Tickling the Ivories
by Fred Piscop

Across

1. Coin depicting Franklin
5. "Mamma Mia!" group
9. Frozen dessert chain
13. Limburger feature
14. Lecher's look
15. Water's edge
16. Mrs. Dithers
17. Seckel or Anjou
18. John Lennon hit
19. Dirt picker-upper, of sorts
22. "__ by Starlight"
23. Starbucks vessel
24. "Kinda" suffix
27. Tag-sale caveat
30. Christie of mystery
32. Aligned the cross hairs
36. Serpent's sound
38. Hot pot or mulligan
39. Major leaguer's honor
42. The Liffey's land
43. __ no good
44. Nostradamus et al.
45. Begin to blush
47. Dalmatian's marking
49. "Star Wars" letters
50. Itinerary word
52. Plague insect
57. The Republicans, as they're also known
61. Yawning, maybe
63. Hertz rival
64. Whopper teller
65. Cockamamie
66. Doll's word
67. Mule's mother
68. Tabasco quality
69. Hash house side
70. Cows and sows

Down

1. Start of a magician's phrase
2. Take as one's own
3. "Casablanca" actor Peter
4. Easily broken
5. Top grades in Greek?
6. Borscht ingredient
7. The younger Cleaver, for short
8. Chilean pianist Claudio
9. Holier-than-__
10. PAC part
11. Lingerie purchase
12. Kyoto cash
15. Wielded a bat
20. Forest clearing
21. Wall Street disaster
25. See-through
26. Doves' antitheses
28. Flapjack chain, informally
29. Puts through a screen
31. "Even __ speak ..."
32. Mimickers
33. "Okay, so it's not true"
34. It precedes Ash Wednesday
35. Gawked at
37. Message in an octagon
40. Slap the cuffs on
41. Prohibit, legally
46. Steer clear of
48. Familiar saying
51. Name of two presidents
53. Soothes
54. Dickens's Heep
55. It may be icy or blank
56. Rolls radials
58. Participate in a time-share, say
59. Quarter-miler's path
60. Succotash morsel
61. Profession, slangily
62. What I might mean

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