Theme:
19. Deliberately damage : VANDALIZE
24. Smoke from Cuba : HAVANA CIGAR
35. Milk : TAKE ADVANTAGE OF
43. Some Downton Abbey staff : MEN SERVANTS
52. Starting at 19-Across and ending here, vehicle making its way through five long answers : MOVING VAN
Did you spot the MOVING VAN? Some of those theme answers filled in slow - especially TAKE ADVANTAGE OF and MAN SERVANTS. My favorite Van, below.
Across:
1. Lighthouse emission : BEAM
5. Routine material : JOKES. Now I get it.
10. Mystery novelist Paretsky : SARA
14. "Sesame Street" giggler : ELMO
15. How cut-up raw veggies are often served : ON A PLATTER
17. "Bridge of Spies" spy Rudolf __ : ABEL. Tom Hanks movie.
18. "Casablanca" actor : PETER LORRE
21. Some running shoes : AVIAS
22. Made oneself scarce : HID
23. Bingo-like game : BEANO. As Johnny Carson would say, I did not know this.
30. Euro pop? : PERE
31. Go from pillar to post : ROAM. New phrase to me.
32. Gaza Strip gp. : PLO
40. Classified postings : ADS
41. Word with hall or house : TOWN
42. __ pricing : UNIT
47. 38th-parallel land : KOREA
50. Many millennia : EON
51. Just enough to taste, with "of" : A HINT
58. Expressed with only gestures : PANTOMIMED
60. Greasy : OILY
61. Walk-in emergency center : URGENT CARE. Popular destination this time of year.
62. Mess setting : BASE
63. Zap with a weapon : TASE
64. Like giraffes and horses : MANED.
65. Token receiver : SLOT
Down:
1. Young Cleaver, for short : BEAV
2. Idris of "Luther" : ELBA
3. Service call? : AMEN. Great clue.
4. Penicillin source : MOLD
5. She sang about McGee : JOPLIN. Arlo's lead-in to "McGee" from his great Live in Sydney album.
6. Iroquois tribe : ONEIDA
7. Willy or Lenny of Manhattan deli fame : KATZ
8. Pentathlon sword : EPEE
9. 35mm camera type : SLR
10. Russell __ Candies : STOVER
11. Heart chambers : ATRIA. Moving too fast, saw the A and tried AORTA.
12. Played over : RERAN
13. "You __ cool!" : ARE SO
16. Selma's state : ALABAMA
20. "So that's the puzzle theme!" : AHA
24. Torso topper : HEAD
25. Torah chests : ARKS. Jewish Virtual Library.
26. One of a vivacious pair? : VEE
27. Origami bird : CRANE
28. Discontinued Saturn model : ION
29. Noir weapon : GAT
30. School support org. : PTA
32. Cooped (up) : PENT
33. Co-worker of Clark : LOIS. Superman.
34. "The good is __ interred with their bones": Antony : OFT. From Shakespeare's Julius Caesar - Act 3, Scene 2.
36. Stuffed one's face : ATE A TON
37. Throw on : DON
38. Jettas, e.g. : VWS
39. Rev : GUN. As an engine.
43. Protégé : MENTEE
44. Midnight rider : REVERE
45. Like a ripped-up check : VOIDED
46. Taylor of fashion : ANN
47. On the blink : KAPUT
48. Maureen of "The Quiet Man" : O'HARA
49. Wedding bands : RINGS. Sneaky.
52. Layered mineral : MICA
53. Arabian Sea sultanate : OMAN. Wiki.
54. Loads : GOBS
55. Vaccine holder : VIAL
56. "Not only that ... " : ALSO
57. Politburo no : NYET. Politiburo = the principal policymaking committee in the former Soviet Union.
59. "Newhart" production co. : MTM
