In the Verse Way by Fred Piscop

Across 1. 1983 Streisand film 6. Flat floater 10. Yawn inducer 14. On the briny 15. Controversial apple spray 16. Scene of a temptation 17. Poetic role for Humphrey Bogart? 19. Critic Rex 20. Trumpeter Armstrong 21. "Ten-hut!" opposite 23. Stiffly formal 26. Provided with workers 27. "I've __ up to here!" 28. __-mo replay 30. Prefix meaning "ear" 31. "Is that so?" 33. Makes angry 35. Numbered rd. 38. Inside-the-Beltway figures 39. Put up for sale 41. Knock senseless 42. Choice: Abbr. 43. Tiny opening 44. Typewriter key 46. "The Waste Land" monogram 48. Genesis boat 50. __-Poo ("The Mikado" character) 51. Place for butts 54. Suitability 56. Zebra marking 57. Steer clear of 58. Hammer end 59. Statewide election winner's poetic prize? 64. Rugged rock 65. Author Sarah __ Jewett 66. Lavin or Ellerbee 67. Busy bugs 68. Jury member, theoretically 69. PC equivalent of 44-Across

Down 1. Mouth, slangily 2. UFO pilots 3. Code-breaking org. 4. Act the perjuror 5. Boxer Jake, "the Raging Bull" 6. White water site 7. "Woe is me!" 8. Hula hoop or Davy Crockett hat 9. End-of-October handout 10. Deprived 11. Was deep in the hole, poetically? 12. Ebbets Field shortstop 13. Pulled the plug on 18. "So __ me!" 22. New Mexico art center 23. Visits the mall 24. Western resort lake 25. Poetic words from a paper tiger? 26. Really steamed 29. Career soldier 32. __-ha (commotion) 34. Screw up 36. Istanbul natives 37. Singer Skinnay 40. Wear at the edges 41. Pinch-hits 43. Offender, in cop lingo 45. Give a name to 47. Scorpion attacks 49. Marge Simpson voice Julie 51. Anti-abuse org. 52. Howard of satellite radio 53. Man with morals 55. "The Purloined Letter" writer 57. Heche or Rice 60. Smelter supply 61. Suffix with insist or persist 62. Summer cooler 63. Road crew's supply

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