Crossword: ''Aftermath''

Finally calling it quits
By MATT JONES  |  October 6, 2011

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Across
1 "You are not!" retort
6 Antlered beast
9 First word of two Springsteen albums
13 Skeezy type
14 "___ So High" (Blur song)
16 "Peek-___!"
17 Dorothy's aunt's precipitation is surprisingly mild?
19 "Te ___" (hymn title)
20 Miss Scarlet's game
21 Record player parts
23 "The Fifth Beatle" Sutcliffe
25 The guy who always dyes eggs in springtime?
27 Cigarette ingredient
28 Palme ___ (Cannes Film Festival prize)
29 Tool that breaks ground
30 Humble dwelling
32 It's a little dirtier than "bum"
35 Hail ___
39 Fictional spy who's really a giant department store founder?
42 Cubs all-time home run leader
43 Attachable brick brand
44 Spot in the water
45 Emerald, for one
47 Hot Topic founder ___ Madden
49 Some fish bait
50 Command for this flan-like dessert to jump in my mouth already?
55 "...___ and buts were candy and nuts..."
56 Shout after an unhappy return
57 Perched upon
59 "Squawk Box" network
60 Announcement/event of September 2011, or what happened to the theme answers
64 End in ___
65 Swiss painter Paul
66 Flightless birds
67 Rick of the radio
68 Pig's digs
69 Late jazz musician who insisted he was from Saturn

Down
1 Word in many beer names
2 Give guns to
3 Full of a liquid metal
4 Insignia
5 Turn-of-the-century place to get high
6 Key near F1
7 ___ Apso
8 Seaweed varieties
9 Nightmares
10 "Divided by" symbols (BE OIL anagram)
11 French city where Joan of Arc died
12 Claim on some Chinese menus
15 Alan ___ (pseudonym used by film directors)
18 Roman emperor who fiddled around
22 Role reprised by Keanu in 2003
23 Wild guesses
24 Deed not to be done
26 Rub out
31 Competes on the street
33 Bad toupee
34 Thread holder
36 Baseball Jr. nicknamed "Iron Man"
37 "___ Cakes" (Food Network show)
38 8-bit units
40 Herbal remedy from trees
41 Rosie, et al.
46 Brain waves monitor: abbr.
48 Tail end
50 Seed plant (DC CAY anagram)
51 ___ Carlo
52 "Memories of You" pianist Blake
53 Cambodian currency
54 Like some needs
58 Where North Shore surfers go
61 Richard of 1990s talk show fame
62 Egypt and Syr., from 1958-1961
63 "Don't do drugs" ad, for short


 

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