Precious Metals by Fred Piscop

Across 1. Paparazzo's wares 5. Utah ski spot 9. Clock innards 14. Colorful horse 15. Have in mind 16. Not rented 17. Calvary letters 18. Pitcher's boo-boo 19. Beethoven dedicatee 20. Birds with yellow plumage 23. Old hand 24. County center 25. Sonnet parts 27. Mauna __ 29. Channel-changer, once 32. Ram's ma'am 33. Joule fractions 35. Big Apple award 37. Hard to haul 41. Light-headed ones? 44. Mortise mate 45. The O'Haras' home 46. Days gone by 47. "__ got it!" 49. Cries hard 51.  Long-snouted fish 52. Kind of battery 56. Sharer's word 58. __ Dawn Chong 59. Yuletide tune 64. "Halt!" to a salt 66. Staff member 67. Via Veneto car 68. Basil-based sauce 69. Golda of Israel 70. Sidi __ (Moroccan seaport) 71. Compound in ale 72. Fruity coolers 73. Saline drop

Down 1. Bluenose 2. Prefix with sphere 3. "Cosmos" host 4. Rudely sarcastic 5. Quality of the upwardly mobile 6. Like good pastrami 7. Baby's powder 8. Hippies' crosses 9. Secret admirer's signoff, maybe 10. Like a pvt. or cpl. 11. Kicking’s companion 12. Put back to 000, say 13. Undoes a dele 21. Pogs, e.g. 22. Shoe width 26. Itsy-bitsy 27. Held on to 28. Creator of Perry and Della 30. Border on 31. Succotash beans 34. Stiff-upper-lip type 36. River of Spain 38. Totally miserable existence 39. Miles of "Psycho" 40. River of Belgium 42. Stockholder 43. Pick and shovel wielders 48. Yalie 50. Undersea prowler 52. Hang loosely 53. Four-star reviews 54. Brewer's need 55. Nash's two-l beast 57. Equip anew 60. Contended 61. Emmy winner Falco 62. Smallville's Lang 63. Chef's direction 65. Sault __ Marie Copyright © Fred Piscop