Raising a Racket by Fred Piscop

Across 1. Morocco's capital 6. "They're __!" (racetrack cry) 9. Comic-strip Viking 14. Geologic time 15. "QB __" (Uris novel) 16. Central Florida city 17. Aborigine missile 19. Judge or juror 20. Before, to bards 21. Birth 23. Harrison Ford's "Star Wars" role 27. Popular cruise port 28. "__ y Plata" (Montana's motto) 29. City on the Penobscot River 35. Put a match to 36. Watchful one 37. Ruth __ Ginsburg 38. Puts on 40. More artful 43. Latvian port 44. Finish off 46. Sax great Getz 48. "__ Kapital" 49. Hurricane consequence, perhaps 52. Suffix with Brooklyn or bleacher 53. Snaky shape 54. First-stringer 56. Tax man 61. Forty-niner's find 62. __-foot oil 63. Bagel topper 68. He went to hell, so to speak 69. Adam's madam 70. Applied 3-In-One to 71. Knight's horse 72. Bottom line 73. Not yet hard

Down 1. Dixie soldier 2. GI's address 3. Ghostly greeting 4. High points 5. 1953 Richard Burton film 6. Eggs 7. Sawyer's pal 8. Mozart's "The Marriage of __" 9. Hair-styling gadget 10. Realty unit 11. Running back's pickup 12. Actor Guinness 13. Seldom seen 18. The Penn __ (noted track meet) 22. Round Table address 23. Armed robbery 24. Melodic passage 25. Previously owned 26. Like Nash's lama 30. Mill fodder 31. Berne's river 32. Cry of accomplishment 33. Cancel out 34. Boo-boo remover 39. Seek redress from 41. JFK predictions 42. Convertible 45. De-creased? 47. Milton Berle's theme song 50. CIA forerunner 51. Annual pro golf tour classic 55. Pine exudation 56. Added stipulations 57. Spot in the Senate 58. All there 59. Luncheon conclusion? 60. Go from pillar to post 64. Kennel guest 65. Chicago trains 66. Shoebox letters 67. Banned bug killer

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