ACROSS
1 Bends out of shape
6 Lead actor
10 Venomous vipers
14 Nimble
15 Encore! 
16 Political alliance 
17 Conductor's guide 
19 Author Ephron
20 Sense of taste
21 Naval might
23 Soft drink
25 Male gamete 
26 Foundation 
29 Sort
31 Upolu resident 
34 Sailor's org.
35 Corridors 
37 News anchor Couric 
38 Valerie Harper sitcom 
40 Lubricate 
41 Slur over
 42 Conduit for waste 
43 Strange 
45 Massive ref. work 
46 Famed Spanish fleet
48 Wildebeest
49 Connecting words 
50 "Island of the Blue Dolphins" author 
52 "True __" 
54 Rasputin, e.g. 
57 Like a hereditary condition 
61 Norse deity
62 Equine buddy, perhaps
64 Tree trunk 
65 Bart's bus driver 
66 Bogged down
67 Snow racer
68 Light gas 
69 Frighten 

		DOWN 
1 Stinging insect 
2 Turkish VIP
 3 Cambodian moola 
4 Delight
 5 Heated disagreement 
6 Dallas sch.
 7 Throw
 8 Zodiac sign
 9 Brief summaries 
10 Deviant 
11 Common special effect 
12 Skin opening 
13 Wound reminder
18 Current events sources 
22 Topped out 
24 Permit 
26 Saclike cavity between joints
 27 One of Jacob's sons
 28 Winter vehicle 
30 Carbon-arc lamp
 32 Assisted
 33 Requirements 
35 More difficult
 36 Throw 
39 Desensitized
 44 Bucolic
47 Singer Krauss
 49 Kind of bomb
 51 Coffee choice
 53 Agenda entries 
54 Mournful sounds
 55 Billy of rock
 56 Allied org.
 58 Medic or normal lead-in
 59 Way of old Rome
 60 Surrender formally
 63 __ appetit!