'Cow's Word' Crossword by Dave Fisher
Across
1. Dems opposite
5. Tie
9. Indian tea state
14. Relating to the ear
15. Scintilla
16. Bessie's favorite wild ruminant?
17. Bessie's favorite tune?
19. Peels
20. Glove material
21. Food critic's concern
23. Appropriate
25. Possessed
26. Most retiring
29. She can't be married
34. Russian news agency
35. Word with phone or block
37. Raccoon relative
38. ___ roll
39. What Bessie will do at a bovine bash?
41. Stanley Cup org.
42. House bug
44. Put together
45. Pulitzer Prize novelist, James ___
46. Lake state
48. Fix origami, maybe
50. Que.'s neighbor
51. Sow mate
52. Absence of pain
57. Hitachi rival
61. Flat
62. Where Bessie finds bliss?
64. Bessie's favorite Bond?
65. Long
66. Advantage
67. Kournikova and Freud
68. Survivor's first word?
69. Red and Black

Down
1. Stir up
2. Europe's tallest volcano
3. Brad
4. Plans secretly
5. Faint
6. Perch
7. Not beneath
8. Arab equivalent of an arroyo
9. Surroundings
10. Euphemism for a scum bag
11. Tender
12. Quizzes
13. Eyesore
18. Maiden name users, often
22. Tai's follower
24. Score
26. Bee bee?
27. Saigon's adversary, once
28. Stern
29. US painter, John F. ___
30. Trudge
31. Argentine dance
32. Lucy's landlady
33. Irked
36. "Kate and Allie" role
39. Building material
40. Goose egg
43. Third world menace
45. Cottage styles
47. Corp. swallowed by Verizon
49. Assuage
51. Cleanse
52. ___ mater
53. Light gas?
54. Bard's river
55. ___ dish
56. Move slowly
58. Connecting point
59. Hindu philosophy
60. Washington bills
63. Get timber
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