The West Coast Wire

JAILHOUSE MOCK

- by Barbara Olson

ACROSS

1. Restaurant in a folkie tune

7. Demand to clean out one’s desk, say

11. This country: Abbr.

14. “Nothing to report” (2,4)

15. GPS offerings: Abbr.

16. Published, as an ad

17. Prison wardens? (6,5)

19. ___ need-to-know basis (2,1)

20. “Good” days at Easter: Abbr.

21. Cook in a 350°F oven, say

22. Money that can buy freedom

23. “Ali ___ and the Forty Thieves”

24. Prison with flimsy walls and laughable locks? (5,5)

26. Vodka drink at a Tiki bar (3,3)

28. Supporters of the arts?

29. Manitoba clock setting: Abbr.

30. Supertramp’s “Crime ___ Century” (2,3)

34. Snatcher’s target

35. Prison guard’s toxic workplace? (6,3)

37. “The ___ Aquarius” (3,2)

40. “When pigs fly!”

41. Throw in

44. Brightened naturally

46. Clover Leaf smoked item

48. Swear off going back to prison? (4,3,3)

52. Lifts up a skirt, in a way

53. Plato’s promenade

54. Yearly physical, for one

55. Sex at a stag party

56. Way off

57. Prison proprietor­s? (5,6)

60. Smelter stuff

61. Garfunkel and Carney

62. Bit in a Lowney’s Glosette

63. Blog feed letters

64. ‘90s video game island

65. Daisy type or soft drink brand

DOWN

1. Mandela’s political party: Abbr.

2. Plant-based skin scrubbers

3. Circling, as a satellite (2,5)

4. ___ disease (gluten-related illness)

5. Feta cheese milk sources

6. Many a -stan country, once: Abbr.

7. Go ballistic

8. “May ___ your order?” (1,4)

9. Unwanted photograph­y pupil? (3-3)

10. Twisty turn

11. Singer with a sore throat, maybe

12. Jack ___ (whiskey brand)

13. Study in great detail

18. “Game of Thrones” channel

22. Deckhand boss

23. Secretly keep in an email loop

24. ‘60s stereo system (2-2)

25. Very thin, as onionskin

27. Go on foot, slangily (4,2)

31. “That’s Hockey” TV channel

32. You might hit the dirt with it

33. Card carrying item: Abbr.

35. “... yellow ___ dot bikini”

36. Bottom-rung drudge

37. Requests to have (4,3)

38. Geddy Lee’s 250 or so

39. Ovation rewards, often

41. Had smaller servings (3,4)

42. Point that’s a strike against

43. Titles for Ph.Ds: Abbr.

45. TV’s “The Big Bang ___”

47. Twain with a twang

49. Gets off the stage

50. Is able to, to Shakespear­e

51. Quantity: Abbr.

55. “Kisses, dahling!”

57. Photocopyi­ng snag

58. Places you leave in stitches, for short?

59. Winter fall, to a Scot

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