puzzle

 ACROSS

  1 Pests that followed the Pied Piper

  5 Online video interruptions

  8 Tics

 14 Pain after a workout

 15 Place to get a shot

 16 Nonstick coating

 17 *Gorilla, for instance

 19 Cramming for an early-morning final, say

 20 Take care of

 21 This direction: --->

 23 Toss in a chip, perhaps

 24 *Machine safety device?

 27 Group for many baby boomers

 28 Droplets on a dandelion

 29 Where to watch "Jeopardy!"

 32 Work with thread

 34 Best Western competitor

 39 Buenos ___

 41 Legendary Van Winkle

 43 Rafael of tennis

 44 "Willow" singer Swift

 46 Vietnamese New Year

 48 Jedi guru

 49 Sound heard by a shepherd

 51 Top of the mouth

 53 *Signal surrender

 60 Very dry

 61 Slightly wet

 62 Concentrate

 64 Group of 100 people

 66 "We're doing OK!" ... or, read differently, a hint to each starred answer's first word

 68 Condition that often causes fatigue

 69 Prompt

 70 Fitzgerald dubbed "The First Lady of Song"

 71 Graduation cap attachment

 72 ID for a W-4

 73 Coarse file

DOWN

  1 Dust collectors

  2 Lots of land

  3 Grp. for Finland and France

  4 Many trips on ships, collectively

  5 Small battery

  6 Soda that doesn't contain prune juice

  7 Dishonest campaign tactic

  8 Speech therapy focus

  9 Liveliness

 10 Company with a spokesduck

 11 Skew

 12 "Equal Rights," for Wyoming

 13 Villain's look

 18 Frat party wrap

 22 Roll for a yard

 25 Places to say "Stat!": Abbr.

 26 Actor McGregor

 29 Quaker grain

 30 Long in Hollywood

 31 Hear, as a case

 33 Cleverness

 35 Company that's always moving?

 36 Big hoopla

 37 Papa

 38 In the style of

 40 Thin Japanese noodle

 42 Shampoo in a green bottle

 45 Short end of the stick

 47 Pedicured digit

 50 Type of moment

 52 Show-___ (boastful people)

 53 Attended

 54 Rodeo site

 55 Some are creepers

 56 Mild Dutch cheeses

 57 Apple computers with numerous ports

 58 D.C.-to-Boston transport

 59 Noisy seabirds

 63 Hit, as with a fine

 65 What an athlete deliberately breaks

 67 Hall-of-Fame QB Dawson

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