CROSSWORD II
ACROSS
1 Argentine grassland 6 Event with a finish line 10 Therapeutic bath spot 13 T.S. who wrote about cats 14 Airline founded in the same year as the nation of Israel 15 Clarinetist Artie 16 Slow-cooked sandwich meat 18 Without a stitch on 19 Hook’s sidekick 20 Have regrets about 21 In bundles, as cotton 22 Painter’s application 24 Boorish sort 26 Meat served at a “joint” 30 Ill will 32 Lawyers’ org. 33 Eye wolfishly 34 With 39-Across, eat lots of 16-, 26-, 45- and 59-Across? 35 Potluck get-togethers 39 See 34-Across 40 List shortener, for short 42 Vintage 8-Down inits. 43 Signs of rotting 45 Meat in an Egg McMuffin 49 Smelter waste 50 Tries the patience of 51 Often-pierced spots 53 Letters before an alias 54 “Now it’s clear” 58 Only its Touch model is currently sold 59 Meat sold in cans 62 Move, in Realtor lingo 63 Lena of “Chocolat” 64 Honor with insults 65 Toss in 66 Longish skirt 67 Volcanic residue
DOWN
1 Vitalizes, with “up” 2 Visitor to an old prof 3 Highway marker number 4 Weasel’s stinky cousin 5 Satisfied the munchies 6 Public stature 7 Natural balm 8 Valeted vehicle 9 Bugling animal 10 “Need to hear more?” 11 Cut, as expenses 12 Left wide-eyed 15 Pizzeria chain 17 Totally blah 21 Bloom’s beginning 23 Vein yields 24 Die, geometrically 25 Catch wind of 26 Attentiongetting 27 Plumped-up fowl 28 Out-of-focus photo, e.g. 29 Drops beneath the horizon 30 Job detail, briefly 31 Gyro bread 36 “Topaz” author Leon 37 Shepherd’s pie legumes 38 Common laundromat loss 41 Rio Grande city 44 Square-dance moves 46 Bob and bun 47 Pageant wear, at times 48 ___ Sea (shrunken body of water) 51 Monetary unit of Turkey 52 Page with essays 53 Like die-hard fans 55 Ruler ousted in 1979 56 Trouble-free state 57 CPR pros 59 Suffix with “star” or “czar” 60 Pharmaceuticals giant ___ Lilly 61 Word after “disco” or “steroid”