Theme: Take T and C
Across:
1. 17th-century privateer : KIDD
5. Rock worth unearthing : ORE
8. Military groups : UNITS
13. About : INRE
14. Downtime for Mars? : PAX
15. Absorb : SOPUP
16. Imperfect produce? : SCUFFEDCABBAGE
19. Rob's "West Wing" role : SAM
20. Domestic tearjerker : ONION
21. "__ Wedding": "The Simpsons" episode involving a fortune-teller : LISAS
23. Nocturnal picket-line crosser? : SCABINTHEDARK
26. Wild partner : WOOLLY
28. __ Alamos : LOS
29. Screening gp. : TSA
30. Woodstock performer before Joan : ARLO
31. Kid's comeback : DOESSO
34. Reconnaissance team? : SCOUTHEARTEDMEN
40. Romance novel features : TRYSTS
41. 1963 role for Shirley : IRMA
42. In the same way as : ALA
45. Defensive question : AMI
46. It merged with Coors in 2005 : MOLSON
48. Result of a London tea cart mishap? : ROLLINGSCONES
52. __ Blades, Latin jazz star : RUBEN
53. Oater omen : NOOSE
54. Uma's "Pulp Fiction" role : MIA
57. Feature of a taped hardcore punk performance? : VIDEOSCREAMING
60. Stage direction : ENTER
61. Vital : KEY
62. Relative of -ule : ETTE
63. Ruled quarters? : ROOST
64. '60s campus org. : SDS
65. Their Christmas feast included roast beast : WHOS
Down:
1. Petruchio's request of Kate : KISS
2. Empire whose last stronghold was conquered in 1572 : INCA
3. Ginger Baker specialty : DRUMSOLO
4. Dict. entry : DEF
5. Ready for business no later than : OPENBY
6. Pizza cuts, essentially : RADII
7. Halfway house resident : EXCON
8. Flash drive letters : USB
9. Roi et reine, par exemple : NOBLESSE
10. "The drinks were on me" : IPAID
11. Affects, as one's heartstrings : TUGSAT
12. Divers' weapons : SPEARS
17. Future yearling : FOAL
18. Hunting lodge decoration : ANTLERS
22. Jamaican genre : SKA
24. Influence : CLOUT
25. One taking coats, perhaps : HOST
26. Used to be : WAS
27. Tolkien terror : ORC
31. Chanel creations : DESIGNS
32. Grain generally pluralized : OAT
33. Ballet's Black Swan : ODILE
35. Green workers : TRAINEES
36. "Amazing Grace," e.g. : HYMN
37. Big name in pies : MRSSMITH
38. Comic Philips : EMO
39. Indian flatbread : NAN
42. LAX stat : ARR
43. Adjustable door feature : LOUVER
44. Spooner of Spoonerism fame, for one : ALBINO
46. Walks unhurriedly : MOSEYS
47. Most fit to serve : ONEA
49. Engendered : LEDTO
50. Subjects of washday mysteries : SOCKS
51. Hollowed out : CORED
55. Delighted by : INTO
56. Quite a long time : AGES
58. Scrap : ORT
59. Copy cats : MEW
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