Puzzle

ACROSS

1 Rey, for one

5 "Quantum Leap" network

8 Herzegovina's partner

14 "Preach!"

15 Water, in French

16 They put you in your place

17 Payment, forward and backward?

19 Makes chicken noises

20 Shows to a chair

21 Shoes, slangily

22 Like diet soda

25 Container, forward and backward?

27 Four quarters

28 Less cordial

31 "if u ask me"

32 Critical care M.D.

34 Apply to

36 Unagi, at a sushi bar

37 Circle, forward and backward?

40 Cooking meas.

43 "I wish I could ___ that" ("Ick")

44 Abounds

48 Here, to Henri

49 Hauls around

51 Carpet layer's calculation

52 Wintry, forward and backward?

55 Hairsplitter

57 Front wheel alignment

58 Japanese verse

60 Be there

61 Capture, forward and backward?

65 Skewer

66 Uno e due

67 Pad kee mao cuisine

68 Cash in

69 Afterthought to an afterthought, for short

70 Feed bag contents

DOWN

1 Improvise, musically

2 Mood music?

3 Cubs' home

4 Pending payment, perhaps

5 Like the Sherpa Tenzing Norgay

6 Something used to attract prey

7 Unfairly moves ahead in line

8 Cowboy

9 "Hold Me" Grammy winner K.T.

10 Open, as an oyster

11 Obligatory office attire for men, once

12 Exasperating

13 Balaam's biblical beast

18 Favorable vote

22 Chemical used in making pretzels

23 "___ the fields we go"

24 Large amount of cash

25 One spelling for a Great Plains home

26 PAC beneficiary

29 Computer blinker

30 Speck in the ocean

33 "Crazy Rich Asians" director Jon M.

35 "As if!"

38 Together

39 Precede

40 Behavioral quirk

41 Short dog, for short

42 Steered the plane

45 Pitcher stat

46 Chess pieces

47 Survived a game of musical chairs

50 Sudden increases

53 Name on combine harvesters

54 Pained reaction

56 Barely get, with "out"

58 Start of many addresses

59 Group that combats age discrimination

60 First 30-day mo.

62 "Bingo!"

63 Backstabber

64 Sonneteer's contraction

Solution