Crossword: ''Waiting to inhale''

Don't hold your breath
By MATT JONES  |  July 14, 2010

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Across
1 He gives canned responses
6 Fall flower
11 Adobe file ext.
14 One-named singer who guest starred on "The Love Boat"
15 Surplus
16 Regret
17 Currency in Istanbul
19 "Son of" in Arabic names
20 Quebec neighbor: abbr.
21 Be loud with the bells
22 Andrew ___ Webber
24 2003 Tom Cruise film set in Japan
28 ___Pen (injection for allergic reactions)
29 TV show retroactively subtitled "Las Vegas"
30 Strange
36 Go down like a rock
40 Puppy, say
41 Baby garments with snaps
43 Meadow noise
44 Basket or head follower
46 Take a tour of the Serengeti
48 "___ Stoops to Conquer"
50 Couch ___ ("The Simpsons" opening bit)
51 1982 Julie Andrews gender-bender
59 Buzzing with excitement
60 It wafts in the air
61 Org. with Dirk and Dwyane
63 11 of 12: abbr.
64 Office building problem that's a hint to this puzzle's theme entries (see their last three letters)
68 Dir. opposite SSW
69 Author Calvino
70 Tuesday, in New Orleans
71 "Atlas Shrugged" author Rand
72 Reese of "Touched by an Angel"
73 Messed (with)
Down
1 Prefix for -pus or -mom
2 Surgical device that diverts blood
3 Hotwiring heists
4 Boat with two toucans
5 Louis XVI, e.g.
6 Word repeated in "Ring Around the Rosie"
7 Bug-squishing noise
8 Flip option
9 Go off course
10 Domains
11 Previous
12 Bush II
13 Upscale handbag maker
18 Microdermabrasion site
23 Guzman of "Traffic"
25 Gp. with emission standards
26 Ride to a red carpet
27 Field measurements
30 For checkers, it's black and white
31 Grant-granting gp.
32 1950s-60s actress Stevens
33 Sign shared by Ben and Casey Affleck
34 Bar opener?
35 "You Will Be My ___ True Love" (song from "Cold Mountain")
37 Like some childhood friends
38 "That's neither here ___ there"
39 Carp in a pond
42 Starch that comes from palms
45 It is, in Iquitos
47 In the distance
49 Totally awful
51 She used to turn, but now taps
52 O. Henry specialty
53 Witch group
54 Far from meek
55 Pastoral poem
56 Drink on a ski trip
57 Carson Daly's old MTV show, for short
58 Follow the rules
62 Dry as a bone
65 Season opposite hiver
66 Accident victim helper
67 ___ De Jing (classic Chinese text)

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