Puzzle

 ACROSS



  1 High-five sound

  5 O'Rourke of Texas

  9 Hurled

 14 Campaign barometer

 15 Leave out

 16 Get more mileage from

 17 Opera highlight

 18 Split in "th _ _ _ _ y" or "d _ _ _ _ ing"?

 19 Bird on a quarter

 20 High excitement about remodeling kitchen storage?

 23 Left the stage

 24 Utter rubbish

 25 Network on the telly

 28 String tie

 31 Setting

 33 Often-nasty review

 37 Sway of a French impressionist?

 39 Inbox filler

 41 "Give ___ rest!"

 42 Food fight sound

 43 Rodents with miniature Revolutionary War weapons?

 46 Requests

 47 Bible book before James, alphabetically

 48 Exam given in H.S.

 50 No. that never starts with (911)

 51 Pilot-licensing org.

 53 Key on an old cash register

 58 Small piano tuner?

 61 One may be five-alarm

 64 Think tank product

 65 Annapolis initials

 66 Outspoken

 67 Flour producer

 68 Tuition and others

 69 Terse meeting request

 70 Slippery swimmers

 71 Taxi expense

DOWN



  1 Elbow room

  2 Dr. Seuss's environmentalist

  3 Suspect's defense

  4 Braided hair

  5 Feeling at a tedious lecture

  6 Give off

  7 Squabble

  8 River mammal

  9 Forest canopy

 10 Get wind of

 11 Snug bug's "home"

 12 Adult ed. course

 13 Minuscule

 21 Omaha's state: Abbr.

 22 Former plug-in Chevy

 25 Sobs loudly

 26 Cold and dreary

 27 Certain breath mints

 29 Thieves' hideout

 30 Ready to pour

 32 NYC club in a Manilow hit

 33 Send in payment

 34 Bring a smile to

 35 Marked by a twang

 36 South Pacific carving

 38 Vittles

 40 A child may jump into one

 44 Siamese, nowadays

 45 Summer footwear

 49 "___ Good at Goodbyes" (Sam Smith song)

 52 Crunchyroll cartoon genre

 54 Shoe woe

 55 Confused

 56 Reclusive one

 57 Hit the backspace key

 58 Harshly criticize

 59 Pop singer Brickell

 60 Bluffer's giveaway

 61 Rite Aid rival

 62 Tool for digging furrows

 63 Rink surface

Solution