Chain Gang by Fred Piscop

Across 1. It's a plus 6. "Haste makes waste," e.g. 11. Actor Ayres 14. Clean kind of energy 15. Sebastian Coe, notably 16. Inventor Whitney 17. Local retailer, maybe 19. Badge material 20. Hellenic H 21. Generation __ (boomers' kids) 22. River-mouth formations 24. For a __ (cheaply) 26. Pastry prettifier 28. Conk out 29. Siren of Germanic legend 32. Lint collector 35. Cheap so-and-so 38. Problem with horns? 40. Send forth 43. Three-dimensional scene 44. Thumb-twiddler 45. Lord's house 46. Canyon effect 47. Archie's unflattering nickname for Edith 51. Miner's strike 53. __ contendere 54. Analogy words 58. Reef formers 61. Theda of silents 63. Porky or Petunia 64. Muscles to crunch 65. Worker on a route 68. Tell a whopper 69. See eye to eye 70. Tippy craft 71. Guitar master Paul 72. Converges on 73. Starts the betting

Down 1. Obstinate equines 2. __ voce (softly) 3. __-Kettering Institute 4. Shucker's unit 5. Museum dinosaur, for short 6. Fine arbitrarily 7. Truck fuel 8. Yodeler's perch 9. Made a right turn, on a horse 10. Flubbed it 11. "Stupid Pet Tricks" talk show host 12. Film director Kazan 13. Takes the gold 18. Actor Dullea 23. Well-read folks 25. City near Los Angeles 27. Foxx of "Sanford and Son" 30. Exam sans pencils 31. Jr.'s jr. 33. Peas, to a prankster 34. Carson replaced him 35. Ancient Iranian 36. Apple debut of 1998 37. Carpenters' supports 39. __ Linda, Calif. 41. Slugger Williams 42. 2000 title role for Julia 48. More majestic 49. Marrons __ (candied chestnuts) 50. When doubled, a Polynesian island 52. Violinist Mischa 55. Backbone 56. Attach with a rope 57. Brutish sorts 58. Ump's decision 59. Big Apple theater award 60. Wise one 62. With the bow, in music 66. Roth __ 67. Eminem's genre Copyright © Fred Piscop