Down 50 . Gardeners' woes 1. Unwanted e-mail 21 . RN specialty 46 . Faxes or mails 53 . Ship's staff 2. Sound thinking 22 . Go for a field goal 49 . Stockholm natives 54 . Cubbyhole 3. Unaccompanied 26 . Grandmother 51 . Excavate 57 . Campfire residue 4. Movie industry 28 . Borscht ingredient 52 . Shoe marks 59 . Criticize after the fact bigwigs 29 . Cupid's weapon 55 . Valentine 64 . Frame of mind 5. Miss one's chance 31 . Canyon sound decoration 66 . Copenhagen natives 6. Rural guesthouses 32 . Turn aside 56 . Cosmetician Lauder 67 . Destiny 7. Beef or pork 33 . Crunchy 57 . Rock-band 68 . Tricky tactic 8. Use the oven sandwiches, briefly boosters 69 . Disney theme park 9. Smudges 34 . Subtle quality 58 . Unaccompanied 70 . On the house 10 . Tummy muscles 35 . 9-to-3 learning 60 . Airplane pilot: 71 . Shoe bottom 11 . Sand-filled timer place Abbr. 72 . Shorthand pro 12 . Neighborhood 37 . Lion's hair 61 . Fairy-tale 73 . Dance move 13 . Highest-quality 40 . Khrushchev's beginning country: Abbr. 62 . Gas in bright signs 44 . Golf pegs 63 . Leak slowly 65 . Change the color of

278 Puzzle #276 Across 1. Cogitate (with "on") 5. Togo's chief port 9. Boca ___, FL 14 . Many a returning soldier 15 . Kingly name 16 . Playing marble 17 . Shakespeare villain 18 . Timber dresser 19 . 1995 animated film 20 . Take a decisive step 23 . Punch-line reaction 24 . Break a Commandment 25 . ___-jongg 28 . Paroles 31 . Speedometer letters 34 . Prima donna's repertoire 36 . Memorable time 37 . Flier's feat 38 . Take a decisive step 42 . Auction site 43 . Poem originally intended to be sung 44 . "Laughing" critter 45 . Three Gorges project 46 . "A Nation of Immigrants" Down 49 . Scale notes 1. With it 22 . Frequent drink 46 . Handsome young 50 . State touching Can. 2. Use one of the 25 . Defeated at chess man 51 . Earn senses 26 . Resort west of 47 . Drink 53 . Go too far 3. "Cogito, ___ sum" Curaçao 48 . Shipping unit 61 . Nonnational 4. Nike symbol 27 . King of Tyre 50 . Without energy 62 . It might go into a pot 5. Hate 29 . Seamstress 52 . King's proclamation 63 . "___ each life ..." 6. Passe 30 . "... man ___ 53 . Court security 64 . Short-tailed lemur 7. Puzzle of perplexing mouse?" 54 . Skeletal unit 65 . Freight car hopper, perhaps paths 31 . Suburbanite's tool 55 . Purges 66 . Is unable 8. At some time 32 . It gets off the 56 . Audio feedback, of 67 . Shoe forms 9. Leporid ground a sort 68 . ___ for business 10 . From square one 33 . Georgetown team 57 . Haberdashery, e.g. 69 . "___ the night before 11 . Bath powder 35 . Where or how 58 . Chew like a mouse Christmas ..." ingredient preceder 59 . Eruptive spot 12 . "The Iron 37 . Conversation 60 . Bibblers Chancellor" Bismarck opener 13 . Bright light in the 39 . "___ is an island big city ..." 21 . Taco condiment 40 . JFK preceder 41 . Denim alternative

279 Puzzle #277 Across 1. "Quo ___?" (1951 film in which 70-Across played Nero) 6. "Sheesh, ___ you read?" 10 . Liq. measures 13 . Sports spot 14 . Owns, biblically 15 . Olive ___ 16 . Start of a quote 19 . Pressure prefix 20 . Gusto 21 . Simon Legree 22 . Post office objective? 24 . Was in front 26 . Double's doing 28 . Fit to be tied 31 . See 70-Across 33 . Ice in the spring, e.g. 34 . Quebec's ___ d'Orléans 35 . Urban railways 36 . Middle of the quote 40 . N.C. summer hrs. 43 . Lodge frequenter 44 . Ideal place 48 . Agatha's inspector, and frequent role of 70-Across Down 51 . Bulls' vindications 1. Shot contents 19 . Actor Tamiroff 45 . Take for granted 52 . South Korea's capital 2. Stirring 23 . Lady of Sp. 46 . Cutting tooth 53 . ___ Nabisco 3. FDR or JFK 25 . Fittingly 47 . Org. 55 . LPs 4. Don Juan's mother 27 . Sets in dens 49 . Adorable 56 . Some tap-ins 5. "No Ordinary Love" 29 . Pershing's WWI 50 . Last syllable of a 58 . Richard of "A Summer singer command word Place" 6. Andean land 30 . Thin cooked cereal 51 . Sudden desire 61 . Sloth is one 7. Small batteries 32 . Clinch 54 . Speaks facetiously 62 . End of the quote 8. Accident 34 . Pen filler 57 . Mislead, slangily 65 . Address that begins with investigation gp. 37 . S.F. Giant, for one 59 . Give ___ (care) "http" 9. Water shortage 38 . Sprint competitor 60 . Longest river 66 . Champagne name consequence 39 . Part of BYOB 62 . "___ Father, who 67 . Doomed mission 10 . Top 40 number 40 . "How's that again?" art..." 68 . Bar order 11 . Headache helper syllables 63 . "How about that!" 69 . Leaves speechless 12 . Clever 41 . Cook at 64 . Feed bag bit 70 . With 31-Across, author of 17 . Eli's home McDonald's, perhaps the quote 18 . Conductor Ricardo 42 . Difficulty

280 Puzzle #278 Across 1. One with a close shave 9. Diacritic for a long vowel sound 15 . UPS service 16 . Mistreatment 17 . Defend America Act system 19 . Layer 20 . Greet and seat 21 . Space 22 . Siamese et al. 24 . Penalties 25 . Cold blast? 28 . Stat for David Ortiz 30 . Utter failure, figuratively 34 . Fool 37 . Teeter 39 . Passé flier 40 . Walk unsteadily 41 . Cacophonies 42 . Local movie theaters 43 . Work __ 46 . Bytes, usually 50 . Composer Khachaturian 51 . Siren 52 . CBS forensic drama Down 55 . Not beat around the bush 1. Middle manager? 22 . Augur 43 . Alleviates 59 . Whirled 2. Small, graceful hawk 23 . Like some 44 . Deal 60 . In charge 3. Bani Sadr was its high-tech machines 45 . "The Seasons" 61 . Lookout president in 1980-81 24 . Sibelius's land composer, 1801 62 . Seminary study 4. AT&T acquisition of 25 . "__ fair ..." 47 . Certain Balkan 1991 26 . Corp. VIPs 48 . Back nine opener 5. Verbal hesitation 27 . Verb with thou 49 . Rugged ridge 6. Strike out 29 . Adonis's slayer 51 . Movie pooch 7. Match 31 . Later 52 . Opponent of 8. Gave two tablets to, 32 . Enlarges, in a way Caesar say 33 . D-Day carrier 53 . Get amorous, in 9. Presence 34 . One frequently Exeter 10 . Sitcom character looking down 54 . '60s Cosby/Culp who lived with the 35 . Breakout source? series Tanners 36 . Tosses 56 . Pen or hen 11 . U-shaped fitting 38 . "Oy!" 57 . Siemens used on automatic 41 . Doofus predecessor garage doors 58 . Food fish 12 . In need of punctuating 13 . Actor Davis 14 . Calls for 18 . Strip

281 Puzzle #279 Across 1. Mythical knot that's difficult to untie 8. ACLU's concern 11 . "The Price Is Right" network 14 . "___ is only a bench covered in velvet" (Napoleon) 15 . "Hollywood Squares" win, maybe 16 . Bullfighting cheer 17 . Prodding for a player in Africa who's moving too slow? 19 . Button on VCRs, but not DVD players 20 . DeLuise who costarred often with Burt Reynolds 21 . Cranked up the Zeppelin and danced, maybe 23 . With 69-across, threat from a player planning to attack Alaska from the southeast? 27 . Thingamajig 28 . Generic-brand 31 . Feelings of boredom 35 . CD-___ 36 . Threat to invade Indonesia? 42 . Boob Down 43 . ___ del Fuego 1. Britpop group 24 . Pre-H.S., maybe 46 . Show that's had 44 . Sneaker company founded behind the hit 1999 25 . Blemish from not Clay Aiken, Matthew by two European immigrants in album "Leisure Noise" using a coaster Perry and Dick Van 1966 2. Peter of the 2004 26 . ___'clock (when Dyke as guest stars 48 . "Ditto" movie "Troy" some local news starts) 47 . Stone on the 52 . Stalling phrase from a player 3. Cuban ballroom 29 . Barnyard noise screen who might be attacking from dance: var. 30 . Big-eyed bird 49 . Free-swinging Japan? 4. ___ Everett Koop 32 . Dallas/Fort Worth Ruben 56 . Letter for letter (former surgeon sch. 50 . Loves to death 58 . Dawn goddess general) 33 . Kamoze who sang 51 . Emphatic response 59 . "Dig in!" 5. Perfect test paper "Here Comes the 53 . Author Calvino 60 . Warning from a player with marking Hotstepper" 54 . Zero armies massed in Siberia? 6. Wingnut Coulter 34 . Enclosure with a 55 . British term for 64 . What tree rings denote 7. ___ Modelo manuscript, for short pantry that sounds 65 . Towering former NBA player (Mexican beer brand) 36 . NYSE unit more like a yellowy Manute 8. Pioneering company 37 . "___ for Innocent" color 66 . Boxing arbiter behind "As Seen on TV" (Kinsey Millhone 56 . Maple or oak 67 . On the pro side products mystery) 57 . "Aladdin" parrot 68 . Snoopy ___-Cone Machine 9. Tackled 38 . Nervously excited 61 . Abbr. in want ads 69 . See 23-across 10 . Site of South 39 . Electrical power denoting fair hiring African riots in 1976 network 62 . Show that ended in 11 . Like some arteries 40 . Perry Mason 2005, to fans 12 . Cheese with creator ___ Stanley 63 . "___ the ramparts Buffalo wings Gardner we watched..." 13 . Splinter group 41 . Soapy mineral

282 18 . Solar plexus 45 . "___ Mine" socking noise (George Harrison 22 . When repeated, autobiography) meal for the pets

283 Puzzle #280 Across 1. Arctic explorer William 7. Poky 14 . New Mexico, in Mexico 15 . Most stylish 16 . Little trickler 17 . Number, in a way 18 . Indian drums 19 . Human beings 20 . Onetime Pawnee neighbors 22 . "Platoon" setting 23 . "Rear Window" star, 1998 26 . USN officers 28 . Script 32 . Tyrants 33 . Drivel 34 . Long-time Cleveland Orchestra conductor 35 . Rolling drop 36 . Merged sports gp. 37 . Anarchist Goldman 38 . Part of YMCA: Abbr. 40 . __ Tomé 41 . "Merry Company" artist 42 . Office skill 43 . Small meas. Down 44 . Pie __ 1. "Mary Poppins" 12 . Town southwest of 39 . Mustard, for one 45 . Golfer nicknamed "The Big chimney sweep Padua 41 . Tough spots Easy" 2. China setting 13 . 1 and others: Abbr. 46 . It might wake you 47 . Orchard Field, since 1949 3. Unit of work: Abbr. 17 . "When the stars up 49 . Builds up 4. Be excessively eager make you drool/ Just 48 . "__ to the dog is 53 . Least adorned 5. Conceptualizes like __": "That's not charity": London 57 . Grenoble gift giver 6. "I beg to differ" Amore" lyric 49 . PC software 58 . It can knock you out 7. South African native 21 . Sun Bowl site 50 . Off! ingredient 59 . Kitchen gadgets village 23 . Rosters 51 . Half of sechs 60 . Subject of sightings, 8. "South Pacific" 24 . Discharge 52 . Tracy's Trueheart familiarly director Joshua 25 . Do away with 54 . Smooth 61 . Puts down 9. Safari sights 27 . Walking-in-the-rain 55 . Flap 62 . Glacial remnants 10 . Take precautions sound 56 . Tiger's needs 11 . Essence 29 . Where Hercules slew a lion 30 . Canadian child- safety elephant mascot 31 . Bias

284 Puzzle #281 Across 1. Object of blind devotion 5. Puppeteer Lewis 10 . Military doctor's concern 14 . Hitchcock classic 15 . Tiberius' tongue 16 . Animated brat 17 . Put your two cents in? 18 . Mythical hunter 19 . Expectorated 20 . Fast on the uptake 23 . Pixie 24 . Used a backscratcher, perhaps 25 . Worked for Hilfiger 27 . It's not wanted in the big apple? 30 . Olympic object 33 . Weightiness 37 . Seeks the affection of 39 . Means of mounting a fence 40 . Jazz state 41 . Lecture memoranda 43 . Sicilian volcano 44 . Daydreamer 46 . ''Rich Man, Poor Man'' Down author 1. Persian Gulf citizen 21 . Royal Botanic 45 . Coral structure 47 . Private in a memorable film 2. Brief coffee go-with, Gardens site 49 . Southfork Ranch 48 . Felt sorry for perhaps 22 . Worst things to setting 50 . Deli side dish 3. Type of nerve have on one's driving 51 . Kind of blanket 52 . Riser partner 4. Parasite record 53 . Pragmatic believer 54 . It may be in the groove 5. What spotting a 26 . Aromatic organic 55 . Made an ''oopsie'' 59 . Kind of tree trooper causes compound 56 . Bottom of a suit 61 . Newspaper hub in London 6. Mata ___ 28 . Outback bounders 57 . River of oblivion 64 . Vegetate 7. ''Look ___ this way 29 . Flame lovers 58 . Group character 66 . Kind of print ...'' 31 . Forelimb bone 59 . Type of chart 67 . Babe that's famous 8. Public outbreaks 32 . Leo Penn's boy 60 . Private school in 68 . In olden times 9. Requiring help 33 . Quasimodo's N.Y. 69 . John of ''The Addams 10 . Crunched items affliction 62 . Caesar's famous Family'' 11 . South Dakota town 34 . Personal articles question 70 . Cavern phenomenon 12 . Pack in case 63 . Add water 71 . ''Finnegans ___'' (Joyce) 13 . Start of untold 35 . Route for Type A 65 . Attorney's concern, 72 . Swindled millions of addresses personalities among other things 73 . Grades below the curve, 36 . Possessive pronoun perhaps 38 . Mark of approval 42 . Farewell performance

285 Puzzle #282 Across 1. Quarrel 5. Stallone persona 10 . Victorian 14 . Leaves home? 15 . Acid type 16 . Snoopy's former owner 17 . Slope 18 . Jargon 19 . Not easy to watch 20 . Safe, in a way 23 . Maker of Twist and One soft drinks 24 . Reb general 25 . Alien from Melmac 28 . Table insert 32 . Beaverlike? 34 . Succeed to the max 38 . "Allegheny Moon" singer 40 . Anchor position 41 . Sample 42 . United States Golf Association rules subject 45 . November birthstone 46 . Spot on the sea 47 . Supplement, with "out" Down 48 . Emmy winner Reiner 1. Bra feature 25 . Feverish episodes 49 . Furry frolicker 51 . Brownish gray 2. Get ready to paint 26 . Zoom, for one 50 . Ecological 56 . Hint to puzzle theme found 3. Man of morals 27 . Sweat it community in 20-, 34- and 42-Across 4. Challenging years 29 . Biblical twin 52 . Fancy tie 60 . Leslie Caron role 5. 50% 30 . Sagan's sci. 53 . Practice 63 . Apple polisher 6. Arab leader 31 . Modern Persian 54 . Toughie 64 . Invoke, as a spell 7. Popular '60s garb 33 . Aleutian island 55 . Much-used 65 . Voiced 8. David Boreanaz TV 34 . Astounded computer key 66 . Campfire remnant role 35 . Physical leader 56 . Light tune 67 . Double curve 9. "__ Knows": Dion & 36 . Partner of starts 57 . Catches 68 . Moola the Belmonts hit 37 . Iridescent 58 . Thought from a 69 . Watch over 10 . Sign between gemstone 44-Down 70 . Rep.'s area numbers, maybe 38 . Crown 59 . Harp relative 11 . Drilling equipment 39 . Crazily 60 . Prince in Ezekiel 12 . Wicked 43 . Pound of poetry 61 . High dudgeon 13 . Spring time 44 . Head of Paris 62 . "I've Got a __ in 21 . Kind of monster Kalamazoo" 22 . Forest foragers

286 Puzzle #283 Across 1. Opposite of deplete 6. Kings or Wizards, e.g. 10 . Line-___veto 14 . On the up-and-up 15 . Beastly sort 16 . Implicate 17 . Outdated anesthetic 18 . Cool one's heels 19 . Hardly a libertine 20 . ''Halt!'' 23 . Very small amounts 24 . Unrealistic potato chip portion 25 . ''Love Will Keep Us Together'' songwriter 28 . Port on the Barge Canal 33 . Lennon's widow 34 . Kin of nah 36 . Half of an odd couple 37 . ''Halt!'' 41 . Sound of spring, for some 42 . Kind of chamber 43 . Lend it or bend it 44 . Mall tenant needs 46 . Parched feeling Down 49 . Animated chihuahua 1. Novelist Waugh 21 . ''A Bell for ___'' 40 . Choral work 50 . 500, to a stationer 2. Parcel (out) 22 . Fly in the ointment 45 . Infuriate 51 . ''Halt!'' 3. Certain foreign 25 . Jerks make them 47 . Millinery adjunct, 58 . Type of board leader 26 . Son of Cain perhaps 59 . Bedfellow 4. Naptime in 27 . ''Tiny Bubbles'' 48 . Arriver's phrase 60 . Wane (with ''out'') Salamanca singer 50 . Group three with 61 . Toward one side of a ship 5. Run in the raw 28 . Construction thee? 62 . Melancholy 6. Hamlet's relatives particulars, briefly 51 . Tactic of 44-Across 63 . ''Granny'' Ryan 7. ''Heavens to Betsy!'' 29 . Part of a Beatles 52 . Sloth's home 64 . Closing document 8. Like Death Valley refrain 53 . Troubles 65 . Sunrise direction, in Sonora 9. Shower participant? 30 . Type A's medical 54 . Superabundance 66 . They're for the birds 10 . Broken problem, supposedly 55 . Holiday times 11 . Seamen 31 . Fiction's Marner abroad 12 . Give off 32 . Exercise, as 56 . It may be due on a 13 . ''Little Women'' influence duplex woman 35 . Kaput 57 . ''___ Tu'' ('70s hit) 38 . Best reviewed 58 . Father, informally 39 . Displaying listlessness

287 Puzzle #284 Across 1. Out of whack 6. It ends some lists 10 . Pogs and Furbys, for two 14 . Deluded 15 . Paddock parent 16 . Teen fave 17 . What's worn in October 19 . Glowing review 20 . Ill temper 21 . Staff symbol 22 . Hightailed it 24 . Anvil or stirrup 26 . Mars and Pluto 27 . Merkel of film 28 . Made 32 . En __ 35 . Takes to court 36 . Tiny opening 37 . ''Height'' word form 38 . Mall binge 39 . __ and proper 40 . Colorful horse 41 . Trevi toss-in 42 . Road-repair markers 43 . Brain part Down 45 . Indy entrant 1. Role for Michael or 18 . Forearm bone 42 . Durango ''Dang!'' 46 . Usher's offering Jude 23 . Throw in 44 . ''C'mon, __ pal!'' 47 . Entryways 2. Stiller's mate 25 . Barrel of a pistol, 45 . ''It's Impossible'' 51 . Aromatic tree 3. Thumb-twiddler e.g. crooner 54 . Cry from the crib 4. Costa del __ 26 . Like a raw recruit 47 . War enders 55 . Actress Zadora 5. Icy treat 28 . The Feast of Lots 48 . In pieces 56 . Irish Rose's lover 6. Ronald Lauder's 29 . Muffin flavor 49 . ''QM2,'' for one 57 . He's no fun at a party mother 30 . Toledo's lake 50 . Final authority 60 . Black, to a bard 7. Minor dispute 31 . Howard Dean's 51 . Buddy, Max, or 61 . Intense desire 8. Jackie's second grp. Bugs 62 . Makes public 9. Blow one's stack 32 . __ Antony 52 . Eban of Israel 63 . McNally's partner 10 . What some 33 . Natural emollient 53 . Sphinx, in part 64 . __ out a living mattresses offer 34 . Rating unit 54 . Gds. 65 . Physics prefix 11 . ''Bonanza'' brother 35 . Teapot feature 58 . Diving bird 12 . Peace symbol 38 . Mix up 59 . Mas' mates 13 . Downhill coaster

288 Puzzle #285 Across 1. Livestock lunch 5. Extremely awkward person, in slang 9. Port in a storm, e.g. 14 . Governing regulation 15 . All-American Soap Box Derby state 16 . Popeye's gal 17 . Seed integument 18 . Generic dog's name 19 . Emulated mud 20 . Doctor's supporting rod? 23 . Barely achieve (with ''out'') 24 . Controversial spoon-bender Geller 25 . Move like a mamba 29 . Sensing device 31 . Young turkey 33 . In the past 34 . NAFTA signatory 36 . Thanksgiving wedge 37 . Italian auto 38 . New mother's charge? 42 . Temp's pad 43 . Kind of artist Down 44 . Landscaper's need 1. Constitution drafter 21 . A mummy may 42 . Wheel type 45 . Noshed 2. Interjection of have one 46 . Familiar with 46 . Unmitigated discovery 22 . Strike zones? 47 . Stunk up the place 48 . Check your math 3. Slurred over a 26 . Famous rock 49 . Right away! 52 . Beginning syllable musical 50 . Thingamajig 54 . Phone attachment? 4. Supermarket section 27 . Cry of shock 51 . Exorcism targets 56 . Kind of hold 5. Up to now 28 . Decompose 53 . Use the unleaded 57 . Place to do upholstery? 6. First name of the 30 . Its body is painted part 60 . Eightsome ''Goodbye, Columbus'' 32 . Verbalize a hunch, 55 . The old Omni, for 63 . Scout outing novelist e.g. one 64 . Take apart 7. Provides succor 35 . Like some frigid 58 . ''___ Zapata!'' 65 . Insult party 8. Flashy outfit of the winds 59 . Neil Young claims it 66 . Dutch or toaster '40s 37 . Get lighter never sleeps 67 . Target the bar code 9. Go on foot 38 . Allocate (with 60 . Last name in 68 . Drive in Beverly Hills? 10 . High in the sky ''out'') hockey legends 69 . Post-performance 11 . Relative of ''i.e.'' 39 . Act of Contrition 61 . Murmur amorously exclamation 12 . Night before the finale 62 . Wee bit 70 . Williams and Kennedy big day 40 . Mediocre 13 . Beatty or Sparks 41 . Lose sleep over

