Alan Olschwang

ACROSS

1. Killer whale

5. Swedish rock group

9. Spill the beans

13. Peruse

14. Sort of soda

15. High quality

16. Baum dog

17. “Faerie Queen” character

18. Black in Bordeaux

19. Start of first series

22. Temple of Zeus site

24. Extra funds for retirees: Abbr.

25. Aaron's brother

26. Coach Parseghian

27. Sort of serve

29. Lobby group with big guns?

31. Start of second series

33. Puts up with

38. Cantor and Lupino

39. More of second series

41. Salsa server

42. They misplayed

44. End of second series

46. Nightmare street

47. British rule over India during the 19th century

48. Keanu in The Matrix

49. Miss Dinsmore of kid books

53. Mimic

55. Actress in The Maltese Falcon

57. End of first series

60. He's got all the answers

61. Sort of space

62. Entrée go-with

65. Mr. Morales

66. Advise and Consent author

67. Big lib. books

68. Riga native

69. Clan division

70. Ready

DOWN

1. Food for Fido

2. Classic car

3. Boat with floats

4. Baked brick

5. Stem

6. Grouses

7. Meet unpleasantly

8. Indian nursemaid

9. Dueler's instrument

10. Checks out

11. Old-womanish

12. Road shoulders

14. El of Spain

20. Storm front?

21. Mosque prayer leader

22. It only gets better from here

23. Age, in a way

28. Region of Germany

30. Missouri university city

32. More E than S

33. Former draft org.

34. What a bill might become

35. More than a little shoddy

36. Pitcher Nomo

37. Tiger's track

40. Loudspeaker part

43. Will of the Waltons

45. Bitterroot peak

47. Backslide

49. The Glassy Sea writer

50. Skunk

51. The ultimate dieter

52. Spoilsport's statement

54. Advance

56. IT guru

58. Spreads the green

59. Crooked

63. ETO general

64. Reader's letters

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