Giant Words
by Fred Piscop

Across

1. Iowa college town
5. Author Silverstein
9. Pisa landmark
14. Talk like 32-Down
15. Vaulter's need
16. Wood in old piano keys
17. Not tricked by
18. Pelvic bones
19. Sibling's daughter
20. Chow down
23. Bullring VIP
24. Brontë's Jane
25. Not many
28. CIO merger partner
30. Menu pick
32. Wedding party's spot
36. Order to a rifleman
39. Make sense
41. Business card abbr.
42. Filled beyond full
43. Bisect, like a sheet of paper
46. Lays turf on
47. Painting on plaster
48. Big, fat mouth
50. "Absolutely!"
51. Speaker in Cooperstown
54. Boy in Archie comics
59. Grope clumsily
61. Fleshy-snouted beast
64. Auction cry
65. Valuable vase
66. Unaccompanied
67. Oscar winner Thompson
68. Carmela player on "The Sopranos"
69. Ash or strawberry
70. Like a buttinsky
71. Clarinetist's buy

Down

1. Flying high
2. Sal of "Exodus"
3. Fruity-smelling compound
4. Fine china name
5. "The Jeffersons," vis-à- vis "All in the Family"
6. Links target
7. Beethoven dedicatee
8. Like lettuce or spinach
9. Cost of a phone call, once
10. Big Apple theater award
11. "__ is me!"
12. Ltr. accompanier
13. Reuben bread
21. "... man __ mouse?"
22. Surface calculation
25. Popular corn chip
26. Went for congers
27. Joins with a torch
29. Stone: Prefix
31. Christmas poem opener
32. Cartoon duck
33. Be nuts about
34. Runs without moving
35. Beer, slangily
37. Stephen of "Danny Boy"
38. __ May Clampett
40. Formed a mental image of
44. Standard
45. English physicist Michael
49. __ capita income
52. "Peer Gynt" dramatist
53. Replay technique, for short
55. Pyle of Mayberry
56. Tour giver
57. Certain navel
58. Barely beat
59. Helsinki native
60. Shade sources
61. Treater's pickup
62. The whole shebang
63. Nanki-__ ("The Mikado" character)

Copyright © Fred Piscop