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This week's theme: Birds

Across

1. * Talons
6. Small island
9. * Bird's Bane
13. * Part of the Poet of "The Raven"
14. Take apart
15. * Chess piece
16. * Type of bird
18. Additional
19. * Beautiful Ballet, with Lake
20. Counterparts to Yangs
22. Tripled letter
25. eno toN
27. * A ___ bird told me...
31. * Bird of Prey
33. Ms. Fitzgerald
35. Mr. Smythe the Cartoonist
36. * rekcepdooW .rM
37. * Auk = ___ Bird
38. Seize Salad
39. * Title for Harland Sanders of KFC (See #64D for a Related Clue)
40. Legendary name in baseball
41. Tree dripper
42. Writing fluids
44. Jackie O's hubby
45. * Q. "Does the Dodo still ___?" A. "No."
48. The 17th letter of the Greek alphabet
49. * Song by The Byrds, when tripled
50. * "Wide Open Spaces" group, with Dixie
51. * He directed Tippi in "The Birds" (1963)
53. eohS fo troS
55. Drink Daintily
56. * Flightless Flappers
58. Horses of a brownish-gray color
60. Sort of Salamander
63. * Some birds
68. Word with Carotene
69. Minerals
70. Fort Follower
71. * Kind of bird
72. * Hen-Peck
73. * Color of some birds

Down

1. Machine part
2. Building extension ...but it's flipped around?
3. * Chicken King connecter
4. Lots
5. * Type of bird
6. Collection of sayings
7. Said at the Kitchen Sink: "You wash. ___."
8. * Movie, with Mockingbird
9. * Bird part
10. ISP, for one
11. * Sort of baby bird, without the "ling"
12. Scrape by: ___ out a living
14. Arm bone
17. Counsel to be Cautious
21. Ms. Peeples
22. * Mr. Duck, without the "Da"
23. Pet Rocks, for example
24. * "I Ran (So Far Away)" band: A ___ Seagulls
26. * How some birds spend some of their time
28. * Where some birds are from, with The
29. Mr. Dykstra
30. * Wings album: "Back to the ___"
32. * Lovey-Dovey sounds
34. Rent
38. Latka's show
40. Boston Bruin, once
41. * secalP gnihcreP
42. Mr. Gershwin
43. Org. with sticks and pucks
44. * Joined by Birdwatchers: The National ___ Society
46. Do the slalom
47. Kitchen measurement (abbr.)
49. otni naR
50. * Game with Mrs. Peacock
52. * Substance in a birdbath ...but it's backwards?
54. Likelihoods
57. "Roseanne" (TV) name
59. Big trucks (bkwds.)
60. * The Peacock network
61. Poetic contraction
62. Assoc. that was protested in Seattle
64. * Something in a bucket of Kentucky Fried Chicken
65. Howdy, without the "He"
66. Puny ...but backwards?
67. Prefix that means "With"