puzzle

ACROSS

 1 Models strike them

 6 Simplicity

10 ___-Cola

14 Crosswise, nautically

15 Urban blight

16 Wrinkly Jamaican fruit

17 Prank played in a pasture

19 ___, mean, fighting machine

20 Group doctrines

21 Debased

23 Perlman of "Cheers"

25 "Be glad to"

26 Balaam's beast

29 Time of "comfort and joy"

31 Play ___ (feign death)

35 Response to a fleecing?

36 Old computer accessory

38 Big underwater ray

39 Never-say-die attitude

43 Place to exchange vows

44 Slangy turndown

45 Ballgoer, for short

46 Completely stump

48 Guitar-playing tool

50 Before

51 Dishonestly acquired riches

53 Show signs of life

55 What's seen in a mirror?

59 Deciduous ornamental shrub

63 Attempt to convince

64 Rodeo activity

66 Depend (on)

67 Stadium or wedding cake feature

68 Relish

69 Santa's load

70 Bump off a dragon

71 Coyote relative

solution

DOWN

 1 Accord

 2 High-pitched wind instrument

 3 Held on by a thread

 4 "Peter, Peter, Pumpkin ___"

 5 He strikes while the iron is hot

 6 Clairvoyance, for short

 7 Betwixt

 8 Measures of loudness

 9 Certain breakfast container

10 It provides no outlets

11 Curved molding

12 Family reunion group

13 "___ That a Shame?"

18 Not real

22 Appetite stimulus

24 Put in rows

26 Successor to Arafat

27 ___ Ste. Marie, Mich.

28 Like the sea

30 Bar, at the bar

32 Nasty, as a remark

33 Unconditional

34 "We'll see"

37 Foreign Legion hats

40 Eel look-alikes

41 Recovers from a flood

42 It's bee-quested

47 Chooses by ballot

49 Put the ___ on (stop)

52 One way to attract a lifeguard

54 Settle, as a debt

55 Mongols' tent

56 Lunchbox cookie, sometimes

57 Like Quasimodo

58 Tiny circus performer

60 "___ and Let Die"

61 Abetting, as with a scheme

62 Indian tourist city

65 Cook bacon