Beanfest by Fred Piscop

Across 1. Mrs. Dithers 5. Trucker on the air 9. Stock or bond 14. Yemeni port 15. Pakistani tongue 16. Bride's worldly possessions 17. County center 18. Drought ender 19. Burger topper 20. Ingredient in chocolate 23. Vane dir. 24. Cause of an immune response 25. Carmine and crimson 27. "Waking __ Devine" (1998 film) 28. Tacitly approved 32. __ to (check, as a dictionary) 35. Pogs, Furbys, et al. 36. Vena __ (main vein) 37. Altar words 38. Chunk of fairway 39. Fig. stamped into an automobile 40. Plant with fronds 42. State firmly 43. What's in, in fashion 45. Made beloved 47. "Beavis and Butt-head" chuckle syllable 48. Gallup survey 49. Williams or Redgrave 53. Hit the slopes 55. One of an Earl Scruggs set 58. Five: Prefix 60. Inauguration Day recital 61. General Bradley 62. Writer Chekhov 63. "Zip-__-Doo-Dah" 64. Soft drink choice 65. Cold and unfeeling 66. Brain-busting 67. Proposer's prop

Down 1. Co-conspirator of Brutus 2. Common theater name 3. Respond to a stimulus 4. Chemist Lavoisier 5. Reined in 6. Rocket engineer Wernher von __ 7. Make changes in 8. Litter's littlest 9. Went gaga over 10. "That's a joke, __!" 11. It's really just a group of patrol boats 12. Cupid, to the Greeks 13. Daly of "Cagney & Lacey" 21. Golden-__ (senior) 22. Dadaist Max 26. Earp cohort Holliday 28. __ in (yielded) 29. Dump emanation 30. The devil's work 31. Great __ (big dog) 32. In widespread use 33. Eve's garden 34. Auto that was the subject of criminal charges 35. Lincoln's bill 38. Alfalfa's heartthrob 41. Modern: Prefix 43. E-mailed, e.g. 44. "Get a piece of __" (insurance company slogan) 46. The Empire State's capital 47. __ over (reviewed) 49. Ballot caster 50. Pop's Carly or Paul 51. Drain-clearing tool 52. See eye to eye 53. Sauna sites 54. The Daily Planet's Clark 56. Genesis boat builder 57. __ Pinkett Smith 59. Won __ soup Copyright © Fred Piscop