Beastly Phrases by Fred Piscop

Across 1. Farm prefix 5. Smoke-filled room folks 9. Port of Iraq 14. Serb or Croat 15. Jillions 16. Menachem's 1978 co-Nobelist 17. Carroll's "slithy" thing 18. Paddy product 19. Donald Duck's girl 20. Something certain 23. Rwy. stop 24. Bobs, butches, and buzzes 25. Captain Kangaroo player Bob 27. Heartthrob of Archie 32. Part of TNT 33. Suffix with ethyl or methyl 34. Rec room game 36. Main idea 40. Obstructive sort 44. Elude 45. Clean kind of energy 46. Bard's before 47. Serpentine swimmer 50. Invoice component 52. Clutter collector 56. __ New York minute 57. Significant time 58. Gullible one's purchase, perhaps 64. Stadium toppers 66. "You __?" (butler's line) 67. Goody-goody 68. Get a smile out of 69. Word on Irish stamps 70. Be suspended 71. Kind of printer 72. Chef's direction 73. Discontinued GM line Down 1. Nick and Nora's dog 2. Amorphous hunk 3. Sitarist Shankar

4. Take too far 5. Like the mob that stormed the Bastille 6. "Polish Wedding" star Lena 7. Ness or Lomond 8. The "turf" in surf and turf 9. Better, in street lingo 10. Santa __ winds 11. Sound of a perfect basketball shot 12. Haile Selassie worshiper 13. Indo-__ languages 21. Orphaned boy of comics 22. Web suffix 26. "What's your __?" 27. Osso buco, e.g. 28. Ecto- opposite 29. Vintage cars 30. Obsolescent PC screens 31. A Musketeer 35. Ward of "Once and Again" 37. "__ it!" (response to a joke) 38. Shot fluids 39. "Jurassic Park" beast, for short 41. Societal oddball 42. Avoid work 43. Pug's workplace 48. Artgum, e.g. 49. 440 yards, to a track runner 51. Poet born on Lesbos 52. Gas or clutch 53. Coffee allure 54. "The Stranger" author 55. Things to rotate 59. Trot or canter 60. Cross inscription 61. Like the Sabin vaccine 62. Warm-hearted 63. Prankster's pre-Halloween buy 65. Computer add-on?

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