Brinksmanship by Fred Piscop

Across 1. Surrounded by 5. Gets fur all over the rug 10. "The Simpsons" cartoonist Groening 14. Plumb crazy 15. Lose one's cool 16. Masseur's target 17. Ricky's landlord 18. Three-time batting champ Tony 19. "The Haj" novelist 20. 1943 Errol Flynn film 23. Fraternal fellow 24. JFK regulators 25. India's first prime minister 28. Mo. when the World Series begins 31. Andean wool source 35. GP gp. 36. Defender of Scopes 39. Vending machine input 40. They could go either way 43. Conductor Klemperer 44. "The Iceman __" 45. Linguistic suffix 46. Summons with a pager 48. "Waking __ Devine" (1998 film) 49. Coastal feature 51. "How Dry __" 53. Jetsam of 1773 54. Paid holidays and the like 62. "Clair de __" 63. Runs out of steam 64. Good earth 66. Added stipulations 67. Marner's creator 68. Toledo's waterfront 69. Chain items 70. McLain, baseball's last 30-game winner 71. Competitor of Gateway and Compaq

Down 1. Politico Landon 2. "Encore!" 3. Way to serve tea or coffee 4. Brooklyn ballplayer of old 5. Haunted-house figure 6. Soccer period 7. Geraint's lady 8. Aria performer 9. Gobble, with "down" 10. Hawaii Volcanoes National Park sight 11. Realty unit 12. Michael Moore's "Downsize __!" 13. Tracy's Trueheart 21. Give the slip to 22. __-El (Superman's birth name) 25. Fat cat, so to speak 26. Ham it up 27. Poker Flat's chronicler 28. Sweater synthetic 29. It doesn't pay 30. Got in shape, with "up" 32. Photographer Adams 33. Ed of the Reagan cabinet 34. Black-ink entry 37. Pendulum's path 38. Freshly painted 41. Dazed and confused state 42. Crazy Horse, for one 47. Lose tautness 50. Executed perfectly 52. Apportioned, with "out" 53. Short-tempered 54. Bomber pilot's woe 55. Ancient alphabetic symbol 56. Memorial Day weekend race, for short 57. Liver secretion 58. "__ Brockovich" (2000 film) 59. Sign filler 60. Went like the blazes 61. Shove off 65. Blanc, the voice of Bugs

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