That is to say, Modern Problems

by Erik Noyes

At least a few themes running through this puzzle.

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Across

  • 1.  SF author, Judith
  • 7.  It carries oxygen
  • 11.  eBay unit
  • 14.  Hot and heavy
  • 15.  How people are fired, abbr
  • 16.  U2 producer
  • 17.  Need for putting non-digital pictures on your computer
  • 20.  Gold of the Sierra Madre
  • 21.  Dental x-rays of me are of these
  • 22.  __ 3000
  • 26.  Wave away
  • 28.  Mend again
  • 29.  Sideshow's castrato alter ego?
  • 33.  A phone break-in?
  • 35.  Hard hit housing industry in 2009, abbr.
  • 36.  Dumber
  • 37.  Further back in a boat from
  • 39.  Game, ___, and match
  • 40.  What emails leave
  • 44.  Go from an Angel to a Giant, say
  • 46.  Baby hooter
  • 47.  Went nuts
  • 48.  Southwestern plateaus
  • 49.  NY VIP turned TV's Honorable J.
  • 52.  About two shillings to the Anglo-Saxons
  • 54.  "Do you mean that thing way over there..."
  • 60.  HR metric, acro.
  • 61.  Pitch a __
  • 62.  Convinced to do wrong
  • 63.  Jude of movies
  • 64.  Beginnings, abbr.
  • 65.  Big Kahuna on the East Coast

Down

  • 1.  Writer sub.
  • 2.  And so on...
  • 3.  Stephen of film
  • 4.  Kurosawa' King Lear
  • 5.  "Don't treat me any differently..."
  • 6.  Lutefisk curer
  • 7.  French article
  • 8.  Panamanian city
  • 9.  "Feline must leave my lap now..."
  • 10.  "I took a long trip to see the Far East..."
  • 11.  Dave Wakeling's band
  • 12.  Memo heading
  • 13.  "___ this mean we're through?"
  • 18.  Marilyn M's ex
  • 19.  Avec in San Francisco
  • 22.  Creative type
  • 23.  Night at the Museum assistant director, Philip
  • 24.  Two-thirds of an A Major chord
  • 25.  Nothing in Lourdes
  • 27.  What?
  • 30.  Oven fries
  • 31.  Best bassist: Entwistle __?
  • 32.  Brutes
  • 34.  Quadrophenia type: a Mod __?
  • 38.  Wales River
  • 41.  Daffy's passing?
  • 42.  Children's author, familiarly
  • 43.  Take Mulligan over
  • 45.  First automated digital computer, abbr.
  • 49.  French honey
  • 50.  Crooner James
  • 51.  Traditional Arabic sailing vessel
  • 53.  Two types of ER employees
  • 55.  Gross unit, abbr.
  • 56.  Red Hook's other name
  • 57.  Out of the Blue band
  • 58.  that is to says
  • 59.  FB scores