Across
1 With 17-across, what you're instructed to pick
4 Knock down ___ (berate)
8 Word before Borealis or Australis
14 "Did I not tell you?"
15 Entree list
16 Actress Leachman
17 See 1-across
20 Vinyl record
21 Kentucky Derby month
22 Some microwaves, brand-wise
23 Pikes ___, Colorado
24 4, on some old clock faces
26 ___-Magnon man
28 Long, long times
30 WWI hideout for soldiers
33 Sound effect now heard after putting it back
37 Life's work?
38 Cattle ranch area
39 James Bond creator Fleming
40 Question I hope to be correct
43 Divide into two equal parts
44 Stadium cheers
45 Charlemagne's domain, for short
46 Maalox competitor
48 Study all at once
52 Comedian Margaret
54 Musical talent
55 Bit of verse, in Veracruz
56 Response I'm really hoping to get
61 Giving the look to
62 Telegram punctuation word
63 "The dog ___ my homework"
64 Make thinner, like mountain air
65 "Good ___" (Alton Brown show)
66 Response that, odds are, I'm probably going to get | Down
1 Org. with the slogan "We create music"
2 Novelist Zora ___ Hurston
3 ___ Buena (town that later became San Francisco)
4 Dual format for older car radios
5 According to
6 Ambient musician Brian
7 ___ worms (chewy candy)
8 Like sore muscles
9 Suffix for mod or nod
10 Blagojevich in 2009 news
11 Pacific Northwest evergreen tree
12 Bento box staple
13 Poses a question
18 Home of the Blue Devils, for short
19 ___ chi
24 Overwhelm with bugs
25 "It's Your Thing" singers The ___ Brothers
26 Something depended upon too much
27 He rules over balls
29 Rainn Wilson sitcom, with "The"
30 Insect midsection
31 Dressed (in)
32 Barnyard layer
33 Emphatic assent, in Spanish
34 It may be taken before bed to relax
35 Tokyo, formerly
36 Speaks after a few drinks, perhaps
37 Baby's protector
41 That girl
42 Neckwear for Paul Lynde
46 Like Logo's target audience
47 Got out of bed
49 Amy Winehouse hit
50 Former senator Alphonse D'___
51 San ___, CA
52 "Gypsies, Tramps & Thieves" singer
53 Georgetown athlete
54 Boundary-pushing
55 The Boston ___ (Boston Symphony Orchestra subsection)
57 Go kaput
58 Beethoven's "Pastoral" Symphony No. 6 ___ Major
59 Tony-winning Hagen
60 Morse morsel |