Crossword: ''I'm surrounded by idiots''

To the left and right, as shown

By MATT JONES | September 3, 2008

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Across
1 Fox News Channel host Van Susteren
6 When they're locked, you look like you're shouting
10 "___ Gali Gali" (traditional Hebrew song)
13 Highly desirable reviews
14 Extreme
15 Happy ___ pig in slop
16 "Ciao," in Chamonix
17 About 7 cm long, like nails sold in hardware stores
19 Where many directors get their start
21 Poet Pound
22 Hay fever need
23 Not so great-sounding name for a tangelo
25 Coast Guard commandant's rank: abbr.
27 "Without further ___..."
28 Midtown transportation
31 Gift-wrapping adhesive
37 Actress Bancroft
38 Part of 11-down: abbr.
39 Johnson of "Laugh-In"
40 Do-gooder's reasoning, perhaps
45 Post- opposite
46 Shot put path
47 Author Deighton
48 Dory helped find him
50 Colorings
55 It's often twisted apart
57 It lets the batter get to second
61 Comfy handmade comforter
63 Sexy Muse
64 "___ Got You" (Gloria Gaynor album)
65 Take the stitching apart
66 Water brand that's an insult to the buyer when spelled backwards
67 Lee Pace's character on "Pushing Daisies"
68 Mid-month day
69 1992 L.A. riots figure Reginald

Down
1 Skin replacement procedure
2 They're half the diameter
3 Vice squad?
4 Overflows (with)
5 "Just like always..."
6 Advertising award
7 ___ extra charge
8 Musical opener
9 Maple syrup, really
10 Resident of the island where Freddie Mercury was born
11 Sea org. whose members are called into active duty
12 Poet Angelou
14 Sch. that's home to the Wildcats in Durham
18 Conger critter
20 Yield by treaty
24 Thor or Thoth, e.g.
26 Keith Olbermann's network
27 Tylenol competitor
29 ___ no good
30 Checked out
31 Slightly soggy
32 ___ about (in the vicinity)
33 Like lapsed subscriptions
34 Actress Arthur
35 Potent ending?
36 Skin art, slangily
41 On the ___ (fleeing)
42 Sonorous
43 Words before life or clue
44 Bit used to make ouzo
49 It's split into eras
51 Chutzpah
52 Franchise
53 Tennessee player
54 Expressionless
55 Creator, in Norse myth
56 Political consultant Karl
58 All-knowing
59 Bullring cheers
60 "Oh, before I forget..." in Internet shorthand
62 On the ___ vive