puzzle

ACROSS



  1 They're above abs

  5 Event with deep-fried food

  9 Dishonest person

 14 Sentry's order

 15 Gladys Knight's range

 16 Spew lava

 17 Ideal piece of pasta, e.g., informally?

 19 Gets together

 20 "Seriously!"

 21 Thing for walking the dog?

 23 Type of sauce in teriyaki dishes

 24 Tickled doll

 26 Skirts with a pancake variety

 28 Query

 31 "I've never heard that song sung in two keys simultaneously," for one?

 35 Bit of kindling

 37 Ready

 38 Switch topics

 39 Thing to keep your eye on

 40 "Bear" related to a wombat

 43 Go on a tirade

 44 One with many world views?

 46 ___ the groundwork

 47 Confessional confessions

 48 Complicated network of relationships at Buckingham Palace?

 52 BOS rival, in baseball

 53 Postpone

 54 "Table" or "sea" follower

 56 Do something

 58 Strongly against

 60 Lift

 63 Prickly plant

 65 "My life has been reduced to these few sentences on a dust jacket!"?

 68 Feature of 70-Across's clue

 69 Male deer

 70 Peter, Paul and Marry, for one

 71 Project details, briefly

 72 Feature of 70-Across's clue

 73 Tidbit of vanilla

DOWN

  1 Tammy Duckworth's deg.

  2 Bring in, as money

  3 Activist and poet Wade

  4 Not fresh

  5 One might have a nose wire

  6 Apple pie ___ mode

  7 Modest response to praise

  8 "Mr. ___" (Styx song)

  9 Show stoppers?

 10 Mine cart cargo

 11 "Nope, try once more"

 12 No more than

 13 Site for handmade goods

 18 Breast ___ (baby-feeding option)

 22 Loud laugh sound

 25 Cookie that can be personalized

 27 Lyft alternatives

 28 Chance to hit

 29 Mowed path

 30 Did a crossword in the waiting room, say

 32 Even a little

 33 Like eggs over easy

 34 "Heavens to ___!"

 36 What polarized lenses reduce

 41 What bills might become

 42 12 months before now

 45 To the extent that

 49 Longing

 50 One who creates

 51 Chatter indiscreetly

 55 Charges, as at windmills

 56 Alphabet

 57 Corn or barley

 59 Wee, cutesily

 61 Certain

 62 Lake by Toledo

 64 Theater chain

 66 Tree's "blood"

 67 Weightlifter's pride, briefly

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