289 Puzzle #286 Across 1. Los Angeles athlete 6. Start of a famous palindrome 11 . Indianapolis dome 14 . Beethoven work ''Fur ___'' 15 . Philosopher's wool, for one 16 . Popular November tuber 17 . Famous fairgoer 19 . Skywalker, to his pals 20 . Follows suit 21 . Airs or numbers 23 . South of the border shawls 27 . Den mother 29 . Lift to your final destination? 30 . Keanu's cinematic playground 31 . Sesame Street resident 32 . Gives up control 33 . Cooking spray 36 . Elton John's Broadway hit 37 . Site of infamous tribunals 38 . Cat rescue site 39 . Magical, as elves 40 . King of the long ball 41 . Hardly lotus-eaters 42 . Frequent '60s dateline Down 44 . Empire created by Cyrus the 1. WKRP newsman 22 . Singular prefix 41 . Like Steven Great 2. Sports legend from 23 . Bundle bound with Wright's delivery 45 . What army is for Mary Kentucky twine, e.g. 43 . It comes before 47 . Cooks in liquid after 3. Jack's daughter on 24 . Causing butterflies beauty browning ''24'' 25 . Macho Man 44 . Bugs, to Elmer 48 . Plays the hero 4. Psychic ability 26 . Soprano's time to 45 . Dialogue that 49 . It moves with runners 5. Bump on the road to shine breaks the fourth wall 50 . Classic TV mom recovery 27 . Carrying a full load 46 . The low point Morgenstern 6. Famous Grandma 28 . Part of a 47 . Graceful word? 51 . Start of a 1963 hit song 7. X or Y, e.g. supermarket list 49 . Eyelid position 58 . Really enjoy, man 8. Not quite Mensa 30 . Crenshaw or 52 . Music producer 59 . Pakistan's river material casaba, e.g. Brian 60 . Part of FAQ 9. Hustle and bustle 32 . Pool hall 53 . Gains by RBs 61 . Before, to the Bard 10 . Gives guidance noisemaker 54 . Peer Gynt's mother 62 . Displays in public view 11 . Nickname for a Hall 34 . Where the eagle 55 . Big Island 63 . Base negotiating amounts of Fame fastball has landed? instrument, briefly 12 . Christmas 35 . Tablelands 56 . Brought, as a horse hang-ups? 37 . Story from to water 13 . Haywire Reykjavik, e.g. 57 . Super Bowl clips 18 . Olympics sport 38 . Famous Amos 40 . Dresden dirigible

290 Puzzle #287 Across 1. ''I, Claudius'' network 4. Usefulness 9. 1972 Olympic phenom 14 . ___ mode 15 . ''Butterfield 8'' novelist John 16 . Lake near Reno 17 . ''Cheers!'' 19 . Disturbances of a sort 20 . Petered out 21 . Spicy soup 23 . J.F.K. adversary 25 . Da, translated 26 . Patisserie product 28 . It's taken before a firing 31 . 2004 playoff team 36 . It may follow a dot 37 . 1952 Winter Games site 38 . Spring of water 39 . Wooer's request 43 . Legislate 44 . It's not a good thing 45 . Rambouillet remark 46 . Lonely color? 48 . Big, fat mouth 49 . Pitch in Down 50 . More, in Mexico 1. Sheepherder of film 22 . It may be split 47 . Apprehend 52 . Flouted the limit 2. Indistinct, shapeless 24 . Measly concern? 49 . Long lunch? 54 . Delivery that could lead to a form 26 . Object of tribal 51 . Term of address in strike 3. Agile thief esteem Kipling 60 . Vocal highlights 4. Through here to 27 . Event venue 53 . Covenants 63 . Braid grandmother's house? 29 . UN workers' 54 . They work in 64 . Playground classic 5. Physicist with a law advocate columns 66 . Subject of a management 6. Blacksmith's tool 30 . It's exchanged 55 . Arm bone course? 7. Like a sharpshooter's every day 56 . Alien abduction 67 . Fort Knox item aim 32 . Cruise around trumpeters 68 . It can make you hot 8. Walking on air Hollywood? 57 . Contends 69 . Insolent 9. Nerve-racking 33 . Gloated 58 . Solitary 70 . Hippie adornments 10 . It beats nothing in 34 . Ryan of ''Paper 59 . Tour grp. for 71 . ''Deliverance'' actor Beatty poker Moon'' Sorenstam 11 . HoJo alternative 35 . Subway train 61 . Land area 12 . Wicked witch convenience 62 . Lean-to pursuer 37 . Eye-opening career 65 . Grass mat 13 . Gusto 40 . Prefix for sphere 18 . Touchstone 41 . Little ''Locomotion'' singer 42 . Narrowly defeats

291 Puzzle #288 Across 1. Reads quickly 6. Rigorous exams 11 . Pub fixture 14 . Comics kid 15 . Drop in on 16 . Carnival city 17 . Editor's helper 19 . Sturdy tree 20 . Gabor sister 21 . Jukebox selection 22 . ''No bid'' 24 . ''The Bathers'' painter 26 . Reward for a fine job 28 . Spago chef 33 . Gotten up 36 . Wear the crown 37 . Painter's calculation 38 . Bug in a farm 39 . Kitchen protectors 40 . Right-angle bend 41 . Sch. groups 43 . ''Height'' word form 44 . ''Cabaret'' director 46 . Salsa scooper 49 . Golf pro's woe Down 50 . Head Hun 1. Newsman Morley 23 . Cocoon occupant 45 . Make a pick 54 . Legree's creator 2. Dastardly one 25 . Be in hock 47 . Joke hearer's 56 . Keep __ (persist) 3. Of ancient Peru 26 . Latvia's sea comment 58 . Papa 4. Cambridge sch. 27 . White Monopoly 48 . Mammal feature 59 . Actress Zadora 5. Grapefruit hunk bills 51 . ''__ think so!'' 60 . Performance history 6. Appliance for 28 29 . Like lace 52 . Shirt-tag word 64 . Blow it Across 30 . __-percha 53 . Abacus user 65 . Emcee's task 7. Paella ingredient 31 . Cartoon frames 54 . Eject forcibly 66 . Burn a bit 8. Pop the question 32 . Crinkly green 55 . Start to sag 67 . Tie the knot 9. Tell a whopper 33 . Wholly absorbed 56 . Plot measure 68 . ''Tall'' accounts 10 . Yo-yo need 34 . Absorbed by 57 . Fight-stopping 69 . Spud 11 . Pirate caches 35 . Seafarer's right decisions 12 . Has a bug 39 . SWM part 61 . Genetic letters 13 . Toy dogs, for short 42 . Pack away 62 . NL city 18 . Take the mound 44 . In best shape 63 . Secretive org.

292 Puzzle #289 Across 1. Letter sequence 4. Stage platform 9. On the lam 14 . Word in a cadence 15 . Harsh 16 . Play backer 17 . MacGraw of "Goodbye, Columbus" 18 . Amusement park attraction 20 . With 56-Across, an attribute of 18-, 27-, 44- and 57-Across? 22 . Eng. sports cars 23 . Out of this world 24 . Search party's quarry 26 . "Break __!" 27 . Fountain treat 32 . Elbows 35 . __ Bridge, St. Louis 36 . Noisy bird 37 . Goons 38 . Nixon's first secretary of Commerce 40 . Nor'easter feature 41 . Luxury site? 42 . Have the lead Down 43 . Evidence bit 1. Vex 21 . Well-to-do types 43 . Cross-country item 44 . Its eastern end passes south 2. Sub spots 25 . Ballet step 45 . Decorative of Youngstown 3. Certain Prot. 26 . King of comedy 46 . Big Turks 48 . He coached Kentucky to 876 victories 4. WWII fleet 28 . Internalize 47 . Newton and others 49 . Foolish 5. Old deliverers with 29 . Not quite closed 50 . Metrical feet blocks 53 . Positively confident 30 . Mustard family 51 . Daughter of 6. Composer Prokofiev plant Tantalus 55 . Mama bear, in Madrid 7. Goes the wrong 31 . Checked out 52 . Vote in 56 . See 20-Across way, say 32 . __ Alto 53 . Chinese dynasty in 57 . Wide receiver turned 8. Productive stat which Taoism emerged broadcaster 33 . Colorful food fish 9. Anarchic 54 . Love, to Luis 60 . A Stooge 34 . French military cap 10 . In a position of 55 . Sonja Henie's 61 . Civil War authority Shelby 38 . Marginal authority consciousness birthplace 62 . Setting 11 . Curved molding 39 . Infield protector 57 . CIO's partner 63 . "Fawlty Towers" network 12 . Observed 40 . 1814 treaty site 58 . Software prog. 64 . Enticed 13 . Angular addition 42 . Like some tires 59 . Actress Sandra 65 . Ad hoc lawmen 19 . Dieters' lunches 66 . Harden

293 Puzzle #290 Across 1. Mater preceder 5. Vaulted places? 10 . Grimm beast 14 . Clark's interest 15 . Sierra ___ 16 . Lazy Susan 17 . Luck, to some 18 . Protruding window 19 . Fourth dimension 20 . PLUTO 23 . River-mouth triangle 24 . It's after me, often 25 . Roadside stopover 28 . I - I connector of palindromic fame 29 . Ceremony 33 . Fifth president 35 . Maned animals 37 . Ages and ages 38 . PLUTO 43 . Nasty comment 44 . Can't decide which way to go 45 . Bit of bacterium 48 . Foxhole entree Down 49 . Pained reactions 1. Refer indirectly 22 . Sentimental stuff 46 . Word with 52 . Hideki Irabu's pay, once 2. Car repair shop 26 . "___ but the brave chocolate or space 53 . Army member offering ..." 47 . Place in a 55 . Point of a fable 3. Word with East or 27 . Kind of egg, or its sepulcher 57 . PLUTO Ages place 49 . "Golden" or 62 . Computer image 4. To this point 30 . ThinkPad maker "northern" bird 64 . Deed holder 5. Totally botch 31 . Harness racer's 50 . Monogram bearer 65 . Casino gratuity 6. Prefix with ballistic gait 51 . Chilling downpours 66 . Campus area or dynamic 32 . Lets up 54 . Cabana boy's 67 . The first "M" in MGM 7. Cafi ___ (black 34 . Within earshot offering 68 . Landed lightly coffee) 35 . Binary digit 56 . Ready to draw 69 . Three are a match 8. Kowtowed to 36 . Part of a process 58 . No ifs, ___ or buts 70 . Type of hit 9. Infrequently 38 . Anthem opening 59 . Aware of 71 . They're 16th of 26 10 . Palindromic 39 . 1997 Peter Fonda 60 . Pianist or emperor emperor title role 61 . Field yield 11 . Where Ravens 40 . Traitor 62 . Mensa figures clash 41 . 1968 hit "Harper (Abbr.) 12 . Play bumper cars Valley ___" 63 . Prompt 13 . It takes in the 42 . Subsidiary sights proposition 21 . Seen less

294 Puzzle #291 Across 1. Interstate hauler 5. Calcutta misters 9. Coffee preference 14 . Clay clump, e.g. 15 . Cistercian or Trappist 16 . End of ''the end of'' 17 . Tenacious bug? 20 . ''How sexy!'' 21 . Phrase of distress 22 . Certain compass pt. 23 . Disappoint 26 . Curious bug? 31 . Open-air rooms 34 . Pro ___ 35 . Nastase of the courts 36 . Beehive, for one 38 . Skirmish 40 . Hannibal's challenge 41 . Jazzman's lick 45 . Sun features 46 . Comical bug? 49 . Schedules 50 . Razor-billed bird 53 . Square-dance step or call 57 . Complain Down 59 . Squirm-producing bugs? 1. Offspring 19 . ''Who cares?'' 43 . Groupie 62 . Evening wrap 2. Pop's John 24 . Some forensic 44 . On edge 63 . Canine from Kansas 3. Dayan of Israel evidence 47 . Word on some 64 . Desiccated 4. Pastoral poem 25 . Mel of baseball doors 65 . Aspirations 5. Happy face icon 26 . Before the rest 48 . ''The Far Side'' 66 . ___ Mawr 6. Kind of cuff 27 . Thin and weak cartoonist 67 . Lazy Susan, essentially 7. Playable serves 28 . To boot 50 . ''Li'l'' one of comics 8. Where stars shine 29 . Happy tune 51 . Extreme 9. Nymph loved by 30 . Wine sediment 52 . ''Sometimes a Apollo 31 . Melville captain Great Notion'' author 10 . Wife of Geraint 32 . Imaginary 53 . Soupcon 11 . Hand over narrative 54 . Having knowledge 12 . Environs 33 . Ready for the of 13 . Jamie of pickin' 55 . Telegram ''M*A*S*H'' 37 . The Beaver State punctuation word 18 . Troubadour's 39 . Exhausts, as a 56 . Any of the Antilles offering supply 58 . Boom support 42 . ''When Will ___ 60 . Gamblers' option, Loved'' (Everly briefly Brothers) 61 . Negative link

295 Puzzle #292 Across 1. Type of stream 4. Place for a professeur 9. Botches 14 . Potential progeny 15 . Created some dust, in a way 16 . Even a bit 17 . Perform on the spot 19 . ''Same here'' 20 . Borden's bovine 21 . Fierce fish 23 . World's lowest-lying body of water 26 . Brother of Cain 27 . Region around Prague 30 . Bleakly pessimistic film genre 32 . Extras in a 1968 epic 33 . Gave up the ghost 36 . Change to fit 39 . It's known for its intelligence 40 . Shed 42 . It can climb up on campus 43 . Equivocate 45 . Small sailboat 46 . Barrie bad guy Down 47 . They peck at their food 1. Slugger Canseco 22 . Showed fear 46 . Scatter about 49 . English crossword 2. Iniquity 24 . Radames' beloved 48 . Sellout sign constructors 3. Scores on a fly 25 . Bloom in a chain 50 . They can give you 51 . Avoid like the plague 4. Regard 27 . ''St. Matthew fits 53 . Longtime magazine 5. Popular rental Passion'' composer 51 . Volleyball smash subscriber, once per year 6. Be in arrears 28 . Mayberry kid 52 . Reddish hair dye 56 . Wife of Odysseus 7. Abrupt transitions 29 . Scalper's kin 54 . Salt type 58 . ''Peachy!'' 8. ''Harlem Nights'' star 31 . Clumsy bumpkin 55 . India's first prime 62 . IV part? Murphy 34 . Zeta-theta minister 63 . Prepare for the ring 9. Michelle Phillips, connection 57 . Tramp's partner 66 . Bread machine cycle once 35 . What 59 . Lie alongside 67 . Sweater fabric 10 . Kitchen tool rhabdomancers do 60 . Lug 68 . Southwestern tribesman 11 . New Year's Eve 37 . Lasting start 61 . Team components 69 . Before the start figure 38 . Deli breads 64 . Ht. above sea level 70 . They're dispensed by the 12 . Ice cream 40 . 100 yrs. 65 . Speck pound concoction 41 . Left the coop? 71 . Comaneci accomplishment 13 . Plow through 44 . Type of delivery puddles 18 . Holes up

296 Puzzle #293 Across 1. What he is 5. Inscribed pillar 10 . Bygone royal Russian 14 . Greenspan of the Fed 15 . Walks back and forth 16 . Opera with elephants 17 . THREE CITIES UNITED 20 . Remove antlers from 21 . Chocolate drink 22 . More, in a saying 24 . Be off base 25 . Word with role or house 28 . Lincoln's son 30 . Female farm fowl 35 . Rhapsodic rhyme 36 . Avoid cancellation 38 . Large margin of victory 39 . THREE CITIES UNITED 42 . The Jackal, e.g. 43 . Steel or pewter 44 . Word with deep or tight 45 . Foyt's org. 47 . Vestry vestment 48 . ''Look here, old chap!'' 49 . ''Waking --- Devine'' (1998) Down 51 . Writer Waugh 1. Sober motorists org. 19 . ''So soon?'' 46 . It had a part in the 53 . ''White ---'' (2002) 2. Wheelhouse 23 . Dancer's director? Bible 58 . Thermodynamic concern direction 25 . Barbarian of tales 48 . Polar feature 62 . THREE CITIES UNITED 3. Stucco backing 26 . Quested in ''A 50 . Pool measure 64 . Kind of curiosity 4. Inscribe Passage to India'' 52 . Disney deer 65 . Cone-shaped heaters 5. Old maid 27 . Partner of Martin 53 . Norse god of war 66 . Openly declare 6. Work at lacemaking or Clark and poetry 67 . Legendary crime fighter 7. Back talk? 29 . Perry's secretary 54 . Put in a cargo hold 68 . ''Oh, give me ---'' 8. Skiddoo 31 . Latin 101 word 55 . Right-angled 69 . Rounded hammer part 9. Steep slope 32 . Homes for drones shapes 10 . Like a sourball 33 . ''Maria ---'' (popular 56 . Pub potations 11 . California valley tune) 57 . Las Vegas rival 12 . Somalia's gulf 34 . Like Dilbert's 59 . Act the nomad 13 . Rattling breath character 60 . Winner's emotion 18 . Vein glory? 36 . Actress Arquette 61 . Kitten's plaything 37 . When doubled, a 63 . Where some vets Washington city fought 40 . ___-Man (video game) 41 . High birth

297 Puzzle #294 Across 1. Lamebrain 5. Metal to be recycled 10 . Rock wren's habitat 14 . Tubular instrument 15 . Andean republic 16 . Holly plant 17 . Diving judge's concern 18 . Reached in amount 19 . Application request 20 . Losing it 23 . On the ___ (escaped) 24 . However 25 . Painter of Olympia 28 . Do something 31 . Swing era drummer 35 . Middle of a popular palindrome 36 . Employee with lots of money 39 . Vowels in Athens 40 . Clamming up 43 . Passion 44 . Signify 45 . Grassy expanse 46 . TV dragon Down 48 . Stimpy's buddy 1. Tip, as one's cap 22 . Cry in a balloon 47 . Pharmaceutical 49 . Suspicious 2. 1/6 drachma 25 . ___-soprano giant ___ Lilly 51 . Tiberius' 1051 3. Petty in ''A League 26 . Disney's little 50 . Let it all out 53 . Kind of symbol of Their Own'' mermaid 52 . Collectively 54 . Showing and telling 4. Religious center 27 . Himalayan 53 . Passenger car 63 . Prepare for viewing 5. Theater drop kingdom 54 . Kind of sport 64 . Abetted 6. Biggers sleuth 28 . Rags-to-riches 55 . Waiting around 65 . Scored the highest grade 7. Foreman's workplace figure 56 . Tuscan town on 66 . Moreover 8. Chorale contributor 29 . Feat of genetic the Arno 67 . Peruvian pack animal 9. Indiana's state engineering 57 . Colorado River 68 . Trevi Fountain coin, once flower 30 . Mortise's mate feeder 69 . Statistical measure 10 . Medieval musician 32 . Worth having 58 . Anita who sang 70 . Apply, as a phony accent 11 . Mideast carrier 33 . Plate material with 31-Across 71 . Oceanic whirlpool 12 . Big rig 34 . Analyze a metallic 59 . Skipper of the 13 . Gave the boot compound Nautilus 21 . Singer Page 37 . ''Howards ___'' 60 . Etching fluid (1992) 61 . Eggheady sort, 38 . Abbr. in some stereotypically military names 62 . 6-6-44 41 . ''Paper Lion'' author 42 . Palindromic tennis star

298 Puzzle #295 Across 1. Typographer's fine line 6. Pilgrimage to Mecca (Var.) 10 . Palindromic emperor 14 . Socrates supporter 15 . Inter follower 16 . Lateen-rigged Arabian sailing vessel 17 . ___ your instructions 18 . Blacksmith's tool 19 . Sweet edible fruit 20 . Music genre and this puzzle's theme 21 . Scalawag 24 . Abrasive board 26 . Classic prefix 27 . Superlatively capable 29 . Bunker 34 . Clothes holder 35 . Words with seat or heart 36 . Khan III or IV 37 . News item for a scrapbook, briefly 38 . Uttered a shrill cry (with ''up'') 39 . Stretch across Down 40 . Cyclotron bit 1. Prepare for a bout 22 . Some public 41 . Real bargain 41 . Hindu monk regarded as a hangings holy man 2. Film lion 42 . Once upon a time 23 . ''___ and the 42 . Limpid 3. Descending a 44 . Quemoy neighbor mountain, in a way Swan'' (Yeats) 43 . Whipped 45 . Play on words 4. Suffix with meteor 25 . Face up to, as a 45 . Los Angeles suburb 47 . Word before lather 5. Oscar role for Tom challenge and repeat 46 . Red or army 6. Fierce-tempered 27 . Steer clear of 48 . Right for the 47 . Type of sentence woman 28 . Hindu ''Mr.'' (Var.) disabled 48 . Quick job turnover? 7. Rejected suitor's 29 . Full of flavor 49 . Lotion ingredient, 53 . Toy gun ammo word, perhaps 30 . Allege as fact sometimes 56 . ''There oughta be ___!'' 8. Type of brake 31 . Certain musical 50 . Philatelist's 57 . Horse with a white-sprinkled 9. Lacquered event treasure coat 10 . Fewer than 100 32 . Twice or more 51 . ''Field of Dreams'' 58 . Biology 101 subject shares of stock (with ''once'') setting 60 . Leonardo's model 11 . Restaurant choice 33 . Bearlike mammal 52 . Summoned the 61 . ___ up (confesses) 12 . Visitor to Oz 35 . Type of scout butler 62 . Costume shop offerings 13 . John Irving's ''A outing 54 . Cugat's Lane 63 . One end of a hammerhead Prayer for ___ Meany'' 38 . Split 55 . Historian's concern 64 . Prestidigitator 39 . Heavyweight 59 . Brit's raincoat 65 . Group of eight wrestling

299 Puzzle #296 Across 1. ''77 Sunset ___'' 6. Blues singer James 10 . Country music star Dottie 14 . Eat away 15 . Beat soundly 16 . ''Only Time Will Tell'' supergroup 17 . Synthetic fabric 18 . ''Elephant Boy'' star 19 . Price markers 20 . Sgt., e.g. 21 . ''Earth Angel'' group 24 . One way to send a letter 26 . Michael ___ Barres 27 . ''___ Are Burning'' (Midnight Oil hit) 28 . TV series about hip-hop music 33 . Sheds tears 35 . ''Nobody But Me'' by the Human ___ 36 . ''The Island of the Day Before'' writer 37 . Soap brand 38 . ''I'll See You in My Dreams'' group Down 39 . Gold-plated 1. ''Scarface'' actor 22 . ''___ Girl Friday'' 41 . Ore deposit 40 . ''Much ___ About Nothing'' Pepe 23 . Jazz saxophonist 42 . Bea Arthur TV 41 . Actor mentioned in ''Year of 2. Bingham on Stan series the Cat'' ''Baywatch'' 25 . Shake hands with 44 . John Steed 42 . Koran deity 3. ''Blue Angel'' singer 28 . Pole explorer portrayer 43 . Fagin in ''Oliver!'' 4. Phrase repeated five 29 . ''Whose ___ is it 45 . ''Don't Bring Me times in an ABBA song Down'' rockers 45 . Flightless birds Anyway?'' title 47 . Dickens title starter 46 . ''Just ___ water'' 30 . ''Next Door to an 5. Groups of five Angel'' singer 48 . Like the Epcot 47 . Oakland's county 6. Ford flop 31 . Home of the ''Daily Center 50 . ''Angel of the Morning'' 7. ''The Parent ___'' Bruin'' 49 . Onto singer 8. TV, in slang 32 . Night insect 50 . Amusing act 55 . Tony on ''Leave It to Beaver'' 9. Plentiful 33 . Bygone ruler 51 . Home of the Osmonds 56 . School that expelled James 10 . Dance of the 1960s 34 . Make over Bond 11 . Morales of ''La 35 . ''___ Dog'' (Everly 52 . Actress Skye 57 . Director Kazan Bamba'' Brothers hit) 53 . Jack in ''Support Your Local Gunfighter'' 58 . ''Playhouse 90'' offering 12 . Prince's ''___ 'O' 38 . 1964 Sam Cooke the Times'' hit (with ''Ain't That'') 54 . ___ E. Coyote 60 . Unlike Dr. Hannibal Lecter 13 . Old news agency 39 . Dour 59 . Coolio's genre 61 . Pink Floyd album (with ''The'') 62 . ''The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin'' kid actor Lee 63 . ''Of ___ I sing'' 64 . Captain Hook's mate 65 . Bogart detective role

