Pickled
by Fred Piscop

Across

1. Politico Thurmond
6. Out of harm's way
10. Fat unit
14. Tara surname
15. Nudge forward
16. Mortgage option, for short
17. Russian art treasure
19. "In memoriam" item
20. River crosser, perhaps
21. Churchill's V, for one
23. Marx instrument
25. Bewhiskered swimmer
26. Modern video gear
30. Printer's proof
33. Post-mark currency
34. Bother greatly
35. NYC sports venue
38. Hard to grasp
42. Kiltie's topper
43. "__ Irish Rose"
44. 1/640 square mile
45. Sign of a dying fire
46. Knitted blanket
48. "Forever" item first sold in 2007
51. Yemen's capital
53. Spa treatment
56. Metallic marble
61. Just sitting there
62. Misleading lead
64. Three-__ sloth
65. Sunburn spray additive
66. Alpha's opposite
67. Pulls a boner
68. Stoogian ammo
69. Went carefully

Down

1. Like talc, on the Mohs scale
2. "There's gold in them __ hills"

3. Broccoli __
4. Assayers assay them
5. George's first lady
6. "Inside the Third Reich" author
7. "__ we there yet?"
8. Verne's circumnavigator
9. Decorate the perimeter of
10. Blue __ (Capri attraction)
11. Counter, in a debate
12. Full of zeal
13. Bishop's topper
18. __ rock (Bowie genre)
22. Somewhat, slangily
24. Penance recital
26. Buffalo Bill's Wild __ Show
27. Faulkner femme fatale __ Varner
28. Fedora feature
29. Radar gun wielder
31. JFK postings
32. Faux __ (boo-boo)
34. Ashtabula's lake
35. Branch of engineering: Abbr.
36. Blood fluids
37. Secluded valley
39. Argentine expanse
40. Slack off
41. Habitual complainer
45. War reporters, nowadays
46. Penny __ poker
47. Denmark's __ Islands
48. Clobber, bible-style
49. House of Henry VIII
50. "Inferiority complex" coiner Alfred
52. Urn filler
54. Suffix with rat or rattle
55. Prefix with pad or port
57. Witty Bombeck
58. Word in some epitaphs
59. "Bus Stop" playwright
60. "Jeepers!"
63. Anonymous surname


Copyright © Fred Piscop