Taking a Beating by Fred Piscop

Across 1. With 50-Down, one of the Mamas and the Papas 5. Pusher's chaser 9. __-scarum 14. Billions and billions 15. Actor Epps 16. Classic toothpaste brand 17. "Peter Pan" pooch 18. Trillion: Prefix 19. Term paper theme 20. Hardly half-witted 23. Rich pastries 24. Long. crosser 25. Sink in the middle 28. South Korea's capital 31. Push rudely 33. US/UK divider 36. Puts into service 38. Pays, as a bill 39. Ruth appellation 43. Rest atop 44. Has __ (is connected) 45. Prior to, poetically 46. Puzzle heading 48. Cubic meter 51. Blue-__ (unrealistic) 52. Seagoing sort 54. Corkwood-yielding trees 58. Wink 61. Crucial factor 64. San __, Italy 65. Chase of stage and screen 66. Hold precious 67. 2000 title role for Julia 68. Emeril's need 69. Did a suburban chore 70. Dull way to learn 71. Floored it

Down 1. Are able to, archaically 2. It fell in 1836 3. U-boat finder 4. Is on the lineup card 5. No one at all 6. Iowa State city 7. __ avis 8. Go on all fours 9. Like each other immediately 10. Each 11. Eminem's genre 12. Prefix with cycle or sex 13. "Big" burger 21. Three-way joint 22. "The __" (Uris novel) 25. Uncle Tom's creator 26. Where 62-Down might be heard 27. "Beau __" 29. Ashe Stadium inits. 30. Has a preference 32. "__ yer old man!" 33. Bodybuilder Charles 34. Not too brainy 35. Distrustful 37. Foul mood 40. US/Canada's __ Canals 41. Tacit 42. In single file 47. Rode the bench 49. Comic actress Charlotte 50. See 1-Across 53. Pinker inside 55. Battleship broadside 56. Information booth visitor 57. Alan Ladd film 58. Yawn inducer, perhaps 59. Stout's Wolfe 60. Send out 61. Court star Shriver 62. Rite answer? 63. 62-Down, for one Copyright © Fred Piscop