300 301 Puzzle #297 Across 1. Fromm or Remarque 6. Faulty 11 . ''M*A*S*H'' prop 14 . Scotland yard, approximately 15 . ___ beaucoup 16 . Sound of confusion 17 . Decoy 19 . Came to a fast stop? 20 . Goddess of abundance and fertility 21 . Grant 23 . Older titles, to a publisher 28 . Muzzleloader accessory 29 . Bobbed up 30 . Coat 32 . Joltin' Joe's bro 33 . 100 bani 34 . Cathedral of Turin relic 37 . Ayn Rand character 40 . It may contain eggs 41 . The theme of this puzzle 43 . Christened 44 . Not healthy-looking 46 . Column Down 47 . Spoil 1. Printer's measures 18 . Chi omega 45 . Hindu discipline 48 . Cocoon cousin 2. Prepare jute separator 49 . Reynolds of 50 . CPA's figure 3. Simpson's judge 22 . Unpleasant Hollywood 51 . Gather 4. Stingers? hangover? 52 . Millionth of a meter 53 . Lunar orbit apex 5. Missing a Beatles 23 . Model's makeup? 53 . Something to lend? 56 . Organism in a relationship? album? 24 . Some math 54 . One place a rocker 58 . Far-famed 6. Brest friend answers rocks 60 . Jackson 5 hit 7. A little woman 25 . Ten-toed sloth? 55 . Hurricane or figure 61 . Elizabethan, for one 8. Angers 26 . Variant skater Valova 62 . Substitute at the stadium 9. Scrub strenuously 27 . Beeps a car horn 57 . Trap or hole 68 . Stamp or riot word 10 . Sailor or comedian 31 . Word that 59 . They're on lines 69 . ___ time 11 . Leader Zedong precedes a sentence? 63 . Mnemonic device 70 . Like melted caramel 12 . Trump 35 . Up on trends 64 . Title word in a hit 71 . Pi Sigma separator 13 . ''Holy cow! ___ 36 . Chromosomal by The Chiffons 72 . Lessens, as pain never believe it.'' component 65 . Bossy remark? 73 . Breathe stertorously 38 . Merest 66 . Always, poetically 39 . Short-spoken 67 . Source of ergot 42 . Random samples poisoning

302 Puzzle #298 Across 1. Book-jacket copy 6. Petty quarrel 10 . Magazine fillers 13 . Artist's stand 14 . Curved lines 15 . Horne of song 17 . Dwelling 18 . Waterproof cover 19 . Pizazz 20 . Salesperson's handout 23 . Skater Lipinski 26 . Pen filler 27 . ''Lou Grant'' star 28 . Warning sounds 30 . Dad's lad 32 . Poem of praise 33 . Drink served with marshmallows 34 . Soup alternative 36 . Currency with Hamilton's picture 41 . Bumbling 42 . Broadcast booth sign 44 . Part of PST: Abbr. 47 . Lawn material Down 48 . Run out, as a subscription 1. ''__ Clown'' (Porter 22 . Kiddie playground 44 . Smart-mouthed 49 . ''Am not!'' retort tune) area 45 . Camera stand 51 . Male sheep 2. Research site 23 . Tic-__-toe 46 . Drenching rain 53 . Dutch cheese 3. GI show sponsor 24 . Considerably 48 . CPR pro 54 . The b in ''doubt,'' for 4. Snoopy's foe 25 . Timed event 50 . Four-door car example 5. __ cheese dressing 29 . President after 51 . Pave once more 58 . Tater 6. Glossy fabric Jefferson 52 . Make amends 59 . Prefix meaning ''self'' 7. Shenanigan 30 . Thin board 55 . Bugler's evening 60 . Customary practice 8. Field measure 31 . Rowboat call 64 . Exercise regimen from India 9. Sugar amts. implement 56 . Doozy 65 . Blueprint 10 . Guinness and 34 . Snow vehicle 57 . Successor of the 40 66 . Of a king or queen Baldwin 35 . Swiss peak Down 67 . Comfy room 11 . Part of FDR 37 . Yoko __ 61 . Sailor's ''yes'' 68 . Certain 12 . Trapped 38 . Face-to-face 62 . Empty space 69 . Lunch hr. for some 16 . Agassi of tennis 39 . Installed, as a 63 . Shade tree 21 . Bro's sib carpet 40 . Old Italian money 43 . Sleep acronym

303 Puzzle #299 Across 1. Assn. or org., e.g. 5. Narc's discovery 10 . Legendary former NYC top-40 radio station 14 . Saskatchewan tribe 15 . Jack of "The Great Dictator" 16 . Bug ending 17 . Uncompromising types 19 . Yesteryear 20 . The United States, in many a political speech 22 . Strauss opera 24 . Hard-to-find cards, to collectors 25 . Words of transition 30 . Cries from Homer 31 . Sleazy 32 . Aleppo's land: Abbr. 33 . Pepys, for one 35 . Gift of the glib 38 . Online film maker 39 . Big brass 40 . It may be turned 43 . "Be __ ...": start of a request Down 45 . 1974 Mocedades hit subtitled "Touch the Wind" 1. Münster beef? 18 . Life partner 38 . Hit hard 46 . Puzzle theme suggested by 2. Two-piece top 21 . Hair color, e.g. 39 . It's often hard to the start of 20-, 25- and 3. "Ziegfeld Follies" star 22 . Yardsticks: Abbr. resist 40-Across 4. Spicy candies 23 . Mate's greeting 40 . Actress O'Shea 51 . Enjoy the sun 5. "Apparently" 26 . "All I gotta do __ 41 . Pea jacket relative 52 . Hard to come by, in a way 6. Salsa quality naturally": Beatles lyric 42 . Duster's target 55 . Netman Nastase 7. Oslo's river 27 . Grammy winner 43 . Circumference 56 . Finish option 8. Foal's father Jones 44 . How to start a 57 . Work on a bone 9. "__ Rebel": 1962 hit 28 . Laundry problem collect call 58 . Pigeon-__ 10 . Bushwhacked 29 . '60s leftist gp. 47 . Bausch's partner 59 . Consumer 11 . Ready to travel 33 . Steel plow 48 . Island get-together developer 60 . Quick breakfast fare 12 . Shouldered 49 . Dept. of Justice 13 . Davidson College 34 . Nigerian people employee students since 1972 known for their art 50 . Jotted item 35 . __ game 53 . Bother a lot 36 . Partner of aid 54 . Tango need 37 . Azerbaijan's capital

304 Puzzle #300 Across 1. Cryptographer 6. Plan ahead, for short 10 . Seed of an Asiatic legume 14 . It may be light or grand 15 . Wasp's nest location, perhaps 16 . Help in a way one shouldn't 17 . It may be advertised 20 . Forest denizen 21 . Launderer's step 22 . Seville ritual 23 . Brit's air arm 24 . Standoff, of a kind 25 . Organ near the temple 26 . Mother Hubbard had one 32 . Smart follower 33 . Borrower's burden 34 . Brother of Fidel 38 . Where most strikes occur 39 . Flight coordinators (Abbr.) 40 . One less than hexa- 41 . Notorious pirate captain 42 . ''___ boy!'' (''Nice going!'') 43 . Like most films 44 . Bad thing to hold on to Down 47 . ''Blame It on ___'' (Caine 1. Sheltered bay 19 . Tower part 45 . Proverbial heirs film) 2. Geyserite, e.g. 23 . Inch back (with ''the'') 50 . Time for les vacances 3. Place for two black 24 . Shoe adornment 46 . You get a credit for 51 . Be decisive suits 26 . Pitching error it 52 . Not spotted 4. Newsworthy time 27 . Kyrgyz mountain 47 . Russian coin 54 . Man from U.N.C.L.E. 5. Turns inside out range 48 . Do parquetry 56 . He had 37 KOs 6. Certain body shape 28 . A way to rupture 49 . Type of orange 59 . Deadpan 7. Transfixed 29 . County in Missouri 53 . TV spinoff of 1980 62 . ___ di Como, Italia 8. ''Die Meistersinger'' or Nebraska 54 . Earned a citation, 63 . Tibet explorer Hedin heroine 30 . Itty-___ maybe 64 . Driveway part 9. Rug type 31 . Like nightmares 55 . Department of 65 . Balls with lids 10 . Copycat's request 35 . Kind of matter France 66 . Competing team 11 . Too big for one's 36 . North American 56 . Puts on the small 67 . Shoe shapes britches? Indians screen, e.g. 12 . Annoying gossip 37 . Put aboard 57 . Swag 13 . Fragrant oil 40 . Business plan 58 . Hostelries 18 . Sukiyaki ingredient 42 . Relevance 60 . Sweet age in old Roma 61 . Masseur's milieu

305 Puzzle #301 Across 1. Budweiser rival 6. Canadian prov. 9. One of the Alou brothers 14 . Grade school subj. 15 . Internet address, briefly 16 . Dumbfound 17 . One-edged sword 18 . Turkish title 19 . David Copperfield's forte 20 . "The Force will be with you, always" speaker 23 . Convey a false impression 24 . Remote control? 28 . Wrinkle 32 . Golda of Israeli politics 34 . "...borrower ___ a lender be" 35 . Milky stone 36 . Cartoonist Addams 38 . Children's song refrain 40 . 1930 Gershwin musical 43 . Sulu portrayer, on "Star Trek" 44 . Delight, as a comedy club crowd Down 45 . "Is this a dagger which ___ before me...?" (Macbeth) 1. El ___, Texas 22 . Prefix meaning 48 . Snaky swimmer "egg" 46 . Supplement, with "out" 2. Ray Stevens' "Ahab 50 . Dugong or the ___" 25 . Discomfort manatee 47 . Lap dog, commonly 3. Netanyahu, 26 . Des ___ 52 . Residence 49 . Evaluate familiarly 27 . Creates, as a gorge 53 . ___ drugs 51 . Seal again, in a way 4. Be in a snit 28 . Muster roll (bacterial treatment 53 . Sault ___ Marie 5. Serf 29 . Quick on the ___ largely replaced by 54 . Emulate Ethel Merman on 6. Show fear, in a way antibiotics) stage 30 . Where the first 7. Prompt "piggy" went 55 . Full gestation 61 . Eva or Zsa Zsa 8. Verve 31 . Ballerina's exercise period 64 . Building extension 9. Boy Scout gathering 32 . Flooring wood 56 . Bread spread 65 . Tippy transport 10 . Alternative to 33 . "¿Cómo ___usted?" 57 . V.I. Warshawski 66 . Ooze forth creator Paretsky chat-room 37 . Outer coconut 67 . Sports "zebra" communications layer 58 . Exclusively 68 . Synthetic fiber 11 . Movie stars' union 39 . Sacred bird of 59 . When both hands 69 . Doled (abbr.) Egypt are up? 70 . Extinct bird of New Zealand 12 . Rapid-fire rifle 41 . Salted and 60 . Wilder in 71 . "The Duke" of film 13 . Word on wine smoked, as herring Hollywood bottles 42 . Big name in hotels 61 . Jeweler's item 21 . Dorothy, to Em 62 . Borden's weapon 63 . Nevertheless

306 Puzzle #302 Across 1. Some sauces 8. Let have it 15 . Take care of 16 . Spanish noble 17 . Come down hard 19 . Is a party to 20 . Wins acceptance 21 . Sr.'s test 22 . Soybean product 23 . Tiny trillers 24 . ''__ a Right to Sing the Blues'' 25 . Be up 26 . ''Paint Your Wagon'' composer 27 . Used a prie-dieu 28 . Buttercup relative 30 . Taper off 32 . Sound of dismay 33 . Miss modifier 34 . Cannonball Adderley's instrument 38 . Daily event 42 . Table sides 43 . Some game Down 45 . Year in Nero's reign 1. Bart Simpson 13 . Deep-fried food 37 . Unpredictable 46 . Green figures exclamation 14 . Leopard spot element 47 . Checked out 2. Spirited runner 18 . Did in 38 . Be on tenterhooks 48 . ''Copacabana'' showgirl 3. Adriatic port 23 . Depp role of 2005 39 . Rave review 49 . QB's miscue 4. '60s Cubs star 24 . Not obvious 40 . Muzzle 50 . Russian retreat 5. Dad's sibs 26 . Windblown soil 41 . Lofty 51 . True 6. Tour grp. 27 . Firing places 44 . Labor Dept. agency 52 . House mover 7. Released 29 . Persian remarks 47 . Social group 55 . Carmaker Maserati 8. In irons 31 . Is apt to 48 . Building material 56 . Bill 9. Paper feature 34 . Set goals for some houses 57 . Record holder 10 . Vegas calculation 35 . Venezuelan 50 . Early TV nickname 58 . Made brown 11 . No longer edible cowboy 51 . Basalt source 12 . Maintained a Web 36 . Clan identifiers 53 . ''__ Girls'' journal 54 . British rock composer

307 Puzzle #303 Across 1. Escape 4. Beach sight 10 . Beach sight 14 . Tyler of "The Lord of the Rings" 15 . Mother of note 16 . Kennel cry 17 . Don McLean hit written for the 2004 Olympics? 19 . Pastiche 20 . River where Hamelin's rats drowned 21 . Without getting excited 23 . Huxley novel written for the 2004 Olympics? 26 . Tahitian port 29 . Taking-off place 30 . Letters after xis 32 . Mid fifth-century date 37 . Absorbent application 38 . Sporty Mazda 41 . Mates' agreements 42 . Bundle 44 . "Castor and Pollution" artist 46 . On __ own terms Down 49 . Tee, perhaps 1. Defect 22 . "Never Wave at 45 . Defectors 50 . Venetian tourist site built for __": 1952 film the 2004 Olympics? 2. Gimlet garnish 47 . China piece 24 . Basic unit 55 . Fund-raising event 3. Actor Montand 48 . County east of 25 . Start of a boast Napa 56 . Magnetic induction unit 4. Bar accessory 26 . Bean cookers 50 . Daisy product 60 . Actress Gershon 5. Nuclear agcy. till 1975 27 . Eastern nurse 51 . Poker strategy 61 . Steinbeck novel written for the 2004 Olympics? 6. FDR program 28 . Tidy sum 52 . "You didn't fool me" 64 . Manual reader 7. Like rain forests 31 . Uncle of note 53 . Loves 65 . How knots sometimes come 8. Trembling trees 33 . Presume 54 . Gucci rival 66 . Bolt 9. Out of action 34 . Massachusetts Bay city 57 . WWW addresses 67 . Morning reading 10 . Shoot lead-in 35 . Sleeveless garment 58 . Exile of 1979 68 . Line determinants 11 . Many a surfer 36 . Ratio words 59 . Unspecified 69 . Seashell seller 12 . "Consider it done" 13 . Architecture middle 39 . Pack down amount name 40 . Dumps 62 . Nice turndown 18 . Hitchcock's first 43 . Cookie fruit 63 . Tolkien tree American film creature

308 Puzzle #304 Across 1. Gangster's piece 4. Amorphous organism 9. Early afternoon hour 14 . Actress Longoria 15 . Long skirts 16 . Striped grazer 17 . ''Yikes!'' 18 . Without support 19 . Shady retreat 20 . Holiday purchase 23 . Org. 24 . Corp. honcho 25 . Pricey stadium seating 29 . Less mundane 31 . Fleur-de-__ 32 . Disregard the truth 33 . Dressy accessory 34 . ''Norma'' number 36 . Prospecting tools 37 . Place to check in 40 . Bye, in Bologna 41 . Many millennia 42 . Nonsense 43 . Boom times 44 . Nip in the bud Down 45 . Museum visitor, often 1. Trinket 21 . Tenor Caruso 44 . Puts up 49 . Pooh pal 2. Unfavorably 22 . Thai or Tibetan 46 . Brunch staple 51 . Stop up disposed 26 . Leaving the launch 47 . Slid home safely 52 . Ancient Andean 3. Kicks back pad 48 . Crude carrier 53 . New resident's visitor 4. Latin verb 27 . Sound from a sty 50 . Had title to 56 . ''What's up, Doc?'' voice 5. Ill will 28 . Tic-tac-toe symbols 51 . Get out of 59 . Simpson of fashion 6. Off the hook 30 . Unenviable grade 54 . Normandy city 60 . Sitcom planet 7. Numbers game 31 . Big-top performers 55 . Saturates 61 . Rosie's fastener 8. ''Hold on __!'' 35 . Carnival city 56 . Buddy 62 . Plumed wader 9. Missouri range 36 . ''Will it play in __?'' 57 . Projecting edge 63 . Cost to participate 10 . Not hip 37 . Ready to pluck 58 . St. crosser 64 . Columns with a slant 11 . Fall away 38 . Group of experts 65 . Incubation sites 12 . Major leaguer 39 . ''Red River'' actress 66 . HST's predecessor 13 . Scuff up 40 . Reminder

309 Puzzle #305 Across 1. Old highway name 6. Appendectomy evidence 10 . Bogus 14 . Master of unsavory film roles 15 . Cavity 16 . Penniless traveler 17 . Attractive or not? 19 . Central Iowa city 20 . Darn it 21 . Till pile 22 . Some oranges 24 . Bedframe adjunct 25 . Gentleman of Verona 26 . Benefactor 29 . Interesting and exciting 32 . Sharif and Epps 33 . Fall sounds 34 . Monk's title 35 . Darned 36 . Meadowlands movements 37 . Place your name on 38 . Kilowatt-hour fraction 39 . Crinkly cloth 40 . Rushed Down 41 . Winter lawn greenery 1. Swiss skiing site 18 . Round of seasons 39 . Mobile place 43 . Set back 2. Folktales 23 . Novelist Oz 40 . Flat people? 44 . Archaeologist's milieu 3. All hands on deck 24 . Twinkle-toed 42 . Clubs or orders 45 . Music to slam dance to 4. Collector's collection, 25 . Postal beat 43 . Shutout spoilers 46 . Masters perhaps 26 . Hang over 45 . Group of experts 48 . Kind of ad 5. Irks 27 . Type of board 46 . Japanese wrestling 49 . Thieves foiler 6. Railroad switch 28 . Greedy one's take? 47 . Field of study 52 . Eurasia's mountains 7. Wheel projections 29 . Some tennis 48 . Place for a wish 53 . It's out of the bag 8. Hoarder's goal strokes 49 . Pons song 56 . Combination, in some card 9. Debbie of film 30 . Coaxes 50 . Discounted by games 10 . Hair remover 31 . Hits the tarmac 51 . News clipping 57 . Spy on the inside 11 . It requires a short 33 . Goldilocks's lock 54 . ''The Conqueror 58 . More than see commute 36 . Some door Worm'' poet 59 . Big galoots 12 . Original shepherd crosspieces 55 . Beanie 60 . Broker's tip, perhaps 13 . Velvety flora 37 . Sad or Hacky 61 . Hiccup follower

310 Puzzle #306 Across 1. No longer out 6. Side (with) 11 . Melodic syllable 14 . Prepare to chat, maybe 15 . New Zealand native 16 . Zero in 17 . Writer with a well 19 . "Be prepared" org. 20 . Smeltery by-product 21 . Old knife 22 . Pub orders 23 . Ones who tell you when your slip is showing? 27 . Caesar's __ calendar 30 . Navy noncoms 31 . Imitating 32 . Bind 37 . 16th-century date 38 . Prefix with active 39 . It's a ball 40 . Young Mozart, e.g. 43 . PETA spokeswoman Apple 45 . Spanish snack 46 . Evangelist's target 47 . One who knows the score Down 52 . "That's a surprise!" 1. Landon and an 24 . Duster 44 . As a rebuttal 53 . __ Bator extraterrestrial 25 . Dolphin's 46 . RR schedule list 54 . "NFL Live" airer 2. Scarf material navigation aid 47 . All wet 58 . Bud 3. Océano contents 26 . Likely 48 . Thumbsucking, 59 . Reservoir, and hint to puzzle 4. Big cheese 27 . Doorway part e.g. theme found in seven long 5. Tolkien woodland 28 . High style 49 . Clown answers creature 29 . 2003 winner of the 50 . Tip off 62 . Last Greek consonant 6. Kind of protein- Mark Twain Prize for 51 . Abraham's wife 63 . Maker of the MDX SUV building acid American Humor 55 . Media slant 64 . False handle 7. Thief, in slang 32 . Turner or Williams 56 . Strategy 65 . Kyoto capital 8. Rodeo participant 33 . Mineral suffix 57 . Org. whose first 66 . Profundity 9. "Maid of Athens, __ 34 . Lab's warning ticker was installed in 67 . Crossword puzzle inventor we part ...": Byron 35 . Caen's river 1867 Arthur 10 . Freudian article 36 . Alpine lift 59 . Green roll 11 . Cookbook amount 38 . Cell messengers 60 . Bandage brand 12 . Choir's platform 41 . On one's guard 61 . Detroit-based labor 13 . Collect 42 . Go (for) org. 18 . "... unto us __ is 43 . "Tsk, tsk!" given": Isaiah 22 . Stirs

311 Puzzle #307 Across 1. ''It's ___, the cows are giving evaporated milk'' 6. Damon of ''Saving Private Ryan'' 10 . Newborn's acquisition 14 . And ___ grow on 15 . Winglike 16 . Folk singer Burl 17 . Unintelligible chatter 19 . Oasis abode 20 . Clairvoyant's forte 21 . '50s-'70s Soviet spacecraft series 22 . Mendacious 24 . Folkestone farewell 25 . Take heed 26 . Prestige 29 . Projected 3-D image 33 . In a dither 34 . Be in class and miss it 35 . Scale pair 36 . Immense 37 . Foundation parts 38 . Goddess of fertility 39 . Sparkling wine city Down 40 . Bassoon bit 1. To a degree 18 . Burlap material 41 . Solar blot 41 . Votive stone 2. Burden of proof 23 . Opposite of paleo 43 . Records 42 . Handbills 3. Rope fiber 24 . Dessert choice 44 . Reprint 44 . Coast Guard vessel 4. Bookie alternative in 25 . Seeped 46 . Lhasa locale 45 . Detailed accts. N.Y. 26 . Antagonist 47 . Cosby/Culp series 46 . Theater trophy 5. Not in time 27 . Clear the slate 48 . Smoke detector 47 . Imbue 6. ___ Loa 28 . Couscous, e.g. 49 . ''Animal House'' 50 . Puppies' plaints 7. Mater antecedent 29 . Debtors' places house 51 . Word with foreign or first 8. File folder feature 30 . Back to zero, 50 . Community service 54 . Classify 9. Ills perhaps org. 55 . Insipid and sentimental one 10 . The heart of the 31 . Win by ___ 51 . Sunday wrap 58 . HS exam matter 32 . No philanthropist 52 . Wading bird 59 . Bones, in Vegas 11 . Assert 34 . Heavyweight plans 53 . Unit of force 60 . Fatty liquid 12 . Carte before the 37 . Feigns 56 . Be unwell 61 . Abominable snowman course? 57 . Hearty brew 62 . Mattress support 13 . Noble Italian name 63 . On edge

312 Puzzle #308 Across 1. Filbert, e.g. 4. Stick fast 10 . Concrete strip 14 . --- carte 15 . Mariner 16 . Slinky, basically 17 . It operates gears 19 . Took the A train 20 . River of Florence 21 . ''--- boy!'' 22 . Barely managed (with ''out'') 23 . Michael's sister 26 . Bad time for Caesar 28 . Western topper 34 . Pipe contents, maybe 37 . Steps for crossing a fence 38 . Razz 39 . Samovars 41 . Kind of days 43 . --- Scott decision 44 . They're sewn into pants 46 . Like engagements at sea 48 . --- de deux 49 . Supposed remedy 52 . Two over Paar? Down 53 . Disco light 1. Like Fran Drescher's 24 . ''Close to the Edge'' 47 . Choosing unit 57 . Some butters voice band 50 . Paleontologist's 59 . Poker variation 2. Conservative 25 . Barbecue interest 63 . Primatologists' subjects beginning buttinskies 51 . Sudden seizure? 64 . Bull pen stats 3. Blemish 27 . On the --- 54 . ''Faust,'' for one 65 . Travel security 4. Start of a JFK quote (precisely) 55 . Unworthy of 68 . Romanian-born novelist 5. --- Moines 29 . James Dean movie 56 . Lauder of Wiesel 6. Response to a 30 . God of Islam cosmetics 69 . Pressed one-liner 31 . Split 57 . Coral construction 70 . Beluga yield 7. Give off 32 . On a clipper 58 . ''Alice's Restaurant'' 71 . Practice origami 8. Huck Finn's 33 . Knight and Nugent singer Guthrie 72 . Highland girls transport 34 . Be effusive 60 . Mitchell mansion 73 . Intimidate 9. Implicate 35 . Length X width 61 . Tabloid subjects, 10 . Presented a film 36 . One way to pay a sometimes 11 . Respond quickly bill 62 . Thieves' hangouts 12 . Right-hand man 40 . ___-out (uptight) 66 . Peg of the LPGA 13 . Did a radiator 42 . June honorees 67 . NFL gains (Abbr.) chore 45 . Word ending many 18 . Old fogy company names

