Across
1. With 73 Across, only government can force a citizen to do this
5. With 72 Across, in most states it's needlessly owned by government
10. Virginia senator defeated in 2000
14. Yarn spinner
15. Talk to the people
16. Ending for smack or switch
17. The federal government, inefficiently and needlessly, is the nation's largest
20. Crux
21. Isn't temperate
22. Used communally
23. Cheetah features
25. Judge
28. Forgo folding
30. Baby
31. Key of some compositions: abbr.
35. Government imposition that punishes the wealthy
39. Benjamin
40. Cuban cardinal
41. Cinematic masterwork of 1958
43. Political analyst Rothenberg
44. Crucial U.S. region in national politics
46. Another government imposition
48. Store
49. Former New York City mayor Beame
50. Apis mellifera, for example
51. They stare
54. Bronze, say
58. Naughty kind of knowledge
61. Misnamed sports org., as it spans two countries
63. Musical genre pioneered in Washington, D.C.
64. Business broken up by the federal government in 1893
68. Practically insist
69. Belch, poshly
70. "Washington Post" columnist Applebaum
71. Active person
72. See 5 Across
73. See 1 Across

Down
1. Setting for many Highland towns
2. Prepare for Greco-Roman wrestling
3. Billy Blanks' sport
4. "LOTR" beast
5. "Car" or "cart" or "cartography"
6. Find its way into the conversation
7. Part of XXX
8. "The King and I" utterance
9. Look at the case again
10. Cherokee hunter
11. Kind of contraceptive
12. Phalanx or maxilla
13. Harrelson, on "Cheers"
18. Holding the ball, in tennis
19. "The Simpsons" character whose surname is Szyslak
24. Nashville inst.
26. Kirk, really
27. Biohazardous
29. Conjunctiva's location
32. More than a plurality
33. 9/11 plotter
34. ___ Olympiques
35. Phone records, for short
36. Newton, for example
37. "Hugs and kisses," in letters
38. Crow or Fox
39. Inclusive invitation
42. Gross-sounding amount
45. "Hmm ... "
47. Slim swimmer
49. Not recycled
52. Moo goo ___ pan
53. Nuts, say
55. Infamous first name in New York City
56. Many an imam
57. High-pitched singing?
58. "Shucks!"
59. Dynamic opener
60. Go postal
62. Baseball stat
65. Former Norwegian Prime Minister ___ Harlem Brundtland
66. Karel Capek's most famous play
67. It ended in 1947