Crossword

ACROSS

1. Necktie alternative

6. Finish line

9. Show of appreciation

13. Biotic community

14. Hula dancer's necklace

15. House duty

16. Sofia Costanza Brigida Villani Scicolone's stage last name

17. International distress signal

18. Hogwarts professor, part werewolf

19. *"Avengers: ____," second-highest grossing movie of all time

21. *Annexed Black Sea peninsula

23. Santa ____, Orange County

24. Multicolored horse

25. *Rand Paul's title, abbr.

28. Youngster

30. *Type of spinner popular in the late 2010s

35. Between duet and quartet

37. Newspaper piece

39. Pope's court

40. Bohemian

41. *Tonya and Harley Quinn to Margot Robbie, e.g.

43. *Like Millie Bobby Brown and friends in "Stranger Things"

44. Prows

46. Vaulting prop

47. Fencer's blade

48. *Animated story of Elsa and Anna

50. Greek salad ingredient

52. Make #26 Down

53. Look through a book

55. Good times

57. *Global surveillance whistle-blower

61. *Swedish audio streamer

65. BBQ spot

66. Words at the altar (2 words)

68. Beneficiary

69. Anti-seniors sentiment

70. Ides mo.

71. Bone hollow

72. Prepare potatoes

73. Tide's backward flow

74. City in France

DOWN

1. Having the means

2. Land of Israel

3. *____-cutting, broadcast TV phenomenon

4. Opposite of alpha

5. Not owner

6. Something ____

7. Opposite of paleo

8. "Saturday Night Fever" music

9. Pal

10. Between trot and gallop

11. Operatic solo

12. Actor Sean

15. Healthcare facility

20. *Bill de Blasio, e.g.

22. England's airforce

24. Recite rapidly (2 words)

25. Walking stick

26. Fielding mistake

27. Part of TNT

29. *BTS' genre

31. *Home to Blue Devils, 2015 NCAA winners

32. Complain

33. Downy duck

34. Policeman's shocker

36. Court of law opener

38. Mark for omission

42. Frame job

45. Not often

49. *Amal Clooney ____ Alamuddin

51. Naturally footless

54. Japanese cartoon art

56. Expressionless

57. Junk e-mail

58. Hindu serpent deity

59. Singer-songwriter Redding

60. Item on Santa's list

61. Acidic kind of apple

62. A fan of

63. *Plant in Zach Galifianakis' 2019 movie

64. Those not opposed

67. *Popular meme move