Puzzles

Crossword: ''Flippin' Sweet''

That's how it's gonna be.

By MATT JONES | August 27, 2008

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Across
1 Not a lot
4 A followers
7 "Would You Like to Buy ___?" ("Sesame Street" song)
10 Smog watchdog: abbr.
13 "American Gladiators" co-host Laila
14 Iberia's cont.
15 "That's funny!" on the message boards
16 "Mayor of Simpleton" band
17 The art of sculpting shrubbery
19 Emphatic speaker's phrase
21 Je9ns
23 Cremation containers
25 Miniseries whose final episode was the third-most-watched scripted show in U.S. history
26 Philosopher David Hume, for one
29 Exasperated exhalation
30 Doctor's request while holding a tongue depressor
31 ___ Valley, California
32 Waters, in Oaxaca
34 "___ Married an Axe Murderer" (1993 movie)
35 Passport endorsements
36 aldde
39 Grab a bite
40 Be in the red
41 Pink Floyd founder Barrett
44 They're pulled from the shell, in a Squeeze song title
48 ___ Kippur
51 One of five children born at the same time, slangily
53 Reese of "Touched by an Angel"
54 "___ Feel Like a Woman!" (Shania Twain song)
55 sa>le)
58 Sleep problem
59 "All Those Years ___" (George Harrison song)
60 Make happy
61 Handle effectively
62 ___ Te Ching (classical Chinese text)
63 ___ Tag (1980s toy set)
64 Items on a chain
65 Button on some cell phones
66 Spider egg holders

Down
1 Like some chances
2 "Hold On Tight" band
3 Getting rid of a spill
4 Wally and the ___ (classic TV brothers, for short)
5 Meat preparers that use salt and smoking
6 Prepare peanuts, perhaps
7 "Masterpiece Theatre" host Cooke
8 "That's okay, take your time"
9 Kennedy couturier Cassini
10 It's good to get some every so often
11 Bake sale sponsor, sometimes
12 Get one's ass in gear
18 Fit
20 Inactive
22 "Happy Birthday ___"
23 Men's 4x100 meter medley relay winners at the 2008 Olympics
24 Latvia's capital
27 Giants shortstop Vizquel
28 "___ the season to be jolly"
33 Poetry competition
35 Wedding exchanges
37 Chopin piece
38 Baseball Hall-of-Famer Ryan
41 Complain loudly
42 "The Year of the ___" (1984 designation by Newsweek)
43 "WALL-E" co-releaser
45 Put under
46 Campaign encapsulation
47 The only Blues Brother to reappear in "Blues Brothers 2000"
48 Japan's equivalent of the Mafia
49 "It'll be just a moment"
50 Stingy people
52 Nobel Prize-winning physicist Bohr
54 Michelle Phillips and Cass Elliot, musically
56 Nuclear family member
57 Silent ___ (presidential nickname)