IN THE LAND OF OZ

ACROSS

1 Co. of “the Colonel” 4 Improves, as wine or cheese

8 Divide evenly, say 14 Like rule-breaking vbs.

15 China Lily sauce 16 Takes heat from? 17 Downturn at the Aussie stock exchange?

20 “There’s a lot on my plate at the moment” 21 Farm fence stickers 22 Scallion kin 24 Mottled housecats 28 Explores the Aussie wilderness on bicycle? 30 Pen pal’s third addon

32 Subject of an imperative

33 Make a new journal entry

34 On the C.P.P., perhaps

35 House-building birds

38 “The A-Team” muscleman

39 Formal reply to “Who’s there?” 41 With “F,” preweekend cry

42 Alberta college town

43 Greeting from an Aussie woodchuck? 47 From the heart 48 “Fer ___, bud!” (“No doubt!”)

49 Musical triad 51 “Fun, fun, fun” cars of song

55 Catchphrase on the Aussie version of “The Price is Right”?

59 Bit of a scuffle 60 Fundraising suffix with tele61 Shortcut key with Ctrl

62 Made the Tide go out?

63 Dove : peace ; ___ : war

64 Neptune’s realm

DOWN

1 Duettist with Elton 2 Gift tag word

3 Beef producer? 4 How china is usually sold

5 Head out, to a tot 6 CBS logo image 7 Defunct Swedish car maker

8 Unfair verdict, slangily

9 Boozer’s booze buyers, say

10 Gary Larson strip, with “The”

11 Genesis craft 12 The Beatles’ “___ Mine”

13 Q-U connection 18 Humdingers 19 Arrange, as pool balls

23 Control foe on “Get Smart”

25 In a non-panicky way

26 “Bless us, ___, and these thy gifts ...” 27 Mid-ranking R.C.M.P.s

28 Heated seats or power sunroof

29 ___ the chase (not talk trivialities) 30 Tsk-tsking sticksin-the-mud

31 Dish that’s under the microscope

35 Like most par-3 courses

36 Part of a lacto-ovo vegetarian diet 37 “Even as we speak” 40 “It worked!”

42 Stick one’s ___ (meddle) 44 Talked on and on and on

45 Head out in the field?

46 Show to be a myth 50 Accomplishes, in the Bible

52 Dietary amts. 53 Editor’s “take out” 54 Mexican miss: Abbr.

55 Face-off taker’s pos. 56 “You bet, Yvette!” 57 ISP with a butterfly logo

58 “Huh??”