Poker, He Said
by Fred Piscop

Across

1. Atlas was one
6. It's a long story
10. Canine cries
14. Be nuts over
15. Speeder catcher
16. Nobelist Wiesel
17. Reward for excellent work
19. Hoskins role in "Hook"
20. __ down (frisk)
21. Word before duck or turkey
22. Word on a "lost dog" sign
24. Place to moor
25. Nonsensical talk
26. Point a finger at
29. Catcher of sound waves
33. Like O. Henry's stories
34. Saharan nation
35. Descartes's "therefore"
36. Windshield feature
37. Wallpaper pattern
38. Like the Sabin vaccine
39. Ancient Peruvian
40. On the briny
41. Go bad
42. One of Nolan Ryan's seven
44. Caterer's heater
45. __ a soul (no one)
46. Creditor's claim
47. Big name in fireworks
50. Allie's TV friend
51. Chinese leader painted by Warhol
54. Zhivago's love
55. Playboy feature
58. Model train layout, perhaps
59. Explorer __ the Red
60. Make blank
61. Bike accessory
62. Clockmaker __ Thomas
63. Blood bank visitor

Down

1. Pack down tightly
2. Inventor's germ
3. Reason to sue
4. "Exodus" hero
5. Consumer's bottom line
6. Like old potato chips
7. Like the Sahara
8. Pit stop supply
9. Pre-meal drink
10. Sign in a store window
11. Soprano Gluck
12. Beach walkway
13. Go to __ (deteriorate)
18. Karl of the Bush administration
23. Party time, perhaps
24. Time to take bows
25. Roberts of "Mystic Pizza"
26. Sean of "Rudy"
27. Slacks fabric
28. Scungilli

29. Film featuring a saloon brawl, perhaps
30. Fielding average lowerer
31. Once more
32. Nancy's rich pal, in the comics
34. Saunter along
37. Arrays of numbers
41. Took the rudder
43. Tic __ (tiny mint)
44. Web spot
46. Gate closer
47. Gooey mass
48. Two-thumbs-up review
49. Russia's __ Mountains
50. Mend, as bone
51. Sound of suffering
52. "Not only that ..."
53. Baltic Sea feeder
56. Poetic preposition
57. To's partner


Copyright © Fred Piscop