By Degrees
by Fred Piscop

Across

1. Goes for apples
5. Ivory or Dial
9. Canyon of the comics
14. "Tosca" tune
15. Do some arm-twisting
16. Carpet features
17. Stengel, Lasorda et al: Abbr.
18. Jet-setter's jet
19. Lace tip
20. John Forsythe sitcom
23. Wolf down
24. "__ my drift?"
25. Groom in 1968 headlines
29. "Platoon" locale, for short
32. Batter's bugaboo
36. Keep away from
37. In the buff
38. Barracks bigwigs
41. Ripe for drafting
42. Loaf end
43. Tibet's capital
44. Gallivant
45. Enter incorrectly
47. Start of many Western place names
48. Put one's foot down
53. Puddleby-on-the-Marsh resident
58. '92 and '96 also-ran
59. Distinctive air
60. Taiwan-based PC company
61. Motorist's SOS
62. "Skedaddle!"
63. "__ Gotta Have It" (Spike Lee film)
64. Worked with wicker
65. Gondolier's need
66. Promotional hoopla

Down

1. Disney deer
2. Hammond B-3, for one
3. Canoe wood
4. "Peter and the Wolf" bird
5. Sulky
6. Two-tone treat
7. Ice cream thickener
8. Stamp collector's abbr.
9. Sudden outpourings
10. Reluctant to part with a buck
11. Allure competitor
12. Turn sharply
13. Guinness suffix
21. Skip the ceremony
22. Gerontologist's field
26. Bubbleheads
27. No-frills Halloween garb
28. Ill-humored
29. "Peter Pan" dog
30. Liberal __

31. Flat-topped elevation
32. Los Angeles woe
33. Smallville's Lang
34. Not mint
35. Kingston Trio hit
37. Ebenezer's epithet
39. Thick-skinned behemoth
40. 1985 Kate Nelligan role
45. Tangled, like undergrowth
46. He released Barabbas
47. Beat the goalie
49. Squirrel away
50. Like a mosquito bite
51. Hypnotist's command
52. Right to the point
53. Crème __ crème
54. Algerian port
55. Gravelly voice
56. Household cement brand
57. Face-to-face exam
58. Cpl.'s subordinate


Copyright © Fred Piscop