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ACROSS1 Bard's forte 6 "Hot Lips" series 10 Freighter locales 14 Specks 15 Mighty Dog rival 16 Bottom feeder 17 -- raving mad 18 Wedge driver 19 Hydrox rival 20 Fishing float 21 Bread at the beach? (2 wds.) 23 Uses a compass 25 Most ancient 26 How cacti like it 27 Swings around 29 Grid coach Don -- 32 Makes small talk 33 Except 36 Word before meeny 37 Hilarious people 38 Twist-offs 39 Koppel or Knight 40 Muscle injuries 41 Swat 42 -- -- the run (grab a bite) 43 Fair-hiring abbr. 44 Seafood dish 47 All thumbs 51 Near 12,000 feet in the Rockies 54 Chills 55 Jellybean shape 56 Franc's successor 57 Disparage 58 Port or sherry 59 Oklahoma town 60 Pilot 61 Close violently 62 Return env. 63 Uptight
DOWN1 Music with a beat 2 Helicoptor part 3 Nintendo forerunner 4 Drastically 5 Say please 6 Half the parents 7 Astronaut -- Shepard 8 Future fries 9 Not the "me too" type 10 Viragos 11 Bogart in "High Sierra" 12 Territories 13 Good loser 21 Hog haven 22 Cheers for toreros 24 D.C. lobby 27 Fleeced 28 Back muscles 29 Collection 30 Laugh syllable 31 Sturm -- Drang 32 Luigi's farewell 33 Meadow murmur 34 Checkout ID 35 My, my! 37 Condo buyers, maybe 38 Beef jerky, just barely 40 First-aid kit item 41 Stir-fry pan 42 Logo 43 Lamb's dam 44 Tucks away 45 Polite 46 Freezer name 47 Battery post 48 A second time 49 Clever ploys 50 Steel plow inventor 52 The Moon 53 Rainbow goddess 57 Rudder's place
