The Crossword

FACING REALITY

August 6, 1999

1 foray

5 hosiery feature

9 fireplace filler

14 "time machine" people

15 Scat queen

16 Raccoon-like mammal

17 Heavy weight

18 Part of a monogram, briefly

19 Overhaul

20 Start of Tom Wilson quote

23 Airport posting

24 Lair

25 They bring destruction

29 More of quote

31 Labors strenuously

34 Highway curve

35 Youth grp.

36 Kitchen accessory

37 Common conjunctives

38 Slither

40 Literary collection

41 Clear the table

42 Makes butter

43 More of quote

47 Scamps

48 Sea eagle

49 Slalom

52 End of quote

55 Third canonical hour

58 Verdi heroine

59 Jet black

60 Anticipate

61 Cambodian currency

62 Actor Rob

63 Wave and ray

64 Luckman and Caesar

65 General's adornment

DOWN

1 Fix Junior's sneakers

2 High up

3 Region of ancient Greece

4 Entree offering

5 Hinged mugs

6 1997-98 weather phenomenon

7 Came down to earth

8 Place for a pea?

9 Maine's national park

10 Ciao, in Chicago

11 Tam or toque

12 Somme summer

13 Knight's address

21 Chicago's planetarium

22 Possessive pronoun

26 Type of beaver

27 Facing the day

28 Takes the picture

29 10 Down, in old Rome

30 Left-handed page of an open book

31 Flight part

32 Alice, on TV

33 Indian nursemaids

37 Reaches new heights

38 Closet filler

39 Groove

41 Big Ben, e.g.

42 Encircles, in a way

44 Pulse family member

45 Men's men

46 Transferred title

49 Wooden shoe

50 Comanche ally

51 Kind of circle

53 XVI/II

54 Hardens

55 Post-dessert delivery

56 Cote denizen

57 Spill the beans

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