Dirty Digs by Fred Piscop

Across 1. Tour de France participant 6. Negotiations hang-up 10. Pigeon's pad 14. IRA-establishing legislation 15. Do some roadwork on 16. Sharer's word 17. Proverbial backbreaker 18. Chief Norse god 19. Versatile vehicles, for short 20. Visit a shipwreck, say 22. Mudville complement 23. Plane measure 24. For adult viewing only 26. Perceive 30. Tyne of "Cagney & Lacey" 31. Think tank product 32. Equal to the task 35. Megastars, to fans 39. Well past one's prime 40. December airs 42. __ the crack of dawn 43. LBJ daughter __ Bird 45. Fail to mention 46. Introduction to physics? 47. Bronx player, for short 49. Fish hawk 51. Dwarf tree 54. Cleo's wooer, __ Antony 56. "We're in big trouble!" 57. There's no escaping it 62. Glassful, to a toddler 63. In the cellar 64. Chemically nonreactive 66. Newsman Sevareid 67. Flying "A" competitor 68. Strait-laced 69. Like a dungeon 70. "And __ I wrote ..." 71. Hits the bottle

Down 1. In medias __ 2. Part of BA 3. Magazine sales: Abbr. 4. Jacob's twin 5. Place to get oysters or clams 6. Fine china name 7. Gymnast Comaneci 8. Tel __ 9. Biological classifications 10. Local eyesore, perhaps 11. Navel unlikely to collect lint 12. Pollster's discovery 13. Reo contemporary 21. Indo-European speaker 25. "Rope-a-dope" boxer 26. Feature of a "pulse" phone 27. Uptight 28. "As __ on TV" 29. 1980 Chase-Dangerfield comedy 30. Pickle purveyor 33. It may be thrown at you 34. Moon lander 36. Phone co. employee 37. After the buzzer 38. Reprieve from the governor, say 41. Baby bird? 44. Battery type 48. Canned corn morsel 50. Flaky rock 51. Played, as a fiddle 52. "Butterfield 8" author 53. "It's a __ situation!" 54. Bit of poolroom finesse 55. Follow, as advice 58. Corporal punishment unit 59. Not tricked by 60. Axel or Lutz 61. Toledo's lake 65. NFL successes

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