puzzle

ACROSS

 1 Beaver projects

 5 Sired, biblically

10 White-crested duck

14 Golden calf, for example

15 Decrease, as support

16 Painted metalware

17 California woman's imperfection?

20 Coin with a hole in it

21 Weaves together

22 Wide gap

25 Rash treatment

26 Nibbled on

29 It may be rolled out in the rain

31 Intelligence, slangily

35 At all times, in verse

36 Internet message

38 Civil wrong

39 Treasure Island locale

43 A little of this and a little of that

44 Little role for a big star

45 In poor health

46 Not real

49 Balkan native

50 Scot's "No way!"

51 Deal breaker?

53 Plane reservation

55 Narrow, elevated pathway

58 Buddhist sacred city

62 Site of a famous mission

65 Pro's foe

66 Improve, in writing

67 It keeps on rolling

68 Part of a hammer head

69 Emulate a high roller

70 Marco Polo crossed it

solution

DOWN

 1 It may be slipped

 2 Month on the Hebrew calendar

 3 One-quarter of tetra-

 4 Jargon, e.g.

 5 Breakfast companion

 6 Drop the ball, literally or figuratively

 7 "Anything ___"

 8 Change with the scenery

 9 Magnetic flux units

10 Abruptly disconnected, in music

11 Look of distaste

12 Building annexes

13 Soaking

18 Render ineffective

19 Transparent sheet

23 Shangri-la resident

24 Swiss currency

26 Fabled moralist

27 Dabbling ducks

28 Bud Grace comic strip

30 Sixths of an inch, to a printer

32 Sign of spring

33 Syllables sung while skipping

34 Arrange, as hair

37 Rickey fruits

40 Middle of a square, sometimes

41 Bone-dry

42 Shade of blue

47 Crowing time

48 Gives a speech

52 Tiptoe's opposite

54 Angle indicator in geometry

55 Support for the elderly?

56 Put into the pot

57 Joint for a beggar?

59 The Earth turns on it

60 Indian gown

61 Sailing the waves

62 What some yellow-bellied birds suck

63 Stopover

64 Like 33