Hold Your Speed by Fred Piscop

Across 1. Like a lot 6. Figure skater Katarina 10. Say "!@#$%" 14. Garbo line ender 15. Bar mitzvah dance 16. Declare openly 17. Escapades 18. School on the Thames 19. Stubborn beast 20. Part of the system that produces white blood cells 22. Trudge along 23. Nettle 24. Simple hydrocarbon 26. Natty of "The Leather- Stocking Tales" 30. Bend over backwards? 32. Jacob's twin 33. Small songbird 35. Windows typeface 39. Six years, for a senator 40. Washday units 42. Treater's words 43. Highly skilled 45. Reason to cancel school 46. Home furnishings chain 47. One of us 49. Nantucket, for one 51. Cost, slangily 54. Volcanic output 55. March 17th slogan word 56. Beethoven, notably 63. Bankroll 64. Coal-rich region 65. Quebec's __ Peninsula 66. Genesis victim 67. Ticklish Muppet 68. Set free 69. Gross minus net, to a trucker 70. Baseball's Dizzy or Daffy 71. Middays

Down 1. It may be unmitigated 2. Oil of __ (cosmetics brand) 3. Dressmaker's dummy 4. Like a GI peeling spuds 5. Send again 6. Spiral-shelled critter 7. I, as in Ithaca? 8. Sci-fi film of '82 9. Bicycle built for two 10. Emollient in some skin creams 11. That thing hanging from your palate 12. Wise Athenian 13. Ingmar or Ingrid Bergman 21. Sound of an empty stomach 25. Unfilled, on a TV sched. 26. Early VCR format 27. Played for a sap 28. Stable mother 29. Service station attendant's fistful 30. Rimes of country 31. __-European (language group) 34. Parks in 1955 news 36. "__ Dinka Doo" 37. Sermon closer 38. X-ray vision thwarter 41. Swing-and-a-miss sound 44. Harbor workhorse 48. __ up (erred) 50. Japanese bigwig of old 51. Make more lean 52. Resort spot off Venezuela 53. Worker with a pick 54. Golf green surrounder 57. Dubya's school 58. Doll's cry 59. Prefix meaning "one- billionth" 60. Analogy words 61. Wash cycle 62. Shirts with slogans

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