Journalistic Quintet by Fred Piscop

Across 1. Coarse file 5. Buster of Flash Gordon serials 11. Qt. halves 14. Singer James or Jones 15. Oceangoing forces 16. Grid great Monk 17. Classic Abbott and Costello routine 19. Cousteau's milieu 20. Politico Trent 21. Word in informal school names 22. Bibliographic abbr. 23. Patch up 25. Question from Chico Marx 27. Beehive State tribesman 28. Director Peckinpah 30. Hostess Mesta 31. B & B part 32. Egg on 35. Villain's look 36. Slangy request for info 39. Titled Turk of old 42. Buck's stopping point? 43. CD forerunners 46. Up and about 47. Wrap up 49. Hurler's stat 50. Dazed one's query 54. They have no sting 56. Mushy foods 57. Majorino of "Waterworld" 59. Dry as dust 60. Fuse unit 61. Preprandial query 64. Like baseball's Willie Keeler 65. Deliverers of express mail? 66. Not fooled by 67. '60s radical org. 68. Size up 69. Boxcar rider's fare, stereotypically

Down 1. Tape-recorder button 2. Wheaties box adorner 3. Bent over 4. Carbo loader's meal 5. MSNBC alternative 6. Huck Finn's craft 7. Miller's "__ From the Bridge" 8. Canoe wood 9. "Don't __!" ("Join us!") 10. NY hrs. 11. Retiree's place? 12. Cloying stuff 13. Menacing figure 18. Mayberry's town drunk 22. Shangri-las 23. Difficulty, to Hamlet 24. Sitarist's tune 26. Church niche 29. Closet pest 33. Get more mature 34. Rock's __ Straits 36. Propeller sounds 37. Wonderland critter 38. Sell via machine 39. Fruits in patches? 40. Red-faced 41. Siberian plains 43. Not at all harsh 44. Occur before 45. KLM rival 48. Gunslinger's challenge 51. A Musketeer 52. Demeanors 53. Lint-catching navel 55. Bicolor cookies 58. Curbside quaffs 61. New Deal org. 62. CIA precursor 63. Pull to the garage Copyright © Fred Piscop