SWALLOWING THE TRUTH

By Brendan Emmett Quigley

Across

1. Manchester mate from way back when
8. Still sealed up and on the shelf
14. 1970 John Wayne western
15. Ethics for the fellas
16. Chart on Billboard, say
17. *Mental midget
18. Indicate “yes”
19. “Just stop talking”
20. Mountain towering over Catania
21. *Weakling
27. Part between the thumb and pointer fingers on a baseball glove
28. Fall prevention agcy.
29. Card above a dame in a French deck
30. Kinda sorta
33. Mountaineer Ralston who was the subject of the 2010 movie “127 Hours”
35. Have a stage presence
37. Utterly cuckoo bananas
39. Axiom about being healthy, and what the starred clues are examples of
43. Months of most pregnancies, e.g.
44. Bird that can stand five feet tall
45. Kelley Blue Book listing
46. Get ___ of.
47. Stop on the tour
49. Proof transition word
52. Solidify
53. *Clumsy person
56. King Charles’s sister
59. Prefix with gender
60. Prefix with thermal
61. *Dim bulb
64. Surfing nuisance
68. Anthrax vaccine pioneer Louis
69. “That’s a wrap”
70. Dragon killer
71. Castle residents

Down

1. See 3-Down

2. Slip one past, with “to”
3. With 1-Down, modern-day nonprofit
4. Crashing sound
5. Christmas sound
6. Follows closely
7. Dispensary plant
8. Investment option that’s a man’s name
9. San Francisco’s ___ Hill
10. National Park statistics
11. Scow or dhow
12. God whom Wednesday is named after
13. Lawless hero
15. “The View” host
17. Key letter
19. Thing grown in Movember, for short
21. One changing opinions
22. Italian beer brand
23. Be plentiful
24. Warm up
25. Like thick vines
26. Soup with tofu cubes
30. Period when glaciers were formed
31. Salt holder
32. Red pieces in Monopoly
34. Glaswegian’s “get outta here!”
36. Chairpeople?
38. “Whatcha cooking?”
40. Covering of some elbows
41. Do some character assassination?
42. Nabe
48. Racing vehicle
50. Paid male companion
51. Like thin toilet tissue
53. ___ Shabazz (Malcolm X’s wife)
54. Islamic festival
55. Holland export
56. Fuse units
57. YA author Shusterman
58. Houston rockets org.
62. Slight giggle
63. Montenegro’s loc.
64. Shooting aim

65. Pork purveyor, briefly
66. Crumb carrier
67. Former Turkish title

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