The Crox of the Matter by Fred Piscop

Across 1. Place for a padlock 5. Apple or pear 9. Let up 14. Exam sans pencils 15. Assayers assay them 16. To this point 17. Easily split mineral 18. Vientiane's country 19. "My fault!" 20. CROCK 23. Lists of candidates 24. Kyoto cash 25. Beanery patron 28. Put in a footlocker 33. Ill temper 36. Posy holders 38. Toddler's glassful 39. KROC 43. A big fan of 44. Baseball's Dizzy and Daffy 45. __-Cat (winter vehicle) 46. Producer Bochco 49. Word after Penn or before pen 51. Mauna __ 53. Cohere with heat 57. CROC 62. Fabulous fellow? 63. Bit of vocal fanfare 64. Israel's Abba 65. Take potshots 66. Pizzeria appliance 67. Orange coat 68. Not so loco 69. Monopoly payment 70. Bratty talk Down 1. Great Lakes mnemonic 2. Popular Windows typeface

3. Pelvic bones 4. River to the Missouri 5. Guiding light 6. Algerian port 7. Tabby's talk 8. Op-ed piece 9. Thumbs-up 10. Betty of old cartoons 11. Bushy do 12. Like a sourball 13. Suffix with mock or crock 21. "Ho!" preceder 22. Hi-__ graphics 26. Business-sign abbr. 27. Point __ National Seashore 29. Hold the deed on 30. Trojan and Korean 31. Actor McGregor 32. Classic Belafonte refrain 33. Sacred bird of Egypt 34. Litter castoff, often 35. Art Deco icon 37. Some vocal improvising 40. White House URL suffix 41. Not quite straight 42. Port of old Rome 47. Stereotypical ladder climber 48. __'wester 50. Walks onstage 52. John Jacob of fur fame 54. Shinbone 55. Roy's Dale 56. Pulls apart 57. Actress Rowlands 58. Z __ "zebra" 59. Have a few too many 60. Four-star review 61. Genesis locale 62. Braying beast Copyright © Fred Piscop