IT’S A START
ACROSS
1 Legendary engineer Casey
6 Farm females
10 Farm females
14 Overdo it on stage
15 Go off stage
16 Biblical Magi, e.g.
17 “Inferno” poet
18 Party platter preparer, perhaps
19 Place one’s trust in, with “on”
20 Crude but effective
23 Place for a Q-tip
24 Soapmaker’s compound
25 E-filed document
29 Visitor to an old prof
32 Message from Smokey Bear, for short
35 Pub options
36 Treat like dirt
37 Clampett’s “bubblin’ crude”
38 Topps or Bowman collectible
42 Negative stat for a QB
43 London’s ___ Road Studios
44 Latvia’s capital
45 Letters on some shingles
46 Nonsense poet Edward
47 Wi-Fi device
49 Cedar Rapids college
51 Tony Soprano’s group, with “the”
52 Words of dismissal
59 “Aw, nuts!”
60 Hi’s spouse, in comics
61 Cause to topple over
63 Baldwin of “Match Game”
64 Wrestlers’ surfaces
65 Year-end mall temp
66 Erato or Clio
67 Finish off, as a dragon 68 “Daniel” singer John
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1 Clampett who discovered
37-Across
2 Poet Khayyam
3 Rich desserts, to a dieter
4 Caesarean rebuke
5 “Turn! Turn! Turn!” composer Pete
6 Cigar box wood
7 Yoked team
8 Like jokers, sometimes
9 Make uniform, in a way
10 Dogcatcher’s catch
11 Mesabi Range resource, e.g.
12 Skilled at tricker y
13 Source of nondairy milk
21 Chinese dynasty after the Qin
22 Elsie the Cow’s mate
25 Like a mad dog
26 Serengeti antelope
27 College application data
28 “___ as directed”
29 More up to it
30 “Peanuts” psychiatrist
31 Olympics chant
33 Assault on the Alamo
34 Site for some rites
36 Jessica of “Fantastic Four” movies
39 Plantation machine
40 “Cactus Flower” playwright Burrows
41 Joanne of “Red River”
47 Sturgeon yield
48 Slow on the uptake
50 Postal scale gradation
51 Needing straightening
52 China-North Korea border river
53 Pennsylvania Avenue trees
54 Paddock newborn
55 The Beatles’ meter maid
56 Shimmering birthstone
57 Polite chap
58 In the know about
59 Reservoir creator
62 Politico Quayle