Crossing Words by Fred Piscop

Across 1. Clarinetist Artie 5. Current units 9. "Ghosts" playwright 14. RPM indicator 15. Chophouse order 16. GI's time off 17. Italian wine region 18. Genealogical chart 19. Shot in the foot, say 20. Newsman's dramatic cry 23. Tokyo's island 24. Turner or Cole 25. Dot-com's address 27. Prepare scrapple, say 28. Tree-planting New Deal org. 31. Play chords 35. Nobel Peace Prize city 37. Diamond Head isle 38. 1957 John Osborne play 41. Look like a lecher 42. Angler's tempter 43. Borscht veggies 44. Campaigner, for short 45. Bosom buddy 46. Hydrotherapy site 48. Beaten by the tag 49. Coveted statuettes 54. "Be sensible!" 59. Corday's victim 60. Bee, to Andy Taylor 61. Christening, e.g. 62. Celebrity's concern 63. Machu Picchu resident 64. Dirty-socks emanation 65. Not so nutty 66. Have a hunch 67. Geeky guy

Down 1. Hide away 2. Can't help but 3. Follow, as advice 4. Defeats handily 5. Dudley Moore title role 6. Stud's mate 7. Make ready, informally 8. Crystal-ball gazer 9. "You betcha!" 10. Beauty's admirer 11. The __ (ditto) 12. Holiday nights 13. Dime novelist Buntline 21. Solicit a ride 22. Company in a 2001 scandal 26. Not express 27. Floats like a butterfly 28. Place for batting practice 29. Guitarist Atkins 30. Mongrel dogs 31. Hardly-edible fare 32. Like some pizza orders 33. "__ Over Beethoven" 34. Luau instrument 36. Hit the slopes 37. Word on a penny 39. Taper off 40. Bring down 45. Minigolf club 47. Way in or out 48. Inedible orange 50. "Gigi" star Leslie 51. Line to the audience 52. Turbine part 53. Bergen dummy Mortimer 54. Dalai __ 55. 1979 hostage site 56. Babe in the woods 57. Bring to proper pitch 58. Years ago 59. Mal- relative

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