Salutations, loyal Tanganites. Let’s hope that everyone has bought some Listerine since last week and is salivating for another ‘Metacross’ (it appears that this word already exists, but I think I’m the first to apply this definition to it). You might even get a chuckle out of this one, we’ll see… If this is your first trip to my Tanga Times, click here for previous issues. In order to obtain your Tanga Points, verify your solution, or both, send an E-mail to Verve640@AOL.com. This week the prizes are as follows:

1st – 10 TP
2nd – 6 TP
3rd – 4 TP

Here’s an intro song for everyone:
This one Styx with you…

CLUES:

Across
1. Univ. recruiter
5. Thunderous noise
9. Oklahoma city
14. It can be major or minor
15. Cranial ring
16. Singer Hayes
17. Terror
18. Knowing, as a secret
19. Premiere
20. By a bit of serendipity
23. Lennon’s lady
24. Morales of NYPD Blue
25. Surpassed
27. Ransack
30. Capricorn or Cancer
32. G8 member
33. Indian leaders
36. Grease
39. Miseries
41. Inheritor
42. Mideast title
43. Hatchery?
44. Strict herbivores
46. Fund-raising grp.
47. Strangely
49. Get-go
51. It often precedes quo
53. Eatery
55. Rolodex no.
56. Hidden entity in each of 11-Down, 20-Across, and 29-Down
62. October stones
64. Scourge
65. Cowboy Aikman
66. Lofty home
67. Hindu princess
68. Tatting
69. Incite evil
70. Receives a bill
71. Wapitis

Down
1. Comic bark
2. Dessert sandwich
3. Winter Palace ruler
4. OPEC, for one
5. High-quality porcelain
6. Hawaii’s ‘Pineapple Island’
7. “Thanks ___!”
8. Corn cake
9. Neaten
10. Operate
11. Shelters for families like the Joads
12. It’ll make you sweat
13. Follow, as a tip
21. Tech support caller
22. Begin to untie
26. A blank one can be wild
27. Total
28. Oceanic volcano creation
29. Groundless warning
30. Zesty
31. Mother of Zeus
34. Recommend
35. Director Schumacher
37. Religious ceremony
38. “Doggone it!”
40. Leave in
45. Settee
48. Reddish brown
50. Chafe
51. Brown ermine
52. Home of skins
53. Hag
54. Shield of Zeus
57. Retro do
58. Talon
59. River to the Caspian
60. Mineral aggregate
61. Potato buds
63. Edge