ACROSS

  1 "Pike's Peak or ___!"

 5 Ewe's offspring

 9 Good smell from the kitchen

14 Ancient South American

15 Taken with a spoon

16 Banister post

17 MGM mascot

18 Palindromic Preminger

19 Gossipy buttinsky

20 What a CPA does for a catered event

23 Available from a keg

24 Bow lubricant

25 Had the blue plate special, e.g.

28 Wrestling type

30 One at the top of the board

32 "Washboard" body parts

35 Boxing ring borders

38 Delineate

39 Interrogate a Boston orchestra

43 Battle Cry author Leon

44 Clear of vermin

45 One imbibing rotgut

46 Dutch beer brand

49 Aussie hatchlings

51 Casablanca piano player

52 Curtain fabric

55 Bands' auditions

59 Put a mineral on permanent display

61 Neat ___ (slob's opposite)

64 Adult nits

65 Arthritis symptom

66 Beauty and the Beast beauty

67 Liveliness

68 "Am I glad that's over!"

69 Loafed around

70 Veteran seafarers

71 "... countrymen, lend me your ___"

DOWN

 1 The Hobbit character

 2 Civil War victor

 3 "Amscray!"

 4 Certain Japanese poems

 5 Criminal's haul

 6 Centipede, e.g.

 7 San ___ (Bay Area county)

 8 Political groups

 9 "Do I have a volunteer?"

10 Carry a stench

11 Rent-to-___

12 Was introduced to

13 ___ mode (topped with ice cream)

21 Sudden burst of growth

22 Three-in-One product

25 "Farewell, amigo!"

26 A conductor might want you to pick it up

27 Young's partner in accounting

29 Pronoun for Miss Piggy

31 Snow-capped peak

32 Blue-green shades

33 Myanmar's former name

34 Richter scale event

36 Heading away from WSW

37 Tennessee Williams transportation

40 The Concorde was one

41 Virginia or Smithfield product

42 Chopin piano piece

47 Brought forth, as emotions

48 Yankee great Gehrig

50 Mexican blanket

53 Bit of land in the ocean

54 Soprano role in Bizet's The Pearl Fishers

56 Cappuccino flavor

57 An earth tone

58 Depicts with bias

59 ___ and hearty (healthy)

60 Barnyard cluckers

61 "Most Wanted" agcy.

62 "And the rockets' ___ glare ..."

63 Twelfth in a series of 26

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