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

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