Simple Structures by Fred Piscop

Across 1. Sagan of "Cosmos" 5. Golden-__ (senior) 9. Lauder of cosmetics 14. Natural emollient 15. Routine learning 16. Phonies 17. Big wheel's wheels 18. Be deficient in 19. Unspoken 20. Have conservative viewpoints 23. Sharpshooter Oakley 24. Candied tuber 25. B-52s' homes: Abbr. 29. Bother persistently 34. Task for Holmes 38. Table insertion 40. Car owner's paper 41. March count 44. Take the podium 45. Hotfoots it 46. Avenger Peel 47. Comic strip units 49. English channel, with "the" 51. Place to graze 53. Put back to 0 58. Slim down a bit 64. Rich fertilizer 65. Butter sub 66. Latvia's capital 67. Celestial hunter 68. Removes the squeaks from 69. Old phone-button letters 70. In itself 71. Help oneself to 72. Lith. and Lat., once Down 1. Lily variety 2. Not of this earth 3. Toga sporter

4. See 21-Down 5. Woody's son 6. Blame-taker 7. Design with acid 8. Type in again 9. Contractor's calculation 10. Layered do 11. Dash dial 12. Send forth 13. Superlative suffix 21. With 4-Down, "Jurassic Park III" actress 22. "Go team!" 26. Showman Ziegfeld 27. Letter after Aleph 28. "Sir," in colonial India 30. Abounding 31. Proton's place 32. Urban renewal target 33. Blood fluids 34. Black belt's blow 35. Subtle glow 36. Mikita of hockey 37. Cigar end? 39. On the house 42. "Great job!" 43. Language suffix 48. Coral or Aral 50. 'Hood salutation 52. In progress 54. Spanish cash, now 55. Scissors sounds 56. Lawn care tool 57. Bygone rulers 58. "Without a doubt!" 59. "Aquarius" show 60. Slaughter in baseball 61. Essayist's alias 62. Bubbly bandleader 63. Sit for a snap 64. Chris Christie's org. Copyright © Fred Piscop