CROSSWORD

EXCUSES, EXCUSES ACROSS

1 Green Giant canfuls 5 Theater ticket datum 9 Seize forcibly 13 Stew server’s need 15 Trebek of “Jeopardy!” 16 Nevada slots site 17 Consume totally 18 2014 Russell Crowe epic 19 Taiwanese PC giant 20 Lame excuse for missing homework 23 Reassuring touch 24 Risk a perjury rap 25 Moe’s Tavern serving 26 Shortened term of endearment 27 Monty Python bit 29 Go defunct 32 Lame excuse for missing homework 36 Circulatory blockage 37 Starts to bubble, perhaps 38 Search engine’s find, briefly 39 Loses steam 40 Comrade in arms 41 Lame excuse for missing homework 43 Do cross-country, say 44 Serengeti grazers 45 Assault on the ears 46 Make a bonehead move 48 Family nickname 49 “That’s it!” 52 Lame excuse for missing homework 57 Treat on a hotel pillow 58 Tantrum-throwing performer 59 Some Arab leaders 60 Not before, and not since 61 In perpetuity 62 Move like a crab 63 Sharp as a tack 64 Living a hermit’s life 65 Word after scratch or screen

DOWN

1 Like a Thanksgiving turkey 2 Course that no one fails 3 Sharp as a tack 4 Talk like a tippler 5 Poet who went to hell 6 Beauty bar additive 7 Mascara streaker, perhaps 8 Museum T. rex, e.g. 9 Last part of 2-Down, e.g. 10 Coldest day ever, e.g. 11 In a fresh way 12 Brought into being 14 Literary conclusions 21 Caravel in a noted trio 22 Prop master’s workplace 26 Like a saint 27 Minority in Kosovo or Croatia 28 Shut off, as an engine 30 “The Music Man” state 31 Handicrafts-selling site 32 Degrees for execs 33 Egg-white omelet’s lack 34 Persistent effort 35 “Black Swan” skirt 36 Highlands group 39 “Nothing but net” sounds 41 Pagan or atheist, to some 42 Make more readable, perhaps 44 Pulled a prank on 47 Much more than 60-Across 48 Two-headed drum 49 Put up with 50 Takes the mound 51 Poise, for a model 52 “That didn’t hurt” 53 Screenplay segment 54 Show-saving system 55 Place for a roast 56 Send out, as signals