Losing Traction
by Fred Piscop

Across

1. Israel's Ehud
6. Ego or field follower
10. Mouth, slangily
14. Where you live
15. Tilt-A-Whirl, for one
16. Ancient letter
17. Engineers' gear, once
19. Obsessed by
20. Curtis of cosmetics
21. Female hormone
23. Dudley Do-Right's beloved
25. Plumber's union?
26. Varicolored
29. Author McEwan
31. Michelin introduction of 1948
36. Ideology
37. Do over, as a lawn
39. As of
40. Verbal faux pas
43. Cock and bull
44. Simpleton of rhyme
45. Boot one, in baseball
46. Gangster's code of silence
48. "High __" (Anderson play)
49. Supercomputer name
50. Big Band __
52. Practice with a pugilist
54. Schnozz adornment
59. 1998 Masters winner Mark
63. Fast-shrinking Asian waters
64. Stereotypical sighter of pink elephants
66. Salty septet
67. Raines or Cinders
68. Ebbets Field hero
69. Ran like heck
70. O'Casey or Ó Faoláin
71. Barkin or Burstyn

Down

1. Big shindig
2. Up to the task
3. Muddy up
4. Either 2 in "2 + 2"
5. New Hampshire city
6. Play about Capote
7. Steam up
8. That is, in Latin
9. Be a royal pain to
10. The Magi, e.g.
11. Ladder segment
12. Pot builder
13. Menial laborer
18. Help from the bull pen
22. Think logically
24. Hangs tough
26. Large edible clam
27. Sufi's faith
28. Writer Zola
30. Hold to a .000 batting average
32. Cacophony
33. Stevens of "The Farmer's Daughter"
34. MDX and RDX automaker
35. Distrustful
37. Personnel listing
38. Audition CDs
41. Part of wpm
42. Lethargic state
47. Comes to mind
49. Embroidery yarn
51. Spot for a bracelet
53. Dean Martin's "That's __"
54. GOP elephant creator Thomas
55. Stackable cookie
56. German coal region
57. "If all __ fails ..."
58. __ monster (large lizard)
60. Genesis victim
61. Crafty move
62. Sermon closer
65. Veep before Al

Solution

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