5.8: A Shore Thing

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If there's one thing Dorothy has learned in her travails thus far, it's that letters often double as numbers and vice versa. "The two are so intertwined, it's often so hard to tell where one ends and the other begins!" Unfortunately, this puzzle looks like it will only compound Dorothy's confusion.

 Across

1 Clio or 2-Down

5 Attention-getting sound

9 Sorties into hostile territory

11 Carried out in silence

13 Flower of the genus Rhododendron

14 First-years, in short

15 A kinswoman of Flossie and Freddie

16 V X CXI

18 Those opposing

20 Deception, here

22 Frat party delivery

24 Ending for rock or disk

27 Official report on the Lewinsky scandal

29 Hurl

31 It's leapt in a children's game

32 Ar follower

34 Lions or Tigers or Bears (oh my!)

36 Gershwin brother

37 Comes

41 A sight for a sailor's sore eyes

43 "O Sole ___"

44 Unpaved trail

46 Pig ___ poke

47 Craving

49 Strangle or mangle

51 Third smallest inert gas

55 A small freshwater fish

56 LV A.D.'s emperor

58 Darlene portrayer

59 Often-donated item

62 Distress signal

64 15-Across, to Bert

65 Chalupa alternatives

67 Devotee

69 Shaka and others

70 In an odd fashion

71 Swinger's sin

72 Andre's rival

 

Down

1 Cosi fan Tutte composer

2 See 1-Across

3 Actor Mineo

4 Checked out

5 Treasury Department division

6 Wouldn't leave alone

7 MBA course

8 Fog

9 Tiger's weapon

10 Polio conqueror

12 "Stop, ___!"

17 Squealer healer

19 Skin stripe

21 Vier - ein

23 Caught, as a cold

25 Faced with a dilemma

26 "Yikes!"

28 Say you're coming

30 Rani's dress

33 Junction line

35 Verbal avian

37 Surrounded by

38 Beatles' metermaid

39 Typical wise guy name

40 Like SnO

42 Metallica drummer Ulrich

45 Get a move on

48 Wave unit

50 Tingle of the movies

52 Like an 18th-century room

53 Weaver, for one

54 "...___, brutish, and short"

57 Synonym of 63-Down

60 France, once

61 Often litigious organization

63 Synonym of 57-Down

66 Concorde, e.g.

68 Exist