CROSSWORD PUZZLE

ACROSS 1 Go straight to the top? 5 Crawling carpenters 9 Made into a bundle 14 Sport for the supersized 15 “Unfaithful” co-star Richard 16 Join forces 17 Overindulge (someone) at birthday time 20 Warble 21 Figuratively 22 Circular power tool 24 Tarzan player Ron 25 Tetra- times two 29 Set one’s sights on, with “at” 31 “So long!” 34 Last-ditch gridiron pass 36 Periodic pay 39 Nabisco snack brand 40 And so on: Abbr. 42 Avant-garde jazzman who named himself after an Egyptian god 43 Country Style Steak Fries maker 45 “I’m Moving On” country singer 47 Pindar work 48 Charlotte __: creamy dessert 50 Road incline 51 Permit 52 Crumpets companion 54 Head honcho 59 Starbucks flavor 64 Not up to par ... or, aptly, what this puzzle’s circled letters are 66 Send (to) for a second opinion 67 Steal, for slate: Abbr. 68 Lemon-like 69 Like ogres 70 “So Sick” R&B singer 71 Ironically, they might be even DOWN 1 Sibilant “Yo!” 2 River to the Rhine 3 Mine, in Metz 4 Pained cry 5 Dept. concerned with rural development 6 Reuters, for one 7 Folk’s Kingston __ 8 Couch kin 9 Mobster Siegel 10 Had __: imbibed modestly 11 Longest sentence 12 Bluesy James 13 Work at it 18 Trains over the street 19 Ship storage areas 23 Designation for batteries, bonds or baseball teams 25 “I can’t believe it!” 26 Egyptian capital 27 Like many floors 28 Kate’s TV sidekick 30 Nessie and Bigfoot, by most accounts 31 Get red in the face 32 New Age composer 33 Flynn of film 35 Irate 37 Question 38 Two-masted boat 41 Robinson Crusoe, notably 44 “__ we all?” 46 Society page word 49 Pioneer Day celebrant 51 King or Bird 53 Physicians’ org. 54 Go sour 55 Draft designation 56 Some email attachments 57 Root often pickled 58 Aloha State bird 60 Germany’s von Bismarck 61 African lake in four countries 62 Cattle collection 63 Music and dance, e.g. 65 Freudian focus