313 Puzzle #309 Across 1. Tear companion 5. Strongbox 9. "Get lost!" 14 . Symbol of goodness 15 . Org. founded in 1920 16 . Leather strip 17 . "Cunning hunter" of the bible 18 . Impolite glance 19 . Disorderly disturbances 20 . Patti Page hit 23 . CSI identifier 24 . Danny of "White Christmas" 25 . Moves abruptly 28 . Tolerate 30 . Overwhelm 33 . Turkish leader 34 . Azov is one 35 . Scorching 37 . Beach Boys hit 40 . Bowling alley head 41 . Move aimlessly 42 . Word with bar or area 43 . X-ray unit 44 . Name names Down 46 . Pendant feature 1. Sharpen, as a blade 21 . USN officer 39 . Fleming of fiction 47 . Greek cheese 2. Alleviate 22 . Classified blurb 45 . Cornhusk-wrapped 48 . Fez, e.g. 3. Football 25 . Style of furnishing edible 49 . Ferko String Band tune Hall-of-Famer Page 26 . Kenmore 46 . Certain punch 56 . Word of praise 4. Like some tickets competitor 47 . Take after 57 . Moby Dick pursuer 5. Latin American 27 . Rubbed the wrong 48 . Diced 58 . Temporary calm music way 49 . Diminishing sea 59 . South Pacific tourist site 6. Experts 28 . Sun. deliverance 50 . Type of duck 60 . Miner's pursuit 7. Cut and run 29 . Ham operator's 51 . On-board shout 61 . Opera offering 8. "I've found it!" letter 52 . Green ornamental 62 . Prepared for action 9. Part of a pound? 30 . Keyboard symbol stone 63 . Observed 10 . Santiago's country 31 . Playwright Oscar 53 . Angler's decoy 64 . Intuitive ability 11 . Tooth part 32 . Collectible flop 54 . Nobelist Wiesel 12 . Animated movie of 34 . Beethoven's 55 . Israeli airline 1998 "Moonlight ___" 56 . Youth org. 13 . Booker T. and the 36 . Baked potato ___ alternative 38 . Dockside flame fighter

314 Puzzle #310 Across 1. Some ratites 5. Purify 11 . Hwy. helper 14 . Berry quantity 15 . Chef based in New Orleans 16 . German auto 17 . Advantage 19 . Underwater deposit 20 . Burrow 21 . Short course? 22 . One-time orbiter 23 . Japanese seaport 24 . Lid enhancement 27 . Debussy classic, ''La ___'' 28 . Paced the field 30 . Sneaker feature 31 . Subj. for some foreigners 32 . They get in the way of sound thinking 35 . American poet Lizette 36 . ''As Good as It Gets'' co-star 39 . Physician to Marcus Aurelius 42 . Harness gear 43 . Palindromic Ugandan name 46 . Sometimes it's hidden Down 48 . Word with the cradle or 1. Typical example 18 . It can be raw 41 . Calendar rarity blind 2. Drawbacks 22 . ''Luncheon on the 43 . Furious 50 . River through northern 3. Disentangle Grass'' painter 44 . Darn good Thailand 4. Perform lousily 24 . Lawn tool specimens 51 . Means to storybook riches 5. It might wind up on 25 . Rhino's weapon 45 . Shoe cushions 54 . Photographer with a dock? 26 . Bitty 47 . In one's element 64-Across 6. 911 responder 29 . Serpentine 49 . Fuzzy Wuzzy, e.g. 56 . Saratoga Springs lure 7. Charon's transport swimmer 52 . Religious leader 57 . SHOW alternative 8. Furious 33 . The first cardinal? 53 . Takes a dive 58 . Set outcome? 9. Most pleasing 34 . Evade, as duties 55 . Indispensable 59 . Heel 10 . Rockies roamer 36 . Dye-producing 58 . Pressure 60 . Dinner delicacy 11 . Edit substantially shrub 59 . Help for a broken 62 . Tour group for swingers? 12 . Romantic 37 . Abolishes heart? 63 . It multiplies by dividing 13 . Miracle observer's 38 . Cinco minus cuatro 60 . Dawdle 64 . Writer with 54-Across feeling 39 . Chitchat 61 . Iffy sched. letters 65 . ''Crying'' singer Orbison 40 . In the distant past 66 . Reaches 67 . What a cut provides

315 Puzzle #311 Across 1. Helen of Troy's mother 5. On the summit of 9. Word of regret 13 . Some simians 14 . Heavy gold chain 15 . Misplaces 17 . Boat wood 18 . Veldt grazers 19 . Words on the spine 20 . Sushi morsel 21 . Stall 23 . Rabbit relatives 25 . Boxing venues 26 . Microscopic creatures 28 . More up to it 30 . Italian-born film star 31 . Got nosy 32 . Cloudy region 35 . ''What's __ for me?'' 36 . Nursery fixtures 37 . DNA component 38 . Whole bunch 39 . Helps with the dishes 40 . Beauty parlor 41 . Looks to be Down 42 . Comforters 1. Overdue 21 . Wheat component 39 . Can't stand 43 . Welcoming gesture 2. Sporting sword 22 . About half of us 40 . Phoenix NBA team 46 . Em, Bee and Polly 3. Include the lady 24 . Aid in crime 41 . Unexpected 47 . Swap seats 4. Request 26 . Landed 42 . Face cards 50 . ''You, over there!'' 5. Engages in debate 27 . Uni- relative 43 . MD's imperative 53 . Nitric and boric 6. Theater trophies 28 . Zodiac sign 44 . Moved in a circular 54 . Lotion additive 7. Symphony or tome 29 . Lobster eaters' path 55 . Double agent 8. Tijuana money need 45 . ''Mule Train'' singer 56 . Doctrine 9. Took up or let out 31 . Proper 46 . Chipmunk snack 57 . Alert 10 . Dawdle around 32 . Underestimate 48 . Statutes 58 . Heavenly bear 11 . Sean of ''Lord of 33 . Lumber flaw 49 . Jai __ 59 . Bears' homes the Rings'' 34 . Urges 51 . Designer 60 . Transgressions 12 . Alabama city 36 . Inch along Schiaparelli 61 . Galaxy unit 16 . Gets the point of 37 . Gallop or canter 52 . Summer to summer 55 . Greek letters

316 Puzzle #312 Across 1. Tie at anchor 5. Paper purchase 9. Ointment 14 . She's a sweetie in Tahiti 15 . First name in courtroom fiction 16 . Swindler's name, possibly 17 . Future rabbis, perhaps 20 . Five Nations tribe 21 . Bruins' Bobby 22 . Fair 23 . Easy victory 25 . "___ to Pieces" (Del Shannon hit) 27 . 2003 award for Shirin Ebadi 35 . Area code preceder 36 . Spade or Cooke 37 . Social standing 38 . What hot coffee may do 41 . Bend under pressure 43 . Clears the deck 44 . "The Optimist's Daughter" novelist Welty 46 . Prayer in a convent 48 . Number of weeks per Down annum 1. It may be held in 24 . Some have black 50 . King in "Macbeth" 49 . Lenny Kravitz hit delis eyes 51 . Rice wine 53 . African antelope 2. Presage 26 . Stops wavering 52 . Protruding tree 54 . Check the UPC 3. River of France 27 . Given to prying knots 55 . "Der ___" (Adenauer) 4. Put back on the job (Var.) 55 . Griffith, or Garcia 59 . Ill. neighbor 5. Overhauls 28 . When prompted 56 . Rob, formerly of 61 . Gave the green light 6. Ruth's was 2.28 29 . Sweat units "The West Wing" 65 . Potluck favorite 7. To boot 30 . Kenmore 57 . Corn growers? 68 . Nerdy guy 8. Like the decimal competitor 58 . Early fall setting 69 . Start to freeze? system 31 . Rarer than rare 60 . Comedian Carvey 70 . Singer Lovett 9. Type of commentary 32 . Author Calvino 62 . Ma with a bow 71 . This puzzle's theme 10 . Draft choices 33 . Maestro Mehta 63 . Scat queen 72 . Org. with a mission 11 . Start to type? 34 . "Ah, Wilderness!" 64 . Profound 73 . It's sold in bars 12 . Wine containers mother 66 . Corp. takeover 13 . Old station 39 . His wife took a turn 67 . Hill and Sesame identification for the worse (Abbr.) 18 . Pedestal topper 40 . Bit of residue 19 . More than suggests 42 . Dolls' partners? 45 . Golfer Palmer, informally 47 . Capital of Cyprus

317 Puzzle #313 Across 1. Led the charge, say 11 . Blowing up 15 . Normandie, for one 16 . Eye part 17 . Takes a stand 19 . 1968 Columbia Univ. protest gp. 20 . Humor 21 . Mexican king 22 . __ majesty 23 . Routine 25 . Actress Conn 28 . Call, in a way 32 . Biblical preposition 33 . Europe's second-largest lake 35 . Penobscot Bay resort 37 . Responses to bias, in some cases 40 . Charm 41 . Middle East language 42 . "__ us embrace": Shak. 43 . Giant star and others 45 . Assay 46 . Street show 48 . "It's __-yooo-tiful day for Down baseball!": Harry Caray 1. Coal carriers 14 . "Relax" 39 . Convened 51 . Chesapeake Bay outlet: 2. __ test 18 . Keep to oneself 44 . Like many a robe Abbr. 3. They may be 22 . Soft coal 47 . Winding section 52 . 1940 Republican convention advanced: Abbr. keynote speaker 24 . Destroy, in dialect 49 . Sugar sources 4. Paris prosecutor's 56 . Protective shelter 25 . High degrees 50 . __ nous assignment 59 . Gear 26 . Inspiration aids 53 . Dandy 5. Chilling 62 . QED part 27 . Car financing 54 . High style 6. Arm bones option 63 . Credit card user's reward, 55 . Suffix with dab 7. Joined the tumult perhaps 29 . "__ Want to Wait": 56 . Exposed magma 8. Author Tyler Paula Cole hit 64 . ID info 57 . Utopia 9. "The Waltons" actor 30 . Pershing's WWI 65 . Escorts, maybe 58 . They're trapped in 10 . Formerly, formerly command pots 11 . Seek redress from 31 . O.T. book 60 . Mil. officers 12 . Protect to excess 34 . Reno et al.: Abbr. 61 . "Outstanding!" 13 . Persistent to the 36 . Striped-shirt max wearer 38 . Comic Philips

318 Puzzle #314 Across 1. Laughter syllables 5. Oscar night auto 9. Ejects, volcano-style 14 . The White House's __ Office 15 . Border on 16 . Handled difficulties 17 . Nevada gambling mecca 18 . Digs made of twigs 19 . Rap sheet identity 20 . Continually 23 . Kind of wave 24 . Aunt or uncle: Abbr. 25 . Attire 28 . A large quantity 33 . Antitoxins 37 . Have the courage 39 . Show beyond doubt 40 . Continually 43 . Resulted in 44 . Whitewall, e.g. 45 . Departed 46 . No picnic 48 . Rich soil 50 . Kan. neighbor 52 . Washing instructions site Down 56 . Continually 1. Israeli dance 22 . Business VIP 47 . Grassland 62 . Standoffish 2. Keep from 26 . Huck's craft 49 . Month after Feb. 63 . Pet pest happening 27 . Cook kabobs, in a 51 . Obviously 64 . Fork part 3. Capital of Vietnam way 53 . Computer memory 65 . Charity supporter 4. So all can hear 29 . Sketched units 66 . Rummage sale words 5. Ethel Mertz's job 30 . Valentine card 54 . Archie Bunker's 67 . List-ending abbr. 6. "Yeah, right!" sentiment wife 68 . Dictation-taking whiz 7. Sled dog command 31 . Not odd 55 . Polynesian porch 69 . Count (on) 8. Playful swimmer 32 . E-mailed 56 . Very much 70 . Use UPS, e.g. 9. "Sea" or "bay" 33 . D-Day invasion city 57 . "The __ Ranger" seafood 34 . Water pitcher 58 . Diving bird 10 . Equestrian sport 35 . Actor Foxx 59 . "Would you care 11 . Heroic tale 36 . Poker payment for anything __?" 12 . Like watered-down 38 . Italian currency, 60 . Bridal accessory whiskey currently 61 . Sharp bark 13 . Radical '60s org. 41 . Like a pendulum's 62 . TV spots 21 . Find fault with, to a swing fault 42 . Very simple

319 Puzzle #315 Across 1. Gap 7. Checked 15 . Good with one's hands 16 . Tall, thin one 17 . Angolan money 18 . Cole Porter film score 19 . Rankles 20 . John Glenn in ''The Right Stuff'' 21 . Respectful address 22 . Saddle sticker 24 . ''Boys of Summer'' subject 25 . One way to say yes 26 . Martinique's group 30 . Easter preceder 31 . ''Children of the Albatross'' author 32 . One out 33 . Shell filler 34 . Source of warmth 35 . Marceau character 38 . Screen lines 40 . ''M*A*S*H'' extras 43 . Sweater letter 44 . Toaster, at times Down 45 . Stuff in seams 1. Acquires copiously 12 . Outburst 39 . Gumshoe 46 . New York Public Library 2. ''Braveheart'' villain 13 . Hughes protégé 40 . Bit benefactor 3. GI meal 14 . Trifle, perhaps 41 . Ready when you 48 . Profile 4. A dog's age 23 . Pops up again arrive 49 . Retreat 5. Not to be sneezed at 27 . Middle 42 . Iroquois League 50 . ''To Venus and Back'' artist 6. Lofty 28 . Coolness members 54 . Rusher's dismissal 7. Fit 29 . Transferee's 47 . Pen complaints 56 . Emulate Cousteau 8. Thatching material activity 51 . F. Scott Fitzgerald's 57 . Medicinal plant 9. Precipitate 35 . Clueless one's birthplace 58 . Island that bans autos 10 . Fighting words comment 52 . Kiwi-like 59 . Literature Nobelist of '71 11 . High point 36 . ''Don't worry!'' 53 . Executive dept. 60 . Top secret 37 . Name meaning ''of head 61 . Britten opera hero noble descent'' 55 . Blythe's daughter 38 . Subject of some in ''Meet the Parents'' FCC regulations

320 Puzzle #316 Across 1. Some resistance 5. Beach confection 10 . Stops wavering 14 . Sock it to me? 15 . In the know 16 . Ill-gotten gains 17 . Vapor 18 . Gas discovered in 1898 19 . Diarist Frank 20 . I 23 . ''Walk Away ---'' (1966 hit) 24 . For men only 25 . Before of yore 26 . Toward the tail 27 . Bloom-to-be 30 . Catch, Western-style 32 . What models need 34 . ''Titanic'' director 38 . I 43 . Sensational speakers 44 . Center's job 45 . Impression of the fifties? 48 . Aral or Ross 50 . Hardly a guzzle 51 . Fix a skirt Down 52 . Multitude 1. ''They're ---!'' 21 . Shortest mo. 42 . ''Love and 56 . ''Across'' word? 2. Common pest 22 . Frozen quarters Basketball'' actor Omar 58 . I 3. Impetus 23 . Precedent to riches 45 . Uncredited writers 62 . Skywalker cohort 4. Stone monument 28 . Home of the Bruins 46 . Like Les Brown's 63 . Used the VCR 5. Street-corner call 29 . Off one's rocker band 64 . Light gas? 6. Bowled over 31 . ''No ifs, --- or 47 . First name in 66 . Romulus, to Remus 7. Temples buts!'' aviation 67 . Improve text 8. Kind of runner 33 . Black, romantically 49 . It has many bills 68 . Vera's intro? 9. Gossipmonger 35 . Milk delivery cry? 53 . Playful aquatic critter 69 . Stocking problem 10 . Norway's patron 36 . Muffs one 70 . Bassoon's pair saint 37 . Get ready to shine? 54 . ''Tsk!'' 71 . Young 'un 11 . Racehorses, 39 . Straight from the 55 . Wild West shelter informally beginning? 57 . Charged toward 12 . Salon products 40 . In an absurd 59 . Chinese association 13 . Sound system manner 60 . Tear to pieces 41 . Soft, lightweight 61 . Bet equalizer muslin 65 . Society-page word

321 Puzzle #317 Across 1. College Park, Md. players 6. Surly 13 . Round ornament 15 . Tapered smoke 16 . McArdle of Broadway 17 . Dine 18 . Person 19 . Athletic honor 21 . Accept 22 . Derides 24 . One of the Bunker twins 25 . Go awry 26 . Sample 27 . Craftsman's wood 29 . Couldn't sit still 32 . Zealous 33 . Star in Scorpio 34 . Goes bad 35 . Theobromine, e.g. 36 . Most dark and dirty 37 . It's good to know them 38 . Sequoia, for one 39 . USN craft 40 . Warning to drivers 41 . Divides, in a way Down 44 . Minority 1. "__ brillig..." 12 . Christian spirit 34 . Honda model 45 . Per 2. Rubik et al. 14 . Game segment 36 . Coercion 47 . Dug-out tracks 3. Pulverized 15 . Old explosive 38 . Is really bad 49 . Wood holders 4. Indoor amusement device 42 . Future reader 51 . It can help keep pupils clean 5. __-Foy, Quebec 20 . Colorado's __ Park 43 . Some earrings 53 . Places for some dancing 6. "Dollars" star 23 . Réunion attendees 45 . "Che gelida competitions 7. Artist's pseudonym 27 . Lift manina," e.g. 54 . Like some bonds formed from the French 28 . Not divided into 46 . Form large puddles 55 . Checks over pronunciation of his parts 48 . Fix 56 . Embarrassing initials 29 . "Let's play by the 50 . Outrage 8. Not close rules, huh?" 52 . Starchy tuber 9. "The One I Love" 30 . Fresh answers, say band 31 . Three times, in 10 . Produce section Rx's offerings 32 . You may hear a 11 . Stops the flow of report from one

322 Puzzle #318 Across 1. Sarah's boy 6. Locomotive fuel 10 . Catch a glimpse of 14 . Chest wood 15 . Lady Bird Johnson's middle name 16 . Be king over 17 . Sheep was auditorily aware of antelopes 20 . "Casablanca" role 21 . Escort's offering 22 . Classy ride 23 . Home of the Braves, briefly 26 . Issue 29 . "___ so for your sake!" 31 . Editor's order to the sheep tender at the daily paper? 34 . First name in mysteries 35 . Invariably 36 . Reporter's need 39 . Key with four sharps 43 . Soft sound 47 . Swag 48 . Stupor from undoing a do? 52 . Sheds Down 53 . Extreme severity 1. Word with cream or 23 . One side of a vote 46 . 18-wheeler 54 . Super ___ (video game box 24 . Matador's 48 . Windbag's output machine) 2. Stitch up opponent 49 . Midsize 55 . Broke a fast 3. Summer quaff 25 . Lollapalooza Oldsmobiles 56 . Select 4. Expressions of relief 27 . Handheld gadget 50 . High time 58 . Voluminous ref. work 5. Invent 28 . Word with a 51 . "The 60 . Era of bringing up rabbits? 6. Company perk, mistaken apostrophe, Metamorphosis" hero 67 . Run rampant perhaps often 52 . Olympic skier Phil 68 . Jethro portrayer Max 7. Done to death 30 . Miami daily 57 . Sunscreen label 69 . Western flick 8. Case for a lawyer? 32 . Crab type abbr. 70 . Highlander's tongue 9. Bert who played a 33 . Holiday cusp 59 . '40s turning point 71 . Out of the wind lion 37 . Desktop arrow 61 . Sorbonne summer 72 . "___ Hope" (soap opera) 10 . Work unit 38 . Blunder 62 . "Get it?" 11 . Arc seen in 40 . Saint ___ of Arc 63 . Indignant anger waterfalls 41 . Seep out slowly 64 . One-time bridge 12 . Fluffs (up), as a 42 . Numbered rds. 65 . It's tender to the pillow 44 . Type of law or arts Japanese 13 . "___ Have No 45 . Israeli machine gun 66 . Last year's jrs. Bananas" 18 . Love figure 19 . 2002 Oscar winner for the song "Lose Yourself"

323 Puzzle #319 Across 1. Word with slicker or hall 5. Lunatic, often 10 . "C.S.I.: Miami" carrier 13 . Home land 14 . Style of dress 15 . NL stadium 16 . Show of fear 18 . Rhythmic tune 19 . Wrap up 20 . Put below 21 . Really cold drip 23 . Mulligan, e.g. 24 . Gave under pressure 25 . Choice word 28 . Evening bash 29 . More on target 30 . Water down 31 . Social climber 34 . Swabbie 35 . Oft-quoted words 38 . Slender figure? 39 . Symbol of enduring life 41 . Dos y uno 42 . Peaceful period 44 . Spring time? Down 46 . Rug-cleaning device 1. Teller's work site 17 . Chemical 40 . Get a move on 47 . Bottomless pits 2. Briefcase or compounds 43 . Shaft of light 49 . Hawk's home (Var.) recycling bin, e.g. 22 . One for the road? 45 . From Utica to NYC 50 . "Citizen Kane" actor 3. Stepped along 23 . Ship's designation 46 . Bats' hangout? 51 . May or Capri 4. Encouraging word 24 . Invents a new 47 . Causes for 52 . Copycat 5. High beam? word complaints 55 . Tortoise's race rival 6. Concede 25 . James of jazz 48 . Gravy holders 56 . Like Donald and Daffy, 7. Opinion 26 . It abuts Armenia 49 . Showed curiosity among others 8. Ninny uses three 27 . Ragtime one-step 51 . Kind of tea or 59 . High collar 9. Sign of economic 28 . More reluctant coffee 60 . Kuwaiti biggie (Var.) upswing 30 . British wheels 52 . Smasher input 61 . Citizen's privilege 10 . Show a yellow 32 . Yesteryear 53 . Fountain of music 62 . Out-of-service plane stripe 33 . Tankard filler 54 . Starting place? 63 . Pop 11 . Ball girl? 36 . Sat in on 57 . Thurman of film 64 . "I hope so!" 12 . Needing no more 37 . Three-dimensional fame 15 . Canned peaches, photography 58 . Gametes often

324 Puzzle #320 Across 1. Took a chance 6. Story line 10 . Over hill and __ 14 . Likeness 15 . ''I dropped it!'' 16 . Catch sight of 17 . Talkative one, slangily 19 . Parakeet's home 20 . Tee preceder 21 . Not timid 22 . Rubber-stamp refresher 24 . Has the flu 25 . Sandwich cookie 26 . Alerted 29 . Office teams 32 . Baldwin and Guinness 33 . Anatomical pouches 35 . Lions and tigers 37 . Ark builder 38 . School grp. 39 . Neighborhood 40 . Art __ ('20s style) 41 . Psychic reader 42 . Dog's reward 43 . High-pitched Down 45 . Square-dance instrument 1. Small coin 18 . Work with clay 42 . Advance alerts 46 . Sweater material 2. Cookiemaker Wally 23 . Teachers' org. 44 . Debtor's note 47 . Sales agents, briefly 3. ''Darn it!'' 24 . Paula Zahn of CNN, 45 . Plant with fronds 48 . Brussels __ (vegetable) 4. Self-image e.g. 47 . Destroys 51 . Italian currency 5. Domelike hats 25 . Hollywood award 48 . Cabbage salad 52 . Meadow mom 6. Places to swim 26 . Magician's stick 49 . Serve coffee 55 . Rich soil 7. Like a cheering 27 . Spiny houseplants 50 . Steak preference 56 . Cooped-up uneasiness crowd 28 . Attain 51 . Internet auction 59 . Subtle quality 8. Make a choice 30 . Got along site 60 . Astronaut Shepard 9. Casual tops 31 . Swipe 52 . Not odd 61 . Less restrained 10 . Rummy player's 33 . Participate in a bee 53 . Garden nuisance 62 . Small songbird pack 34 . Had lunch 54 . Messes up 63 . Sunbeams 11 . Right now, in 36 . Quench fully 57 . Pie __ mode 64 . Faxes or e-mails memos 41 . Miniature racing 58 . Before, in verse 12 . Sorenstam's links vehicle org. 13 . Looked at

