Why, 2K!
by Fred Piscop

Across

1. With it, mentally
5. Cornfield array
9. Word before time or rights
14. Love personified
15. News item often written in advance
16. Sudden thrust
17. Highly adroit
18. RC or Jolt
19. Calf-length skirts
20. Piano's "ebonies"
22. Desktop pictures
23. Remitted by mail
24. Old-time "Listen!"
26. Log some Z's
29. Chewed the fat
33. Smart remark
37. Trapper's ware
39. "Would __?"
40. Take the mound
41. Grandchild spoilers, maybe
42. Witty Bennett
43. Largest continent
44. Got a glimpse of
45. Trapshooter's target
46. Greg's sitcom wife
48. Poet Teasdale
50. The Keystone __
52. Refuse to budge
57. Spills the beans
60. Quirky joint
63. First astrological sign
64. Teased mercilessly
65. Like some chatter
66. Shavings-creating tool
67. "Back to you"
68. Festival showing
69. Puts in order
70. Carrots' mates
71. __ up (come clean)

Down

1. Cars from Sweden
2. Walk leisurely
3. Ryan in Cooperstown
4. Put up
5. Football legend Knute
6. Literally, "high wood"
7. Full of tricks
8. Squirrel away
9. Twain's New York resting place
10. Surprise play on the gridiron
11. Bring to ruin
12. Opposed to, in dialect
13. Discounted by
21. Spock's captain
25. Senate votes
27. One-horse carriage
28. Pitchfork prongs
30. "Fish Magic" painter Paul
31. Word on Irish stamps
32. Nimble-fingered
33. Punch-card scrap
34. Seek a sorority
35. La Scala highlight
36. "Mild-mannered reporter" of TV
38. Word from the crib
41. Lowest high tide
45. Went under
47. Growths on tree trunks
49. Kitchen extruders
51. Barbershop sharpener
53. Flatbottom boat
54. The movie "Wordplay," e.g.
55. Puts on eBay
56. Abounds
57. Bugle tune
58. He sang of Alice
59. Whopper creator
61. Go hither and yon
62. Invention starter

Solution

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