Corn-ucopia
by Fred Piscop

Across

1. Bro or sis
4. Pesto, for one
9. Wreck beyond repair
14. Have __ at (try)
15. Part of the immune system
16. Awaken
17. CORN
20. Title role for Madonna
21. Take potshots
22. Feline, to Tweety
23. Pull up stakes
25. Come next
27. Mound stat
29. Make one's case
33. CORN
40. Logical beginning?
41. Barney's sitcom boss
42. Plow pioneer
43. Critter with a scut
44. Look like a wolf
45. CORN
47. Yuletide candy shapes
49. Pilot's announcement, briefly
50. Theater floor litter
54. Caught in a trap
59. B-52's home
62. Bits of news
64. Frank work
65. CORN
68. Short-sheeting, e.g.
69. Big name in metals
70. Obsolete map abbr.
71. Cassius whupped him in '64
72. Much teen talk
73. Tabloid aviators

Down

1. Kept out of the net
2. "__ at the office"
3. __ acid (mild antiseptic)
4. Stanley __ (early auto)
5. Vaudeville bit
6. One-eighties
7. Geneticist's creation
8. Like a Keebler spokesman
9. Put in alignment
10. Sock-in-the-gut response
11. End of a lion's tail
12. Home to most Turks
13. Ash Wednesday starts it
18. "Give __ whirl!"
19. AWOL chasers
24. Gives a poke to
26. Yale or Root
28. Be an accessory to
30. Big cheese in Holland
31. Flying start?
32. No slacker, he
33. The soft end of the Mohs scale
34. Fit for drafting
35. Early eviction site
36. Funereal fires
37. Actress Salonga or Thompson
38. Perry's creator
39. Chances upon
46. Place for Mace
48. Like Limburger
51. Hagen of stage and screen
52. B & B?
53. Locker room emanation
55. One of the classical elements
56. Sweeten the pot
57. Dadaist Max
58. Batik workers
59. Fuse units
60. Casino card game
61. Source of fiber
63. Director Vittorio De __
66. B & B
67. "Smoking or __?"

Solution

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