Puzzles

Crossword: ''It's a Tough Job''

But you totally get used to it.

By MATT JONES | February 24, 2010

Across
1 Convertible's cover
7 Frowned-upon aerosol chemicals, for short
11 Controversial flavoring
14 Without a compass
15 Slave in Pearl S. Buck's "The Good Earth"
16 iPhone program
17 Her hair hissed
18 Rapper with the hit single "How Low"
20 Anguish over a huge credit card bill?
22 Goes to the TV screen
23 Waste of fireworks
24 Bill Cosby's late son
26 Shaq, once
28 "Gone With the Wind" plantation
31 "See ya"
32 What perverts did to dream of being more perverted?
35 Skosh
38 Gnarls Barkley singer ___-Lo
39 Conk out
40 Suffix with Power or Gator
41 Textiles elevated to a higher status?
45 "Parklife" group
46 Capital on a fjord
47 Fish, on an Italian menu
51 They help you limber up
53 Washroom, to a Brit
55 Airport stats
56 Did a baby care activity (or this puzzle's theme, literally)
60 Home of a chicken mascot
61 Mafioso's code of silence
62 "The Fifth Beatle" Sutcliffe
63 Menial laborer
64 Laura of "The Squid and the Whale"
65 ___ Willy (schoolyard annoyance)
66 In ___ (at heart)
67 Venomous snakes

Down
1 Flautist Jean-Pierre ___
2 Title role for Hilary Swank
3 Suddenly lose power
4 Secured tightly
5 Brewer's kiln
6 Kilt pattern
7 Hades rarity, it's said
8 Chimney passage
9 Contemptible guys
10 Rickman, in the "Harry Potter" films
11 Red sauce
12 Full of life
13 Navigational tracker
19 "Why ___?"
21 Scissors users
25 "Soldier of Love" singer
27 Flavorful
29 It may list sped-up terms and conditions at the end
30 Garage sale condition
33 Take back property
34 Hatchery noise
35 Fro-yo establishment, for short
36 Earmark
37 It's cheaper by the dozen
42 Threesome
43 "Finished!"
44 Where the diving boards are
48 "Tristram Shandy" author
49 President who won the Nobel Peace Prize
50 College application pieces
52 Take shots (at)
54 String quartet member
57 The Bee ___
58 Inflated self-images
59 In the center of
60 Dir. opposite NNE

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