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This week's theme: Millennium!

Across

1. Millennium Mayhem Measurement
5. This mo.'s name was taken from the Latin word that signified the ancient Roman festival of purification
8. Isinglass
12. Sty sound
14. McCoy or Deal
16. Eve's guy
17. It turns "erette" into into a theater guide
18. Napoleon Bonaparte (b.1769 - d.1821) was exiled to this island from 1814 to 1815
19. French couturier's monogram
20. Millennium part
23. The current age in Hindu cosmology: Kali ___
25. Speech stopping sound
27. Paul's partner on "Hazy Shade of Winter"
28. Actress Peeples
29. Honolulu garland
30. Alphabet sequence
31. Ma's mate
32. Diet dosage, for short
33. Sweetheart in Scotland
34. NEW YEAR'S GRIEVE: Expecting catastrophe to strike at the stroke of Midnight, Millennium Survivalists have prepared themselves by stocking up on ___ such as water and canned food
36. Writer of the Academy Award winning screenplay of "Gone With the Wind" (1939): Sydney ___ Howard (b.1891 - d.1939)
37. Arena aficionados
39. Pretend
40. SHUDDA, CUDDA ...DIDN'T!: It's what early programmers didn't implement into the date field of computers, but as we know now ...shudda!
43. U-boats
44. Domain
45. Ranking on a Race Ribbon
46. Steinbeck's Storylines
48. Sammy Davis' father
49. Alias indicator
50. Latin acronym used in the Islamic #10D that means "in the Year of the Hegira"
52. Completely
53. Keyboard Key
55. It turns "igy" into a graven image
56. Charles Barkley's former org.
57. Roman Numerals for "2000"
58. Leadfooted it in a Lexus
59. "Inter Gravissimas": Papal Bull passed by Pope ___ VIII (in 1582) that put forth the #10D that is most widely used in the Western World today
61. Medieval Money
63. Oldman of "The Scarlett Letter" (1995)
65. Incoming, briefly
66. Reserve a Room
67. Quid pro quo
68. Breaks for a Breather
71. King Atahualpa, for one
72. Maritime mesh
73. Bigfoot's kindred spirit

Down

1. Eliot of "The Waste Land" (1922)
2. Not out
3. In the new Millennium, some religious cultists believe The Second Coming will occur here: The Temple ___, in Jerusalem
4. Formerly, formerly
5. Goddess of Love (See #56D)
6. Fatty-fleshed fish
7. This ancient Empire devised a lunisolar #10D, but their 12 lunar months of 30 days each did not keep in line with the changing seasons (See #55D for a related clue)
8. These ancient people of the Yucatán Peninsula used a complex dating system in which the New Year occurred July 16th when the Sun crossed the Zenith (the highest place in the sky, directly above an observer)
9. Counterfeit cards at a cavern, commonly
10. System that reckons days, months and years
11. Latin acronym used in the Hebrew #10D that means "in the Year of the World"
13. "Thursday" was named after Thor, the God of ___ (See #56D)
15. Nobel Prize winner for Physics, in 1914: Max von ___ (b.1879 - d.1960)
20. Pepsi part
21. The "E" in B.C.E.
22. Waterway
24. Show for Cher
26. Blooming
30. This instance marks the beginning of a new month in the Hebrew #10D
32. Bust from Bed
33. DOOMSDAY 2000: Millennium Madness was stirred up in the early 90s when this Canadian computer consultant launched the world's first web site about Millennium Bug warnings: Peter de ___
35. Make things worse: ___ can of worms
36. MILLENNIUM BUG: As per #40A, it's the computer code used by the early programmers who implemented date fields in such a way as to save on precious computer space, and in so doing, created the Millennium Bug
37. The MILLENNIUM ISLAND in the South Pacific has laid claim that this will happen (at it) before any other place on Earth on New Year's Eve
38. Small road
40. Phenomenon noted by creators and followers of #10Ds
41. "The Shaggy ___" (1976)
42. MILLENNIUM MAYHEM - E.G.: "Planes will fall from the sky!" OR "Blackouts will immobilize major cities!" OR "Phone lines will go dead!"
43. Junk e-mail
47. Sycamore substance
49. Certain continent (abbr.)
50. Dictionary type, for short
51. Farm fodder
54. Pants parts
55. This Kingdom created a system based on the Earth's rotation around the Sun, but had the same problem as #7D! Since a year can't be evenly divided by months, weeks or days, ancient #10Ds were out of synch with seasonal changes whether they were lunar, solar or both. To fix this, modern #10Ds add an extra month [or day(s)] at specific intervals, such as with the "Leap Year".
56. #5D and #13D are this type of deity
58. Traditional epoch of Indian chronology
60. "Cabaret" (1972) name
62. Mythical creature
64. Last name of one of the stars of "The Facts of Life" (TV)
66. "Weekly" prefix
69. Initials of Ike's former partner
70. Affirmation in Almería