Puzzle

ACROSS

  1 Boost up

  5 Salt-N-___ (hip-hop group)

  9 Alternative to steps

 13 A lot of lot?

 14 Regrets

 15 000

 16 *Stream outward (French: letters 1 to 4, English: 5 to 7)

 18 000

 19 Stealthy eBay bidder

 20 "Cogito ___ sum"

 22 Roulette transaction

 23 Approx.

 24 Battery size

 26 What a sleeve covers

 27 *"A Man for All Seasons" man (Spanish: 7 to 9, English: 10 to 13)

 34 Caboose's position

 36 Reaction to a foot rub

 37 Like the Six Million Dollar Man

 38 God, in Islam

 40 "Ciao!"

 42 "But of course!"

 43 Colonel Sanders' beard

 45 Spanish for "gold"

 47 Nickname that drops "dore"

 48 *In plain view (English: 7 to 9, French: 10 to 12)

 51 Lion's home

 52 Alto or tenor instrument, informally

 53 Consumes

 56 "Steady as ___ goes"

 59 Where Eve lived

 61 Latin phrase meaning "from the beginning"

 63 Devotee

 65 Fluent in two languages, or like each starred answer's pair of hidden words?

 67 Signs that may bring bad luck

 68 Frozen treat

 69 ___ buco

 70 Care for, as a garden

 71 Camping shelter

 72 Complete collections

DOWN

  1 Run out, like a subscription

  2 Desktop pictures

  3 One might contain grapes and blueberries

  4 Maryland athlete, for short

  5 Proportionately

  6 The "E" of E.U.: Abbr.

  7 Buttigieg from South Bend

  8 Guru's retreat

  9 Gun, as an engine

 10 Kuwaiti, e.g.

 11 Tunneling animal

 12 "Check this out!"

 15 Gets a closer shot

 17 Glossophobia, for public speaking

 21 Seize

 25 "Moby-Dick" captain

 28 About to explode

 29 "What a kidder!"

 30 Castle protectors

 31 Free of charge

 32 Houston university

 33 Lingering sound effect

 34 Big name in sauce

 35 The Boring Company founder Musk

 39 People who have stock?

 41 Blows it

 44 Sized up visually

 46 Having fewer snacks, maybe

 49 At all

 50 Beasts of burden

 54 "Halt!" to a salt

 55 Flies alone

 56 Coin opening

 57 "Where the heart is"

 58 Like the score 20-20

 60 "Good going!"

 62 Grps. like Amnesty International

 64 December 31, for 2020

 66 Cariou of "Blue Bloods"

 

Solution

Newspaper headline: Crossword