Calling Ebenezer Scrooge
by Fred Piscop

Across

1. Way onto an auto ferry
5. 100-meter race, e.g.
9. A metronome marks it
14. Like the Sabin vaccine
15. Off-the-wall answer?
16. Terminus of many rivers
17. __ podrida
18. Weaver's need
19. Friars Club fete
20. 1973 De Niro movie
23. "This __ shall pass"
24. Chang's twin
25. Give two thumbs down to
26. Scam online
28. "Peg Woffington" author
30. Evil Disney lion
32. Sing the praises of
35. SASE, for one
37. "Many moons __"
38. Farm team coupler
39. Karl Wallenda, notably
44. Farming prefix
45. Game with Skip cards
46. Fort Worth sch.
47. Transvaal trekker
48. Dollywood's state: Abbr.
50. Speck in the sea
54. Put into law
56. Dim bulb
58. __ G (Baron Cohen character)
59. Queen, in chess
61. What an amusement park ride might provide
64. Daisy lookalike
66. "Swoosh" company
67. Rework, as copy
68. Pointer's word
69. Go sprawling
70. Il __ (Mussolini)
71. Gets wind of

72. Cackleberry producers
73. Essayist's page

Down

1. Boardinghouse resident
2. Dahl in "Jamaica Run"
3. Sweet Spanish wine
4. Marshall __
5. Triangular letter
6. Squirrel's stash
7. Site of Maxwell Smart's phone
8. Web site's starting point
9. Some sculpted forms
10. Prefix with friendly
11. Slaughterhouse hanger
12. El __, Tex.
13. Wise to the tricks of
21. Shelled out
22. Warms up in the bull pen
27. Phonograph needle

29. Disarm, as a bull
31. Plumped fowl
33. Islands strings, for short
34. Three times, to a druggist
36. Post-surgery support, for some
39. Treater's pickup
40. "My turn!"
41. Chinese potable
42. Tither's contribution
43. Buggy-driving sect
49. Place setting item
51. In traction, maybe
52. __ Islands (Tuvalu, formerly)
53. On a slant
55. Plot measurements
57. AA's 12
59. "Do the __!"
60. Stadium named for a tennis great
62. Suffix with million
63. Spiff up the décor of
65. Drop an easy one