TOP BANANAS

ACROSS

1 Literary detective Spade

4 Bowler’s pickup

9 Pitchman’s speech

14 Taproom offering

15 Like artificial fruit

16 Part of a string section

17 Put a match to

18 Sure-handed

19 Nametag word

20 “Halt,” to a salt

22 “With all ___ respect . . .”

23 Jimmy of the Daily Planet

24 Oracle’s place

26 Witch’s ride

28 Ivan with three U.S. Open wins

30 72-Across’s “magic word”

34 Tourist mecca near Java

37 Snowstorm formation

39 Simple rhyme scheme

40 Sign over a theater door

41 “In the hole” card

42 Smooth-talking

43 Year-end hire

44 Conical woodwinds

46 Carmine and cardinal

47 Droopy-eyed Dwarf

49 Partner of fauna

51 Assign, as shares

53 Leave the station

57 Gem State’s capital

60 Pluto, to Mickey Mouse

62 Chest or closet wood

63 Most common noble gas

64 Fate for Napoleon or Amin

66 Schiller’s

“___ to Joy”

67 Den mother’s charge

68 Smoothed, as a sand trap

69 Victory for Ventura, once

70 Bird-woman of myth

71 Off-mike comment

72 Booster seat user

DOWN

1 All-you-can-eat fare, perhaps

2 Partner of kicking

3 Mercury or cobalt

4 Wrap snugly, as in a blanket 5 Inflate, as expenses

6 Dismissed summarily 7 Houston was its first president

8 Key in, say

9 Eton or Harrow

10 Mae West request to Beulah 11 Things to be cured

12 Competitor of Vogue

13 “Crazy” bird

21 Hearty, grayish-green bowlful

25 Like Sen. Sanders

27 ___ for (choose)

29 Far from colorful

31 Well-suited

32 “’Nuff ___!”

33 Declines, as floodwaters

34 Joins an office pool

35 Rink leap

36 Gin rickey garnish

38 Have a hunch

44 Animated Olive

45 Garden center roll

48 A whole bunch

50 Decline, as floodwaters

52 “Tommy” or “Lohengrin”

54 Rescue, as a pet 55 Michael Savage’s medium

56 Reznor of Nine Inch Nails

57 Super shindig

58 Boat-destroying movie creature

59 “Rite of Spring” composer Stravinsky

61 Polynesian carving

65 Topped the field