Athletic Woes
by Fred Piscop
Across

1. Secret store
6. Iron-gloved god
10. Rod Stewart hairdo
14. Skater-turned-actress Sonja
15. Novelist Jaffe
16. Small, at Starbucks
17. Actor in a crowd scene
18. Cast-of-thousands
19. Essayist's alias
20. Hurt athlete's least favorite vegetable?
23. Apt. extras
26. Tennis do-over
27. Bottomless pit
28. Not of the cloth
30. Yes-man
33. __ salts
34. Klutz's comment
35. __-mo replay
38. Hurt athlete's least favorite accommodations?
42. Yodeler's perch
43. WWII-era pope
44. Former Three Stooges associate Ted
45. Bonn's river
47. Nurses, at a bar
48. Claro residue
51. One in a six-pack
52. Suffix with acetyl
53. Hurt athlete's least favorite system of reasoning?
58. Cookie holders
59. Male porker
60. French fries source, slangily
64. "Bus Stop" playwright
65. "Arrivederci, __"
66. "The Gift of the Magi" literary device
67. Middling grades
68. Taken by mouth
69. Name in fine china

Down

1. "That's all __ wrote"
2. Cowpoke's moniker
3. Aardvark's morsel
4. Impersonal letter opener
5. It may keep fast food warm
6. Doggie bonus
7. Kachina doll-making tribe
8. "Come __, the water's fine!"
9. Talladega 500, e.g.
10. Words after "slowly I turned ..." in a comic routine
11. "Roots" author Alex
12. Name after "a.k.a."
13. __ jaw (pug's liability)
21. Fam. member
22. Pop
23. A Baldwin brother
24. "It’s a Wonderful Life" director Frank
25. Rope fiber
29. Makes more compact

30. Knitted cap
31. Important work
32. Naked __ jaybird
34. Father of 6-Across
36. Car dealer's offering
37. Fabric created by DuPont
39. Prefix with center or dermis
40. Nasal woe
41. 1/1 song title word
46. FDR's successor
47. Mattress problem
48. Storage place
49. 59-Across, e.g.
50. Piece of hardware on a 55-Down
51. Reef makeup
54. River of Spain
55. Way in or out
56. Tibetan monk
57. Fish used in gefilte fish
61. Excessively
62. Put a stop to
63. Nursery rhyme pocketful

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