Visit to Oz

by George Barany

This "mid-week level" puzzle, with probably more black squares than is normally considered kosher, represents an earlier draft of the eventually major revamped "main" puzzle, We're Not in Kansas. This version had to be abandoned after a couple of our beta testers pointed out that one of the theme answers was the subject of an inexplicable spelling error. Oy!

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Across

1.

4. ___:England :: Mate:59-Across

7. Still outstanding

11. River in China

13. 1988 National League Rookie of the Year Chris

14. Popular vodka brand, informally

15. 8-Down, 49-Down, or 69-Across, e.g.

17. George Eliot or George Sand, e.g.

18. Leandro's love

19. Former Phillies shortstop and manager

21. Gargantuan

22.

Note added in proof: The answer word entered into the grid contains a typographical error, for which we apologize.

25. Enero to enero

26. Base in baseball

27. Champ who could "sting like a bee"

28. Dirección sailed by Columbus

30. Day before a Jewish holiday

32. Prefix with intestinal

35.

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41. Number after tres

42. Mélange

43. Bradley and Khayyam

45. Navigator's need

48. Energy storage molecule, briefly

49. Hawaiian acacia tree

50.

54. Texter's "Wow!"

55. Where Hades seized Persephone

56. Be transformed?

57. Present a resumé

59. Home of the birds and animals pictured in this puzzle

64. King killed by Oedipus

65. Missing a deadline

66. Amalgamate

67. Throat-clearing sound

68. Bit of truth decay?

69.

(answer is slang)

Down

1. Common street or tree

2. 59-Across-born Wasikowska who played "Alice in Wonderland" and "Jane Eyre"

3. Nasser's org.

4. Part of l'année

5. Addis ___

6. Influence

7. Ear: Prefix

8.

9. Restaurateur Kaufman who was on a first-name basis with Woody Allen

10.

12. Plural ending for neur- or psych-

13. It holds the line

14. They're persuasive

16. ___ Minor

20. Dropped a line

22. Minnesota-born New York Times journalist/media critic David

23. Centerfielder on Mets World Series team

24. Isle mentioned in "When I'm Sixty-Four"

26. Ask for a pardon

29. District in London or New York

31. Cow, in Catalonia

33. Word with base or ball

34. Leaf opening

36. Box office failures, often

37. Had a base in baseball

38. Banned apple spray

39. Meter maid of song

40. Keystone figure

43. Tuba onomatopoeia

44.

46. Weaken

47. Sound engine sound

49.

51. ___ sides (from every direction)

52. Island northwest of Oahu

53. 500 sheets

58. Abner's old radio partner

60. Jeanne d'Arc, for example: Abbr.

61. Celtic Neptune

62. World workers grp.

63. Commotion