Part II: Tackling the Puzzles

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Across



  1. “Couldn’t have said it
    better myself”

  2. There’s no accounting
    for it

  3. Turkish topper

  4. Amount spent

  5. Greek alphabet starters

  6. George’s musical
    brother

  7. Nature personified

  8. Con’s sheet

  9. Zeta-theta connection

  10. Courage

  11. Cheer for the matador

  12. Assemble

  13. Owing on one’s
    payments

  14. Negligent

  15. Clinging part of a
    climbing plant

  16. Start to dominate?

  17. Cartridge holder

  18. Mortar rounds

  19. Bygone

  20. Weaselly critters

  21. One way to follow a
    pattern

  22. ___ mater (brain
    membrane)

  23. Long, long time

  24. Type of reaction
    48. Pizza sauce enhancer
    50. Respectable
    53. Shuffle
    55. Has down pat
    57. Butting bighorn
    58. Molded, frozen dessert
    60. By way of
    61. Slugging stat
    63. A bit too serious
    66. Valdez cargo
    67. 40th president of
    the U.S.
    68. Player’s stake
    69. Tarzan film character
    70. Improve, as a text
    71. Angler’s prize


Down



  1. Heights of perfection

  2. More debatable

  3. Elvis’ Graceland, for
    example

  4. Unspecific degree

  5. Poi source

  6. French historian de
    Tocqueville

  7. New World colonizer

  8. Imperil

  9. Gormandize

  10. Combat supplies

  11. Historical time

  12. Laser gun sound effect
    15. Like many a sheep
    18. Napoleon’s realm
    23. “___ and the Swan”
    (Yeats)
    25. Guy who cries foul
    27. Back out
    28. Frost
    29. Give me a brake?
    31. Star close to Venus?
    34. Word with “fraternity”
    or “hair”
    36. Olfactory perception
    37. Tackle box item
    38. Without much cheer
    40. Night light
    41. Chump
    44. Indian tourist site
    47. Comaneci
    accomplishment
    49. Museum suit
    50. Abase
    51. Repeated Catholic
    prayer
    52. Ironic turns
    54. Eat more than one’s fill
    56. Eats more than one’s fill
    59. Group marching,
    perhaps
    61. Scottish hero Roy
    62. Short life story?
    64. Rock singer Bobby
    65. Capture a crook


Puzzle 142: Cover Your Rear


Treacherous

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