Puzzles

Crossword: ''Leaving So Soon?''

Can you figure out the mystery phrase?

By MATT JONES | March 17, 2010

Across
1 Get a hold of
5 Group of wives
10 "Ay ___"
14 Dinner extra
15 Take ___ (ride around town, perhaps)
16 "___ go bragh"
17 Part of Julius Caesar's dying words
18 Vocal qualities
19 Corkboard fastener
20 With 31-across, clue to the first word of the mystery phrase
23 Ask for, as a cigarette
24 Baseball stat enthusiasts' group
25 ___ in "apple"
28 Like grapefruit
31 See 20-across
35 Tree branch
37 Cedar Rapids' state
39 ___ Loa
40 Clue to the second word of the mystery phrase
43 Book with Brazil and Bhutan
44 Possesses, old-school style
45 Remini of "The King of Queens"
46 With 55-across, clue to the remaining three words of the mystery phrase
48 Make ghost noises
50 Guitarist Cooder and others
51 Gets the bad guy
53 Part of an Indian landmark
55 See 46-across
62 Manilow nightclub
63 Palindromic bridge bid
64 Comedian Williams
65 Entertainment center component
66 ___ the Sunshine Band
67 "___ Almighty"
68 Effortlessness
69 Dispose of, as confidential documents
70 Latvia's capital

Down
1 Actor Kinnear
2 Boring way to learn
3 Low part in a womens' choir
4 Book jacket passage
5 Nastygrams
6 Tiny particle
7 Rajah's wife
8 Business chiefs
9 Accident
10 Original company behind the Almond Joy bar
11 Asian sea that's really a lake
12 Flickr posts, for short
13 Tattoo stuff
21 Instinct source
22 Manhattan Project weapon, for short
25 Take ___ of faith
26 "We ___ please"
27 Olfactory sense
29 ___ Hashanah
30 When some bars close
32 German painter Albrecht ___
33 Retract a comment
34 They may be taken with a hand in the air
36 EEG detection
38 Prefix for pilot
41 "From hell's heart, ___ at thee"--Melville
42 "How bizarre"
47 Kindle stuff
49 Get a little rest
52 Coordinate, with "up"
54 Wild card, often
55 Musical finale
56 Makes a selection
57 ___-wheel drive
58 Feminine suffix
59 "Avatar" race
60 Male-only
61 Sicilian volcano
62 Ernesto Guevara, familiarly