Ladies First Ladies First
by Frank Virzi, edited by Timothy Parker

Across

1. "Jake's Thing" writer Kingsley
5. Eastern nanny
9. Card of fortune or vice
14. Raisin rum cake
15. It's super when exploding
16. Accustom to hardship (Var.)
17. Give off
18. Crossword puzzle component
19. Odorize by burning
20. First Lady of the United States (1963-1969)
23. City with a high divorce rate?
24. Three sheets to the wind
25. Lenten symbol
28. Clint Eastwood series
31. Cookbook amt., often
34. Not carrying a heater
36. Hole-in-one
37. It can fall flat
38. First Lady of the United States (1953-1961)
42. For, how or what ending
43. Hightailed it
44. They may run on gas
45. Rep.'s counterpart
46. Water flask
49. Caviar, literally
50. Place for a half nelson
51. Happy bivalve?
53. First Lady of the United States (1861-1865)
61. Bermuda, for one
62. Word with "kill" or "hog"
63. The muse of history
64. Florida's cigar city
65. Canal or lake
66. Toast-topper, perhaps
67. Brew in a teapot, e.g.
68. Some are civil
69. Tug abruptly

Down

1. The third man
2. Famous literary bear
3. Annotation abbr.
4. Half-man, half-goat
5. Heart condition marked by chest pain
6. Rob of "Northern Exposure"
7. Fervent
8. Mecca trek (Var.)
9. Electronics whiz
10. In regard to
11. Baseball scores
12. Approximately
13. Prom attendee
21. Capital on the Aar
22. Like days of yore
25. Pinnacles
26. "Amistad" extra
27. Wimps' opposites
29. Contraction with "a prayer" or "a clue"

30. Sculpture material, sometimes
31. Babel, for one
32. Office assistant, once
33. In and of itself
35. Make public
37. Penultimate mo.
39. Sister of 63-Across
40. Bond creator Fleming
41. Province of China (Var.)
46. Light doze
47. Rich pastry
48. Passes over
50. Nearsighted one
52. "Star Trek" character
53. Clever sayings
54. Class with dissections, briefly
55. Cover with hoarfrost
56. Sketched
57. "The Explorer" of kid TV
58. Highly spiced stew
59. Mortgage, e.g.
60. Secluded corner

Solution

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