325 Puzzle #321 Across 1. Violin ancestor 6. Gumbo 10 . Twinge of pain 14 . Paragon 15 . Tip in Tabriz 16 . Downfall 17 . Slow, for Vivaldi 18 . ''Chicago'' lawyer, really 19 . Animated schoolteacher Krabappel 20 . Part to grab hold of, maybe 21 . Critique of our military dancers? 24 . Herald of spring 26 . Plato's T 27 . Hi-fi successor 29 . Wheel past 33 . Pointer's beam 34 . Trim 35 . Wade opponent 37 . Grad, for short 38 . Competing 39 . Lacking refinement 40 . Sesame plant 41 . Bad guys on ''Law & Order'' Down 42 . More prudent 1. Irritate 22 . A ''Road'' 41 . Mountain lion 43 . Brings into harmony 2. Paradise lost destination 42 . Very attractive 45 . To a great degree 3. Aching back? 23 . Icicle's anchor 44 . Labeled, as 46 . Roman lover's intro 4. Polish off 25 . City on Utah Lake luggage 47 . Beatnik drum 5. Trounce 27 . Lattice piece 45 . ___ polloi 48 . Boastful street kid? 6. Church staple 28 . Actress Shire 47 . A neighbor 53 . Field's Norma 7. Ukraine capital 29 . Faucet failings 48 . Drained liquid from 56 . Coat length 8. Reply to the waiter, 30 . Operates 49 . Auditioner's goal 57 . Kind of history perhaps 31 . Urgent delivery for 50 . ''You Are My 58 . Britain's ''Jewel in the 9. Tipping off painter? Destiny'' singer Crown'' 10 . Movie sneak peek 32 . Sing in the Alps 51 . Bear in the stars 60 . Peter's ''Shot in the Dark'' (Var.) 34 . Ceremonial fire 52 . Flunk co-star 11 . German export 36 . Hitchcockian (Var.) 54 . Lends a hand 61 . Voice of America agcy. 12 . Three squared 38 . Poisonous 55 . With the greatest 62 . Requirements 13 . Chew persistently 39 . Diana of ''The of ___ 63 . Type of duck Avengers'' 59 . Classical lead-in 64 . Sodium chloride 65 . Furze

326 Puzzle #322 Across 1. Gridiron throw 5. Bear name 9. Unit of energy 13 . Jamaican tangelo 14 . Rug exporter 15 . Ravel's ''Daphnis et ___'' 16 . Mail cars? 19 . One of a dozen 20 . Golfer Montgomerie, e.g. 21 . Roy Rogers fare 22 . Fume 23 . In first-class condition 24 . Letter in Hebrew writing 27 . Still broken 31 . Word with truth or blood 32 . British royal 33 . Id's relative 34 . Cross-country coaches? 38 . '50s film is all about her 39 . One of a daily trio 40 . Hold the same opinion 41 . Aromatic 44 . Military bases 45 . Poet Teasdale 46 . Put together Down 48 . Making two and two four 1. Grayish purple 18 . Boarding house 42 . Egyptian god 51 . Gin flavorer 2. In an excited state occupant 43 . Band leader Lester 52 . Lock horns 3. Lowlife 22 . Pony prod 46 . Gentle pool sound 55 . More festive justices of the 4. Army address 23 . Untie the knot, say 47 . Line from the heart peace? 5. Pistol, in gangland 24 . Potok's Lev 48 . Stage items, 58 . Adjective for Jane slang 25 . Servicemen love it sometimes 59 . Bottom line 6. Quiver item 26 . Transgressed 49 . Supermarket 60 . Pig's supper 7. Warsaw agreement 27 . Doff headgear department 61 . Brothers and sisters 8. Collection of 28 . Seasonal targets 50 . Colorless 62 . Ottoman bigwig miscellany 29 . Plumed wader 51 . It can leave you 63 . Lots and lots 9. Bleach 30 . How much one can breathless 10 . Nautical heading take 52 . The Sail (southern 11 . Unit of pressure 32 . Place of contention constellation) 12 . Tracy's Trueheart 35 . Come forth 53 . Long ago age 15 . Aquatic bird 36 . Like some wit 54 . Glance at 17 . Land mass 37 . Marty Feldman role 56 . Indianapolis' ___ connectors Dome 57 . Belief

327 Puzzle #323 Across 1. Run the meeting 6. Children's connectibles 10 . Resort near Snowbird 14 . Spin preceder 15 . In unison, musically 16 . Freshly cut, as a lawn 17 . ''So long'' somewhere 18 . 100 Ethiopian cents 19 . Relative of ''My word!'' 20 . Beatles hit sung by Ringo 23 . MADD concern 24 . Dock actions 25 . Gives in 29 . Major broadcaster 30 . Word sometimes placed between two names 31 . Jimmy Carter had one 34 . Desert destination, perhaps 38 . Warning to sailors 42 . Ruhr Valley hub 43 . Slowly permeate 44 . One in a romper room 45 . Felix, for one 47 . Word with Homo 50 . Pasta and such Down 55 . Computer network acronym 1. Kind of fish? 21 . Able to come back 41 . Australian gems 56 . Colorful Peggy Lee film 2. Part of the title of a quickly 46 . Rival of ancient 61 . ''What's ___ for me?'' child's game 22 . Pergola Athens 62 . Sounds from the cote 3. Dyeing plant 25 . How some steaks 48 . Soft cereal 63 . Fine thread 4. Wagnerian heroine are cooked 49 . Behaving properly 64 . Hoosegow unit 5. Planted again 26 . Barely makes out 50 . Star in Virgo 65 . Ending for disk or usher 6. Artistic touches 27 . Ben Nevis boys 51 . Palindromist's 66 . Deprive of one's nerve 7. Abhorrence 28 . Seven with salt dogma 67 . Suspect's demand, briefly 8. Start for jet, fan or 32 . 66 is one (Abbr.) 52 . Like Pisa's most 68 . Divination practitioner charge 33 . Ladies of St. Lo famous structure 69 . Wasn't kidding 9. It was given on the 35 . Developer's 53 . Fill with glee Mount purchase 54 . School board? 10 . It comes after all? 36 . Barge ___ 57 . Embattled river of 11 . Enter one's (interrupt) WWI computer password 37 . York, Pepper, et al. 58 . R.E. Lee's alma 12 . Nasal tone 39 . Sub rosa mater 13 . Chile's main 40 . Special aptitude 59 . Spiritedness ingredient? 60 . Dispatched

328 Puzzle #324 Across 1. Gathered in the field, maybe 6. Bucks 10 . Tarsal leader 14 . Competitive venue 15 . "Uh-huh" 16 . Harpsichordist Kipnis 17 . Agreement in "Macbeth"? 20 . Scale notes 21 . Record co. that bought Motown in 1988 22 . Skips over 23 . Make comprehensive 25 . UN agency 26 . Battleship coating? 31 . Low area 32 . NBC staple for nearly 30 years 33 . Breaks up 36 . See 27-Down 37 . Drink near a dartboard, maybe 40 . Three times, in Rx's 42 . Opposite of paleo- 43 . Breakaway group 45 . Current administration Down 47 . Anxious 1. Blubber 19 . Great scatter 46 . Moves on a screen 49 . Landlord's dream? 2. "Che gelida manina," 23 . Baseball's Bando 48 . T or F, perhaps 53 . __ Morgue: Poe locale e.g. 24 . Eye layer 50 . Wreck 54 . Irritates 3. Answer to "Wanna?" 26 . Mail letters 51 . Bean topper? 55 . Whisk (away) 4. Env. insertion 27 . With 36-Across, 52 . Fatigue 58 . "__ Miss Brooks" 5. Code word noted toon adoptee 55 . Swindle 59 . Gray head 6. Olympics event 28 . Civil rights org. 56 . Pear or quince 62 . 18th-century waver? 7. Bolts 29 . Hill climber 57 . Mer sights 66 . League with Indians: Abbr. 8. Fair-hiring letters 30 . Polynesian 59 . Hot flower 67 . Country __ 9. Rousing tune kingdom 60 . Son of Seth 68 . Devastation 10 . Servants 34 . "__ there, done 61 . Imprint in one's 69 . Plight 11 . Mild oath that" mind 70 . Choice word 12 . Signal to start 35 . Ilk 63 . Afflict 71 . Line from a boxer? talking 38 . Kind of 64 . Oilers' gp. 13 . Fine things membership 65 . Captain Kidd's 18 . Statuette shaped 39 . Raleigh-to-Norfolk refusal like a winged woman dir. holding an atom 41 . It holds the line 44 . They may be holy

329 Puzzle #325 Across 1. Molt 5. Classes 11 . Place where many would twist 14 . Bern's river 15 . Certain orchestra member 16 . Winner in tennis 17 . Columbia River dam 19 . Rm. coolers 20 . Magazine income 21 . 1.5 volt battery size 22 . Fuzzy 24 . Sonny Corleone portrayer 26 . Salt River dam 30 . Priest and minister's cohort, in jokes 31 . Andrews of ''Laura'' 32 . Architect's pier 33 . Dormant 35 . Dole's running mate, 1996 37 . Tennessee River dam 39 . Colorado River dam (officially ''Hoover'') 44 . Snifter part 46 . Teem Down 47 . Salad bar choice 1. Long adventure 23 . One of Mickey's 47 . Peanut butter 51 . Abel's nephew story exes choice 53 . Rhythmic cadences 2. Not checks or credit 25 . Sting like ___ 48 . More garish 54 . Cowlitz River dam 3. Can be easily 27 . Tree with yellow 49 . Private stage 56 . Archipelago part removed by rubbing ribbons, in song remarks 57 . Mystic's board 4. Hotbed of iniquity 28 . First floor apt., 50 . N.Y.C. financial 58 . Playable serves 5. ''Your Show of perhaps daily 60 . Some bandits have one Shows'' regular 29 . U.S. Island territory 52 . Avoids, as an issue 62 . Out of the ordinary 6. On the plane 30 . Like some deals 55 . Boorish sort 63 . Flathead River dam 7. Old French coin 34 . Aka Simon 59 . No, in Siberia 68 . Half a laugh 8. ''Closed ___ noon'' 36 . Put into print 61 . One restroom 69 . Duller of the senses (sign) 38 . Slots site 64 . New competitor of 70 . Score after deuce, in tennis 9. Hamburg-to-Warsaw 40 . Clark's co-worker ABC and CBS 71 . Time divs. dir. 41 . Numbskulls 65 . Autumn chill 72 . Not AWOL 10 . Jobs of computers 42 . Joins, as an 66 . Fed. audit agency 73 . Nine-digit IDs 11 . First name in ice agreement 67 . West. Hemisphere cream 43 . County streets alliance 12 . Hidden and difficult (Abbr.) to see 45 . Soft shoe, briefly 13 . 100 centimos 18 . ''Dumb and Dumber'' star

330 Puzzle #326 Across 1. Compete in logrolling 5. The L train? 9. Child's play 14 . Tenor's standout 15 . Article for Mozart 16 . Harper sitcom 17 . Untouchable one 19 . On a scale of one ___ 20 . Certain mibs 21 . Bit of broccoli 22 . Resigned response 23 . Rocky Rockies ridge 24 . N.Y. neighbor 25 . Parts of a series 28 . Uncommon sense 31 . Prudential's purchaser 33 . Like 007, not Austin Powers 34 . ''The Time Machine'' people 36 . Marsh plant 38 . Revenuers 39 . When they're proper, it's capital! 41 . ''Out on a Limb'' singer Marie 43 . Call off Down 44 . Bar choice 1. Deep, as a tone 18 . Daughter of Juan 42 . Supermarket part 46 . Radio code sound 2. Plenty sore Carlos 45 . Sharp, erratic turn 48 . Decorative toiletry cases 3. Elmer, Anne and 21 . Calendar abbr. 47 . Spanish diacritical 49 . Planted roots? Grantland 23 . Take ___ from marks 53 . Annexing 4. Town in many oaters history 49 . Catherine de 55 . Practical world situation 5. Reconciles 25 . The rear of rear, Medicis, e.g. 56 . Reaction to ''Take my wife, differences perhaps 50 . Electron tube please!'' 6. More companionable 26 . Square 51 . Miss Klinker 57 . Coupled 7. Lennon's in-laws 27 . ''___ Me No 52 . Shelve 58 . Sales circuit 8. A really good place Flowers'' 53 . Prefix meaning 59 . Bride's time, often to sit? 28 . Poetic nights ''field'' or ''soil'' 60 . Adams of ''The Ernie Kovacs 9. Unsophisticated 29 . Hog feed 54 . Word with anchor Show'' 10 . Old West event 30 . Dispensed, as beer or off 61 . Pointed a finger at, perhaps 11 . Place for from a keg 55 . Julia of Hollywood 62 . Musher's vehicle Quasimodo 32 . Nice heads? 57 . Cribwear, 63 . Fortune seeker? 12 . Zip-___-doo-dah 35 . Put through Hell informally 13 . Type of leg Night 37 . Won over 40 . Knocked for a loop

331 Puzzle #327 Across 1. Draw new boundaries 6. Crab part 10 . It makes a stool a chair 14 . Common daisy 15 . Gene positions 16 . Like a twelve-grade school 17 . Microwave feature 18 . Like the Kalahari 19 . Eastern ruler 20 . Palindromic tribe 21 . Position of advantage 24 . Some Hindu music pieces 26 . Very wide shoe width 27 . Nonprofessionals 29 . Where one can become a superstar 34 . Kate's TV partner 35 . Some candy containers 36 . Of a previous time 37 . Tailless amphibian 38 . Bewildered 39 . Greek letters 40 . MSNBC competitor 41 . Burnsian hillsides 42 . Card game authority Down Edmond 1. Start for Rooter or 22 . Palindromic 41 . Common-interest 43 . Incautious tiller fictional twin group 45 . Utilizes a hand-me-down 2. Sign in every hotel 23 . Williams and 42 . Alert 46 . Morning person of Greek 3. Place for the Kennedy 44 . Numb legend nostalgic 25 . In the thick of 45 . Stephen of ''The 47 . Word with burn or break 4. Word of agreement 27 . Door hardware Crying Game'' 48 . Caldwell novel 5. Nearest orbital point 28 . In isolation 47 . Mass of humanity 53 . Q-U connectors 6. Word with act or 29 . Catnaps 48 . Dramatic entrance 56 . Like many sports fans action 30 . Gives the gate announcement 57 . Try, as a case 7. Singer or Petty 31 . Where the affluent 49 . Being-to-be 58 . ''I'm outta here'' 8. Hydrochloric or live? 50 . ___ one's time 60 . Ranch visitor amino, e.g. 32 . Gracefully athletic (wait) 61 . Writer Bagnold 9. In awe 33 . Painting Grandma 51 . Wine prefix 62 . Overturn 10 . Check payee, 35 . Cotswold calls 52 . Racetrack fence 63 . Last word in church maybe 38 . Actress Fran 54 . Last word on New 64 . Actor's quest 11 . ''Summer and 39 . Serve tea Year's Eve? 65 . Some party spreads Smoke'' heroine 55 . Small amounts 12 . ''Blondie'' creator 59 . Clean Air Act org. Young 13 . Shatner role

332 Puzzle #328 Across 1. Missile shelter 5. Yankee Hall-of-Famer 10 . Old boat 13 . Test for a future ABA member 14 . Nom de plume 15 . Unnerve 16 . One of Honest Abe's predecessors 18 . Similar 19 . Adorn 20 . ___ Aviv 21 . Aerosol output 22 . An end to motion 24 . Argument 26 . Whimper 29 . Person in a race 31 . Botch badly 34 . Spicy stew 35 . Inspiration 37 . Clinch 38 . Caltech rival 39 . Stir fry addition, perhaps 41 . Fury 42 . Coffee flavoring Down 44 . Title for America? 1. Clutter creator 17 . Zamboni's surface 45 . For all to hear 45 . Opportunity's frequency 2. It's deserted in 23 . Fire and brimstone 47 . Flies into a rage 46 . Where charity begins dreams target 51 . Go around 48 . Dry, to wine lovers 3. One of Charlie's 25 . Its work is done in 53 . Eye protector 49 . Verbal pans Angels stages 54 . Woodworking 50 . Those turning up a plot? 4. Jealous stage 26 . Mell Lazarus comic class, e.g. 52 . Meat preservative husband strip 55 . Efflux from Etna 54 . Czech or Slovak 5. Reverse rotation 27 . ''Adam Bede'' 57 . ''South Pacific'' star 56 . Maui music maker 6. Hunter's trophy novelist Pinza 58 . Word with talk or fight 7. Word with act or 28 . Barbershop 59 . Writer and 62 . Demean, as pledges gear liniment diplomat Clare 63 . Pie-in-the-making 8. Twice as unlikely 30 . Martin's sidekick 60 . Feast one's eyes on 65 . Beyond 9. Refuge 32 . Stagger suddenly 61 . Hard-hitting sound 66 . Didn't quit 10 . Upward-bound 33 . Blunt blades 64 . Buddhist discipline 67 . California's largest univ. 11 . Israeli-made guns 36 . Church wings 68 . Secret keeper, to the teller 12 . Propensity 39 . Identical 69 . Many a sculpture 15 . Critical shortage 40 . Bit of high jinks 70 . View as 43 . Mining engineer who became president

333 Puzzle #329 Across 1. Heartfelt 5. One-spots 9. Dizzy Gillespie's genre 14 . Shoppe sign word 15 . Revolver inventor 16 . Ooze 17 . Obsolete math aid 19 . Sought the bull's-eye 20 . Head of some households 22 . Japanese immigrant 23 . Shape of the world 24 . ''The Eagle ___ landed'' 27 . Spy novel figure 32 . Trusted one 35 . ''Duke of ___'' 36 . Unwieldy 37 . On the road 39 . Prepare for prayer 42 . Bear's advice 43 . 7:1, e.g. 45 . Wide-eyed with expectation 47 . It makes Ma mad? 48 . Slugger's achievement 51 . They're spent in the Ginza 52 . Pipe joint Down 53 . Port of old Rome 1. ''Lou Grant'' reporter 24 . Shaped with an ax 49 . Tree in an O'Neill 58 . Nuclear plant employee of 2. Immigrants' island 25 . Place for a bracelet title note 3. Tennis scores after 26 . Arrange hair 50 . Ordained group 62 . Go at a snail's pace deuce 28 . Furniture material, 54 . Buying binge, e.g. 65 . Say again 4. Shelf sometimes 55 . Pre-Revolution 66 . Studio sign 5. 6,272,640 square 29 . Pedestaled vessel leaders 67 . Greek diner order inches 30 . Make indistinct 56 . Smidgins 68 . Fed closing? 6. Stunning success 31 . Something to burn 57 . Bless, old-style 69 . First name in sluggers 7. Jazzy Fitzgerald 32 . Where to find 58 . One who's got it 70 . River to the North Sea 8. Unsaturated alcohol favors coming 71 . ___ quam videri 9. Casual chair 33 . Au courant 59 . Actors Alejandro 10 . Noteworthy theater 34 . Catholic church and Fernando sign language 60 . Father 11 . Word with steer or 38 . Kennel sound 61 . Like ___ not rap 40 . Psyche section 62 . Stocky horse 12 . Plaint for Billie Joe 41 . Word with down or 63 . Genetic initials 13 . ___ Xing (sign) key 64 . Acoustic organ 18 . Omit in 44 . It's Grand in pronunciation Nashville 21 . Before, in poetry 46 . Pithy saying

334 Puzzle #330 Across 1. Coed, possibly 5. High holdings 9. Investigate 14 . Tropical nut tree 15 . After-bath powder 16 . Yitzhak of Israel 17 . Most probably 20 . Authority 21 . Units of loudness 22 . Highway curve 23 . Nuisances 25 . Pack down tightly 27 . Nautical greeting 29 . Exclamation for a misadventure 31 . Italian noble family 35 . May celebrants 36 . Sicilian mount 37 . Obis and the like 39 . Where MBAs are earned 42 . Musical studies 43 . Afternoon affairs 44 . Funnyman Olsen 45 . Riviera resort San ___ 46 . Blacken, in a way Down 47 . River of Greek mythology 1. Travels between the 19 . Poetic meadow 46 . Corkscrew 48 . Sort of sign poles? 24 . Things that help 47 . Seeds 51 . Ululates 2. A Mrs. Chaplin people to carry on? 49 . Runs easily 53 . Mrs. Cantor 3. Feign sleep 26 . Mexicali money 50 . Clod 56 . Worker's request 4. Bull of the WWII 27 . Fossil resin used in 52 . Cassowary cousin 58 . Manners Navy jewelry 53 . Savers' devices 61 . Broadcast organization since 5. 31,800,000 sq. mi. 28 . Terre ___ 54 . Miami's county 1950 of water 30 . Fake jewelry 55 . Together, in music 64 . Sort of education 6. Watertight 32 . Defeats 57 . Ward of "Sisters" 65 . Alan or Robert structures 33 . TV tough guy 59 . Foil alternative 66 . Still picture subject 7. City on the Savalas 60 . Desiccated 67 . Assays Humboldt 34 . Baltimore suburb 62 . Type 68 . Shoe form 8. Atomizers' contents 36 . More E than N 63 . Work on a platter 69 . Old World dagger 9. Piece of cut crystal, 37 . Cause to start perhaps 38 . Massage table 10 . College cheer sounds 11 . Ensemble part, 40 . They precede perhaps public kisses 12 . Personal accounts, 41 . Algae briefly 13 . Signs off 18 . ___ Gatos

335 Puzzle #331 Across 1. Potatoes alternative 6. Delhi prince 10 . Subject to a library fine 14 . Parting word 15 . "American __" 16 . Representative symbol 17 . Body of principles 18 . Position of prominence 20 . Whine 22 . Kind of price 23 . Before, of yore 25 . Position of prominence 29 . Deplorable 31 . Was introduced to 32 . Convert to leather, as hide 33 . Granada's region 36 . Source of moos or baas 37 . Position of prominence 40 . China landmark 43 . Acid rain component 47 . Galoot 48 . "Let's call __ day!" 50 . Under consideration 51 . Position of prominence 55 . Sit-up beneficiaries Down 56 . __-sea 1. D.C. lobbying gp. 23 . Notable time 45 . Take into custody 57 . River rompers 2. Wash. neighbor 24 . Flow like water 46 . Cobb and 59 . Position of prominence 3. Paint oil source 26 . It may have Pennington 62 . Freed of leaves 4. Long time attachments 48 . "What a crock!" 65 . Turkish coin 5. Title word in a song 27 . Toothy fish 49 . Pope's silk scarf 66 . Proctor's purlieu that begins, "Some 28 . Finale 52 . Of the kidneys 67 . Clear the tape think the world is made 30 . Trip follower 53 . Boston airport 68 . Wiesbaden wheels for fun and frolic" 34 . Flower leaf 54 . Agenda details 69 . Pins on the far right 6. Come to fruition 35 . UN workers agcy. 58 . Like valued old 70 . Body shop concerns 7. Former minor 36 . URL initials books 8. Heist, say 38 . Flash of light 59 . "Alice" spin-off 9. Seductive quality 39 . Yearned (for) 60 . Hurtle 10 . Legal 40 . Is no longer 61 . Dismiss from the 11 . Overlay material 41 . Right-on staff 12 . Trifle (with) 42 . Galena, for one 63 . Pa. hours 13 . Benz- finish 44 . Like malamutes 64 . __ Plaines 19 . Sci. society 21 . Whence the uvula dangles

