Ball Four by Fred Piscop

Across 1. Day-__ paint 4. Source of contraband cigars 8. Sudden outbursts 14. Letters on a chit 15. Cartel acronym 16. Draws a bead on 17. Lunch-counter order 18. 1977 Mel Brooks film 20. Cotton thread 22. __ Park, Colorado 23. Saint-__ (French textile center) 26. Preserving, as pork 30. "I did it!" 31. Muscat's sultanate 33. Prolific "author" 34. __ a living (just get by) 36. It had a part in the Bible 38. Mount Saint Helens fallout 40. Stores, as fodder 42. Follower's suffix 43. Site of Tut's tomb 45. Favored one leg 47. Country __ (great distance) 48. Sicilian spewer 49. Bivouac shelter 52. Form, as a jury 55. Afghan maker 57. Esther of "Good Times" 59. Hot Lips Houlihan, for one 60. Purveyor of bawdy jokes, say 65. Flat __ pancake 66. Simple hydrocarbon 67. Pew locale 68. Op. __ (footnote abbr.) 69. Whistle-blower 70. New World abbr. 71. Sardine can attachment Down 1. Chicken's heart, e.g. 2. Sue Lyon role of 1962

3. Butler, maid, et al. 4. Skater Sasha 5. Wire service inits. 6. Request a doggie treat 7. Head problem? 8. He comes once a year 9. Computer-screen dot 10. Mutinied ship of 1839 11. Mao __-tung 12. Scarf down 13. Dirty digs 19. Org. 21. Dike problem 24. Middays 25. Outback avians 27. Advantageous position 28. Turndowns 29. Pesky flier 32. Not quite upright 35. Extra-wide, at the shoe store 36. Staff anew 37. Letters for Kreskin 38. "Look __ ..." ("Misty" starter) 39. Gap-filling wedge 41. Sausage unit 44. Stutz __ (classic car) 46. Ides of March rebuke 48. Model Macpherson 50. Tabloids "monster" 51. Trade agreement 53. Nary a soul 54. Chaser of "that wascally wabbit" 56. Word preceding city or circle 58. Ferber or Best 60. Ashe Stadium do-over 61. Ear: Prefix 62. Horton heard one 63. "How Dry __" 64. DC's Constitution or Pennsylvania

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