All-Day Event
by Fred Piscop

Across

1. Easy marks
5. Diamond defect
9. Dwelt
14. It may thicken
15. Cohort of Kent and Olsen
16. Ring great Griffith
17. "__ boy!"
18. See 24-Across
19. Big name in bridge
20. Venus at sunrise, sometimes
23. Singer DiFranco
24. When paired with 18-Across, miscellany
25. Utter chaos
27. Thick __ brick
29. Beirut is its cap.
31. Crystal ball consultant
32. Tend to the turkey
34. "Just for the heck __ ..."
36. Leather piercers
40. Tea, e.g.
43. Top-shelf
44. Pound or Cornell
45. "Nancy" rich kid
46. Go ballistic
48. Lyrical Gershwin
50. Brylcreem amount
51. Lead from the dugout
54. Pull at the earth's surface, briefly
56. Corrida shout
57. Formal attire
63. "Zelig" director
65. Brie covering
66. Al, "inventor" of the Internet
67. Apartment sign
68. "The Raven" opener
69. Jacob's twin
70. Eyelid problems
71. Bewhiskered barker
72. HUD, for one: Abbr.

Down

1. Cyber-trash
2. Choir voice
3. Sauerbraten, et al.
4. Mike holder
5. Defat, whaler-style
6. Singer k.d.
7. Added stipulations
8. Shrine Game side
9. Ogrish Simon
10. "Editorially speaking," in chat-room shorthand
11. Like the flu
12. Actress Verdugo
13. Strauss material
21. Do-nothing
22. Assists, criminally
26. Harsh Athenian lawgiver
27. Quatrain scheme
28. Ahead of the tag
30. Flask filler
31. Commandments mount
33. Half of octa-
35. On behalf of
37. Part of a V-formation, perhaps
38. In __ land (spacy)
39. Grubby guy
41. Israeli desert region
42. Arboreal ape
47. Scully and Smart
49. Short poem on two rhymes
51. Zoo barriers
52. Dole out
53. Literature Nobelist Sachs
55. Urged, with "on"
58. Lustful god
59. Mudville complement
60. Andean of old
61. End of a shooting
62. Not masc. or fem.
64. Shoebox letters

Solution

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