Across
1. Used a flat-bladed device
5. Waiting money
9. "That's true!"
13. Catalogued according to
15. Noted persecutor of Christians
16. "His own lonely impunity is rank; it smells to heaven."--1973
18. Turn off, as a computer feature
19. Subject of many conspiracy theories
20. "___ get it!"
21. "Is there a more contemptible poseur and windbag than [he]?"--1986
27. Word from the Japanese for "land where the sun rises"
30. ___ grub
31. One more than due
32. "[He] is never happier than when brooding ... on the sex lives of people he has never met."--1989
36. "___ old story ..."--Shakespeare
39. Right and a little up: abbr.
40. It may come in weekly portions
41. "[She] used the misery of Calcutta as a stepping stone in her career"--1979
44. Airline whose middle initial stands for 27 Across
45. Home to the flexor carpi ulnaris
46. "Where Alph, the sacred river, ran"
50. With 59 Across, what each theme entry was in the year specified
54. Coordinated affair?
55. San Francisco, notably
56. Unhurried bunch
59. See 50 Across
64. They purchased Columbia Pictures in 1989
65. Barter system transaction
66. "Bus Stop" playwright
67. George W. Bush, or his dog, Barney
68. Scott of legal fame

Down
1. Top-10 hit for Wings in 1973
2. Stingy drink allotment
3. Ms. Krabappel
4. "National Review" columnist John, for short
5. Part of the "writing on the wall"
6. Hated first name
7. Jim Lehrer medium
8. Method: abbr.
9. 1977 Tony Award winner for Best Musical
10. Madonna or Tom Cruise
11. Not postdating
12. NATO nat.
14. Antiseptic ingredient
17. It's here in Paris
18. Nickles or Rickles
22. Girl's home, in song
23. He wrote over 70 books on mathematics
24. Org. for Lennox Lewis
25. First name in humor
26. One of Jacob's wives
28. Creator of gods and mortals, some believed
29. Without: Ger.
33. Raison ___
34. First two words out of the delivery room
35. Shark's offering
36. Certain govt. employee
37. Prefix with "sphere"
38. Prison assault, frequently
42. Talk and talk
43. Not included
47. Public apology
48. Went quick
49. "Brown," in TV ads
51. Late rapper invited to a White House luncheon by George H.W. Bush
52. Soap stuff
53. Best Supporting Actor of 1986 and 1999
57. Revered surname in Boston
58. Too-proud king
59. First letter of the word "Poseidon"
60. Oregon Sen. Wyden
61. Bill Berry left it in 1997
62. Hitler's bunker name
63. Frame