BY ANNA SHECHTMAN

In print | Published April 2, 2009 — Updated May 23, 2010 10:59

Words to the Wise

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Across
1. Beverage taken to outer space in 1965
5. Type of officer
11. Have a meal
14. First word in many fairy tales
15. _______ number, amount of protons and neutrons in a nucleus
16. François’ friend
17. Average
18. Heirloom food
19. Stimpy’s pal
20. You are here.
22. It’s a blast
23. Bolivian President Morales
24. Impetuous
27. “____ & Order”
30. Rank above corporal, abbr.
32. Location of the climax scene in “Psycho”
35. 1966 Monkees hit “____ Believer”
36. Ariel Sharon’s successor Olmert
39. Get hitched but keep it hushed
40. Terry Gross and Carl Kasell’s org.
41. Device used to create 20-across, 11-down, 29-down, and 58-across
43. Equip, as a boat
44. Fudd with a speech impediment
46. Chain with links?
47. 1101 to Augustus
48. Irving Kristol or Paul Wolfowitz, e.g.
50. Like John McCain from 1967-1973, famously
52. US Draft org.
53. Obsessive compulsive’s list
54. 2006 Rihanna hit
56. Cheerleader’s cry
58. Prostitute capable of getting accepted to 20-across, e.g.
65. Sweet sandwich
67. Type of wave
68. Monopoly piece
69. Academy Award nominated actress Laura
70. Eponymous candyman
71. Iron Chef Bobby
72. Facilitate
73. Pavlova and Nicole, e.g.
74. “Life-Size” star Banks

Down
1. Maine-based deodorant and toothpaste brand
2. Once again
3. March madness org.
4. Science fiction, e.g.
5. Infectious agent
6. The “A” of A-bomb
7. Cowboys’ quarterback Tony
8. Little of “The Wire”
9. Liquid measurements
10. Prefix with tourism or friendly
11. Megadriles
12. Last word of the New Testament
13. Dye
21. Idiot boxes
25. Throat-clearer
26. Peruvian money
27. Light-weight textile
28. Bountiful
29. Cindy Sheehan et al.
31. Pad ____
33. Aeneid and Beowulf, e.g.
34. TV host Philbin
37. Onomatopoetic sigh
38. “____ it like it’s hot”
41. Yankee third baseman, familiarly
42. Matthew, Peter, and James, e.g.
45. “Foucault’s Pendulum” author Umberto
49. La Cosa _____, the Sicilian Mafia
51. Expression of astonishment
56. Went horseback riding
57. πr2 measurement
59. “____ Kampf”
60. Yemeni port
61. Tabula ____
62. Parisian airport
63. Simba’s cry
64. Artist whose music is often heard in day spas

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