336 Puzzle #332 Across 1. Turned on the waterworks 5. Hammett's terrier 9. Quite proficient 14 . Job for a GM 15 . "___ again ..." 16 . Carafe size, perhaps 17 . Brain trust offering 18 . Like some apples 19 . ___ cilhbre 20 . NYSE regulator 21 . Losing electorate's oxymoron? 23 . ___ of Capricorn 25 . Kind of league 26 . Corn core 27 . Teacake kin 30 . "That's strange" 33 . Suit material 35 . Sharpen skills 36 . Practice boxing 37 . Global cartographer's oxymoron 40 . Notes in a pot, maybe 41 . Shells, but not ziti 42 . Extend Time Down 43 . Nitrogen, for instance 1. Bridge ancestor 21 . Good Book 39 . Smoking gun, so to 44 . It shows off the House 2. It could get you 22 . Dressed to the ___ speak 45 . Western treaty grp. down? 24 . They get public 44 . Waldorf salad 46 . Gambling wager 3. Exceptionally early opinion ingredient 47 . Word with Black or rain 4. Social brew 27 . A Stooge 46 . Sound from a flock 50 . Pie cutter's oxymoron 5. Room at the top? 28 . Semicolons cousin 47 . Olympic symbol 56 . Cousteau's milieu 6. Kind of carpet 29 . Pungent bulb 48 . Lucky number, for 57 . Blender setting 7. Four years, maybe 30 . Famous password some 58 . Heavenly glow 8. ___-inflammatory 31 . Verbal challenge 49 . Rejoinder to "'Tis!" 59 . "Rikki-Tikki-___" 9. Dinette set spot 32 . Delineated 50 . Minor dustup 60 . Wedding stop 10 . Personal record 33 . Small branch 51 . Stubborn one 61 . Prune, formerly 11 . Small purse 34 . Steed stopper 52 . They might be fine 62 . "So be it" 12 . Adamant ant? 36 . Gather wool 53 . Totally engrossed 63 . Out of humor 13 . Part of a low poker 38 . Waste maker, 54 . Polynesian dance 64 . Rather dull straight proverbially 55 . Jack-in-the-pulpit 65 . Not straight plant 59 . It may run in a bar

337 Puzzle #333 Across 1. "Mack the Knife" singer 6. Poker player's "check" 11 . SAT takers 14 . "You __ kidding!" 15 . Slight push 16 . Worked (up) 17 . Canada's "60 Minutes" counterpart, with "The" 19 . Schnozz ending 20 . London gallery 21 . Take a load off 22 . Not as many 24 . "Cinderella" clue 28 . Went to Wendy's, say 30 . 1965 Arthur Hailey novel 31 . La Scala offering 32 . Price place 33 . Whence the Magi 36 . Film critic Reed 37 . Con closeup 41 . "The Company" 42 . Course climax 44 . Good name, briefly 45 . Turn over 47 . Well up Down 49 . Puzzle direction 1. Goofy 23 . Sword with a 46 . Road crew's 51 . Leafy insect-eater 2. Diva's solo guarded tip headache 54 . Like some saloons 3. Plundered, to 25 . Rich soil 48 . Like sonnets 55 . Right-angled joint Chaucer 26 . Deposed ruler 49 . Hint at, with "to" 56 . Pin part 4. One is one 27 . Apple's apple, for 50 . Hard to rattle 60 . Penlight battery 5. Math degree? one 51 . Old Testament 61 . "Dirty Harry" sequel 6. Refuse to budge 28 . Top spot poem 65 . Big sizes: Abbr. 7. Some golf strokes 29 . Steakhouse bread 52 . Likeness 66 . Improve, as text 8. Driller's org. offering 53 . Tubular pasta 67 . Otherworldly 9. Friday or Bilko: 31 . Bonanza find 57 . Pennsylvania port 68 . Ran into Abbr. 32 . Recipe amt. 58 . Breezed through 69 . Gift recipient 10 . Deem appropriate 34 . Subject of some 59 . Contradict 70 . Like a marsh 11 . Properties on confessions 62 . Latin 101 verb display 35 . Minuscule amount 63 . 12-Down's rank 12 . U.S. Grant 38 . Sudden desire 64 . Remote adversary 39 . "The Waltons" 13 . Beatle name actor 18 . Isaac's eldest 40 . Change one's ways? 43 . Gunk

338 Puzzle #334 Across 1. Something to break into 5. Persona non ___ 10 . Lady's-finger 14 . Commandment word 15 . Pickett trooper 16 . Osso buco base 17 . WKRP's Jennifer 18 . To a sailor's left 19 . Bronte heroine 20 . ''That's enough!'' 23 . Bonehead's response 24 . Sweet tooth and others 25 . Aurora's counterpart 28 . Rum-soaked cake 31 . Writer's digression 34 . Social introduction? 36 . Christ's following? 38 . Sharp-billed wader 40 . ''Come no farther!'' 43 . Sacher creation 44 . Knot's locale 45 . Plane section 46 . Acts like Tom? 48 . They accompany turkey and dressing Down 50 . Cartoon voice Blanc 1. Cardinal's cap 21 . Give a name 42 . Violent storms 51 . It might be skipped monogram 22 . Commencement 47 . Heavenly object 53 . Epitome of easiness 2. ''That's trouble!'' 25 . It may be due 49 . Spanish replies 55 . ''That's enough!'' 3. Off-limits item 26 . In the lead 52 . Conger chaser 62 . Mendacious one 4. Part of SAG 27 . Stop partner 54 . Give it a shot 63 . Hellenic Republic 5. Sign of maturity 29 . Trap enhancement 55 . Duel provoker 64 . Sushi go-with 6. Auto making a 30 . Like Sidney 56 . Meat stabber 66 . Pony up comeback? Lumet's men 57 . They may be wild 67 . Say ''ouch!'' when pinched, 7. ''___ Ben Adhem'' 32 . Night or day 58 . Look ahead e.g. 8. Towel fabric activity 59 . Run for the 68 . Maintain 9. Tennis great Gibson 33 . Unsettlingly money? 69 . Annoying type 10 . Inadvertence strange 60 . Roof repair site 70 . Maritime birds 11 . Super's collection 35 . Translate 61 . Depict unfairly 71 . Coniferous evergreens 12 . Instruction for the 37 . N.Y. attraction at 65 . Stammerer's chef least 81 days per year syllables 13 . Hearty libations 39 . Blow the whistle 41 . Stop on the line

339 Puzzle #335 Across 1. Vanderbilt and Carter 5. Mink relative 10 . Judge Bean's decision, reputedly 14 . Milne bear 15 . Verify 16 . ___ about (prosecutor's phrase) 17 . Strong reaction 18 . Persian fairies 19 . Spaniard's other 20 . 1962 Burt Lancaster film? 23 . Warner ___ 24 . Remove from the crate 25 . Eugene O'Neill play? 30 . Start of Ed McMahon's famous intro 31 . Fancy Japanese porcelain 32 . Shore avian 35 . Lets it be known 36 . Flexible Flyers 37 . Dundee dagger 38 . Org. that sticks to its guns? 39 . TV's Jock 40 . Top reason for traffic jams Down 41 . Carpenters hit? 1. What 4 may mean 21 . Medicos 40 . Foot curve 43 . It follows sex (Abbr.) 22 . Side in a debate 41 . Topped out 46 . Linen color, perhaps 2. Ancient Dead Sea 25 . Word used in 42 . Nerve 47 . ''Ramblin' Man'' singers? kingdom comparisons 43 . Chance for a hit 52 . Strike on the head, in 3. He said ''It ain't over 26 . Apparent relative? 44 . Conversation cartoons till it's over'' 27 . Eyelashes piece? 53 . ''___ my case'' 4. Some fortified wines 28 . Future signs 45 . Pasta variety 54 . Some is third class 5. Side against 29 . Sinclair in ''Coming 48 . Hillside in the 56 . Frank, diarist of 1944 6. Unclean, by Jewish To America'' Highlands 57 . Referring to birth law 32 . VIP's following 49 . Nerve network 58 . Breakfast staple 7. Said three times, a 33 . Vintage vehicles 50 . Mama bears, in 59 . Prepared to drive? 1970 movie 34 . Word with love or Mexico 60 . They travel in formation 8. Blackhearted empty 51 . Highway sight 61 . Thrill, slangily 9. Firemen, often 36 . Sign of an injury 55 . Dropped drug 10 . Hot booze (Var.) 37 . Noted Motown trio 11 . Bone cavities 39 . Carrier to the Holy 12 . Dunn and Ephron Land 13 . Eat like a heifer

340 Puzzle #336 Across 1. Prove false 6. Prefix with -valent 10 . Where to see stars 14 . Voice of Speedy Gonzalez 15 . Oil holder 16 . Dinner conclusion? 17 . IZE 20 . Con confines 21 . Old-fashioned date destinations 22 . Troop troupe: Abbr. 24 . Atop, in verse 26 . Scold 27 . EYES 31 . Inclined to tinker 32 . Rude types 33 . It's game 36 . Holiday kickoffs 37 . Big dos 38 . Tony's rival in the song "Copacabana" 39 . What a mad man sees? 40 . Software prototypes 41 . Diminutive 42 . AYES Down 44 . Highly enthused, informally 1. Eng. channel 18 . Small time?: Abbr. 40 . Less popular half of 47 . "You betcha" 2. "Strange Magic" rock 19 . Part of a famous a record 48 . Has too much gp. double-play combo 41 . Dessert pudding 49 . Dreamy romanticism 3. Spoofed 22 . Escort 42 . Cardiologist's 52 . It means nothing in Nantes 4. "By the power 23 . Fend (off) concerns 54 . I'S vested __ ..." 25 . Retail come-on 43 . Go through 58 . "Como __ usted?" 5. Thrift 28 . Traveling turnoffs: channels? 59 . Richard of "A Summer 6. TV spot Abbr. 44 . British __ Place" 7. '60s eloquent equine 29 . Actor Lloyd 45 . Explosive 60 . Puts on ice 8. Mason portrayer 30 . Warm and cozy experiment 61 . Lid irritation 9. Bar fixtures, so to 33 . Gets ripped 46 . Ragged 62 . Gibraltar and Magellan: speak 34 . Broken out, in a 50 . NCO rank Abbr. 10 . Kind of manual way 51 . Way up the 63 . Often __ 11 . Noted 1976 35 . Some El Prado mountain Olympics name hangings 53 . Quiver-carrying 12 . Nottingham's river 37 . Body language god 13 . Poem 38 . No longer working: 55 . Em halves abbr. 56 . "Maid in Manhattan" star, popularly 57 . Former rapid transit: Abbr.

341 Puzzle #337 Across 1. What slingers sling 5. Pugilist's tool 9. ___ Pipes Jig 14 . Sparkling wine city 15 . Tech support caller 16 . Divest of munitions 17 . Requisite 18 . Concealing the scandalous 20 . Tastelessly showy 22 . Hydroxyl compound 23 . Walsh and Harris 24 . Schirra's grp. 26 . Little shavers 28 . Chasing down flies 32 . Take a stripe from 36 . Complain querulously 37 . What snobs put on 39 . Court wear 40 . Moon valley 41 . Medicated compress 43 . Newsman of comic books 44 . First stringers 46 . Sunday finale 47 . Freedom from hardship 48 . Chopped finely Down 50 . Diocese subdivisions 1. Judge Bean's 19 . Word with Tobacco 45 . Country club 52 . Bahrain bigwig decision or private attendees 54 . Campus marchers (Abbr.) 2. On a slow boat to 21 . Bow to gravity 49 . Fizzled out 55 . Informal affirmative China 25 . Rita in ''West Side 51 . Make-double 58 . ''Don't you dare cross into 3. Road ending Story'' connector my lane!'' 4. Safe house 27 . Thing that conceals 53 . Concrete 60 . Hardy, vis-a-vis Laurel 5. Evening Primroses 28 . Vamoose! strengthener 64 . Anonymous social 6. Start for bar or tone 29 . Duvalier's domain, 55 . Village People hit 67 . Newsstand purchase 7. Masters champion once 56 . Rank above 68 . Town employee of yore Ballesteros 30 . ''Over the viscount 69 . Herbal do-all 8. River near Rainbow'' composer 57 . Minor place? 70 . Slippery ones Nottingham 31 . Jack Lemmon role 59 . ___ Alto, Calif. 71 . King and Ladd 9. Constructive type in '93 and '95 61 . Open delight 72 . Banished baseball legend 10 . Miss Sothern 33 . Voodoo relative 62 . 90-degree shapes 73 . Tree house 11 . Rib structure 34 . All wound up 63 . Silence between 12 . Gunk 35 . Bass-baritone notes 13 . Word on a fuse Simon 65 . This guy's a real 38 . Phalanx weapon doll 42 . Register signer 66 . Part of UCLA

342 Puzzle #338 Across 1. Dressed (in) 5. Send bait flying 9. In pieces 14 . Singer who's an actress 15 . Shaft under the floorboard 16 . Like "Playboy," informally 17 . "Dead man's hand" pair 18 . Babies born at summer's midpoint 19 . In a lather 20 . Start of a riddle 23 . Dinosaur rider Alley 24 . ___ Palmas 25 . Riddle, Part 2 32 . Sail holders 33 . Refuse 34 . Citrus drink suffix 36 . Disagreeable burden 37 . Like the smell of burning rubber 38 . You're reading one now 39 . Filmdom's Farrow 40 . Hailing from the Orient 41 . Smart ___ (wisenheimer) 42 . Riddle, Part 3 Down 45 . Sault ___ Marie 1. Lobster's weapon 21 . Medicos 40 . Swears (to) 46 . Spherical solid 2. Ness or Lomond 22 . Spiral-horned 41 . Razor brand 47 . Riddle's answer 3. Polygon's extent grazer 43 . Element #76 55 . Bangkok denizens 4. Misrepresents 25 . Lose one's head 44 . Type of poem 56 . Soil component that makes 5. Islamic spiritual 26 . Everyday mentioned in "Easter Mars red leader 27 . Computer storage Parade" 57 . Drachma replacer 6. Cut from the language 47 . "We've got 58 . Hole-some treat? company roster 28 . Plastic wrap trouble!" 59 . Fluster 7. Gumball machine 29 . Fixing one's sights 48 . "Peter Pan" pooch 60 . Shine counterpart feature on 49 . Minor quarrel 61 . Pillow covers 8. New Age keyboardist 30 . More robust 50 . "Dies ___" 62 . Stocking stuffers John 31 . Bring out 51 . Primordial goop 63 . Seeks damages from 9. Lively, to Liszt 32 . Frequent tattoo 52 . Party with pupu 10 . One intolerant of honoree platters deviation 35 . Mouse-spotter's 53 . Pennsylvania port 11 . ___ Clayton Powell, yelp 54 . Ben Cartwright's Jr. 37 . Looking drained threesome 12 . Confirmation, e.g. 38 . Defeats decisively 55 . NFL six-pointers 13 . Bart Simpson's shirt

343 Puzzle #339 Across 1. Hobby 8. Grazing ground 15 . World records? 16 . Be a precursor of 17 . Pragmatic person 18 . "The Waste Land" poet 19 . Come up to snuff 21 . Two fives for ___ 22 . Disencumber 23 . Unappetizing food 27 . Bettered 31 . Nonsense 32 . "___ Married an Axe Murderer" (Mike Myers comedy) 35 . Word with market or collar 36 . Hole-enlarging tool 37 . Period or comma 40 . Atlantic island group 41 . Bustling commotions 42 . Utter 43 . Mortise and ___ 44 . Call to duty 46 . Part of GE (abbr.) 47 . Phantom portrayer Chaney 48 . Actor Jack of old westerns Down 52 . Be well-informed 1. City in northeast 20 . Family reunion 44 . Grasscutters 57 . Satisfy Italy attendee, maybe 45 . Ebb 60 . Professes 2. Really bothered 24 . Some edible beans 47 . Also-ran 61 . It can turn your car over 3. Quench 25 . "Peter Grimes," for 49 . Access a computer 62 . Intros 4. Flair one network 63 . Case workers? 5. "But ___ art?" 26 . Jauntily cheerful 50 . "___ you the lucky 64 . Cruise control speed setting, 6. Interlock, as gears 28 . Frequently one?" maybe 7. Punta del ___, 29 . Valuable quality 51 . Like Oscar Madison Uruguay 30 . Green shade 53 . Hall of Famer 8. Foul-smelling 31 . Uptight Thurmond 9. Syrian bigwig 32 . Forceful flow 54 . "The Laughing 10 . Hoe's home 33 . European blackbird Cavalier" painter Frans 11 . Wire 34 . ___ ear and out 55 . Gen. Robt. ___ 12 . Spoon-bender the other 56 . Serb, e.g. Geller 36 . Bicuspid base 57 . Communication for 13 . "Flying Down to 38 . Dishware the hearing-impaired ___" 39 . Psyche sections (abbr.) 14 . Suffix with differ 58 . "Harper Valley ___" 59 . Hillbilly's dad

344 Puzzle #340 Across 1. Motor ending 5. Russian news agcy. 9. Not spoken 14 . Selfish person 15 . Off-Broadway award 16 . Atlanta university 17 . WWII battle site 18 . Seaweed 19 . Smooches 20 . Oft quoted greeting (with 37-Across) 23 . Diner 24 . Paddle 25 . Potassium hydroxide 28 . Tint 29 . Pretentiously suave 32 . Put back into the freezer bag 34 . Followed 36 . Listen closely 37 . End of the greeting (see 20-Across) 42 . Steep rugged rock 43 . Charred 44 . Not becoming Down 47 . Cygnet 1. Sharp-pointed 21 . Tiger's tools? 41 . Kelly and Hackman 48 . Kind of meal 2. Wandering 22 . Prohibit 45 . Furthest along 51 . Hole's starting point 3. Computer key 26 . Lawn location 46 . Youngest Lincoln 52 . Terhune barker 4. Irregularly notched 27 . Part of BPOE 48 . Lake in upstate 54 . Communication between 5. Servile 30 . Aparicio of the New York planes? 6. Highly competent White Sox 49 . Bitter 56 . Greeting recipient (see 31 . Affirmatives 50 . Beliefs 20-Across) 7. Highway sight 33 . Food fish 53 . British ladies of 60 . Climb 8. Alliance from 1954 to 1977 34 . Greater likeliness society 62 . Anchor 9. Professor's goal, to win 55 . Fire remnants 63 . Animal pelt perhaps 35 . Kind of poker 57 . "The Shadow" star 64 . Appropriates 10 . Mingo portrayer Ed 37 . Deer tail Baldwin 65 . Otherwise 11 . Relating to a spiral- 38 . Flying fish-eater 58 . Unwelcome rooter 66 . Make the final cut? shaped ear cavity 39 . Junior, perhaps 59 . Party giver 67 . Straight up 12 . Anger 40 . Some rub-outs 60 . Sault ___ Marie 68 . Mathematical groups 13 . Cobb and Detmer 61 . Word with box or 69 . Pouches cable

345 Puzzle #341 Across 1. Sizable servers 5. Discontinue, as a project 10 . Stimulate, as an appetite 14 . Biblical pronoun 15 . Early aristocrat 16 . Take a bride 17 . Geological time period 18 . Fissures 19 . Operatic Trojan princess 20 . What profits were skimmed with? 23 . SOS response 24 . Caterpillar hair 25 . Back-of-the-book lists 29 . Upper jaw 34 . Word with hour or minute 35 . Prefix with plane or space 37 . Kiddy litter? 38 . Indication of detachment 43 . ''The Madwoman of Chaillot'' role 44 . Dark area of the moon 45 . Slapstick projectile 46 . Albatross or pelican, e.g. 50 . Good place to meditate Down 52 . Ten below? 1. It has six sides 22 . Word with luxury 47 . ''___ not for me to 54 . Directly, directionally 2. It can't take wing or sales say . . .'' 55 . What the contestant 3. Halfway through the 25 . Sucking insect 48 . Fowl perches competed with? day 26 . Steel plow 49 . ''Our Miss Brooks'' 62 . Kansas City daily 4. Dessert order, manufacturer student Walter 63 . Dutch master Jan perhaps 27 . Serious play 51 . Get doubles in 64 . Telltale sign 5. Walked with long 28 . Type of studio monopoly 65 . Invisible emanation steps 30 . ''How was ___ 53 . One who responds 66 . Gin partner 6. Santa's is hidden know?'' to a dictator? 67 . Redbone or Spinks 7. Balsa vessels, e.g. 31 . Jeweler's 55 . Place for small 68 . Noises 8. ''God Save the magnifying glass scissors 69 . Nocturnal sound Queen,'' e.g. 32 . Groucho's tattooed 56 . ''The one that got 70 . Fancy fabric 9. ''Rey de Espana'' is lady away,'' e.g. written here 33 . Portfolio holding 57 . Eventful times 10 . ''The Big One,'' to 36 . He's responsible for 58 . One destined to vets a current law receive? 11 . Country's Faith 39 . Apply with a swab 59 . ''Hey, what's the 12 . Mephistophelean 40 . Word with muff or big ___?'' 13 . Darjeeling, for one flap 60 . It brings people 21 . Commandments 41 . Something lent? closer peak 42 . Abate, as rainfall 61 . White-tailed eagle 62 . In a blue funk

346 Puzzle #342 Across 1. Painter who would have been 100 in 2004 5. Pre-snap request 10 . Anti-fur gp. 14 . "I Dream of Jeannie" star 15 . Mountain nest 16 . Sch. with a Berkeley campus 17 . Pair "on a raft," in diner lingo 19 . Burt's ex 20 . "...__ mean it!" 21 . Stan's partner 22 . Bligh cry 28 . Director Clément 29 . Columbia River city 30 . Section in a pit 32 . Pequod's #2 36 . -y and then some 37 . Bit 40 . CBS hit series 41 . Chou En-__ 42 . Skipper's "little buddy" 45 . Prefix with iliac 47 . Burdensome 50 . Casual brand Down 51 . Caine officer tried for mutiny 1. Gp. that stops 21 . Egyptian 44 . Spanish antiwar 55 . Station break inserts runners underworld god chant, "__ la guerra!" 56 . Sonnet unit 2. Increase by 22 . Head honcho 46 . One of the Gulf 57 . Collapsed 3. Meadow personified States 58 . 22-, 32-, 42-, 51-...and 4. Pen pals? 23 . "Able was __ saw 48 . Togetherness 17-Across 5. Dee of films Elba" 49 . Town square figure 64 . Wallet stuffers 6. Front physicians 24 . Guard dog's 51 . State slate mate: 65 . Louisiana marsh 7. Acrimony warning Abbr. 66 . Earn 8. Actress Ullmann 25 . Nos. on drivers' 52 . Mother of The 67 . Like empires licenses 9. Thom McAn spec Donald's children 68 . Absurd 26 . Campus gp. 10 . Pop-top 53 . Roof edges 69 . With a clean slate 27 . Portfolio parts 11 . Dangerous bacteria 54 . "Delicious!" 31 . Tours of duty 12 . Patty Hearst alias 58 . Mulder and Scully's 33 . Stomach ache org. 13 . Sci-fi foe 34 . "Hero" singer 59 . Hunter of Mott the 18 . Suffix with meth- Mariah Hoople 35 . Convention display 60 . Scandinavian rug area 61 . Sunbather's 38 . Pulitzer winner souvenir James 62 . Scrape together, 39 . "Fudge!" with "out" 43 . Most garishly 63 . Use a needle dressed

347 Puzzle #343 Across 1. Less than occasionally 5. Moppet 9. With 70-Across, subtle components of 20-, 27-, 48- and 56-Across 14 . Super Bowl XXII MVP Williams 15 . Irritate 16 . Classical order 17 . It was made kosher in 1998 18 . A long, long time 19 . Sidekick with a headband 20 . They're at the low end of the electromagnetic spectrum 23 . Fish-eating bird 24 . Late night TV fare 25 . Cheer starter 27 . Prevailing 35 . "__ out!" 36 . Word in a winter forecast 37 . Brazenness 38 . Tyrrhenian Sea island 40 . They may accompany waves 42 . It's on the way out 43 . Fly easily Down 45 . Trickster 1. Cooking 22 . Retired flier 46 . Bring in 47 . Half of junior's meal? consequence 26 . Orwell ending 49 . Earth Day mo. 48 . Had it 2. 2000 biopic about 27 . String quartet 50 . Busy 51 . Cut James Joyce's love member 53 . Affirming word 52 . Outpatient test, briefly 3. Reminded 28 . Get around 54 . Michener work, 53 . Sailing 4. Narcissist's problem 29 . Shifting objects e.g. 56 . Continue to be tied 5. Shrimp catcher 30 . Prevailing 55 . Final 63 . Unrevealing attire 6. Exercise discipline 31 . Practice 57 . "... which __ was 65 . Hose mishaps 7. Capital on the 32 . Wear away irksome to me": 66 . Aeneas abandoned her Dnieper River 33 . Eschew Shakespeare 67 . Mild expletive 8. Additionally 34 . "Monster" actor 58 . Sierra Club founder 68 . Place 9. Assemble 35 . Safecracker 59 . Game starter 69 . Education division 10 . Mower's home 39 . South Australia's 60 . Arbor feature 70 . See 9-Across 11 . __ Domini capital 61 . Improve, in a way 71 . Emphasis word for Édouard 12 . Bandleader Puente 41 . Conjectures 62 . Memo 72 . Red Rose 13 . Coll. course 44 . Prefix with skeleton 64 . Sound of a leak 21 . Not procrastinating

