PhoeniXword – Taking down the Maroon from the inside

Across

1. Ludlam’s The Mystery of ___ Vep

5. Superbowl stars?

10. Summertime home for kids

14. There’s no “I” in it

15. Artist Matisse

16. Ratings org.

17. Pokemon #589

19. Breakin’ ___ hard to do

20. 15th century pope

21. ___ You My Mother?

23. Resp. to a Question

24. Teenybopper action at a Bieber concert

25. Salinger’s girl et. al.

27. Not a Dem.

28. Felicity Huffman’s Desperate character

31. Part of a famed botched international greeting

34. Former WWE Diva

35. French record?

36. With 41 Across, theme for this weeks’ puzzles

38. Hannukah treat

41. See 36 across

42. Hatcher, and others

44. It flows through the Congo

46. Blvds.

47. Theodore Roosevelt, famously

51. ____ Tuna

52. It ain’t easy being ____

53. Duane ___ (NYC pharmacy)

57. In media ___

58. Txt, formally

59. Against

61. Superlative suffix

63. Allegorical place in “The Republic”

65. Place for pins

66. La Dolce Vita actress

67. Snort a bowl of cocaine, say

68. Snake sounds

69. Religion of Jefferson

70. Breads for Tandoori Chicken

Down

1. Things to do on Thursday

2. Slice again

3. Sanderson course, briefly

4. Explosive mixture

5. Louder ___ Bombs (The Smiths Album)

6. A slight step up from Cheez Whiz

7. Singer Difranco

8. Had a nightmare

9. Yes _____!

10. Sch. for Tartans

11. Device

12. Judgment, re: this Sunday

13. Traveler’s documents

18. DJ’s material

22. 66-across, for one

26. Height

29. Zip

30. Avatar actress Pounder

31. Coastal canals

32. They may cause you to skid

33. Famous pool boy?

37. “I’m coming home, ___ Chicago” (Wilco)

39. Speaker’s points

40. Tree type

43. Nutritional Label sugg. size

45. “Wyatt, and others. “

48. Chair cushion

49. Howard, of “Gone with the Wind”

50. Glenn Beck fan

54. Carne _____

55. Where to find 70-Across in Chicago

56. Paradises

60. A sonnet or ode

62. ____ a far far better thing…

64. Friend in France