Puzzles

Crossword: ''Look under the cushions''

Treasure where you least expect it

By MATT JONES | April 22, 2009

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Across
1 Sanders' rank: abbr.
4 Takes in too much
7 Band box
10 QB's scores
13 ___-male
14 Cut branches (off)
15 Wade's opponent
16 Miner's find
17 Dream up
19 Gas station with a blue and red logo
21 Quad City that's home to the Mississippi Valley Blues Festival
23 "I found a ___, which blended into the beige. No way am I going to eat it."
25 Be
26 Palm whose berries are now used in fruit juices
27 Punk offshoot
30 Dreyer's ice cream, in the Eastern U.S.
31 Poultry dish with broccoli and cheese
36 Popeye's love Olive
37 Bullfighting cheer
38 "So that's where the ___ to this old pen went!"
39 Ballpark figure
42 Ongoing NYC tribute project where musicians cover the works of other musicians
45 You, in olden days
48 "Entourage" agent
49 "I'm rich! No, just kidding. It's only a ___."
50 "Amazing" magician famous for debunking
52 Briny bath additives
56 Rule that ended when Turkey became a republic
59 "Ew...all I found were the stale remnants of a ___."
60 "The Wapshot Chronicle" author John
63 Part of mph
64 "Much ___ About Nothing"
65 Brain scan, for short
66 Record label with a "Manhattan" offshoot
67 "___ to Billie Joe"
68 TV chef Martin
69 Runnable computer file suffix
70 Ointment

Down
1 Laurence Fishburne TV show
2 Physics unit
3 Item used to fasten planks, in old shipbuilding
4 1966 Gold Glove Award winner Tony
5 "Singin' in the Rain" codirector Stanley
6 Go on a buying spree
7 With the bow, in music
8 Former "S.N.L." actor Jay
9 Actress Holly Robinson ___
10 Doughnut-shaped
11 "The ___ Chaperone"
12 French legislative bodies
18 Suffix for anatomical reproductive organs
20 Temptress
22 Went into a personal online chat, for short
23 Folded food
24 Stiff and sore
28 Karaoke bar eqpt.
29 Roundish
32 "Rock and Roll, Hoochie ___" (1974 hit)
33 Literary lioness
34 ___-do-well
35 G.I.'s address
39 Parent company of Popsicle and Skippy
40 They're in charge of the bldg.
41 Tends to priority number one?
42 ___ a wild goose chase
43 Greet the judge
44 If ___ (Kenneth Cole shoe)
45 Allegro non ___ (lively, but not too lively, in music)
46 It's far from love
47 Unabridged
51 Lance Bass headline, on a 2006 cover of People
53 Pageant host
54 ___ Twin (alias of electronic musician Richard D. James)
55 It may force a city to surrender
57 Alan of "M*A*S*H"
58 Brightly colored
61 It'll never get off the ground
62 Messy morsel at a barbecue