"Unsteady Steps" by Fred Piscop

Across 1. Headquartered 6. Lovers' skirmish 10. One "36" of 36-24-36 14. Prefix with physicist 15. Dinghy propellers 16. 440-yard-long path, perhaps 17. Lloyd Price #1 hit of 1959 19. Turkey's monetary unit 20. Peppermint Patty, to Marcie 21. Billionaire Bill 22. What "i.e." stands for 23. "__ the money ..." 25. Part of a ship above the water line 27. Atlas enlargement 29. Atom with a charge 30. Maya Angelou's "Still __" 33. Pain-in-the-you-know-what 35. Euphoric feeling 39. "The Satanic Verses" author Salman 41. Mortarboard attachments 43. Teamster's rig 44. Sign away 46. Ribbed fabric 47. Bill, the "Science Guy" 49. Met performance 51. Useless member of an entourage 55. President Zachary 59. Chemically nonreactive 60. Social justice org. 62. Clark's "Mogambo" costar 63. Push a pawn 64. Chorus director's sounders 66. Garfield's pal 67. Gibson of oaters 68. Three-time Wimbledon winner Chris 69. "Miss Peach" cartoonist Lazarus 70. Concerning, legally speaking 71. Formation at a river's mouth

Down 1. Low man at the Met 2. John of "The Addams Family" 3. Blank look 4. Bit of work 5. Dad-blasted 6. Put into piles 7. Portrait painter's handful 8. Joe Cocker's "You __ Beautiful" 9. Mao __-tung 10. Dominating 11. Like Wrigley Field's walls 12. Dissect grammatically 13. Mattress supports 18. Huskers' units 22. Prefix with thermal or metric 24. Line holder 26. Gyro bread 28. Pointless Olympic event? 30. Apr. addressee 31. Feel remorse about 32. Doctrine 34. Interval from C to D, musically 36. Waikiki souvenir 37. Right-angle bend 38. Immigrant's subj. 40. Torte topper 42. Hard up for dough 45. Contributor to a cause 48. To this point 50. Inscribe indelibly 51. Sidelines TV greeting 52. Battery terminal 53. "On the Beach" penner Shute 54. Vidalia or Bermuda 56. Place for a squirting flower 57. Open to view 58. Jamaican cultist 61. Entr'__ (play break) 64. Honor society letter 65. "__ been had!"

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