Take a Bow
by Fred Piscop

Across

1. Bowler's pickup
6. Deposed Iranian leader
10. "That was close!"
14. Rap sheet name
15. Sunscreen letters
16. Post-peseta currency
17. Bowtie-sporting movie critic
19. Jason's ship
20. Was in session
21. Vouches for
23. Golf benchmark
25. Bathwater tester
26. Pundit once known for sporting bowties
33. Whacked, archaically
35. Lost in reverie
36. Cops' org.
37. Washington newspaper
38. Allied oneself
39. One in a will
40. Upper-left key
41. __ out (declined)
42. Hot tea add-in
43. Bowtie-sporting commentator
46. Toothpaste tube letters
47. "Hogwash!"
48. Nixon's undoing
53. LAPD part
56. Pinup's legs
57. Bowtie-sporting game show host of early TV
60. Admiral Zumwalt
61. __ no good
62. Postal scale unit
63. School on the Thames
64. Have to have
65. Great fear

Down

1. Becomes baggy
2. "Not guilty," e.g.
3. ".. and that __ hay!"
4. Comic Charlotte
5. Snaky shape
6. Domestic squabble
7. Guard's cry
8. Irish Rose's love
9. Hall rack
10. Sneaky sort
11. On the DL
12. "Cogito, __ sum"
13. Syllable from Curly
18. "Listen up!" of old
22. British conservative
23. Minigolf shot
24. Duffer's dream
26. Puccini opera
27. Sends out
28. Calf-roping event
29. Panty raid victims

30. Go shopping
31. Big Apple theater award
32. __ a soul (no one)
33. On __ (as a gamble)
34. Slam-dance
38. Diver's weapon
39. Heckler's call
41. Word after "ye"
42. Sobbing syllable
44. Points a finger at
45. Earl __ tea
48. "Pogo" creator Kelly
49. Pies, in slapstick
50. Stare slack-jawed
51. Johnson of "Laugh-In"
52. Trampled
53. By oneself
54. Shamu of SeaWorld, e.g.
55. Sunflower edible
56. "Golly!"
58. Stylish, in the '60s
59. Wilder's "__ Town"


Copyright © Fred Piscop