ACROSS

 1  Billiard stroke

  6 Coming into vogue again

 11 WWII lady in uniform

 14 Colorful lizard

 15 Earthy tone

 16 One-time connection

 17 Decorator's concern

 19 Japanese currency

 20 Small links group

 21 Nile bird

 22 Notwithstanding

 25 Tastefully fine

 27 Curse the day

 28 Clarified butter used in India

 31 After-bath powder

 32 Conclusions

 34 Planets or other spheres

 36 Converted from coal via distillation

 39 Be in concurrence

 41 Friend of Pooh

 42 "___ Succeed in Business Without Really Trying"

 43 Sierra ___  (African country)

 44 A pollutant

 46 Abstain from

 47 Canola and olive

 49 Door doodad

 51 Very old Tokyo

 52 Indian appetizers

 55 One who can decrease?

 57 Gorbachev's nation, once

 58 Menswear item

 61 Do an impression of

 62 Driving nightmares

 66 Fido's physician, for short

 67 Madison Square Garden, e.g.

 68 Banded, venomous snake

 69 Ambulances speed to them

 70 Passover month

 71 Dog in "Annie"

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 1  ___ 'n' cheese

  2 Word after "ages"

  3 Mineo of films

  4 Bashed, Biblically

  5 Insect with pincers

  6 "Arabian Nights" creatures

  7 Bat's navigation aid

  8 A restaurant may have one

  9 Liquefy again

 10 You may want to get a lode of this

 11 Definitely not now?

 12 Ordered delivery

 13 Art capable of

 18 Bantu language group

 21 Eskimo dwellings

 22 "We had ___ nice time"

 23 Fencing move

 24 Furniture store offerings

 26 "To ___ His Own"

 29 Bungles

30 Online novel

 33 12th-grader

 35 "Any day now ..."

 37 Practice piece for one instrument

 38 Blood drive participant

 40 Fish caught in pots

 45 Transparent linen

 48 Zen Buddhist enlightenment

 50 Big name in security

 52 Socially smooth

 53 According to

 54 Places on the Web

 56 Word with "light" or "soap"

 59 Italian volcano

 60 "___ of the Cave Bear"

 62 Censure

 63 Has the ability to

 64 "The Karate ___" (1984 film)

 65 Enclosure for swine

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