Step on It! by Fred Piscop

Across 1. Mrs. Truman 5. Take a break 9. Darth __ 14. Zillions 15. Emollient-yielding plant 16. Slip away from 17. In quick succession 19. Like the Battle of Midway 20. Catchall column 21. Broke a Commandment 23. Type widths 24. Loch sighting, in tabloids 26. Doctors sometimes split them 28. VCR button 34. Item on Maine's flag 38. "__ Ben Adhem" 39. Prepares for publication 40. "What happened next?" 42. Prima donna's repertoire 43. __ IRA 44. Bacitracin, for one 46. British press, figuratively 50. Big wheel's wheels 51. Becomes narrower 56. Parts of psyches 59. Perm features 62. Diamond unit 63. Hand-dyed fabric 65. Calcium oxide 67. Being employed 68. Bring to naught 69. Mac picture 70. Title for Wences 71. Scene of a temptation 72. GOP elephant creator Down 1. Von Richthofen's title 2. Put on cloud nine 3. Tenth-graders

4. Messy places 5. Luftwaffe battlers: Abbr. 6. New Haven collegians 7. Put in groups 8. Start a hole 9. Thin layer 10. Actress Gardner 11. Winfield in Cooperstown 12. Cheese in balls 13. Fam. tree members 18. Blizzard pileups 22. Writer Rosten 25. Something to lend or bend 27. Travel like locusts 29. Coral or Aral 30. Caruso was one 31. Irish Rose's beau 32. Horse coloring 33. Check for fingerprints 34. Broadway showing: Abbr. 35. Revered object 36. Evening, in ads 37. Merman or Mertz 41. Yahtzee cube 42. Tear into 45. After-tax take 47. Heart, slangily 48. Dallas sch. 49. It's measured in foot-pounds 52. Michael of "Monty Python" 53. Author Jong 54. __ gin fizz 55. Surgeon's blockage reliever 56. Hieroglyphics bird 57. Hamlet, for one 58. Phaser setting 60. John of "High Society" 61. French fries or cole slaw 64. Prefix with bar or tonic 66. One in the clink Copyright © MacNamara's Band, Inc.