CROSSWORD
TIEBACKS ACROSS
1 Housefly’s undoing
5 Get ready, as for surgery 9 Play-of-color birthstones 14 “That’s a shame!” 15 Subtle quality 16 French cit y, in a Porter tune
17 Hit dance tune of the early ’60s
20 In finer fettle
21 Sampras with five U.S. Open wins
22 D.C. ball team, briefly
23 “Iron Mike” of the ring
25 Seance noises
27 Off-color, as language
30 Amazon’s business
34 Sac fly stat
37 Dissenter’s vote
38 Kings’ domains
39 $200 Monopoly property
42 Person or thing
43 A pal of Pooh
44 G-rated movie’s lack
45 Wild West band
46 Sound of censorship
48 Bullets, bombs et al.
50 Holiday party figure, perhaps
54 Chanteuse’s offering
57 Sporty auto, for short
60 River to the Rhone
62 Sequence of symbols, in computers
65 Was shown on TV
66 Von Bismarck of Prussia
67 Ad business award
68 Kicked around, with “with”
69 Allure publisher Conde ___
70 Meets, as a bet
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1 Junior-to-be, briefly
2 Major Kansas crop 3 With plenty to spare
4 Pounds an IBM Selectric 5 Scratch golfers often shoot it 6 Keister 7 Detroit River’s outlet
8 Place for canned goods 9 Choose, with “for” 10 Reality show featuring hagglers
11 Diva’s delivery
12 “___ we forget . . .”
13 Stage structures
18 God with a quiver
19 Service beverage
24 Fran Drescher role
26 Day spa treatment
28 Video feed annoyance
29 Austrian ski area
31 Gel-yielding plant
32 Giant-screen format
33 Timothy Leary’s drug
34 High rollers’ cit y
35 Cricketers’ gear
36 “You’re wrong!”
38 Makes hopping mad
39 One bench press, say
40 Tabloids pair
41 Knock the socks off
46 National Security Advisor John
47 Historian’s field
49 Scottish name prefix
51 Ones making busts
52 Decorative fabric
53 “Tomorrow” musical
54 Improvise like Ella
55 1971 song about Kent State
56 ___ a soul (no one)
58 Cheese in spinach pie
59 MFA part
61 Parts of psyches
63 Toss in
64 Sighter of pink elephants