Solve with Ease
by Fred Piscop

Across

1. Brake parts
6. __ breve (2/2 time)
10. Yin's opposite
14. Tie __ (tipple)
15. Downright miserly
16. Natural emollient
17. Tribal dupe?
19. Poor dog's portion
20. Trapped
21. Berlin's "Blue __"
22. "Plunk" or "plop" preceder
23. Adriatic port
25. Name in fine china
29. Horse or zebra
31. Like a dirty-tricks campaign
33. Starbucks vessel
34. __ Ono
38. Two-time Indy winner Luyendyk
39. "Sing __ with Mitch"
41. Not know from __ (be unfamiliar with)
42. Funny Foxx
43. Go bad
44. Memorable
46. Manual typist's accessory, perhaps
49. Rubber center
50. Negotiate like Neville Chamberlain
53. Screw up
55. Run-down
56. Longfellow's Indian hero
61. Fabled also-ran
62. Jolson's aquatic bird?
64. "If all __ fails ..."
65. Lay down tarmac
66. Pottery fragment
67. Can't do without
68. Ripening agent
69. Trial runs

Down

1. Numskull
2. __ instant
3. Does some mending
4. Mass. neighbor
5. Nike or Reebok
6. Fuse unit
7. Sinker material
8. Perry Mason's profession
9. Raggedy doll
10. Removal of a starting pitcher, in the Bronx?
11. Dr. Alzheimer
12. Good-sized musical combo
13. Skein formers
18. Bard's before
21. Fall into evil ways
23. Go sour
24. All-Starr Band leader
25. Capone facial feature
26. Sponge opening
27. "Metamorphoses" poet
28. Monopoly card for political
analyst Myers?
30. State, as a price
32. Gogol's "__ Bulba"
35. Limburger emanation
36. Green Hornet's aide
37. Prophetic sign
40. Shake, in a way
45. Great Plains-to-Pacific Ocean area
47. Bit of sunshine
48. Rob who played "Meathead"
50. Visibly terrified
51. Author Norman Vincent __
52. By itself
54. Comic Charlotte
56. Be afflicted with
57. Foe of Connors and Borg
58. "Jabberwocky" beginning
59. Lyricist Lorenz
60. "No ifs, __ ..."
62. Vacation spot
63. Witty sort

Solution

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