Good Buy!
by Fred Piscop

Across

1. Chaotic scene
4. Salsa band percussion
11. Mattress problem
14. Corporation called "Big Blue"
15. Mother-of-pearl source
16. Status chaser?
17. Avoid a trial
19. Sturm __ Drang
20. Truth twister
21. Rush-hour subway rarity
22. Barbecue rods
24. Barbarous
26. Snookums
27. Put a stop to
28. Italia's capital
31. Brownish songbird
32. Accommodations in parks
35. Attendance fig., often
36. Diamond coup
38. Enzyme suffix
40. Epitome of slowness
41. Ready for the dentist's drill
43. Disavow
44. Windows screenful
48. Vacuum tube type
50. Like an easy grounder, maybe
51. Jewel
52. Copernicus's sci.
55. Big Board initials
56. Bowie collaborator Brian
57. Hotel room plus meals plus transportation, say
60. "That's nice"
61. On the square
62. The whole schmear
63. JFK debater in '60
64. TV character whom everybody loves
65. Cocks and bulls

Down

1. Freezer bag name
2. Do a favor for
3. 1998 Masters winner Mark
4. Shelley queen
5. Put to shame
6. On-in-a-million
7. Bit of pond scum
8. Assembly of minks?
9. Singer DiFranco
10. Feel in one's bones
11. Rocky of cartoondom, for one
12. Mame and others
13. Particularly timely
18. Noble Brit
23. Family patriarch, in dialect
25. Red Cross supply
26. Sudden moves
28. Lunar feature
29. Ersatz fat brand
30. Rancorous, as a divorce
33. Digs, so to speak
34. Greet at the door
36. Wickerwork-encased bottle
37. Approach the summit
38. Aardvark
39. South American land, as it was once spelled
42. "You stink!"
45. "Sez who?"
46. Cash register key
47. Takes part in a bee
49. Super conclusion?
50. Hammond B-3, for one
52. Needing kneading, maybe
53. Glance over
54. Crunchy munchie
58. "Now __ theater near you!"
59. Antiquity, once

Solution

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