Puzzles

Crossword: 'Italian for beginners'

Don't let this happen to you

By MATT JONES | March 21, 2007

Across
1 Masi of "Heroes"
4 Vegas vows
8 1990s Ford
14 ___-10 Conference
15 It's no charge?
16 No. 5 maker
17 Culinary quip, part 1
19 Candy subject to a 2002 vote
20 "Why would ___?"
21 "You know where you can stick it!"
23 Line dance
25 Where to get mil. mail
26 Bacon used in a game
30 Doc seen for head colds
32 "Big '___" (Al Bundy's favorite magazine)
34 Orange cover
35 Quip, part 2
39 eBay buy try
40 Marty directed him in "The Departed"
41 Gas station freebie
42 Bug
43 Quip, part 3
47 "___ girl!"
48 "What great news!"
49 "___ trip" (former hip-hop magazine)
50 Low on funds
52 Airline that's also a name
54 How orchestra musicians respond
58 Low-risk proposition
61 Name hidden in Hirschfeld caricatures
62 Giovanni of "Lost in Translation"
65 Quip, part 4
67 Kicks to the curb
68 Cookie with orange filling in October
69 "Gee." "No, ___" (1970s-80s ad slogan)
70 Tony-winning play set during the time of Henry II
71 "Shinola, Vol. 1" band
72 Preposition with an apostrophe

Down
1 Vision-related
2 Rivera's wife
3 Flip ___
4 Tend to a sprain
5 "What's up, ___"
6 Milo of "Barbarella"
7 Heavy track item
8 Supplier of unsuccessful Road Runner traps
9 Lamb cut
10 Metal band whose last album was "Reinventing the Steel"
11 Sen. Lieberman's affiliation, now
12 Sleep stage
13 Golfer whose surname is often mispronounced
18 Silver Bullet Band leader Bob
22 Late Led Zeppelin drummer John
24 Prefix with "sphere"
27 Drop by
28 Opening
29 Fargo's st.
31 Wee
33 You can see it from the Eiffel Tower
35 Actor Colin of "Shakespeare in Love"
36 Start of many poem titles
37 Until now
38 Newman's Own rival
39 Petting zoo noises
44 Bad thing to get on a trip
45 Hair that may get sugared
46 Clinton cabinet member Shalala
51 Have some of
53 John ___ (Fortune 1000 company)
55 Hugo Chavez's favorite gas station
56 Make one
57 Meat-___ (non-vegetarian)
59 Symbol of defiance
60 You, a long time ago
62 Civil War soldier, for short
63 "___ heard enough"
64 Lighter letters
66 Looooong time