348 Puzzle #344 Across 1. Duel preceder 5. Walk proudly 10 . Jewelry gem 14 . Like 24-karat gold 15 . Wing alternative 16 . It has a supporting role 17 . Everest, to the world 18 . Biathlon equipment 19 . Decent, so to speak 20 . Rat Packer and Col. Mustard of ''Clue'' 23 . Result 24 . Bull periods 25 . Strong suit 27 . Drives the point home? 29 . Lion-colored 33 . Titled Turk 34 . 18-wheeler 36 . Thick messy substance 37 . Dubya, to Yale 38 . ''Hee Haw'' picker and a ''Misfit'' 42 . Thing, in English class 43 . Woolly mama 44 . Sun or moon, e.g. Down 45 . Pick 1. Black suit 21 . Score 42 . Wordless response 46 . Bench-clearing brawl 2. Shining 22 . Merry month 46 . ''Big'' burger 48 . You are here 3. Storied fleet 26 . Zodiac figure 47 . Come out 52 . Hollywood's Winger 4. Hammer part 28 . ___ Mawr College 49 . Devastate 54 . Sixth-day creation 5. Purse part, often 30 . Be in accord 50 . Something of small 56 . Coach Parseghian 6. Dry feeling 31 . Potsticker cooker importance 57 . Kato meets Kid Shelleen 7. Diplomatic woe 32 . NASA failure 51 . Fairy-tale boy 62 . Wished one hadn't 8. Wrinkled fruit 35 . Kind of club 53 . Rosy-cheeked 63 . ''Casablanca'' actor 9. Not now 37 . ''Dancing Queen'' 55 . Change, as a law 64 . Dunderheads 10 . Take place quartet 58 . Grand style 65 . Tapered nail 11 . Famous London 38 . Abrasion from a 59 . ''The Arts of 66 . Get straight street lariat, say Beauty'' author Montez 67 . Eye rakishly 12 . Similar version 39 . Epidemic, e.g. 60 . Estrada of ''CHiPs'' 68 . Jet-black 13 . Blazed the trail 40 . Cobbler's tool 61 . Man in the corner 69 . Truth modifier 41 . Gladiator's milieu 62 . Result of a solo HR 70 . Ship's backbone

349 Puzzle #345 Across 1. Rationale 6. --- and terminer 10 . Touched the tarmac 14 . Texas tourist attraction 15 . ''Goodfellas'' singer Jerry 16 . Surrender possession 17 . Belt's cousin 18 . Emission 20 . Certain favorites 22 . Thoughtful sounds? 23 . Get under one's skin 24 . Friday's rank (Abbr.) 25 . Directly, directionally 28 . Certain favorites 31 . FDR's Scottie 34 . ''Livin' Thing'' grp. 35 . Gets nasty outside 36 . Mentally responsive 38 . Ubangi's feature 40 . Cavities in bones 41 . Bridge positions 43 . Jrs.' elders 45 . One-horse carriage 46 . Certain favorites 49 . Cheerleader's shout Down 50 . It's bold-faced at times 1. Cooking or sewing 19 . Hun head 42 . Whines 51 . Napoleon, to Wellington term 21 . Deco designer 44 . Dry cleaner's 52 . ''Mamma ---!'' 2. Word with ego 25 . Perform, to the concern 55 . Certain favorites 3. Teasdale and Lee Bard 47 . City on the Illinois 58 . Like the U.S. legislature 4. Apple product 26 . Prefix for sonic River 61 . Part of a Sikorsky vehicle 5. Lovely Loren 27 . Test format 48 . Give a come-hither 62 . Electrical letters 6. Too much of a bad 28 . Stores at many look to 63 . Not on Memorex thing? stations 52 . Type of oil 64 . Single-handed 7. Edible roots 29 . Hush breaker 53 . ''--- ear and out ...'' 65 . Gather in the boardroom 8. Pass by, as time 30 . Cement-headed 54 . Comparable to a 66 . Not tacit 9. Commits a faux pas 31 . Something to tickle beet 67 . Exhausted at the bridge table 32 . Honolulu greeting 55 . It's incontrovertible 10 . Isn't idle 33 . Bad Brown of 56 . --- Shankar, sitar 11 . Wahine's accessory ballads strummer 12 . Common oath 37 . What a con may be 57 . One-man band 13 . Top of some on performances ratings 39 . Wrote one's life 58 . Batman comic history word 59 . Food preserver 60 . Alphabetical run

350 Puzzle #346 Across 1. 6-Across sighting 6. Utopia Plains setting 10 . Augment 13 . Evangeline's homeland 15 . Bach wrote one for Christmas 17 . Austen title, abridged 19 . Convince 20 . Person with a list 21 . Gives over 22 . Ready for a toothpick? 24 . Ludicrous act 26 . NYC summer hours 27 . Word with 23 30 . Yuletide treat 32 . 2001 merger name 33 . Marches 37 . ''Undecided'' Brothers 41 . Stendhal title, abridged 44 . Ultimatum conclusion 45 . Consultant's offering 46 . Ancient spot marker? 47 . Hoover's org. 49 . Tackle 51 . Grilling sound Down 54 . Gloomy, depressed feeling 1. Uppercase 23 . Shower attention 50 . Kind of chop 58 . ''___ About You'' 2. Realtor's plot 25 . Creepy-crawly 51 . Was responsible 59 . Stock phrase 3. Manicurist's needs 27 . Fill up for 61 . Amenhotep's god 4. Muddleheaded 28 . German Chancellor 52 . Maze word 63 . Equine shade 5. Untruth Helmut 53 . Lean Jack 66 . Wouk title, abridged 6. Gangster Bugs 29 . Consecrate 55 . Boy of the streets 69 . Gets a new car for an old 7. Ain't, rightly 31 . ___ pal (girlfriend) 56 . Courtroom worker car speaking 34 . 41-Across theme 57 . Alley habitué 70 . All babies, affectionately 8. British dominion word, unabridged 60 . 66-Across theme 71 . Giant Hall of Famer Mel over India (1757-1947) 35 . VJ's network word, unabridged 72 . Late night talker 9. Wall covering 36 . Upsilon follower 62 . They're behind a 73 . Beauty's love 10 . Take for ___ 38 . Alexander's starting peacock (swindle) point 64 . High fliers 11 . Cubed 39 . Feedback, of a sort 65 . Fit one within 12 . Biblical verb 40 . Husk another 14 . 17-Across theme 42 . Paid whistle blower 67 . Chicago-Baltimore word, unabridged 43 . Barn-raising piece dir. 16 . Horatian form 48 . Speed 68 . Hamlet's obstacle 18 . Thimblerig object

351 Puzzle #347 Across 1. Road runner 4. Elude the tag, in a way 9. ''Hey, Mister!'' 13 . ''Lucky Jim'' author, Kingsley 15 . Flower's protective leaves 16 . Sooners' st. 17 . Title carrier 19 . Thailand, formerly 20 . Put in place 21 . Come into existence 23 . It's picked by the picky 24 . Triumph at last 26 . It stops a run 29 . Backed 32 . Freudian topic 33 . Dived into an empty pool, e.g. 35 . WWII Fr. battle site 36 . Chicken-king connection 37 . Brit. military decoration 38 . Tokyos' former name 41 . Aurora's counterpart 42 . College mil. group 44 . Proverbial battlers 46 . Do an impression Down 47 . Attacks like a sea eagle 1. Members of the hack 18 . In detention 45 . Printing measures 50 . Disguised, in a way pack 22 . Field call 48 . Org. for the Shark 52 . Fuddy-duddies 2. Mine, in Marseille 24 . Not much and Tiger 53 . ''How horrid!'' 3. Attica uprising 25 . Word with card or 49 . Tourist magnets 54 . ''Hogan's Heroes'' setting 4. Spreads around finger 51 . Bygone rulers 56 . Spinning-wheel attachment 5. ''Arsenic and Old 26 . Goes like the 54 . ''Pygmalion'' writer 60 . Loser in an fictional upset ___'' dickens 55 . Word with folk or 61 . Game for ringers 6. Variety 27 . Subtly illuminated fairy 64 . Beggar's request 7. Easter egg 28 . Bearer of heraldic 56 . Royal Russian ruler 65 . Kind of offer application devices 57 . Forest females 66 . Ooze 8. Reach 30 . Marry in haste 58 . Onionlike plant 67 . Map section 9. Pretenders 31 . Delivered a drug 59 . Catch sight of 68 . Load of baloney 10 . Chophouse offering 34 . Perez or O'Donnell 62 . Scrap of food 69 . Some people reach for it 11 . Coal mine waste 39 . In a coy manner 63 . ''Blame It on ___'' 12 . Like a pussycat 40 . Plains Indians (Caine film) 14 . Striped stinker 43 . The Fonz, compared to the rest

352 Puzzle #348 Across 1. Not bare 5. Type of shop 9. Sarah's son 14 . Function 15 . Sword with a guard 16 . Purple shade 17 . Georgia locale 18 . Bonneville deposit 19 . ___-Deetoo of ''Star Wars'' 20 . British dish 23 . Nine-digit ID 24 . Shaker or Bklyn. 25 . Comparative suffix 26 . ''Whether ___ nobler ...'' 27 . Contemplated 32 . Luxurious sheet material 35 . MC, numerically? 36 . Logging tool 37 . German dish 41 . Byron's daughter 42 . Moose relatives 43 . Actress Witherspoon 44 . Bank figures 47 . Display monitor on an ATM 48 . Norwegian rug Down 49 . That boat 1. Maryland specialties 22 . Drapery material 45 . Peninsula near the 50 . Spare hair 2. Takes it on the chin 26 . ___ Pan Alley Red Sea 53 . Italian dish 3. Completely 27 . Afro combs 46 . They may be nude 58 . Hobbit Baggins unfamiliar 28 . ___ and aahs 47 . Set of bells 59 . Injure seriously 4. Unhearing 29 . Bring down the 49 . Your umbrella, 60 . Express audibly 5. Troubles constantly house? perhaps? 61 . Bushed 6. Girasols 30 . Former spouses 50 . Emerson's middle 62 . Give the once-over 7. Farmer's place, in 31 . Remove a typo name 63 . Twiddling one's thumbs song 32 . Ear cleaner 51 . Counting 64 . Badlands plateaus 8. Himalayan creature 33 . Opera about an everything 65 . Neither raises nor folds 9. Pictured mentally Ethiopian slave girl 52 . Like heaven's 66 . Auctioneer's call 10 . ''Being and 34 . Popular game bird entrance Nothingness'' writer 35 . Gilligan's spot 53 . Anagram and synonym of evil 11 . Private transport 38 . News windup 54 . Architectural 12 . Cosmetics brand 39 . Kind of verb add-ons 13 . Top exec (Abbr.) 55 . Cookie magnate 21 . Caterwaul 40 . Hanoi observance 56 . Fume 57 . Nile wader 58 . ''Batman'' sound

353 Puzzle #349 Across 1. Artist's apartment 5. Bill with Franklin's picture 10 . Way out there 14 . Biblical birthright seller 15 . All finished, as dinner 16 . Work with circus tigers 17 . How to go to Buffalo, in song 19 . Yankee infielder's nickname 20 . Père's sisters 21 . Speed's opposite 23 . Barbershop sound 25 . "Love the skin you're in" company 26 . "The Lord of the Rings" evildoer 29 . Settled in advance 34 . Dead-end street 36 . Naval builder 37 . Rip 38 . Investors' protector since 1934: Abbr. 40 . Narrative 41 . Hardly clumsy 44 . Moved clumsily Down 47 . Negotiations killer 1. "__ we forget" 18 . Where the 43 . Gad about 49 . Radical '60s gp. 2. Labor Dept. arm indecisive sit 45 . Road dividers 50 . Toronto hockey player, 22 . Get one's feet wet slangily 3. Deity with goat legs 46 . Rodeo bucker 24 . Elhi support gps. 51 . Ancient Dead Sea land 4. Decorative clusters 48 . Gushing outflow 26 . Group of eight 53 . Pick from a lineup 5. Swedish 52 . Heavy or precious temperature scale 27 . Start of some follower 57 . Indignant response creator French street names 53 . Pupil surrounder 61 . Ready to pick 6. Dundee denial 28 . Barton or Bow 54 . Fuzzy dashboard 62 . Gridiron strategy including a 7. Onetime Platte River 30 . 150-miles-per-hour danglers fake handoff dwellers Amtrak train 55 . Its point is guarded 64 . Freezes (up) 8. Nonstick coating 31 . Construction 56 . When repeated 65 . Africa's largest nation, 9. Swaddles beams twice, '90s "et cetera" areawise 10 . Whatever happens 32 . Went for congers 58 . Trattoria quaff 66 . Noted fictional tutor 11 . Hack's payment 33 . Owners' papers 59 . Seemingly forever 67 . Catches a glimpse of 12 . Book between Joel 35 . Steven Wright 60 . Messenger 68 . School tests and Obadiah quality molecules 69 . Entry in red 13 . Johnny Bench's 39 . Salad slice, briefly 63 . Thanksgiving team 42 . "Oh, sure!" veggie

354 Puzzle #350 Across 1. Indian corn 6. March time, e.g. 10 . Large amount 14 . Neutralize 15 . Commute or conference start 16 . Legal scholar Guinier 17 . One of the Astaires 18 . Appear 19 . Old Testament book 20 . "The Flower Town in the Pines" 23 . Duke's hoops gp. 25 . Conger line member? 26 . Meltdown sites 27 . Basketball Hall of Fame site 32 . "Since ___ My Baby" (Temptations hit) 33 . Cartographer's septet 34 . "Even ___ speak . . ." 35 . They have teeth 37 . Place with many fjord explorers? 41 . Lollobrigida of the screen 42 . Man with a new band Down 43 . D.C. suburb 1. Sheepish sound 22 . Watch readouts, 42 . Explosive device 47 . Coward's lack 2. Boolean operation briefly 43 . Limited 49 . Bit the pullet? word 23 . Tibet locale 44 . Stag feature 50 . Velvet finish? 3. Held by a third party 24 . Two-stripers 45 . Must 51 . Water Ski Hall of Fame area 4. South African (abbr.) 46 . Colorado native 56 . Botanical angle tribesman 28 . Expert ending? 47 . Does the deck 57 . Overhang 5. Periodic table entry 29 . Father of Jacob 48 . Mischievous sprite 58 . Greek leader 6. ". . . is fear ___" 30 . Auction ending? 52 . Relax with a good 61 . Take the bait (F.D.R.) 31 . Vegas headliner? book 62 . Landed 7. Cervine creature 35 . Old Dodger great 53 . American patriot 63 . Like the Pantheon 8. Dist. above sea level Hodges Nathan 64 . Fortune hunter? 9. Road rig 36 . Pennsylvania has 54 . Tel ___ 65 . "Whip It" band 10 . Winter Olympics three 55 . Ebb partner 66 . Ablutionary vessels event 37 . "The Lord of the 59 . "And I Love ___" 11 . Shutterbug Rings" beast (Beatles) necessity 38 . "I swear . . ." 60 . Madison Avenue 12 . Have ___ for news 39 . Tennis score offerings 13 . Records that could 40 . Neighbor of Yemen be broken 41 . Kind of club 21 . Computer memory unit, briefly

355 Puzzle #351 Across 1. Like-minded voting group 5. Young hooting bird 10 . Den furniture 14 . Capital of 64 Across, to natives 15 . Main idea 16 . Certain Jerusalem resident 17 . Actor Baldwin 18 . Prepared a filet 19 . Banister 20 . North Pole VIP 22 . Letter-ending word 24 . Notion 26 . Workout rooms 27 . Little bite 30 . T-shirt size 32 . Deputized group 36 . ''It's the end of an __!'' 37 . Conversation filler 38 . The one here 39 . Letter-ending words 44 . __ spumante 45 . Reverse or drive 46 . Wide shoe 47 . Chicken part Down 49 . Puccini opera 1. Swimsuit tops 21 . Off-the-cuff remark 43 . Smidgen of sand 50 . Dentist's deg. 2. ''Whatever __ 23 . Little devil 48 . Garden tool 51 . Sewing-machine inventor Wants'' (''Damn 25 . Make simpler 49 . Balance 53 . Skinny Yankees'' tune) 27 . Unpracticed in precariously 55 . Letter-ending word 3. Sign of the future 28 . From Dublin 52 . Get water out of a 59 . Polite refusal 4. Arizona plants 29 . Singer LaBelle mop 63 . Sandwich cookie name 5. Wagering place: 31 . Beginning, so to 54 . Wanderer 64 . Boot-shaped nation Abbr. speak 55 . Argyle, e.g. 66 . Female horse 6. Apathetic comment 33 . Destroy, as 56 . Teheran's country 67 . Garage occupants 7. Late-night TV host documents 57 . Infamous Roman 68 . Emphatic refusal 8. Come out of hiding 34 . One-__ (biased) emperor 69 . Stratford's river 9. First President 35 . Road curves 58 . Molten rock 70 . Tie, as a tie Roosevelt 40 . Budget-busting 60 . Preserve 71 . Lawn material 10 . Florida city price level 61 . Metal in steel 72 . Fender-bender result 11 . Kind of vaccine 41 . Creates a new 62 . Take an apartment 12 . Come up short hairdo 65 . Many mos. 13 . In a competent 42 . Apiece manner

356 Puzzle #352 Across 1. Burnt residue 4. Piece of eight, e.g. 8. Martian marking 13 . Commando's mission 15 . Clarinet's cousin 16 . Discourse 17 . Start of a mystery-solving quip 20 . Avoid ignorance 21 . Birth-related 22 . Pro-___ (certain tournaments) 23 . ''Love ___ Battlefield'' 25 . Weaver's apparatus 27 . Quip (Part 2) 35 . Verbal waves 36 . Hairy Himalayan mystery 37 . Tuck of legend 38 . Citizens of (suffix) 40 . Underwater detection system 43 . Uttar Pradesh tourist site 44 . Twisted fastener 46 . Blueprint item 48 . Rooked Down 49 . Quip (Part 3) 1. Seed integument 24 . They may be split 50 . ''What's the big 53 . Mock fanfare 2. Umpire's call, in casinos ___?'' 54 . Bauxite, e.g. sometimes 26 . Sorvino with an 51 . Outspoken 55 . Farming tool 3. Casual greeting Oscar 52 . They hold their 58 . Slowly, in music 4. Female whale 27 . Early form of horses 61 . Tokyo's entertainment 5. Scottish port bridge 55 . Weight district 6. Scottish island or 28 . Sudden snag 56 . Leer lasciviously 65 . End of the quip N.Y. college 29 . River to the Rhone 57 . They may be 68 . Absolutely astound 7. Vex 30 . Palindromic Platte boosted or fragile 69 . Construction piece 8. Simmer down River people 59 . Forbidden cologne? 70 . Compos mentis 9. Old Testament craft 31 . Capital of Belarus 60 . ''Do not take ___ 71 . LSAT and GMAT, e.g. 10 . ''Peter Pan'' dog 32 . Political wing? empty stomach'' 72 . Presses for payment 11 . Small matter 33 . Isaac's mother 62 . Mont. neighbor 73 . Many of George Foreman's 12 . Alcindor and 34 . Wall Street activity 63 . Founder of wins Wallace 39 . Chip off the old Stoicism 14 . Greek order of flock? 64 . Tomahawks, e.g. architecture 41 . Rue Morgue killer 66 . Decay 18 . Far from bashful 42 . Gambling mecca 67 . Many, many mos. 19 . Art colony in New 45 . Pequod crew Mexico 47 . Welsh barker

357 Puzzle #353 Across 1. Tony's gang 5. Calif. neighbor 9. Lucy's partner 13 . Rink highlight 14 . Rani's wrap 15 . "Was to be," in Latin 16 . Urban project financing vehicles 19 . Floral swelling 20 . Prefix with hazard 21 . Novelist Ferber 23 . Passé basketball technique 26 . Opposite of vert. 28 . Ad ___ (at the place) 29 . Some have photos 30 . Fargo's st. 32 . Exhibition site 34 . First ltr. 36 . Abode 37 . Being familiar with how things work 43 . Bright stars 44 . Leveling wedge 45 . Verdi opera based on a Shakespeare play Down 47 . Turnpike carrier 1. Son of Mary Stuart 18 . Bust alternative 42 . Austen classic 49 . Belittle, slangily 2. Displayed in 22 . Summits 46 . Scandinavian saint 52 . Prickly casing abundance 24 . Norse god 48 . Barely move 53 . European peak 3. Religious beliefs 25 . Distinctive flavors 49 . Conductor 55 . Team's followers, 4. Loses weight, with 27 . Essen's valley Barenboim collectively "down" 31 . Groups of 50 . Suspects 57 . Graf ___ 5. Do-say connection acquaintances 51 . Waver 59 . Circle segment 6. Coolio's genre 33 . US/Canada's ___ 54 . Agent, as in a 61 . Birchbark craft 7. "Dies ___" Canals corporate vote 62 . McDonald's et al. 8. Nada 35 . Crook 56 . False gods 66 . Bone: Prefix 9. ___ volente (God 37 . Some handles 58 . "¿Cómo ___ 67 . More, in adspeak willing) 38 . Unexcited about usted?" 68 . "I ___ Song Go Out of My 10 . Fish-eating eagle 39 . Eggs order 60 . Pigeon shelter Heart" 11 . Get ready to ride 40 . ___-Mart 63 . Gymnast's 69 . Actor Robert 12 . "I give up" 41 . Site in el mar objective 70 . "Okay, Aunt Bee," Opie-style 17 . "All the Way" 64 . MDs 71 . Poky lyricist Sammy 65 . Suffix with sky or Web

358 Puzzle #354 Across 1. Above water, barely 6. Narrow strip 11 . Semi section 14 . Cooking or sewing term 15 . Intense obsession 16 . Pay stub 17 . Gasp of admiration 19 . To the ___ degree 20 . Eject strongly 21 . Becomes older 22 . Turn on a dime 24 . Defensive effort 26 . Gala 27 . Engage in fantasy 33 . Word with brief or tender 36 . Majorette, perhaps 37 . Mrs. Eddie Cantor 38 . Auction site 39 . Legendary miniseries 40 . Cookbook instruction 41 . Neighbor of Uru. 42 . Westernmost Aleutian isle 43 . Floors 44 . React to a sprained ankle, perhaps Down 48 . John ___, the Lone Ranger 1. Basic skills 23 . ''... Lord, is ___?'' 45 . Moon shuttle 49 . Mubarak's predecessor 2. Distorts (Matt. 26:22) 46 . WWI president 52 . Czech composer Rudolf 3. To date 25 . Orr's org. 47 . Seemingly 54 . Spanish surrealist 4. Illegal passenger 26 . Ness and co. 50 . How roast is often 57 . Popular salad 5. Playboy Mansion 28 . ''Rob Roy'' author served 59 . Word with parking or odd nickname 29 . Saw feature 51 . U.S. security 60 . Hosanna 6. Factory fallout 30 . Pause 52 . Letter opener? 63 . Street address abbr. 7. Grow dim 31 . Prefix meaning 53 . Emulate nomads 64 . ''Pale Rider,'' e.g. 8. ''No ifs, ___ or ''peculiar'' 54 . Be fond of 65 . Prepare mushrooms buts!'' 32 . Loans to Marc 55 . ''The Clan of the 66 . Unit-cost word 9. No-win situation Antony? Cave Bear'' novelist 67 . Physicist Bohr 10 . Talked nonstop on 33 . Rachel's sister Jean 68 . Church areas a subject 34 . River through 56 . PO box contents 11 . Outwardly curved Aragon 58 . Tar's affirmatives surface 35 . Comic's employee 61 . ''Bali ___'' 12 . Vocal range 39 . Legal invasion 62 . Explorer Johnson 13 . Thai bread 40 . Golfer's bugaboo 18 . Dry wash in Africa 43 . Hyundai rival

