Across
1 Pretense
4 Dissatisfied diner’s decision
9 God of Islam
14 To’s opposite
15 Dry-__ board
16 Run off
17 Stereotypical rodeo nickname
18 Online intrusion
20 “Downton Abbey” character Lady __ Crawley
22 “Get it?”
23 Helpful contacts
24 Complicated material, metaphorically
29 Be a debtor of
30 Places to stand and deliver?
33 They can call you out
36 Garden alignments
38 Busch Gardens city
39 Walter Scott’s title
40 Sponsor’s purchase ... or what the starts of 18-, 24-, 51- and 60-Across can have
42 Slender fish
43 Base exercise
45 Way
46 Skort revelation
47 Heroic son of Aphrodite
49 In a damp manner
51 1981 Burt Reynolds film, with “The”
56 Voice vote call
58 Is laid up with
59 Outscores
60 Early chronicler of the ‘50s-’60s civil rights movement
65 Messy abode
66 Snorkeler’s haunt
67 Letter before lambda
68 Common break hour
69 Laundry setting
70 Fall faller
71 Episodic story line
Down
1 Hunting
2 System of belief
3 Like biohazards
4 One saying uncle?
5 Galeón load
6 Brew dispenser
7 Terre Haute sch.
8 Soft drink with a red-white-and-blue logo
9 Put off
10 Spy thriller writer Deighton
11 Romeos
12 Cosmetic titan
13 Fells with an ax
19 Nursery intruder
21 Bout enders, for short
25 Garr of “Young Frankenstein”
26 Blizzard, e.g.
27 Chisholm Trail community
28 Org. in many a spy thriller
31 Olympian’s weapon
32 Black Friday event
33 Beef inspection org.
34 Muddy spot
35 Bill Bradley’s alma mater
37 Cassette half
40 “Gilligan’s Island” co-star
41 Prefix with carpal
44 Green span
46 NASCAR racer Busch
48 Fly in the ointment
50 Maine mail order giant
52 Japanese port
53 Dreadlocks wearer
54 Say
55 Backstreet Boys contemporaries
56 Open a little
57 Mysterious mountain climber
61 Chicago Fire’s org.
62 Efron of “Neighbors” (2014)
63 Financial pg. debut
64 “Ask Me Another” airer
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