Silent Treatment
by Fred Piscop

Across

1. Sexologist Hite
6. Long stride
10. Knocks for a loop
14. Ireland's de Valera
15. GI truant
16. Long, hard trip
17. Squeeze the moisture out of a musical instrument?
19. Actress Garr
20. Having stripes
21. Musical Count
22. Some toothpaste
23. Looked forward to
25. Use a divining rod
29. Grassy plain
31. Use sandpaper on
33. Canal feature
34. Scott Joplin piece
37. Perfume holder
38. Manhattan or Rob Roy
40. Brazilian soccer star
41. "You bet!"
42. Not "fer"
43. Get hold of
45. Places for Band-Aids
48. Dreadlocked one, for short
49. Some goats or cats
51. My __, Vietnam
53. "Carmen" or "Aida"
54. Climbing vine
59. Stadium level
60. Part of the first airplane?
62. Division word
63. Inauguration Day highlight
64. Potted plant's place
65. Suffix with song or slug
66. Greeley's direction
67. Snaky shapes

Down

1. Uses a Singer
2. "Blue Moon" lyricist Lorenz
3. Abu Dhabi dignitary
4. Rice-A-__
5. About to be married
6. Mailing stickers
7. Had creditors
8. DC insider
9. Right-angle bend
10. Accomplish
11. Places for forcible takeovers?
12. Frightfully strange
13. Schussed, e.g.
18. Packed it away
21. Place with a drive-thru window, perhaps
23. Stratford's on it
24. Eccentric
25. __ Jones's locker
26. Village Voice bestowal
27. Aluminum foil, freezer paper, etc.?
28. Erie Canal mule
30. Roomy dress
32. Ventriloquist Bergen
35. Touched down
36. Actress Rowlands
39. Saws with the grain
40. After-hours school gp.
42. Diva's delivery
44. Easy to snap
46. Dangler on a stick
47. Slender in build
49. Recurring theme
50. Speak one's mind
52. Blonde shade
54. Mental faculties
55. Rams' mates
56. Unburdens
57. "Picnic" playwright
58. Gets ripe
60. "Holy smokes!"
61. __ Dawn Chong

Copyright © Fred Piscop