Verna Suit

ACROSS

1. Take on

7. Act doglike at dinner

10. Raised platform

14. Like pond surfaces

15. Poet's palindrome

16. Educating

17. Homemakers' get-together

20. Mont Blanc

21. de cologne

22. Daiquiri ingredient

23. Short wrongdoer

26. Blacksburg, VA, school

28. Walk the floor

31. Experienced performers

33. It was nothing

35. Graphic opening

36. Loosen

38. “ bin ein Berliner”

39. Crush, like grapes

42. Like many “collectibles”

44. Weave companion

45. Canine cry

47. It finds a way out

48. Pertaining to royal court

50. Two-family dwellings

53. Musician John

54. Cone type

55. Housing payment

56. Coal scuttle

58. Underdog's voicer

60. Patty H.'s kidnappers

62. Cadence count

68. Samoan seaport

69. Buckeyes school

70. Deliver comeuppance

71. Russian ruler

72. Disorderly hair

73. Actor Wesley

DOWN

1. Thin Man's pooch

2. Create The Thinker

3. Family gathering place

4. Ref cousin

5. Medoc Mrs.

6. Brontë governess

7. Sainte Anne de

8. Drop the ball

9. Walton patriarch

10. Soap operas

11. Lung filler

12. Addams cousin

13. Express with words

18. Goodbye gesture

19. Shari Lewis, e.g.

24. Study or den

25. Dog baby food

27. Dinesen

29. Soul medicine

30. Every

32. Lodz resident

34. Kid's question

37. Perch beneath a pane

39. Incomplete schedule inits.

40. Disorderly defeat

41. Ancient times

43. Former duchy -Coburg

46. Make livelier, as a speech

49. Beatty-Hoffman movie

51. Unfortunate

52. Gospel healer, briefly

57. Sad fate

59. Generation

61. Zeus and Hera's son

62. “… too sexy for my

63. P.O. alternative

64. Zadora

65. General who ate chicken

66. Velvet finish

67. X-Files overseer