puzzle

ACROSS

 1 Pre-delivery period

 6 Beaver-built blockages

10 Fall on ___ ears

14 Visibly astonished

15 To shelter, on waves

16 Wise about

17 Words in a phrase after "ashes"

19 Higher than

20 Playground fixture

21 They love pas

22 Beat badly

23 Peer group

25 Class within a class

27 Chief artery

32 Old hand

33 Chevron rival

34 En route, as a package

36 Adjust as you must

40 Albanian bucks

41 Greek underworld

43 Bassoon kin

44 Ply

46 Spice world?

47 Yorkshire river

48 Preschooler

50 Ushered

52 Redo, as a room

56 Chow down

57 Impulse carrier

58 "American Dad!" org.

60 "Can't complain"

65 "Less Than ___"

66 Type of combat

68 Precambrian and Paleozoic

69 Obsessed with

70 Inclined, in England

71 Eye-opening problem

72 It's right on an atlas?

73 Lessens a load

solution

DOWN

 1 Fellas

 2 Chills, fever and sweating

 3 Acid's opposite

 4 Chooses (to)

 5 Direct-to-the-consumer

 6 Mom's mate

 7 Reunion attendee

 8 Butte kin

 9 Establishes

10 A way to sell

11 Accredited diplomat

12 Consumed with gusto

13 Loud, in music

18 Like some scholars

24 Do a pizzeria chore

26 Auto protector

27 Retail center

28 Field of expertise

29 Unpleasant to the touch

30 Confrontational position

31 Endow, as with a quality

35 In need of a rubdown

37 Lie adjacent to another

38 Raise, as a question

39 Started a golf game

42 Trigonometry ratio

45 Angler's requirement

49 Computer expert

51 "Lawrence of Arabia" portrayer

52 Brings down the house

53 Put forth, as effort

54 Brightly colored eel

55 Woody vine

59 Bugs on a hill

61 "___-Team" (Mr. T's old show)

62 Pasture sounds

63 "Green Gables" girl

64 Silent-spring causers

67 E, in Morse code