Extra Points
by Fred Piscop

Across

1. __ drum (Caribbean instrument)
6. Track tipsters
11. GPS display
14. Call a halt to
15. "Tomorrow" musical
16. Grounded Aussie avian
17. Select "yes" on a questionnaire item?
19. Inning half
20. King of tragedy
21. Wall St. debut
22. Riverbank frolickers
24. Cleanse
26. Kramden guffaw syllable
27. Valedictory speaker's cue card?
33. Welsh rarebit ingredient
36. __ Brummell
37. Run on TV
38. The "A" in AD
39. Reside
41. Steam up
42. Israeli city near Ben-Gurion Airport
43. Bering and Ross
44. UPS alternative
45. Escape from a burial vault?
49. Weeder's tool
50. __ Gorilla (cartoon ape)
54. Frozen dessert
57. Reunion attendees
58. Patricia of "Hud"
59. "__ the ramparts ..."
60. Skilled at citrus farming?
63. Like the gray mare
64. San Francisco gridder, for short
65. Hardly windy
66. "The Thin Man" actress Myrna
67. Cosmetician Lauder
68. Hot-oil cooker

Down

1. Give a talking-to to
2. Hide-covered home
3. Bug persistently
4. Starbucks order
5. Many an August birth
6. Capital of Taiwan
7. "I'm __ your tricks!"
8. Prefix with lateral or verse
9. Video recorder brand
10. Transparent, informally
11. The Beatles' Rita, e.g.
12. Bow-toting god
13. Little seals
18. Talk with one's hands
23. Eastern "way"
25. Emeritus: Abbr.
28. Beyond plump
29. Fam. member
30. One to hang with
31. Carpet feature
32. "Jurassic Park" dino

33. Mineral in baby powder
34. __ about (circa)
35. Classic Mickey Rooney film character
39. Dict. entry
40. Kids' card game
41. String on a finger, e.g.
43. Start of a set of instructions
44. Common London forecast
46. Word before music or culture
47. Political asylum seeker
48. Hamlet, for one
51. Distrustful
52. Spell of forgetfulness
53. Take in or let out
54. April 1 victim
55. Move, to Realtors
56. Largest known dwarf planet
57. Banjo's spot, in song
61. "A Bug's Life" bug
62. Org. with bomb-sniffing dogs


Copyright © Fred Piscop