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 __?"

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