By Warren Manners
Across
1 32 down competitor
6 Opus opener
9 Stout quantities
14 Capital city on the Red River
15 Document conferring authority (abbr.)
16 Beautiful woman of paradise
17 Like some pond’s life
18 “The Big Easy” of golf
19 He’s got a title
20 This is your hometown
22 Pieces of work
23 Dolor
24 Tokyo of old
26 Provider of up-to-the-minute info?
30 Prurient
35 Greenland natives
36 Surfer’s milieu
37 “I, Claudius” character
38 All smiles
39 Sometimes means good
40 Coveted cup in sports
41 L’Étoile du ____ (motto of Minnesota)
42 Dark horse
43 Noted 1950s backup band
44 Escaroles
46 Hagfish relative
47 Oft quoted modern day stat of Messi and Ronaldo
48 Cold-blooded killer
49 Botches completely
53 This was your major
59 Bowling sites
60 A little work
61 “Paradise Lost” figure
62 It divides to multiply
63 Miss identification?
64 Gaucho gear
65 Overdone
66 Sailor, in slang
67 Ready to act, say
Down
1 Seafood order
2 Not very bright
3 Light wave measurements: abbr.
4 Perambulate
5 Physics unit named for a Scot
6 Began the bidding
7 “Send for Me” singer
8 Adorned, in a way
9 They’re taken on trips
10 This was your alma mater
11 Vow takers
12 Peregrination
13 Epistolary salutation
21 Some Saturns
25 Give a name to
26 Pear in Parsberg
27 Cranial bump
28 This is your profession
29 Source of the word “bandanna”
31 Bindle carrier
32 This is your employer
33 “____ and lead, is watchword of the wise”: Goethe
34 Data compression by removing original data
36 Rome’s Appian ___
39 Dylan’s “The _____ Tapes”
40 First ruler of the Empire of Brazil
42 Order to a dog
43 Laphroaig holder
45 Feudal farmer
46 Minnesota, vis-a-vis Nebraska
49 Expel hot air
50 Monastery resident
51 Diminutive character of John Irving’s
52 This is your professional association
54 Bailiwick
55 Romeo or Juliet
56 ‘___ corny as Kansas… ‘
57 Staff member?
58 Airborne irritant
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