puzzle

ACROSS

  1 Argue against

  6 Sierra Nevada brew, for short

  9 One may live near a loch

 13 Unaccompanied

 14 Become compost

 15 Bowling feat

 16 *Humorously exaggerated

 18 *Stockings

 19 Warriors coach Steve

 20 "Understood"

 21 Talk trash about

 22 ___ Arbor

 24 Slowpoke

 26 Get ready to switch hotel rooms, say

 29 Will of "Arrested Development"

 32 Place to find boxers and loafers

 34 Great fear

 36 eBay offer

 37 Cube that's rolled

 39 Amazement

 40 With 44-Across, Nintendo series hinting at the letters where the starred clues' answers intersect (Bonus: Read these letters clockwise)

 44 See 40-Across

 48 Heaters at restaurants?

 50 "Independence Day" beings

 51 Beijing 2022 prize

 53 Genetic evidence

 54 *Seating level

 57 Piece of ceramic flooring

 59 Actress Anderson

 63 Windfalls

 64 Deeply embedded

 66 Assert

 67 Massage

 68 *Artist's inspiration

 69 Brady's longtime team, for short

 70 "C'___ la vie!"

 71 App with reels, casually


DOWN

  1 Triangle for 15 balls

  2 Palindromic French pronoun

  3 Vulgar person

  4 Takes off, like a mummy costume

  5 Twice this clue's number

  6 Eye part that's often brown

  7 Performs an asana

  8 Minerva, to the Greeks

  9 "It was a dream," say, for a movie

 10 *Spending limit

 11 Approximately

 12 Bat mitzvah girl, maybe

 15 Sacred Shinto structure

 17 *Foot division

 23 Lil ___ X

 25 Contents of many museums

 26 Equestrian straps

 27 Break up with someone

 28 Defeated in boxing, for short

 30 Caboose's vehicle

 31 Villages' larger relatives

 32 Wharton deg.

 33 71-Across upload

 35 Not decaf: Abbr.

 38 Disco ___ (the '70s)

 41 Precious things that photographs capture

 42 Risk-___ (cautious)

 43 Was the head of

 45 More senior

 46 Word after "original" or "cardinal"

 47 *Prevent from escaping

 49 The Onion genre

 52 "Peanuts" character with a security blanket

 54 Sixteenth of a cup: Abbr.

 55 Tiny bit

 56 *Cereal grain

 58 Pride letters

 60 Burden

 61 Sticks and leaves in a tree

 62 Notion

 65 Friend, in Tours

solution