The Fickle Finger
by Fred Piscop

Across

1. Sow's mate
5. Fellers' needs
9. Daisy's cousin
14. Mrs. Krabappel of "The Simpsons"
15. Rock's ZZ Top, e.g.
16. Battleship in 1898 news
17. Home sites
18. Sorry situations
19. Ghana's capital
20. __ economics (Reaganomics term)
23. Keystone lawman
24. Kitchen pests
25. Pastoral poems
27. Tapped trees
30. Traffic-stopping event
32. IRA-establishing legislation
33. Trevi Fountain city
34. Put the pedal to the metal
37. [not my mistake]
38. Most profound
41. Altar affirmation
42. Fifth Avenue retailer
44. Neckline shapes
45. Place to hit a bucket of balls
47. Places for pins or mikes
49. Saxophonist called "Bird"
50. King Minos, for one
52. Bubbly drink
53. Sot's sound
54. Spiny fish
60. Tummy troubles
62. It may be junk
63. Mineral in Geritol
64. One color on a barber pole
65. Up to the task
66. Start the pot
67. Flower part
68. Jell-O shaper
69. Winning margin, in a close race

Down

1. Boxer's prize
2. Sign of decay
3. Prefix with climax
4. Spanky, Alfalfa and gang
5. Clown's props
6. City where Van Gogh painted
7. Like jokers, sometimes
8. Only fair
9. "Syriana" actress Peet
10. Cul-de-__
11. Please greatly
12. Sign up
13. Hauls in
21. Do a pizzeria chore
22. Cellular phones' lack
26. Gridiron distances: Abbr.
27. State of chaos
28. Bocelli delivery

29. Morsel on a fast-food burger
30. Benedict XVI et al.
31. "Rag Mop" brothers
33. Fiddler's tune
35. Beat, but barely
36. Active sort
39. Track meet part
40. Stock market transaction
43. Was in session
46. Graceful horse
48. Whole bunch
49. Solicited opinions from
50. Tobacco plugs
51. Nouveau __
52. Expertise
55. Shia leader
56. __ San Lucas, Mexico
57. River through Pisa
58. Shelter beds
59. __-slapper (riot)
61. Hellenic H


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