Jonesin' - Gonna crack

 But you'll figure it out
By MATT JONES  |  June 13, 2013
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 Across
1 They're not as busy in May
5 Planned to rob
10 Jimmy of shoes
14 Square footage, say
15 "I want to play ___" (line from "Saw")
16 Good thing to check Snopes.com for
17 Superman's city
19 Like squid spray
20 Awaiting a court date
22 Slow mover
23 Astley who gets rolled
26 It's north of Afr.
29 They'll come before U
31 "Dexter" actor C.S. ___
33 It may have a five-point harness
39 Comes up short
40 Subside
41 Sir Topham ___ ("Thomas the Tank Engine" manager)
42 Going way back?
45 Author referenced in "The Following"
46 Brit. reference that added "uplink" in 2013
47 Mining find
48 Nuremberg number
50 Eagle's nest
55 Big trouble
61 Vulcan mind ___
64 Old pantyhose brand with a famous Joe Namath ad
65 Berry variety
66 Pocahontas' husband John ___
67 Oaxaca water
68 What the four circled answers "crack"
69 Outdo
70 Bestselling 16-bit console, briefly
 Down
1 Pitches a tent
2 Get grooming
3 Insurer based in Hartford
4 Manhattan restaurateur Vincent
5 Rank on a cereal box
6 Wide-eyed
7 Bad substance for a 22-across
8 Mideastern ruler
9 South Asian
10 It's rated with alarms
11 Pet name
12 Charter ___ (tree on Connecticut's state quarter)
13 Acne-fighting brand
18 Fixed a squeak
21 Bohemian
24 Word used with defibrillators
25 He wrote "Endymion" and "Hyperion"
27 Grammarian's concern
28 Overzealous
29 Nostalgia-evoking
30 Take the helm
32 Suffix after Rock or Raisin
33 Provide freebies
34 Tinseltown, in old headlines
35 "Did ___ tell you about the time..."
36 California-based semiconductor company founded in 1981 (hidden in FALSIFY)
37 Follower
38 That boat
43 Film ___
44 Immature, like some meat
49 One of the Munsters
51 Watson and Thompson
52 Take to the throne
53 Problem
54 You are, in the Yucatan
56 River through Catalonia
57 "___ Flux" (futuristic MTV cartoon)
58 Carnegie or Chihuly
59 ___ Berry (Jones Soda flavor)
60 Sch. near the US-Mexico border
61 It's un-PC
62 Earth Day prefix
63 Wee boy

 

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