Crossword Puzzle: National Bean Day

DAILY THEME

ACROSS1 ____ bean (plant that grows upright on supports)
5 Beantown hockey legend Bobby
8 ____-cooked beans (Crock-Pot dish)
12 Apple music players
14 Bean sprout?
15 Go like the dickens
16 Chocolate-yielding bean
17 Circle bisector: Abbr.
18 ____-Defamation League
19 Like a snail's trail
20 Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine game maker
21 Days of old
22 Sound of relaxation
24 ____ Sea (nearly dried-up body of water)
26 Built like a string bean
29 Z ____ zebra
32 The first "L" in L.L. Bean
35 "____ bean rows will I have ... ": Yeats
36 Beantown baseball legend Williams
37 ______ bean (oil source)
39 Org. with a noted journal
40 _______ jumping beans
42 Prefix with angle or cycle
43 Provide gratification, as to base desires
45 Like an antonym: Abbr.
46 Three-piece suit part
47 Blood fluids
48 I.R.S. agent, for short
49 Square footage
50 Side dish at a beanery
52 ___ Clemente (Nixon retreat)
54 Red beans and ____
57 Cairo's river
60 Mottled bean
64 Sean Bean's role in "Jacob"
65 Mineral abundant in kidney beans
66 _____-Kettering Institute
67 Sign on a beanery
68 Tried to evade a tag
69 _____ Oyl (toon with a string bean figure)
70 Colorist's supplies
71 Snaky shape
72 Andrea Bocelli solo

DOWN1 Photos, for short
2 Fiery gemstone
3 Centers of activity
4 Japanese appetizer of young 13-Down beans
5 Garfield's canine pal
6 President who loved jelly beans
7 "_____ of the Jungle" ('50s TV show)
8 Beans, bread, butter, etc.
9 Leakin' ____ ("Beany and Cecil" boat)
10 "____ Peas, Beans and Barley Grow" (folk song)
11 ____ of habeas corpus
13 Tofu-yielding bean
14 Proofs of age, for short
23 Bigoted sort
25 Arkin of "Freebie and the Bean"
26 ____ bean (string bean, by another name)
27 Beans in succotash
28 Totally absurd
30 Questionnaire datum
31 "Spill the beans" or "bring home the bacon"
33 Seaweed the Beanie Baby is one
34 Like Thor or Odin
37 Boat skippers, informally
38 The Beatles' meter maid
40 Beanery offering
41 Corp. bean counter
44 Creator of Sylvester McMonkey McBean
46 _______ bean (ice cream flavor)
48 Handles deftly, as a baton
51 Flavoring in black jelly beans
53 Lhasa ____ (Tibetan dog)
54 Saxophonist's buy
55 Words to an "old chap"
56 Blanchett of "Elizabeth"
58 Lane of the Daily Planet
59 Lands' ___ (L.L. Bean competitor)
61 Pinot ____ (red wine)
62 Kipling's "Rikki-Tikki-____"
63 Eligible to be drafted