Puzzle

ACROSS

  1 Tremendously

  5 Take to court

  8 Board, in room and board

 13 Stud site

 14 Top-ranked

 15 "Lord of the Worlds" in the Quran

 16 Tex-Mex chain (In this clue's answer, note the first 2 letters + the last 2)

 18 Harsh light

 19 Iron deficiency

 20 Tender spot to hit in conversation (... first 2 letters + last 2)

 22 Shredded

 23 Rosalynn Carter, ___ Smith

 24 One shows you the way

 25 Fuming

 27 Repeat

 30 H.S. support group

 32 Civil rights ___

 33 "Defying Gravity," in "Wicked" (... first 4 letters + last 2)

 38 ___ out (ventilates)

 40 Untruth

 41 Cover with asphalt

 42 Field for miners? (... first 2 letters + last 3)

 47 Telluride SUV maker

 48 Gossip

 49 Galaxy part

 50 Sick

 51 Boxer Laila

 54 Apr. book reviewer

 56 Connect them!

 58 Fund (... first 2 letters + last 2)

 61 Polished, as a paper

 64 NASA scientist Easley

 65 Country home to the ancient Mayan city Tikal (... first letter + last 3)

 67 Fragrance

 68 A Shakespeare play has five

 69 Hip to

 70 Groups of 12-Down

 71 Squeeze (by)

 72 Minor dent

DOWN  1 Actress Jessica

  2 Item of interest to a bank?

  3 Small collectible

  4 "I love you," in Spanish

  5 "Catch my drift?"

  6 Country assigned the .su domain in 1990: Abbr.

  7 Actor Hawke

  8 Repulsive "X-Men" adversary?

  9 Palindromic fashion magazine

 10 One may go off at 10 a.m.

 11 Baby bug

 12 Animals that outnumber people in New Zealand

 14 Stork's perch

 17 Discharges a T-shirt cannon

 21 Sobbed

 25 Honeyed quaff

 26 Opera solo

 28 Colorful Hindu festival

 29 Boo-boos

 31 Shazam or Snapchat

 34 Folder for dispatched emails

 35 Lahore native

 36 Apt word within "devilish"

 37 Not imagined

 39 Took a load off

 43 Private matters

 44 Banjo accessory

 45 West Point students

 46 Crumble away

 51 Make mortified

 52 Knight's long weapon

 53 Word with "voice" or "peace"

 55 Fish tank buildup

 57 Lacking courage

 59 Ilk

 60 What skill really was, per a sore loser

 62 North Carolina college

 63 "Aw, heck!"

 66 Enjoyed jiaozi

Solution