THEME: THANKSGIVING ACROSS
1. Newton or Stern
6. Hot springs resort
9. Gene Simmons’ band
13. Cuban dance
14. Anticipated outcome
15. Type of rug
16. Shiny suit
17. Red area between Saudi Arabia and Egypt?
18. Telephone company
19. *Which Thursday is Thanksgiving?
21. *Gathering
23. To boot
24. India location
25. Deli order
28. Walked on
30. Authoritative declaration
35. Milano moolah
37. Swear, not curse
39. Kappa Alpha ____
40. Battery fluid
41. Long-necked wading bird
43. Biz bigwig
44. Chirp
46. Gauche or Droite, in Paris
47. On one’s guard
48. Take for ransom
50. Gingrich of politics
52. Female sib
53. Hoodlum
55. Comic cry
57. *Early Thanksgiving celebrant
61. *It’s on the final Thanksgiving Parade float
64. Convex molding
65. High or low
67. “Roots” author
69. *Post-Thanksgiving song
70. Yoga accessory
71. Accustom
72. “The Man Who ____ Too Much”
73. Possessive of it
74. Opposite of digest
DOWN
1. Roth ____
2. Turf alternative
3. Shots, for short
4. Roughly
5. Root vegetable
6. “I flew like a flash, tore open the shutters, and threw up the ____”
7. *Not cake
8. Wet nurses
9. Capital of Ukraine
10. Capri, e.g.
11. Hollow baglike structures
12. Vegas bandit
15. Gibraltar or Bering
20. Synagogue read
22. Willie Nelson’s “Farm ____”
24. Like fans
25. *Like Friday after Thanksgiving
26. Chinese fruit
27. “____-and-true”
29. *____-eating
31. “The ____” talk show
32. Astros’ homeland
33. Wombs
34. *Parade organizer
36. Port in Yemen
38. Created a rug?
42. Handrail post
45. “Snow ____,” band
49. Between Sigma and Epsilon
51. Tittering laugh sound
54. Savory taste sensation
56. Asian wild ass
57. From chicken pox
58. He was terrible
59. Elders’ teachings
60. Neon effect
61. Exercise groups
62. Adhesive
63. Not his
66. *The oldest balloon animal
68. Hitherto