Curtains
by Fred Piscop

Across

1. Desert caravan stops
6. Cookout remnants
11. Pea's place
14. French textiles city
15. Delta's location
16. Luau strings
17. Avoid an F, perhaps
19. Keebler baker
20. Crystal ball user
21. War, to Sherman
22. Orderly grouping
24. Riyadh native
26. Keep __ (persist)
27. Win the final game of the season, say
33. Be bummed out
34. Angry feeling
35. Abrasive stuff
36. Left-winger, for short
37. "CHiPs" star Erik
41. "Make __ double!"
42. Top guns
44. Be in the hole
45. Making all the stops
47. Shut down the line
51. Tidy sum
52. Place for polish
53. __ cotta
55. Comet feature
57. "Scat!"
61. Jackie O's husband, for short
62. Common New Year's resolution
65. Claiborne of fashion
66. __ HOOKS (box legend)
67. Inmate for good
68. Jeans brand
69. Company in a 2002 scandal
70. Ouzo flavoring

Down

1. Former GM line
2. Suffix for the wealthy
3. __ gin (liqueur type)
4. Madrid museum
5. "... two if by __"
6. One-celled critter
7. James Brown's genre
8. Take the mound
9. UFO crew
10. Sword holder
11. Where San Juan is
12. Joad family's state: Abbr.
13. Stand up to
18. Film sleuth Charlie
23. Pug's workplace
25. Took a metro
26. Got gray
27. Susan Lucci soap role
28. Martin Luther King Jr. won one in 1964
29. Took on board
30. Nest egg letters
31. Giant of myth
32. List-ending abbr.
33. Dull as dishwater
38. In need of a rubdown
39. Bill picturing Jefferson
40. Height: Prefix
43. Tend to the sauce
46. Rainwear fabric
48. Trophy alternative
49. In __ (together)
50. Pre-storm period
53. Starbucks size
54. Canal of song
55. Wedding cake section
56. "__ extra cost!"
58. Stereo system
59. Change for a fin
60. Cruel dude
63. SEAL's mil. branch
64. Suffix with schnozz

Copyright © Fred Piscop