Vegetable Soup by Fred Piscop

Across 1. Cattail's locale 6. Belfry critters 10. Warmed the bench 13. Oil-yielding rock 14. Netman Arthur 15. Cher's ex Sonny 16. Middle Ages invader 17. Caboose's place 18. Black, to bards 19. Carpentry joint scandal? 21. Right-hand person 22. Tip of a wing tip 23. Caught in a trap 25. Railway car problem 29. Thresher's tool 30. Two-time Indy champ Luyendyk 31. Prefix with lateral 33. Strung along 37. Turf occupier 38. Catches a wave 40. In __ (within a living organism) 41. Villain's look 43. Genesis victim 44. Times to call, in ads 45. Grid great Bradshaw 47. Main highway 49. Model T, e.g. 52. __-Cat (winter vehicle) 53. Poor, as excuses go 54. Borscht-making tool? 59. Humorist Bombeck 60. Jessica of "Dark Angel" 61. Cheech of Cheech & Chong 63. Devil's doings 64. Virgin Is., e.g. 65. Upper crust 66. "Norma __" (Field film) 67. Bow-toting god 68. Faked out, NHL-style

Down 1. Colorado hrs. 2. Moby's pursuer 3. Affix an "X" to, maybe 4. Serb or Croat 5. Regarding this point 6. Tug's tow 7. On the briny 8. Shrug-of-the-shoulders comment 9. One of the tennis-playing Williamses 10. Edna Ferber novel 11. Battery terminal 12. Muted, with "down" 15. Snoopy's doc? 20. Bagel fillers 24. Be out of sorts 25. No beauty queens, these 26. Algerian port 27. Pitchfork prong 28. Sire a calf? 29. Fad critter of the late '90s 32. One in a dispute 34. Dumpy bar 35. "Your turn," in radio talk 36. Like a yenta 39. Much teen talk 42. Ministerial nickname 46. Cash back 48. Gadded about 49. Big name in sports cards 50. Grub or maggot 51. Shooting marble 52. Generals' insignia 55. River of Spain 56. Low-lying area 57. Estrada of "CHiPs" 58. Lo-cal 62. Sparks or Rorem

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