MICKEY MOUSE OPERATION
ACROSS
1 South Florida city, briefly 5 Carrying ___ to Newcastle (pointless action) 10 Wear for Judge Judy 14 Swellheads’ problems 15 Unwelcome IRS action
16 Black, to a poet 17 Blows it
18 Much of Green Giant’s wares
20 Goes back (on)
22 Attendants at catering halls
23 Bushy ’do
24 Needing a seatbelt extender, say 26 Mechanism on a Winchester Model
70 rifle
30 Blacken, as steak
34 Eggs in fertility labs
35 Moby-Dick, notably
36 Ripped off
37 Suffix with neat or beat
38 TV advertiser’s purchase
40 Circusgoer’s gasp
41 Redcoat, to a Minuteman
43 Freaking out
44 CSI lab material
45 Arnaz of “I Love Lucy”
46 What “we weave,” in a Walter Scott poem
48 Art class wear
50 “___ amuse you?”
51 Moors, as a boat
54 How scoldings are given 58 Company that produced the movies in the first parts of 18-, 26- and
46-Across Answers: 61 Retail giant started by a 17-year-old Swede
62 Leer at
63 Penny-pinching
64 Boatbuilding wood
65 Ivory or Coast
66 Brief scrap
67 Long ___ (poor chance at winning)
DOWN
1 Ballpark vendor’s wares
2 Fairy tale baddie 3 Breakfast item created by John Harvey Kellogg
4 State as fact
5 Place for a latte
6 Sharer’s pronoun
7 Kerfuffle
8 “30 Rock” character Lemon
9 Soderbergh who directed “Traffic” 10 Throw back, as heat or sound 11 Bassoon’s cousin 12 Italy’s shape
13 Brings the curtain down on
19 “If I Ruled the World” rapper
21 “Skedaddle!”
24 Part of a home heating system 25 Airbus competitor 26 ___ up on (studied) 27 Like sheep
28 The Windy City, for short
29 Place to touch down
31 Pulled a scam on 32 How arias are sung
33 Post-op program
36 Break away, like the CSA states
39 “Cool” amount of cash
42 Clumsy move
46 Subjects for debates
47 Triangular chip
49 Wrestling milieu
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53 “Terrible” phase Nemesis of Othello Grasso of Connecticut politics
54 Stake in a congressional election
55 Proofreader’s catch
56 Detective’s find
57 Chews the fat
59 “Thar ___ blows!”
60 5 percent, in the Beatles’ “Taxman”