Monkeying Around by Fred Piscop

Across 1. Hocus-__ 6. Ranch vacationer 10. Poker ante, perhaps 14. __-garde 15. Non-written test 16. Tennis's Mandlikova 17. Analyze, grammatically 18. Folklore meanie 19. May race, in brief 20. Tool with a hexagonal shaft 23. Fizzle out 24. Have __ at 25. First-rate 27. All-time greatest 32. Tart fruit 33. Tread the boards 34. Strung along 36. New Orleans sandwich 39. Nick Charles's wife 41. USNA part 43. California wine valley 44. Has down pat 46. Reason for a raise 48. Backboard attachment 49. 48-Across attachments 51. Brief outlines 53. Bargain hunter's stop 56. Clean air org. 57. "__ alive!" 58. Large companies, collectively 64. Museum guide's offering 66. Harvest haul 67. Nitpick 68. Pound or pint 69. Lotto cousin 70. Leave dumbfounded 71. Match components 72. __ Lee of Marvel Comics 73. Divided, like a swimming pool

Down 1. One of the Three Bears 2. Cameo shape 3. Rob Reiner's dad 4. Topple from office 5. Casey, the Mets' first manager 6. Way in 7. Advise strongly 8. Mends, in a way 9. Awards a seat to 10. O'Hare locale: Abbr. 11. Bicycle part 12. Word before rubber or ink 13. Remittance sender 21. Crafted on a loom 22. Butler, maid, etc. 26. Bird on a Canadian dollar 27. Paris's Left __ 28. Bus. school subject 29. What you're best at 30. Red-coated cheese 31. Gads about 35. __ a soul (nobody) 37. Mayberry tyke 38. Starchy tubers 40. Leaves dumbfounded 42. Prompters' utterances 45. Wild guess 47. Like some anesthetics 50. Oil __ (results of tanker mishaps) 52. Canal locale 53. "__ Andronicus" (Shakespearean tragedy) 54. Make amends 55. Plumed wader 59. __ fide 60. Well-informed about 61. Politico Bayh 62. __ up (appraise) 63. Iditarod vehicle 65. ACLU concern: Abbr. Copyright © Fred Piscop