Starting Notes
by Fred Piscop

Across

1. Clowns for the camera
5. Improves, as whiskey
9. Plant louse
14. Raison d'__
15. Beaning consequence
16. Discovered treasure
17. Eros, to the Romans
18. La Scala highlight
19. "__ mud in your eye!"
20. Cops' hangouts, stereotypically
23. Bone: Prefix
24. Not talking
25. Inventor Whitney
28. Mg. and kg.
29. Washing machine unit
33. Kvetched
35. Hang 'em up
37. "Same Time, Next Year" star
38. "Fahrenheit 451" writer
41. Fare-beater's "token"
43. Vilifies
44. Death-feigning critter
47. Naysayer
48. __-relief
51. Panatela dropping
52. Icky stuff
54. Positive electrode
56. Top hit of 1927
61. Borg of tennis
63. The Everly Brothers, e.g.
64. Urgent
65. Ban rival
66. Fitzgerald of song
67. Cupcake finisher
68. Gladiator's venue
69. Depend
70. Some wines

Down

1. Lark's home
2. Extreme
3. Fills fissures, as between tiles
4. Twilled fabric
5. Novelist Paton
6. Mantra assigner
7. Send out
8. Writer's cramp, for example
9. Where telecommuters work
10. Get ready to paint
11. Bloodsucking pest
12. "__ had it!"
13. __ Plaines, Ill.
21. Like a moth-eaten coat
22. Center of operations, to an airline
26. Had the edge
27. First lady McKinley
30. Horse-player's hangout, briefly
31. Affectations
32. Section at Blockbuster

34. Huskers' units
35. Tattered attire
36. Shangri-la
38. Mount with four heads
39. Tool for Ken Griffey, Jr.
40. Scheming Heep
41. Masseuse's milieu
42. __ Alamos, NM
45. Amin's domain, once
46. Wk. starter, for many
48. Woman's fitted vest
49. Placed on a pedestal
50. Ed Norton's milieux
53. More off-the-wall
55. Rock bottom
57. Leprechaun land
58. Talkative Francis, for one
59. Cheerleader's routine
60. Stick around
61. Call to Bo Peep
62. __ Tolkien


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