Way Out There by Fred Piscop

Across 1. Prepares to fire 5. Hostilities ender 9. Christian symbol 14. Pesky flier 15. Scandinavian capital 16. Copter part 17. Ticklish Muppet 18. Potpie spheroids 19. Greek I's 20. Great-great-great-great-great grandfather, e.g. 23. Fashion sense 24. Compass lines 25. Terrific buy 29. Swindled 33. "__ tree falls ..." 36. Move to fresh soil 38. Take apart 39. Not-so-cordial handshake 43. Per item 44. South Korea's capital 45. Playground game 46. Parthenon site 49. Fine violin, for short 51. Toy dog, familiarly 53. Gymnast Comaneci 57. Result of a too-short eyeball 62. Chimney channels 63. Hockey thug 64. Sorry situations 65. Human trunks 66. "This can't be!" 67. Gen. Robert __ 68. Partner of desist 69. Eggy quaffs 70. Hang in there Down 1. Golden __ (seniors) 2. Shore recess

3. Yokum matriarch 4. Bar perches 5. John, Paul, or John Paul 6. On the bounding main 7. Hatfields or McCoys 8. Puccini classic 9. Shortening brand 10. Removes entirely 11. Director Preminger 12. Fly high 13. Many AARP members 21. Neon __ (aquarium fish) 22. Boot one 26. Poet's dusk 27. Many NYC dwellings 28. Stadium sections 30. Make bootees, e.g. 31. TV's Dame __ Everage 32. Rapper Snoop __ 33. Light bulb, in comics 34. Via Appia auto 35. "The Nazarene" novelist Sholem 37. Hambletonian gait 40. Newspapers, collectively 41. Luxembourg's cont. 42. Spiral-horned antelope 47. Loch legend, in tabloids 48. Enjoy Vail 50. Trailblazer Boone 52. Provoke, as with a dare 54. Reese of "Touched by an Angel" 55. Cruise stopovers 56. Black-ink item 57. Arctic floater 58. Angelic ambience 59. Syllables from Santa 60. Grip, as an ice cube 61. Slaughter in Cooperstown 62. Anti-fraud agcy. Copyright © MacNamara's Band, Inc.