Catching a Snooze by Fred Piscop

Across 1. Buffalo hockey player 6. Middle of Flintstone's yell 11. Early hrs. 14. For the birds? 15. Shoreline recess 16. "Can't Help Lovin' __ Man" 17. Headline announcing a sax player's retirement? 19. Nada 20. __ y Plata (Montana's motto) 21. Patricia of "Hud" 22. Windy City el initials 23. Knot art 27. Rod, Martha, or Jon 29. Claro residue 30. Full of chutzpah 32. Hefty volumes 33. Dish out whoppers 34. The Andrews Sisters, e.g. 35. Quarterback-turned-politico Jack 36. Veg out 38. Grant's side 40. Belfry critters 43. "__ Torino" (Eastwood movie) 45. Sign on a staff 47. Dander 48. Eskimo people 50. "Love Story" author Erich 51. Big Bertha, for one 52. Most resembling Caspar Milquetoast 54. Decked out 56. Ullmann or Tyler 57. Deck quartet 59. Bard's before 60. Docs' org. 61. Creator of 3/4 cartoons? 66. Sticky stuff 67. Kate's sitcom friend 68. Keaton of Woody Allen movies 69. Bambi's aunt

70. Have a craving 71. Starts the pot Down 1. Get droopy 2. NYC's Park or Lex 3. Half a quarter 4. Stropped item 5. Application filler 6. SW or NE 7. Author unknown: Abbr. 8. Like Muddy Waters's music 9. Sired, biblically 10. Jock 11. Commercials for an ax? 12. __ d'hôtel 13. March festive date, for short 18. Big hit in "The Natural" 23. Shopaholic's hangout 24. Home to most of Turkey 25. Latin revolutionary's French home? 26. Land of the leprechauns 28. Where life begins 31. __-over (narrator's job) 35. Did a pizzeria chore 37. Estrada or Satie 39. Gymnast Korbut 41. Like Annie Oakley's aim 42. Fax, say 44. Eroded, as with acid 46. Site of the legendary Fountain of Youth 48. White Rabbit's lament 49. __ Marcus (retail chain) 50. "__ by Starlight" 53. Butcher-shop sight 55. "Jurassic Park" bug trapper 58. Tend to the sauce 62. Meditative sect 63. Rebellious Turner 64. Ending with ethyl or methyl 65. Marv Albert catchword

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