Caught! by Fred Piscop

Across 1. In the thick of 5. Burn to a crisp 9. Essential part 13. Coin redesigned in 1945 14. Anise-flavored liqueur 15. Totaled 16. Part of Krupa's kit 18. Early anesthetic 19. Seaweed extract 20. Accesses to attics, sometimes 22. Spiral-shelled mollusk 24. Writer Hentoff 25. Numero __ (first-rate) 26. David __-Gurion 27. Those on the bench 30. Name of several Egyptian kings 32. Scratch a dele 34. Doll's word 36. Juror, in theory 37. Cyberspace administrator 40. Beach plaything 42. Height: Prefix 43. Wing it, musically 47. Harvard student 49. Suffix with earth or duck 51. A Hope-Crosby destination 52. E-mail address suffix 53. "Dad," to Jethro Clampett 55. Homecoming returnees 57. Some attempts at baskets 61. K-12, educationally speaking 62. Kukla's puppet pal 63. Bottom-line number 66. Jesse Ventura was one of them 67. Feature of pine paneling 68. Carrier to Tel Aviv 69. Jamboree sight 70. Egyptian snakes 71. Be dependent

Down 1. Billboard messages 2. Mosque tower 3. Use the mind's eye 4. Rid of vermin, Pied Piper-style 5. Package letters 6. On the disabled list 7. France's Côte d'__ 8. Word before nose or candle 9. Barbieri of jazz 10. Using one's own staff 11. More unyielding 12. Body stockings cover them 15. Bureaucratic tangle 17. Cupid, to the Greeks 21. Bogey beater 22. "My Boys" channel 23. Ready for drilling? 28. The Crimson Tide, for short 29. Like some talk or print 31. Griffin of game shows 33. Nincompoop 35. __ spumante 38. Slips by 39. Ike's singing partner, once 40. Conditionally-released con 41. Zambian's neighbor 44. Where a sleeve starts 45. Barely adequate 46. Luau fare 47. Kathie Lee, to Regis, once 48. Cry to Cratchit 50. Watkins __, NY 54. "Willy __ and the Chocolate Factory" 56. Tummy trouble 58. Bagpiper's garb 59. Change for a C-note 60. "Whoa!" 64. "__ about time!" 65. Bridge guru Culbertson

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