Crossword

ACROSS 1 Brickbat 5 Spoken aloud 9 Song’s opening bars 14 One way to offer a greeting 15 Italian capital 16 City VIP 17 Word with “go bragh!” 18 State of prolonged unconsciousness 19 Type of mill 20 What the pirate written out of a will did? 23 Dressing choice 24 Hound 25 Like Falstaff, body-wise 28 “___ I win, tails you lose” 32 Storm into, militarily 34 Car speed, briefly 37 The most productive thoughts 39 Computer symbol 40 Pirate’s facial grooming aid? 44 Constellation bear 45 More than want 46 Behold 47 Like marble and some cheese 50 Apt “notes” anagram 52 Maryland winter hrs. 53 Chem class, often 55 Bring together 59 What a pirate gives his petwatcher? 64 Be rowdy and disruptive 66 Like withered land 67 Ireland, to some 68 Person owing allegiance to a feudal lord 69 Pressing requirement? 70 Day-care charges 71 ___ off (slackened) 72 “Cheese it, the ___!” 73 Proofer’s editorial mark DOWN 1 Cuss 2 Pre-pupal insect 3 Birdlike 4 All-around good guy 5 Marine predator 6 It’s pitched over your head 7 Bullets, e.g. 8 Be educated 9 Throw figurative mud at 10 Indian bread 11 Font features 12 Fishy delicacy 13 Hockey legend Bobby 21 “... all snug in ___ beds” 22 Mai ___ cocktail 26 More than like 27 Finding it difficult to relax 29 “Without further” ending 30 Like morning grass 31 Overfills 33 Relative of “i.e.” 34 Gray-violet 35 Fiery funeral wood stacks 36 Shows uncertainty 38 Blast, as a baseball 41 Blacklist 42 Earlier, earlier 43 Feeling of boredom 48 Fled to be wed 49 “Have a nice ___!” 51 Beginning stages 54 Reduced to the simplest form 56 Moron 57 Type of rich cake 58 Cast off from the body, as perspiration 60 More than large 61 Infamous emperor 62 Sink like a rock 63 Egg containers 64 Beer relative 65 Spy org.