CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Lessens gradually 5 Cashless deals 10 Picket line flouter 14 Delete with two strokes 15 Front-porch tune, maybe 16 Pixar dinosaur 17 Faris of “Mom” 18 “Pokemon” cartoon style 19 Party platter preparer 20 1965 Temptations hit 22 Parishioner’s “Yes!” 24 Home theater room, often 25 Fully attentive 27 Conjuring up 29 Having a greater “ick factor” 32 Bona fide, informally 33 Sinuous swimmer 34 “Tulips” poet Sylvia 36 When signaled 39 Wines with beef entrees 41 “Get lost!” 43 Charity bash, e.g. 44 Much-maligned Ford model 46 Land divided by a DMZ 48 Some ER staffers 49 Sunny forecast 51 Like “in by 9, out by 5” service 53 Pilot’s route 55 Burnett of CNN’s “OutFront” 56 Smartphone forerunner, briefly 57 Muscles that “bounce,” for short 59 Task for a handyman 63 Butterfly snaggers 65 Handle the final details 67 Enjoyed a Ferris wheel 68 Pricing word 69 Ready to explode 70 Plays for a patsy 71 Like a dirty hearth 72 Spot creators 73 Yellow jacket’s home
DOWN
1 Semester finale, often 2 Like unfilleted sardines 3 Wine barrel plug 4 Connectors of stories 5 Surgery tray tools 6 Visibly unwell 7 Soaring solo 8 Gymnastics apparatus 9 Shirt tag figure 10 In a blue mood 11 Item with a security code 12 Tim who voiced Buzz Lightyear 13 Sound of a spring 21 Abrasive vocal quality 23 Mission-scrapping phrase 26 History of achievements 28 Two-tiered checker 29 Pro-Tibet actor Richard 30 Swampland stalk 31 Satan, by another name 35 ___ funny for words 37 Tommy John surgery bone 38 By no means taxing 40 Unload on eBay 42 Unwrap hastily 45 Jete or axel 47 In the heart of 50 Common cause of fatigue 52 Bypassing tactic 53 Sleep lab focus 54 Strategy session output 58 Blocked email, often 60 Spanish tenor Carreras 61 Glorifying works 62 Oscars word 64 Not likely to mingle 66 Rugged vehicle, briefly