Across
- 2. FBI employee
- 3. "Ashes to Ashes" author Hoag
- 6. Creepy household area
- 9. Late-spring-blooming rhododendron
- 12. Need liniment
- 16. Lovable Muppet
- 17. A Nixon
- 18. Baseball postseason letters
- 20. Short way
- 24. Riversite Plant
- 25. Type of grammatical case
- 26. Blue-book filler, perhaps
- 27. ___ Claire, Wisconsin
- 28. Bunion site
- 29. Afflicted, as with guilt
- 30. JOCUND
- 34. ___ in apple
- 35. Mouth, slangily
- 37. Darned
- 40. Assignment
- 41. Word with muy or tres
- 44. Participate in a gabfest
- 46. China's Lao-____
- 47. Studied carefully, as a "joint"
- 48. Modem word
- 51. Important one
- 52. Hoops pos.
- 55. Grassy hills
- 57. Flue dirt
- 61. Shakespearean character
- 63. ___-Ball (arcade game)
- 66. Singsong syllables
- 67. Galley implement
- 68. Alpine songs
- 70. Gives the go-ahead for
- 71. Parasite's egg
- 72. U.K. honor
Down
- 1. Uneaten morsel
- 2. One of five in "Othello"
- 4. Life imitator
- 5. Frozen spike
- 7. Org. with many inspectors
- 8. Spacious indoor mall
- 10. Dress for Indira
- 11. Type of thought
- 13. Supercomputer pioneer
- 14. Grocery store section
- 15. Grotesque imitation
- 19. Friday and Preston (abbr.)
- 21. Quite tipsy
- 22. Toy train sound
- 23. "To Kill a Mockingbird" author
- 28. WR's scores
- 31. Deadly African snake
- 32. Letters on a Cardinal's cap
- 33. Lhasa beast
- 36. Added punch to the punch
- 38. Marx Brothers trait
- 39. Newsman CHarles
- 42. Fifth day of Kwanzaa
- 43. Financial rpt. heading
- 45. Santa's craftsmen
- 48. Boston skater
- 49. Emily Dickinson's hometown
- 50. Nursery denizens
- 53. Felony charge
- 54. Meat quality
- 56. My ____, Vietnam
- 58. Slow-spinning records
- 59. Enter a contest
- 60. Lays down the lawn
- 62. Soviet gymnast Korbut
- 64. And others too numerous to mention
- 65. Assents verbally, in a way
- 69. Stable tidbit
- 71. The Simpsons' neighbor, Flanders