Today’s Crossword

ACROSS 1 Service calls 6 Emotionally bother 11 Sonic the Hedgehog maker 15 Miller’s salesman 16 Audibly awed 17 Dirt handful 18 Commonly bristly covering 21 “Settle down!” 22 Watch name 23 Black shade 26 Positive aspects 27 Make the cut? 29 Christmas celebration 32 Sock part 33 Innate abilities 34 Ginsburg colleague 36 With 37-Across, an apt reminder 37 See 36-Across 39 Pile 43 Off the plate 46 Mooch 48 SHO sister channel 51 Last-minute deadline 54 Whaling weapon 56 Narrow inlets 57 Friend of Frodo 58 Red flag 59 World Heritage Site org. 61 “Things are different now” ... and an apt hint to three other answers 67 Long-billed wader 68 Like Stout’s Wolfe 69 Former National Endowment for the Humanities chair Cheney 70 Great balls of fire 71 Herd butters 72 Radiate DOWN 1 1980s TV ET 2 Call from Mrs. O’Leary’s barn 3 Dingo prey 4 Cop making a traffic stop? 5 Nosy sort 6 Mustang’s rate of speed, at times 7 Selfishness 8 Delicacy 9 Sound of disapproval 10 Special __ 11 Ponzi schemes, e.g. 12 Firstborn 13 Like lovestruck eyes 14 Pop-up source 19 Reasons to take painful steps? 20 Verb in the song “Sloop John B” 23 Mutt’s companion 24 “First Lady of Song” 25 Colorful duck 27 Polio vaccine pioneer 28 TV forensic series 30 Nasty 31 Cheese go-with 35 “Trouble ahead!” 37 “It’s __ fun” 38 Farm crawler 40 Genesis grandson 41 Water en un lago 42 Salon offering 44 Scintillas 45 Short still? 46 Squirrel away 47 Range on which 7 denotes neutrality 48 Strictly speaking 49 “Two and a Half Men” beach setting 50 Pack without an inch to spare 52 First name of a literary “Papa” 53 Family reunion attendees 55 Persist, with “on” 59 Pigmented eye area 60 Black shade 62 “Sooey!” responder 63 Blood classification letters 64 Beast that rhymes with zoo 65 Word with living or dead 66 When doubled, a Ramone