puzzle

ACROSS

  1 Bamboo-eater

  6 Close call

 11 Faux ___

 14 Words following "bend" or "lend"

 15 Ankle bone

 16 Tiny terror

 17 Some glands

 19 IRS hiree

 20 Television innovator John

 21 Engaged in a diatribe

 23 Weightlifting units

 26 Need for a new arrival

 28 "___ welcome!"

 29 Midafternoon, on a sundial

 30 Gallery contents

 32 Bauxite and others

 33 Dungeons & Dragons monster

 34 Type of mathematical function

 38 Meteorite remains

 40 Slightly tart apple

 43 Empty shells in the kitchen

 45 It follows status?

 46 Fitted with footwear

 48 Masculine pronoun

 49 Vessel with a spigot

 50 Drug-yielding plants

 52 Difficult to grasp

 55 Be atop the standings

 56 Girl's short sock

 58 A bit eccentric

 60 Shad-to-be?

 61 A sorry state

 66 Increasingly rare PC part

 67 Bind, as a fowl

 68 Recycled metal

 69 Superman's letter

 70 Taste or smell

 71 Fraternity letter

DOWN

  1 Fare for the toothless

  2 Young Darth Vader's nickname

  3 Butterfly catcher

  4 Paints roughly

  5 Opera highlight

  6 Drummer Ringo

  7 Kind of arrest

  8 Great heavyweight

  9 Remorseful one

 10 Certain homework assignment

 11 Visually attractive

 12 Unit of electric current

 13 Bidding card game

 18 Tiny spasm

 22 Wild West loop

 23 Quite a card

 24 Michael Collins' land

 25 Some thieves

 27 Concocts

 31 Pain in the neck

 34 Little Jack Horner's dessert

 35 Seven-year affliction

 36 Like campfire stories

 37 The newly-elected

 39 Kind of basin or wave

 41 Invisible atmosphere

 42 Home for some lilies

 44 Not worth keeping

 46 Rare

 47 A-student's classification

 51 Clan units

 53 Set free

 54 "This One's For ___"

 55 Type of mob

 57 Michelin product

 59 Wordless summons

 62 252-gallon barrel

 63 Palindromic preposition

 64 Took a chair

 65 Health-and-beauty center  

solution