puzzle
ACROSS
1 Part of the lace-tying process
5 Buggy versions, often
10 Campaigner's stand
14 L.A. neighborhood Sherman ___
15 Dead to the world
16 Arm bone
17 Carrot-top's cousin?
20 Laminated rock
21 Feelings of spite
22 Crumbling, earthy deposit
25 Mountain "man" of myth
26 It may have a checkered past
29 Use a branding iron
31 Take down a notch
35 Be on the hook for
36 "Drop" starter
38 By that reasoning
39 Frequent pie-topper
43 "___ go bragh"
44 Milan opera house La ___
45 Checkbook balancer
46 People all up in your business
49 Major airports
50 Actor Danson
51 Immature salamanders
53 Cats, dogs and canaries
55 Choking device
58 Case of the sniffles
62 Dessert choice
65 Place to roll the dice
66 Get accustomed to (var.)
67 Neck's scruff
68 Be abundant
69 Blouse accompanier
70 Elephant tooth
DOWN
1 L's meaning, sometimes
2 Solemn promise
3 Gumbo pod
4 Anagram of "lamps"
5 Where to find baby food?
6 Compass pt.
7 What-you-may-call-it
8 Impressive layout
9 Created, as a hairdo
10 Certain folk instrument
11 Balm ingredient, often
12 Hotels
13 Down at the mouth
18 Mink or ermine
19 Nip
23 True and actual
24 Volcano emissions
26 Quail flock
27 Open-eyed
28 Nation once called Dahomey
30 Modern composer Steve
32 Raise high-rises
33 Slack-jawed
34 Wanderer
37 Bay duck
40 Office communication device
41 Dresden's river
42 Big name in Cuba
47 Disco Stu's hairstyle
48 Furry neck wraps
52 Smelled the place up
54 Railroad switch
55 Indian butter
56 "... in ___-horse open sleigh"
57 Container for folding scissors
59 Biblical birthright-seller
60 Letter carrier's org.
61 Docile
62 Computer monitor type
63 Get one's wires crossed
64 "The" place for opera
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