Puzzle for Bob
by Fred Piscop

Across

1. Capacitance unit
6. Prove false
11. Mucky area
14. Stradivari's mentor
15. Walled city in Spain
16. "Green" prefix
17. Free pass, on the diamond
19. "__ 'nuff!"
20. James who played Sonny Corleone
21. Ready for dinner
23. Aids in typing columnar text, on typewriters
27. Cross the plate
28. Bluffer's declaration
29. Analgesic's promise
32. MacArthur return site
33. Most common dice roll
34. Consumer protection org.
37. Son of Seth
38. Paramecium propellers
39. Con __ (vigorously)
40. Luftwaffe foes of WWII
41. Like an alley cat
42. Borscht veggies
43. Brewer's grain
45. Private teacher's students
46. __-tingling (eerie)
48. Devoid of moisture
49. Time for an egg roll
51. Dinette spot
52. SASE, e.g.
53. Message on a car-window sign
59. Shooter ammo
60. "Ocupado"
61. Product-pitching cow
62. Like some grins
63. Defeated, but barely
64. Greyhound terminus

Down

1. The __ Four (the Beatles)
2. Org. with a famous journal
3. __ Tafari (Haile Selassie)
4. Munched on
5. Bishop's jurisdiction
6. Rummy cakes
7. Politico Bayh
8. Rapper __' Kim
9. Things to cure
10. Begins slowly
11. Dog show honor
12. Earthy hue
13. Berry's "Johnny B. __"
18. "Great" detective of kid lit
22. Pass with flying colors
23. Mosaic artist
24. Bout venue
25. Body of water bounded by France and Spain
26. Does nothing

29. Event with batons
30. Sermon topic
31. Place to graze
33. Kingly address
35. Nail-__ (tense situation)
36. Generic cow's name
38. Disney collectible
39. __ noire (bugbear)
41. No-cost item
42. Double-decker furniture
44. Social insect
45. Goofy or Daffy, e.g.
46. Barely flows
47. Game show group
48. Reacted to a bad call
50. Cape Town cash
51. Big Board inits.
54. Programmer's headache
55. Bullring cry
56. Cleopatra's undoing
57. Brazilian hot spot
58. NYPD rank


Copyright © Fred Piscop