puzzle

 ACROSS

  1 Figuratively tickle

  6 Mushroom feature

  9 "Well, well, well!"

 12 Like kimchi

 14 Some NYC roads

 16 Bobblehead's movement

 17 "The Road Not Taken" poet

 19 Words from a groom

 20 Big name in skin care

 21 Road salt

 22 One may help you move forward

 23 Grannies

 25 El ___ (Spanish hero)

 26 Author Patchett or Beattie

 28 Appropriate

 30 64-Across deposits

 33 Military plane's place: Abbr.

 36 Brilliant feats

 39 Desert in southern Mongolia

 40 Santana hit with the lyric "Got your spell on me baby"

 44 Straw bundle

 45 Hawaiian island or porch

 46 E reader at a checkup?

 47 Exploit, as power

 49 Stomach muscles

 50 Cardinals' letters

 51 January hrs. in Chicago

 53 "Se ___ espanol"

 58 Cambridge sch.

 60 Everyone except you

 63 Diving great Louganis

 64 Bonanza find

 65 Rescued soldier in a 1998 film

 67 Guessing competition container

 68 Gutter locale

 69 Anxiety

 70 Switch positions

 71 Ballpoint ___

 72 Bumper problems

DOWN



  1 Ohio city near Canton

  2 Money, in slang

  3 Full of skyscrapers, perhaps

  4 "Later!"

  5 Floppy part of a rabbit

  6 *"Going Back to ___" (note how each starred answer "skips" one letter)

  7 *Like an enthusiastic fan

  8 *Cat or goldfish

  9 St. Basil's Cathedral feature

 10 "Today" co-host Kotb

 11 It really stinks

 13 Utmost degree

 15 *Elite Navy member

 18 *"___ results may vary"

 24 *Cul-de-___

 27 Scrubbed, as a rocket launch

 29 Fluffy toy dog, for short

 31 "Buy It Now" site

 32 Cosecant's reciprocal

 33 *Lawyers' org.

 34 *___ Four (the Beatles)

 35 *Talks loudly and boastfully

 37 Green org.?

 38 Frank of the Rat Pack

 41 *Approx.

 42 Vehicle to hail

 43 Desire

 48 Run off to the chapel

 51 Fleck that may be mixed into sour cream

 52 Sum of this clue's digits

 54 *"A Death in the Family" author James

 55 *High-fiber muffin type

 56 *In case

 57 *Gets on in years

 58 Magic charm

 59 Country whose name could be parsed as a sentence

 61 Mouth, informally

 62 Nickname between R and V

 66 Call off

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