Muscle Heads
by Fred Piscop

Across

1. Plod through the mud
5. Ketch's pair
10. Places to shape up
14. "Damn Yankees" siren
15. China's Zhou __
16. New Ager John
17. Edward VIII's action of 1936
19. Feel sore
20. Like most new drivers
21. Rainbow-shaped
22. Like a boiled lobster
23. "West Side Story" tune
25. More steamed
29. Indian nationalist __ Gandhi
32. Thumb-turning critic
33. Orange variety
34. Out of sorts
35. One on your side
36. Tribal symbol
37. Ballet bend
38. Emeritus: Abbr.
39. Schlepped
40. Did some cobbling
41. Daddy-longlegs, for one
43. Blacks out
44. Short and sweet
45. Seashell seller, in a tongue twister
46. Beantown skater
48. Playing for time
53. O.K. Corral name
54. Passionate sort
56. Take a shine to
57. __-garde
58. Spelunker's spot
59. Some microbrews
60. Rundown and filthy
61. Had down pat

Down

1. Jalousie part
2. Stud spot
3. Shoppe sign word
4. Put on a spare tire?
5. Piddling
6. Fed the kitty
7. Rode the banister
8. Lao-tse's "way"
9. Gluttony or sloth
10. Head the cast of
11. Small transgression
12. 1975 Wimbledon champ
13. Cast off
18. Insertion mark
21. Sea fed by the Amu Darya
23. Pulled up stakes
24. "Beg pardon ..."
25. Stiller's mate
26. More proficient
27. "Designing Women" costar
28. Like some martinis
29. Whipped, à la Kasparov
30. Little green man
31. Mushers' vehicles
33. "__ I can help it!"
36. Muscular fitness
37. Nanki-__ of "The Mikado"
39. Like a dime
40. Blow up
42. "Gee!"
43. Crude digs
45. Scorpion attack
46. Composer Bartók
47. Third __ (track adjunct)
48. Getz or Kenton
49. Canal feature
50. Dr. Pavlov
51. "Scream" actress Campbell
52. Shot up
54. Flight from justice
55. Ex of Mickey, Artie and Frank

Solution

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