Sandwich Shop by Fred Piscop

Across 1. Drum accompanying a sitar 6. Bundle of papers 11. "Rumor __ it ..." 14. Best possible 15. Puccini opera 16. Genesis boat 17. Ersatz spaghetti go-with? 19. Hosp. scan 20. Highly regard 21. Trillion: Prefix 22. Toddler's "piggy" 23. Home of twigs 25. Reduces in width 27. Fish tales 30. Moderator Russert 32. Tea leaves reader 33. Director Lee 34. Red-coated cheese 36. Brown tone 39. Letterhead symbol 41. Nigeria's largest city 43. Watch readouts, briefly 44. Go for fish 46. Old Italian coin 47. __ Moines, Iowa 48. Copier paper quantity 50. Baseball's Ripken 51. Petty officer, for short 52. Political asylum seekers 55. Plumb crazy 57. U-Haul rental 58. "The Thin Man" dog 60. May honoree 64. Unaffiliated pol: Abbr. 65. Coward cited for valor? 67. Get on in years 68. Painter Matisse 69. Novelist Ephron 70. Hide-hair link 71. Fragrant compound 72. Court call

Down 1. It's money, proverbially 2. Fruity quaffs 3. Ready to collapse 4. Grows dark 5. "The Zoo Story" playwright 6. Cardinal's monogram 7. Textbook publishers __, Rinehart and Winston 8. Ruhr valley city 9.  Legends and Integras of autodom 10. Shelly of "The Donna Reed Show" 11. Anti-overemoting-actor weapon? 12. Directional sign shape 13. Heavens above 18. Light beer brand 24. Word before wave or basin 26. Virginia dance 27. In __ land (spaced out) 28. Barge __ (interrupt) 29. Machine in the Faberge plant? 31. Mandrake's field 35. Aesop story ender 37. Bad time for Caesar 38. Org. 40. Cassini of fashion 42. Biblical dancer 45. Otic malady 49. Fits together 51. Pester 52. Perrier competitor 53. Juicy tropical fruit 54. Time on the job 56. Co-op alternative 59. Field measure 61. Had in hand 62. Toledo's lake 63. Crowd noise 66. Cassis-flavored aperitif