Puzzle

 ACROSS

  1 Most frilly

  8 Prefix with "represent"

 11 Club sandwich relative, briefly

 14 "See?!"

 15 Movie preview

 17 *Defensive football players

 18 *Town's central meeting spot

 19 "Do Ya" rock grp.

 20 Trail mix morsels

 22 Jam time, slangily

 23 ___ and board

 25 *Fruity dip

 29 "False!" on a playground

 31 Tina Fey and Amy Poehler, e.g.

 32 Particle such as Iron(III)

 33 Place in groups

 35 X, to Electra

 37 Fight stoppers: Abbr.

 38 Contests with many moves, or a hint to the starred answers' outside-the-grid parts

 41 Dark ___ (black magic)

 44 Empty space

 45 Milano's country

 49 "Say what?"

 50 Parent in many TV shoutouts

 52 Plug part

 53 *One may go either way at the ballot box

 58 ___ pop

 59 Big book

 60 Chimney buildup

 62 Fish in a Japanese garden

 63 *Contemporary times

 66 *"Can I get a beer menu?"

 68 Engage fully

 69 Moneymakers

 70 "The Pit and the Pendulum" writer

 71 Flap your gums

 72 Genealogical procedure

DOWN

  1 African country with a red, white and blue flag

  2 Puzzled

  3 Metamorphosis casings

  4 Type

  5 Idyllic garden

  6 Stack overflow?

  7 Sampled

  8 VJs' channel

  9 Like leprechauns

 10 Witch trials city

 11 Manolo ___ shoes

 12 a or b, in the Pythagorean theorem

 13 III, in modern Rome

 16 Ingrid's "Casablanca" role

 21 Things to let simmer

 24 Color-changing rings "read" them

 26 Certain salmon

 27 Melted mess

 28 Clip-___ (ties you don't tie)

 30 Syllable before "la la"

 34 Series with Capt. Picard

 36 "___ Were a Boy" (Beyonce song)

 37 Old Russian rulers

 39 Army gear, informally

 40 Method of sending docs

 41 Sighs of relief

 42 Forensic evidence of a wheel

 43 "I am who I am"

 46 Little peek

 47 Out of the rain

 48 Opposed to

 51 Tried to talk to a cat

 54 NPR bag

 55 "Southern Ivy" in Atlanta

 56 Vice ___

 57 Tolkien kingdom with many horses (NORAH anagram)

 61 Skater Lipinski

 63 Mid-body joint

 64 "BTW, what I think ..."

 65 Slangy affirmative

 67 Mine explosive

Solution