Puzzle for Ms. Clampett
by Fred Piscop

Across

1. Take off, as a hat
5. Rum-soaked cakes
10. "GoodFellas" group
13. Home furnishings chain
14. Dizzying designs
15. Wall Street pessimist
16. She married Prince Rainier
18. Kett of comics
19. Filled to the gills
20. Crumbled to dust
22. Far from certain
25. Diamond flubs
26. __ lobe (brain part)
30. Wild guess
31. Leslie Caron role
32. GOP elephant creator Thomas
34. Downstairs, to a salt
38. "Iliad," for one
39. Like some bombs and cards
41. Actress __ Flynn Boyle
42. Tapered off
44. Crude dude
45. Fact fudger
46. Slangy denial
48. Lance Armstrong's transport
50. Curtis of cosmetics
53. Exec's note
54. Brunch selection
56. Like Willie Nelson's voice
61. Navy commando
62. Bee secretion
65. Covetous feeling
66. "Carmen" or "Aida"
67. Wander about
68. Gator tail?
69. Tottenham truck
70. Mean dude

Down

1. Likes, hippie-style
2. Gumbo veggie
3. Heroic deed
4. Meet head-on
5. __ choy (Chinese green)
6. Big galoot
7. Mild and pleasant
8. Woody's boy
9. Surgical probe
10. Paris underground
11. Many a John Wayne flick
12. Thin nails
15. Joe Six-pack's overhang
17. Shorten to fit, perhaps
21. Dull as dishwater
23. Bleachers creatures
24. On fire, in restaurant lingo
26. Took to the air
27. Longtime cohort of Philbin
28. Actor Ken or Lena
29. Priggish
30. Disco flasher
33. __ Paulo, Brazil
35. Not of the cloth
36. Like the Sabin vaccine
37. Suffix with hard or soft
40. In shape
43. Wrapped up
47. Fuel for a 69-Across
49. Connecting wd.
50. Book after Daniel
51. Make corrections to
52. AWOL part
53. Mobster Lansky
55. __ Gigio (old TV mouse)
57. Prefix with dynamic
58. Plod through the mud
59. Apple application, once
60. Old __, CT
63. Posting at JFK
64. Install, as carpeting

Solution

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