The Power of Invisibility

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ACROSS
1. Not pub.
4. Word with smart or hard
7. C++ memory use tool
8. Take out
9. Long-legged bird
10. She played Annie in 1977
11. "On a very little book and accompanied with __" (Stevenson)
13. Wrestler Hart
14. Romanian prime minister assassinated by the Iron Guard
15. Spots
18. Kyrgyzstani silk-producing city
21. How long it will take the supplier to have the syst. up and running after a crash
25. Italian-French manufacturer of widely used prop planes
28. Disposable razor brand
32. ___ Creek, town near Cape Fear
33. A.E. poem "___ Much?"
35. "Six Feet Under" performer
36. Like some sweatshirts
38. Jostled (Eng. dial. var.)
40. Relatives of composer Thomas
41. Manhattan and Brooklyn endings
43. Short piece of fishing line
44. Brush back, as a batter
48. "I can't hear you" interjections
51. ___-bitsy
55. Ophthamal. Journal
58. Certain one-point Scrabble tiles (var.)
61. Enzyme suffixes
62. Drinks "for you"
63. Dali, for one
65. Leek (obs. dial. var.)
66. 1973-82 US Govt. grant program, and its namesakes
67. What guys on the make want to get
68. Freelance workers, often (abbr.)
69. emacs, possibly
72. Email address characters

DOWN
1. Popular sharp cheese
2. 1964 variant of LISP1.5
3. 1999 Ron Howard film
4. Circe's island
5. Regions in the body that first receive cancer cells from the disease orig.
6. Stay in, in poker
7. "From Mouth to Mouth" anthologist John
8. They can be dishonorable
9. Exile's home, famously
10. Actress Joanna and family
12. Tokyo, once
21. Certain leptons
22. Like shipwrecked sailors, perhaps
23. Bus. card abbrs.
24. Form of the language as spoken by BBC broadcasters, traditionally
26. USSR news source
27. Unix command to execute a program on another machine
29. He played detective Theo on TV (punnily enough!)


30. Film unit
31. Work with an abacus, perhaps
32. Ancient Irish king Brian
33. Panama or Suez (abbr.)
35. End-of-column abbr.
36. Owned
37. "__ Liebe Dich", Beatles rarity
39. Short-lived US propaganda agency
42. Boils; heaves (obs.)
56. Scottish tartan pattern
57. DoD intelligence-gathering org.
59. Krabapple and Ferber
60. They don't fly anymore
61. Eagle's nest
62. "Pine tar incident" figure
63. Avenue or street
64. Bruins' home
65. Polite wd.

UP
9. Macabre auth.
11. est or Silva Mind Control, perhaps
12. Snorri Sturlson work, e.g.
13. Plie aid
14. Makes raisins, perhaps
16. Insect repellent
17. "Get Unloaded" concert sponsor
19. Act part
20. German bunny
34. Aphrodisiacs' outcomes, hopefully
36. The Queen, in certain pronouncements (abbr.)
37. A Keres people of New Mexico
39. Edible tuber of South America
40. Montmartre month
41. "__ She Lovely?"
43. Use an Excel data function
44. "__ du seigneur"; feudal custom portrayed in "Braveheart"
45 Like our Humvees in Iraq, reportedly
46 French table seasonings
47. "The Dry Salvages" poet's monogram
49. Former Jets owner Leon
50. Be quiet!
52. ___ polyphemus, large American moth
53. Rosebud, for one
54. Amt., as in a cookie recipe
64. Sao Paolo airport code
65. Malay boat (var.)
66. Motley ___
67. Loam deposit
69. Soft thin silk variety (var.)
70. Worms, et al.
71. (HOOCCH2)2NCH2CH2N(CH2COOH)2
72. Envelope abbrs.
73. Milk source
74. Draft agcy.