Verbiage

Obsolete

By Graham Meyer

Across
1. Stat
5. Direction for this word
11. Vicious of the Sex Pistols
14. Popular Scotch mixer
15. Courteney’s Friends character
16. Till
17. Bygone in the library
19. Not an early bird?
20. Macbeth, for example
21. Rodent named for its smell
23. Bygone in the newsroom
27. Hot spot in Sicily
28. Singer best unheard?
29. A high degree
30. Blow-out preceder?
34. Overpermissive
35. Losers of Super Bowl XXXIV
38. Lamp gas
40. Refuses to
41. Like some bagels
42. It collects dust
43. What’s gained when you unplug the drain
44. Joanne of She Wore a Yellow Ribbon
45. Double ___
47. First-floor apartment, probably
49. Bygone in the living room
54. Like an unoccupied cab
56. Grand ___ National Park
57. See 62-Across
58. Bygone in a booth
62. Have the 57-Across, maybe
63. Swann’s love, in Proust
64. M*A*S*H star
65. Grant’s counterpart
66. Butterflies
67. Didn’t clot

Down
1. Famous British racecourse
2. Like dishwater
3. Spot pitcher
4. Tony Gwynn, for his whole career
5. Gp. for ENTs and OBs
6. Private bed?
7. Cellular protein builder
8. Crude guys?
9. Use an S.O.S.
10. Obeys gravity?
11. Bygone for a secretary
12. Tom Vilsack, notably
13. Genre of blues
18. Crow calls
22. Pot insultee
24. Miami Heat head coach Pat
25. Gulf state
26. Nickname for an El Pasoan
29. Zip
30. Important question in a mystery
31. Atonement author McEwan
32. Bygone in math class
33. “Yippee!”
35. Dye
36. Agree without speaking
37. Pit
39. Bristly horned antelope
40. Alongside
42. Program glitch
45. He loses on purpose
46. URL starter
47. Headcheese-to-be
48. “It’s true”
49. Eat away at
50. Place for repentant celebrities
51. Circular island
52. ___ Nast
53. Forgo the dough hook
55. Decrease?
59. Off-roading buggy
60. 66, e.g.
61. No no?

Technology moves fast. Your CDs and videotapes are aging. Tough luck if you invested in laserdiscs. This month’s puzzle takes you back to some old standbys that are now relegated to the attic. No doubt some solvers will be tempted to say, “Hey! I still use that!” (hopefully not 32-Down, for Pete’s sake). If so, more power to you. I tried to learn 11-Down and failed miserably. If anyone questions you, just remember: they’re not old, they’re vintage.

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