The Hole Truth
by Fred Piscop

Across

1. "Barbarella" director Roger
6. Jazz style for Charlie Parker
9. Like a beaver, perhaps
14. "Maria __" ('40s hit)
15. AP rival
16. Single-handedly
17. Certain circus star
18. Sample the sherry
19. Permanent location?
20. It has holes
23. The Marlins' home: Abbr.
24. "Pygmalion" author
25. Any of the Chicago 7, e.g.
27. Cartoon skunk Le Pew
30. HBO competitor
32. Car bomb?
33. Prefix with glottis or dermis
34. Shoe attachments
36. Comes down in buckets
39. Mudville complement
41. Deep-six
43. In perfect alignment
44. 1983 movie with Mr. T
46. Welles character
47. Entrepreneur-aiding org.
48. Surfer, these days
50. Common surgical replacement
51. 180-degree turns, slangily
52. Waldheim was its president
55. Management level
57. Librarian's admonition, maybe
58. It has holes
63. GrofĂ©'s "Grand Canyon __"
65. Conventioneer's topper
66. Sine or tangent
67. Loud, as the surf
68. Multipurpose truck
69. Large computer key
70. Lionesses lack them

71. Letters for Leary
72. Taunt

Down

1. November paraders
2. What "there oughta be"
3. Moore of "G.I. Jane"
4. Actually existing
5. Everglade
6. Attack by surprise
7. Aunt Bee's charge
8. Kilted musician
9. Lessened the pressure
10. Taking after
11. It has holes
12. __ Gay (Hiroshima bomber)
13. Kidney-related
21. Playbill listings
22. Two cents' worth
26. "__ You Babe"

27. Hang in the balance
28. Monumental
29. It has holes
31. First name in afternoon TV
35. Disinfected
37. Keeler of "42nd Street"
38. Salty septet
40. Vane direction
42. Charlemagne's father
45. North African tribesmen
49. Cruise port, briefly
51. Suave
52. State of India
53. "Star Trek" lieutenant
54. Worth two thumbs down
56. White-plumed bird
59. "__ Make a Deal"
60. "__ boy!"
61. Baloney
62. Folk wisdom
64. Menlo Park monogram


Copyright © Fred Piscop