359 Puzzle #355 Across 1. Doglegs 6. Short lecturer? 10 . Lummox 14 . The blahs 15 . Run the show 16 . Country singer McEntire 17 . 4 or 16, e.g. 19 . Say for sure 20 . Pleased as punch 21 . Steakhouse selection 23 . Woofer's sound? 26 . Ladies of Spain 28 . "Acid" 29 . Brownie topper 31 . Chill killer 33 . Hunter on high 34 . Pro's provoker 35 . Polite reply from a ranch hand 38 . Tranquilizer's tool 40 . Some shoe fasteners 42 . Some M.I.T. grads 43 . Former Hungarian premier Imre ___ 45 . Surfer wannabe Down 46 . Band aide 1. Little buzzer 18 . 1997 Peter Fonda 44 . Order to an idler 48 . Aware of, slangily 2. Pt. of SASE role 47 . Dug in 49 . Skater Midori 3. Pittsburgh-to-Buffalo 22 . Conclusion of sex? 48 . Put on 51 . More snappy dir. 23 . "Humble" home 49 . Asimov of sci-fi 53 . ___ Moines, Iowa 4. Grayish brown 24 . Showed a show 50 . Running late 54 . Cup carrier 5. Storied New York again 52 . Steamed up 56 . Pint-size pest prison 25 . Livestock show site 55 . Tag data 57 . Satirical cartoonist Peter 6. Spin doc, often 27 . Torn and tattered 59 . OP followers 58 . 4, to 16, e.g. 7. Aching athlete's 30 . "Wrong!" 60 . Antique auto 64 . Tots up relief 32 . Green people? 61 . Celestial body 65 . Once, once 8. Ring rah 34 . Diarist Nin 62 . Black gold 66 . Spine-tingling 9. Sporty Italian cars 36 . Sudden outpouring 63 . Driver's aid 67 . Dermatologist's removal 10 . Grump 37 . Windows 68 . "___ sow, so shall..." 11 . Cool in a crisis predecessor 69 . Aristocrat 12 . Toes the line 39 . Like a herring's 13 . Took risks habitat 41 . Coven count

360 Puzzle #356 Across 1. Befuddled 5. It's sometimes bitter 8. It's often made in a fresh manner 12 . Word of comparison 13 . Spreadsheet numbers, e.g. 14 . Distribute proportionately 15 . Math term 17 . Poker player's ploy 18 . ''You ___ what you eat.'' 19 . Blvd. relative 20 . Math figure 22 . Stunning 25 . Like the Grinch 26 . Crane's ''Badge'' color 27 . Elevator man 29 . Where X marks the spot 32 . Math term 36 . Soccer legend 37 . My parent's sisters 38 . Way back when 39 . ''The Divine Comedy'' author 40 . Shop clamp 41 . Math device 43 . Catchall abbr. Down 44 . Sunburn aftermath 1. Rand title strongman 16 . Gatherers of the 41 . English Quaker 45 . Mamie's man 2. Stature-impaired? fall fall 42 . Fastening 46 . Merit 3. Beaver's adjective 21 . Overlook hardware 48 . Relishing 4. Santa ___, Calif. 23 . Peeved 44 . Gets ready, for 53 . Math term 5. Word with half or 24 . Numbers equal to short 56 . Math term moth 10 raised to the power 47 . Ecstasy's opposite 57 . Negative connector 6. To the ___ degree of a 100 49 . Queen Anne's race 58 . Hinder, in law 7. Wettish 28 . Horn sound 50 . Hearth 59 . Math figure 8. Desert drainage 30 . Vocal range 51 . Ryan of baseball 62 . Encumbrances basin 31 . Jury member 52 . Meet at the door 63 . Andy's partner in old radio 9. Service station job 32 . Command to a 53 . Swiss archer 64 . Winglike parts 10 . Average computer 54 . China setting 65 . Disney dog 11 . Brit's gun 33 . Throw in the towel 55 . Word with bear or 66 . ''___ a sock in it!'' 13 . Math term 34 . Odorless speed 67 . Chap 14 . Medieval French 35 . Like the spotted 60 . Outback bird kingdom owl 61 . Stay on one's case 36 . Indiana basketball player 39 . Posh N.Y. apartment building (with ''The'')

361 Puzzle #357 Across 1. Loafer adornment, sometimes 5. Indian state whose name means ''unrivaled'' 10 . Self-satisfied 14 . Prepare for sowing 15 . Cook's kicker 16 . Was for many 17 . ___ spumante 18 . Word with eye or hind 19 . Persian mathematician Khayyam 20 . BOND 23 . Trim the excess 24 . ''At Seventeen'' singer 25 . Pick and choose 28 . ''Casablanca'' cafe owner 30 . What to call George Eliot 33 . Skirt feature 34 . Sonata finale 35 . Reindeer trailer 36 . BOND 39 . Puts two and two together 40 . Daunting type of exam 41 . Keaton comedy of 1983 42 . ''You rang?'' Down 43 . Trumpeter, for one 1. They work on 21 . Plants in a dry 38 . Zola or Griffith 44 . Daily ritual, below the journals place 43 . Complete collection border 2. Contrariwise 22 . Himalayan beast 44 . Hit the roof 45 . Steeped beverage 3. ___ bene 25 . Spread apart 45 . Irritable 46 . First name in horror films 4. Mysterious TV series 26 . Skip a syllable 46 . Illegal payment 47 . BOND of 1990-91 27 . Acts the shylock 47 . Hide away 55 . The object at hand 5. Put into pigeonholes 28 . Marc Antony 48 . ''Think again'' 56 . Broadcasting 6. Backbone addressee 49 . Bailiff's word 57 . Reviewer's handout 7. Apply one's John 29 . Fan club focus 50 . Freeze front 58 . Kick out Hancock 30 . Urban renewal 51 . Conquest of 59 . Horseshoe-shaped lab item 8. Suffix for suffering targets Caesar's 60 . Wile E. Coyote's brand body parts 31 . Serf 52 . Inscribe 61 . Muffet's meal 9. Composed in verse 32 . Accumulation of 53 . Implicate 62 . Like some floors 10 . Like court fluids 54 . December 63 . Archaic pronoun testimony 34 . Irene of ''Fame'' purchase, perhaps 11 . Headache for 35 . Really dresses Dilbert down 12 . River to the 37 . Kevin Costner Caspian thriller 13 . ''Chicago'' star

362 Puzzle #358 Across 1. Gravity-powered vehicle 5. Unproductive period 10 . Change course 14 . Campbell of ''Scream 3'' 15 . Tough crossword clue 16 . Melodious Fitzgerald 17 . It's hot in here! 18 . ''A --- divided...'' 19 . Title role for Jim Carrey 20 . Flying in a supersonic transport? 23 . Dental exam 24 . --- de cologne 25 . 2002 film with Manfred and Sid 29 . Number theory and abstract algebra, e.g. 33 . Vicu–a kin 34 . Within a relatively short time 36 . --- few rounds (box) 37 . Baby carriages in Southern California? 41 . The night before 42 . Projection room item 43 . Devoured Down 44 . Lucille Ball, for one 1. ___-cone 22 . Furry foot 45 . Traffic jam result 47 . Take an oath 2. Big name in jeans 25 . More sick, in 46 . Before, once 48 . Eyeball 3. Tied dialect 47 . One coulomb per 49 . Kind of old story 4. Collision souvenir 26 . Garlic unit second 51 . Cost of a certain food 27 . Assuaged 49 . Foul up staple? 5. Globe or ball 28 . ''I --- Camera'' 50 . Liability's opposite 58 . Uttered 6. Shower sponge 29 . Coward of the 51 . Kind of car on a 59 . Dictaphone button 7. Same old same old theater certain lot 60 . Garb for an old senator? 8. Untidy condition 30 . Playing marble 52 . Archibald of the 62 . Start of a Caesar query 9. Elementary school pupils 31 . Some scholarly NBA 63 . More prevalent 10 . Heavy works 53 . Issue a summons 64 . Use a hatchet parchment-like paper 32 . ''--- he grown!'' to 65 . Word with fat or fry 11 . Lamb's pen name 34 . Number one at 54 . ''Layla'' singer's 66 . Armadillo armor 12 . Distinctive flair Wimbledon, e.g. first name 67 . Vacuum feature 13 . Far from frequent 35 . ''Bravo!'' to a 55 . Compulsive desire 21 . ''Crocodile Dundee'' bullfighter 56 . Silver salmon star 38 . Attention-getters 57 . Teamwork 39 . Fonda or Ustinov obstacles 40 . Mongoose's prey 61 . Tarzan's foster mother, e.g.

363 Puzzle #359 Across 1. Unwanted line 5. Crimson Tide, for short 9. ''Way to go!'' 14 . Sped 15 . Greek war god 16 . ''The Addams Family'' character 17 . Blows away 18 . ''The Greatest American Hero'' star 19 . Animated dog 20 . Zephyr 23 . Rubs out 24 . ''Coffee, Tea ___?'' 25 . Stats for Jamal Lewis or Priest Holmes 28 . Scottish cap 30 . Mason's tool 32 . Solos 38 . El ___, weather phenomenon 39 . Complete description 42 . Bring on board 43 . ''Take it Easy'' group 44 . Pastors' assistants Down 47 . ___ Ramon, California 1. Play surface 22 . CPR expert 45 . Land, as a fish 48 . Foxlike 2. Shrink away 25 . Spin 46 . Federal loan agcy. 49 . Diminishes 3. Sports venue 26 . Crowded 50 . Rangoon is its 52 . Paternity test site 4. Idles 27 . Tart fruits capital, to the U.S. 57 . Permanent place? 5. Fundraiser, of a sort 29 . Cartoonist Walker 51 . Front porch 59 . Veronica of ''Hill Street 53 . ''Let's Fall in Love'' Blues'' 6. Saudi, e.g. 31 . NASA pressure unit composer 62 . Civil rights activist Parks 7. Paris' subway 32 . Sore spots 54 . South American 63 . ''Doctor Zhivago'' heroine 8. Fall bloomer 33 . ''The Big ___'' (1983) plain 64 . Excuse 9. Trail end? 34 . Behind time 55 . Main line from the 65 . Big name in faucets 10 . Subterfuge 35 . Graf ___ heart 66 . Tolkien tree creatures 11 . High school course 36 . Slangy refusal 56 . Offensively bold 67 . Weighed down 12 . TV adjunct 37 . Chemical suffixes 57 . Actress Neuwirth 68 . Financing abbrs. 13 . Expression of surprise 40 . Delivers the joke 58 . River through 69 . One famous for saving with a straight face Belgium couples 21 . ___ c'est moi 41 . She appears on TV 59 . Computer in for a spell? ''2001: A Space Odyssey'' 60 . In the manner of 61 . Word with day or night

364 Puzzle #360 Across 1. Take a five-finger discount 6. Pinball foul 10 . Summer quenchers 14 . Somewhat, casually 15 . Notion 16 . Monsieur Le Pew of animation 17 . Abominable snowmen 18 . Beseeched 19 . Type of coat or forest 20 . SWING voters on the construction site? 23 . George W.'s spokesman, once 24 . Homer's neighbor 25 . Relish 27 . Duck common in Central Park 30 . Presidential nickname 32 . Result of laudatory lines 33 . Nabokov heroine 34 . Actress Thurman 35 . Get one's teeth into 36 . SWING voters in a night club? Down 40 . Engaged 41 . Org. for Tiger and The 1. TV's eye up high 21 . Freeway feeders 40 . Undergrad. Shark 2. Del Fuego lead-in 22 . Start of a giggle degrees 42 . Unwanted carpenter? 3. Implicate 26 . Durable evergreen 44 . Pub pint 43 . "Sense and Sensibility" 4. Tennis score after 28 . Shiftless 45 . Under control Director Lee deuce 29 . Woodworker's tool 46 . Act before the 44 . Blaze remnants 5. Shoot a ray of light 30 . "What ___, headliner 45 . Grating 6. Left a little chopped liver?" 47 . United, as companies 49 . "Bottoms up!" something extra 31 . Cocktail made with 48 . Artistic supporters? 51 . Bonnie's tie with Clyde? 7. Paused in a car grenadine 50 . Dean Martin's 52 . Coat for a sailor 8. Lecherous look 34 . Land with the country code of 1 "That's ___" 53 . SWING voters in a diamond 9. "Hooray for me!" 51 . Daddy Warbucks' setting? 10 . Cook's protector 35 . Musical that opened in 1981 kid 58 . Move furniture and paint 11 . Prelude to a 54 . Agents, briefly walls, say breakup 36 . Pile of garbage 55 . The Beehive State 59 . Mount St. Helen's foreign 12 . Sitcom segments 37 . Trio before new or relative 13 . Clinton, like 99 gold 56 . Holier-___-thou 60 . Door axis others (Abbr.) 38 . Cry of disgust 57 . Exhaust 61 . Legendary late-night name 39 . What a squid 58 . Sch. in Troy, N.Y. squirts 62 . It can follow a fall 63 . Spinning 64 . ___ dixit (allegation) 65 . Storage shelter 66 . Squares

365 Puzzle #361 Across 1. Book ID 5. Grocers stock them 9. Sideshow attractions 14 . Fishing device 15 . Alice's guest, in song 16 . "The ___ near" 17 . Huge name in films 18 . Writer Hubbard 19 . Site of a 16th C. council 20 . Shortly, become a success? 23 . Bao ___ (former Viet emperor) 24 . Strike sticking point 25 . Summer Games org. 26 . Short New Testament event? 33 . Maria of the Met 35 . Kind of moron? 36 . Murmur romantically 37 . Bring shame to 38 . That, in Tijuana 39 . Severe 41 . Murray Schisgal play 42 . St. Martin, e.g. 43 . Research site, Los ___ Down 44 . Prepare for an abbreviated 1. Homeric epic 21 . First name in talk 42 . Up in the air attack? 2. Diploma word, 22 . Like Tim Cratchit 43 . Gives out 48 . Clumsy clod sometimes 27 . Trains over the st. 45 . What some drivers 49 . Chicago-D.C. dir. 3. Slovakia's capital 28 . "Hey, long time carry 50 . Japanese computer giant 4. Following ___" 46 . "Annie Get Your 53 . Abbreviated John Denver hit 5. Fragrant ointments 29 . Tic-tac-toe line Gun" heroine 58 . Word with code or colony 6. Southwestern gulch 30 . Universal 47 . Closed in on 59 . Five-time Wimbledon 7. Purloin 31 . Marquand's Mr. 51 . "Holy smokes!" champ, 1976-80 8. Sound unit 32 . Sock parts 52 . Actress Sevigny 60 . Med or rad add-on 9. Go on a winning 33 . Serene 53 . Italian painter 61 . Pernod flavoring streak 34 . Border on Guido 62 . Deity of Nefertiti 10 . Add to 38 . Seasonal aide 54 . "Put a lid ___!" 63 . Carpenter's groove 11 . Heaven on earth 39 . Sci-fi staple 55 . Many Wall St. 64 . Brief but meaningful 12 . Word with crab or 40 . Cleveland cager, types 65 . Lays down the lawn cobra for short 56 . Baum barker 66 . Choice word 13 . Atl. crosser 57 . Sweep under the rug 58 . Mushy food

366 Puzzle #362 Across 1. U2 lead singer 5. Post-marathon feeling 9. Really bothered 14 . Shake ___ (hurry) 15 . Branch headquarters 16 . "It's done!" 17 . In great shape 20 . Carrier 21 . ___ ballerina 22 . Beatty in "Network" 23 . Gift basket contents 25 . Best-selling author Umberto 27 . Only perfect World Series pitcher 29 . Lobsterlike crustacean 33 . Poem of praise 34 . Ending for sea 37 . Zero, in tennis 38 . Certain high-net-worth individual 42 . Fraternal fellows 43 . Really bother 44 . Baker's need 45 . Second-hand store transactions Down 48 . Tattered state 1. Thai money 19 . Part of U.S.A. 46 . Got a big lead, in a 50 . Center X 2. Grocery stick 24 . Move gradually way 51 . Uncorked, as champagne 3. Orderlies? 26 . Fly-by-night critters 47 . Off-the-wall 53 . Mariah Carey's label, once 4. Cousins of Peeping 27 . Berth choice response 56 . Moon stage Toms? 28 . Dancer Astaire 49 . Extremely popular 58 . Runs in place? 5. B-ball player, e.g. 29 . Minimal change 51 . Honshu port 61 . Vending machine choice 6. Subterranean 30 . John Hancock 52 . Kind of jury 64 . Type style chamber place 53 . Still life subject 65 . Analogous 7. Picks up some 31 . Debar 54 . Track event not in 66 . ___ about (circa) waves? 32 . Bruce and Laura the Olympics 67 . Lay down new turf 8. "___ Can" (Sammy 35 . Pro side 55 . Egyptian goddess 68 . Appointment Davis Jr. 36 . ___ mater (brain 57 . Hardly any 69 . Hardy character autobiography) covering) 59 . Grand verses 9. Cornell's locale 39 . Future DA's exam 60 . Lat. and Ukr., once 10 . Density symbol 40 . Ming treasure 62 . D.D.E.'s command 11 . Change 41 . Food category 63 . Hydrogen's atomic letterspacing number 12 . Gael's language 13 . Safe deposit box item 18 . Most faithful

367 Puzzle #363 Across 1. Mentioned as a reference 6. Atkins no-no, briefly 10 . It has six sides 14 . Without dissent 15 . Nautical direction 16 . Royal sport 17 . Butcher's tools for negotiations? 20 . Cowboys' emblem 21 . Prescribed ceremony 22 . Dentist's direction 23 . Stravinsky ballet 25 . Ancient France 27 . Where the butcher's money is kept? 33 . Chops finely 34 . Patsy created by Jim Davis 35 . Harper Valley org. 36 . Word in a Poitier film title 37 . Sugar portions 39 . Methodical 40 . Backwash creator 41 . Sound unit 42 . Singer Haggard 43 . Tease the butcher? Down 47 . ''Trading Spaces'' activity 1. They form an airport 19 . Oil, before refining 42 . Movie studio inits. 48 . Canine holders queue 24 . Grunts 44 . Choctaw and 49 . Foolish time 2. ''The time ___ hand'' 26 . Black tropical Chickasaw 52 . Norse goddess of fate 3. Pearl Harbor movie American cuckoo 45 . Shrek's mate, e.g. 54 . Dull sound word 27 . Mountain for Moses 46 . Sisters 58 . What the high-rolling 4. Finalizes a trophy 28 . Bitter 49 . Fired gardener butcher does? 5. Initials of a crack 29 . Not pickled 50 . Johnnycake 61 . Henry VIII's fourth wife team? 30 . Lincoln Center 51 . Sprints 62 . Hilo neckwear 6. Flogging show 53 . Cuyahoga Falls 63 . ''Quo ___?'' 7. Dismounted 31 . Asti locale locale 64 . Shambles 8. Loose cannon 32 . Basketball great 55 . Put aboard 65 . Promising exchanges 9. Entreat Archibald 56 . ''The Grapes of 66 . Sport with clay pigeons 10 . Type of battle 33 . Way in or out Wrath'' type 11 . ''Who Framed 37 . Like some dorms 57 . Verbal elbow in the Roger Rabbit'' 38 . Out of the ordinary ribs character 39 . ''1984'' utterances 59 . Old Testament 12 . ''The Magic 41 . Beach find judge Mountain'' locale 60 . Some RCAs 13 . Flexible tube 18 . Driver's selection

368 Puzzle #364 Across 1. Silver Ghost, for short 6. Break down 10 . Courageous act 14 . Whopper topper, maybe 15 . Lab media 16 . Make goo-goo eyes at 17 . O 20 . River into the English Channel 21 . Bean-spillers 22 . Radio button 23 . Ring attachments 24 . Blacken on the grill 25 . The Grand Canyon, e.g. 27 . Tyne or Tim 28 . Healthy joint? 31 . Tie over, in music 32 . Proton's place 34 . Prohibit, in legalese 36 . O 39 . Bird-related 40 . ''The Good Earth'' heroine 41 . Answer man Trebek 42 . Type of meat 43 . Pride and envy, for two Down 45 . Old elevator cars 1. Secondhand gal of 19 . Took a look inside? 44 . Pitcher plant's 47 . Where the vein is song 23 . Lennon's ''Instant snack 48 . Shank's ___ 2. Semiprecious stone ___!'' 46 . Major thoroughfare 49 . Is in store for 3. Ade flavor 24 . Island group 47 . Chefs' protectors 52 . Seasoning and preservative 4. High return? studied by Mead 48 . ''Politically 53 . Santa subordinate 5. Annoys a spouse, in 25 . Garlic unit Incorrect'' Bill 56 . O a way 26 . Muggy 49 . Some miles away 59 . Work without ___ 6. Floats on the breeze 27 . Guys' Broadway 50 . Dipsomaniac 60 . Racer Yarborough 7. Some performers' counterparts 51 . ''___ Good Men'' 61 . Partner of lather and repeat problems 28 . Vogue 52 . French town of 62 . Column crossers 8. It may be pulled in 29 . Innocent and WWII fame 63 . Legendary hammer-wielder charades others 53 . Hot spot of Sicily 64 . Matzohs lack it 9. Move along 30 . Crest 54 . More, in a phrase 10 . Anteroom 31 . Unwanted line 55 . Be a worrywart 11 . They're all they're 33 . Porterhouse 57 . ''I don't think so'' cracked up to be alternative 58 . Score before 12 . Away from the 35 . Kind of coach overtime weather 37 . At the scene 13 . Place for a revival 38 . Standing by 18 . Nonprofessional

369 Puzzle #365 Across 1. Hamelin's infestation 5. Rough seas feature 9. NBC staple, of yore 14 . Actor Guinness 15 . Some turkeys 16 . Living quarters 17 . Fountain offering, perhaps 18 . Ocean predator 19 . Far from prolix 20 . Cowardly, in slang 23 . Dissertation finisher 24 . Bon ___ 25 . Safari company 28 . Southwestern formation 31 . Four pecks 36 . Praise 38 . Neil Diamond tune 40 . Words with sight and mind 42 . French king 43 . Bogart's ''High Sierra'' role 44 . County fair award 47 . Bird's-eye view 48 . Liveliness of mind 49 . Coup d'___ 51 . Show a lack of respect, in Down slang 1. Rather suggestive 22 . Occipital ___ 46 . Developing 52 . React to pectin 2. Shaving cream 25 . It may spin in a 50 . In addition 54 . Something given to pacify ingredient, perhaps classroom 53 . Carrying a burden 56 . Travolta film 3. Kiss partner 26 . Stake drivers 55 . Finish in the money 63 . Type of bar 4. It's full of roots 27 . Prankster 56 . Think ahead 65 . Jazzman Brubeck 5. New England 29 . Belgrade inhabitant 57 . Incursion 66 . Declare specialty 30 . Brick made of clay 58 . Glowing review 67 . Type of communication 6. Black-eyed Susan, and straw 59 . First name in that's always ''monitored''? for one 32 . Mop, as decks fashion 68 . Not bumpy 7. ''The ___ and Future 33 . Put on the payroll 60 . Elliptical 69 . ___ Grande Ruins National King'' 34 . Zhou ___ 61 . Historic Parks Monument 8. One of 150 in the 35 . Onion and garlic 62 . Origami output, 70 . Chicago description Bible relatives sometimes 71 . Arboreal abode 9. Freedom 37 . Couch potato's 63 . One way to follow 72 . Vigorous spirit 10 . Busy as ___ opposite a pattern 11 . Conrad's ''___ Jim'' 39 . Public disorder 64 . ''___ my brother's 12 . Plugs 41 . Without warmth or keeper?'' 13 . When tripled, a enthusiasm nursery rhyme cry 45 . Romantic couple 21 . Omega symbolizes it

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