Small Potatoes by Fred Piscop

Across 1. Vintners' vessels 5. It's a long story 9. Replacement players, perhaps 14. River of Aragón 15. Lou Grant's paper 16. Book before Joel 17. Need a bath desperately 18. Rock-'n'-roll pioneer Freed 19. Didn't just sit there 20. Avoiding punishment, perhaps 23. Essential acid 24. Comic Rudner 25. "Tiny Bubbles" singer 29. Hand-dyed fabrics 33. An ex of Frank 36. Veep after Hubert 38. Words after "Sit" or "Step" 39. More pressing matters 43. Inter __ (among others) 44. Archie Bunker, to Mike Stivic 45. All right, slangily 46. Little chicken 49. Mideast's __ Heights 51. Suitable for service 53. Styptic pencils' targets 57. Leverage in negotiations 62. Of the blood 63. Plumb crazy 64. "__ the ump!" 65. Parenthetical remark 66. Roulette bet 67. Best or Ferber 68. Statistical values 69. Florida's Miami-__ County 70. "__ we forget ..." Down 1. Vice __ 2. Crosswise, nautically

3. Euro-filled fountain 4. "Would you be __?" ("Please?") 5. For fellows only 6. He sang about Alice 7. Composer __ Carlo Menotti 8. Dogpatch denizen 9. Cascade Range peak 10. Showy parrot 11. Italian bubbly's source 12. "__ there, done that" 13. Down in the dumps 21. Wild West justice 22. Bro or sis 26. "All Things Considered" broadcaster 27. Avery Fisher's field 28. Circular gasket 30. Poop 31. Scotty's captain 32. Ocular woe 33. Quatrain scheme 34. TV handyman Bob 35. Opposed to, in dialect 37. Capital on a fjord 40. It's sometimes dumped on winning coaches 41. Shakespearean prince 42. Jew's-harp sound 47. Goes for stripers 48. "Cry __ River" 50. Cost of a candy bar, once 52. Had the blahs 54. Reprimand mildly 55. Hops dryers 56. Pie-in-the-face sound 57. Anka's "Eso __" 58. In the thick of 59. Spectacular star 60. Stuck in the cooler 61. Zilch 62. Easter entree

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