THE FRIDAY CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Old Testament spy

6 Arthur or Benaderet

9 Pieces partner

13 New York city

14 Right, left, or U

15 Legal memo starter

16 Money merry-go-round

19 Contest of words

20 Unintended escape

21 That's the truth!

22 Potato, for one

24 Comedian DeLuise

25 When the French fry

26 Takeover figure

30 With 27 Down, singly

31 Earthly paradises

32 Shoe box letters

33 Sharpened, as an ax

35 Coffee, Tea, --

39 Love, in Lucca

41 Asparagus bit

42 Corporate buyout

47 Judge Lance

48 Hoarder's goal

49 Madrid museum

50 Movie theater

52 Orchestral string

53 Mauna ---

56 Rainy-day nest egg

59 Utility customer

60 Rats!

61 Alma's partner

62 Sneaky guy

63 Bos. or Balt., for one

64 Scipio, to Hannibal

DOWN

1 Sidewalk feature

2 Fit conclusion?

3 Farm stand purchase

4 Environmentally concerned

5 Court figure

6 Camp bed

7 Tiny amount of work

8 Stationary, as a vessel

9 Tres ---

10 Undeniably

11 Sad, to Bridget

12 Pace or Irish follower

14 Pageant prop

17 Shift direction

18 Not italic

23 Cheerful

24 -- Dinah: Frankie Avalon hit

26 British miler Sebastian

27 See 30 Across

28 Dogma

29 14-legged crustacean

33 Belonging to the Netherlands

34 Turgenev's birthplace

36 Rolled backward, as a leaf

37 West of Brooklyn

38 Mess up

40 Dolphin's homebase

41 Dune grass

42 Spasmodic diaphragm movement

43 Sluggishly lazy

44 Shakespearean morsel

45 Doing a takeoff

46 McDonald's magnate

51 To be, in Toulouse

52 Air one's frustrations

54 What woman has

55 Not --- eye in the house

57 Generation difference

58 Cooler