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Across
1. Gets, and good
5. No friend of Trojans
9. "Star Wars" name
14. Largest of a septet
15. Play the temptress
16. " ... who lived in ___"
17. Lake Patrick Leahy tried to have named the sixth Great Lake
19. One-third of 29 Down
20. Do the honors, at a bar
21. Distant cousin of the banjo
23. Dot character, to 71 Across
24. Town famous for the tan one gets there
28. Boozoo Chavis's music
30. Jewelry material
31. Rink ride
33. Word on hair salon signs
35. West with a chest
36. ___ Secy. of State
39. He had Bhutto executed in 1979
40. Hebrew-speaking spirits
43. Official language in Southeast Asia
44. Writer forced to flee France in 1898
46. Be full of it
47. Alaska's ___ Peninsula
49. Woman's name that means "crowned with laurel"
52. Alba ___
53. Bond specification?
55. Falls in on itself, like communism
57. Hound hand
58. Dead or Irish
60. Bibi beater
61. Shakespearean start
63. Patrick Buchanan's TV foil
68. Cook healthily
69. "Charles in Charge" studmuffin
70. Office of power
71. He sent "what hath God wrought"
72. One way to pay, for short
73. Like some ears or floors

Down
1. Hanson's youngest member
2. Etna output
3. Actress Zadora
4. Pete known for outstanding service
5. "It's ___ to you"
6. Mexico's greatest statesman, arguably
7. First word of many questions at White House press conferences
8. Strange beginning
9. Hipster
10. Suffix denoting an enzyme
11. Patrick Kennedy represents it in Congress
12. Not fit for consumption
13. Say ___ (greet casually)
18. Shared resources
22. Tashkent folk
24. Accumulated gunk
25. Thomas Mann's "___ Kroeger"
26. Patrick Henry's surprisingly modern-sounding job title
27. Victoria Falls' river
29. Test material
32. Half a rebellion
34. Hydrocarbon derived from wood tar, as its name suggests
37. Army rank, casually
38. All: Sp.
41. Part of OBL
42. Satisfy debts through liquidation
45. Just fine
48. Former New Jersey governor Wilson
50. C.V.
51. Fast-paced French film of 2001
53. It's involuntary
54. Lacks options
56. Plant from the Greek word for "flame"
59. "Waterloo" singers
62. Western Hemisphere grp.
64. Sum, translated
65. Madonna played her
66. Lisa Simpson plays it
67. Worth keeping an eye on

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