Rank and File by Fred Piscop

Across 1. Author Ayn 5. "__ me five!" 9. Ketch's pair 14. Twistable cookie 15. RPM indicator 16. Ghana's capital 17. Pirate working in a hotel? 20. Oater brawl site 21. Belfry's place 22. Antenna housings on planes 25. Ernie on the links 26. Priestly garb 29. Button on a butcher's scale 30. Flexible wood 33. Brings to court 35. Fam. member 36. Indus or Irrawaddy 40. College student working as a butler? 44. Arrange a date for 45. Silver State: Abbr. 46. "Blondie" tyke 47. Chew the fat 49. Weirdo 51. Wee bit 52. Non-stick coating for pans 55. Verification 58. It may leave a smudge 61. TV's "Remington __" 65. Investigators working part-time? 68. Bridge bid, for short 69. Zilch 70. Sink sound 71. Suppressed 72. Do in 73. O'Casey or O'Faolain Down 1. Sticks up 2. Painter's estimation 3. Dudley Do-Right's beloved

4. Sorrow 5. Like some transmissions 6. Once around the track 7. Play piece 8. Terrible twos, e.g. 9. Mare hair 10. Tummy trouble 11. Rifleman's aim improver 12. Fish from the stern 13. "Land __ alive!" 18. Paint layer 19. __-bitsy 23. City near Provo, Utah 24. Hodgepodge 26. Nile slitherers 27. Angler's decoy 28. Sugar-yielding vegetable 31. Drop an easy one 32. Like EEE shoes 34. Self-satisfied 37. Electrical unit 38. Actress Samms 39. Crucifix 41. MPG raters 42. Give a razzing to 43. Wear out, as a welcome 48. Comic Roseanne 50. Model Moss 52. Mexicali moola 53. Pug's workplace 54. "Glengarry Glen Ross" playwright David 56. Phlebolotomists' concerns 57. City on the Aire 59. Chinese: Prefix 60. Chance __ (meet accidentally) 62. Bronte's Jane 63. "Star Wars" princess 64. Armchair athlete's channel 66. Actor Kilmer 67. Critic __ Louise Huxtable Copyright © MacNamara's Band, Inc.