colorful characters

ACROSS
1. Bids
7. Rogers and Petrie
11. Like fungi or bacteria: abbr.
14. Item in the plus column
15. Bustling
16. Reel companion
17. Popular Super Bowl snack item
18. Sweaty thing
19. No-hitter on a scoreboard, perhaps
20. Country singer Clint with the flu?
23. Turkish honorific
24. "Fortibus es in ___...": mock Latin phrase
25. Statistical comparison method
27. Actress Russell of Felicity
29. As soon as
32. Height
33. Embarrassed actress Tracey after flubbing her lines?
37. Silent Spring topic
38. "___ My Heart", hit for the Harmonicats
39. Little bounders
41. Former publisher of D&D game
44. Leave letter-turner Vanna on a desert isle?
49. Ground floor apartment designation, perhaps
51. Jerry Garcia collaborator Saunders
52. Raw silk shade
53. Local bijous
55. Keyboard key
57. Comparative ending
58. Absolutely livid Vanilla Fudge drummer Appice?
63. Saturn's mate
64. One above a viscount
65. Ring Ding alternatives
67. Bitty
68. Frank with a diary
69. One who leaves the bed
70. They may get a disc. on Tues.
71. Buss
72. Connections with
DOWN
1. Anxiety affliction, briefly
2. Certain lumberman
3. Nice wheels
4. Singer-songwriter Brickell
5. Ceremony
6. Fourteen pounds, to a Brit
7. "6 in the Mornin'" or "Sabotage"
8. Troubling phrase
9. Outlying area, informally
10. Refine
11. Carry on
12. Mope
13. Japanese dish ingredient
21. Steel component
22. Cell metab. need
23. Grp. with pedigrees
26. B'way show purchase
28. Rapscallion
30. Civic competitor
31. North Carolina university
34. Religious acad.
35. Old Irish alphabet: var.
36. Blue chip benchmark
40. Haggard novel
41. Bridge capacity unit
42. Seafood entrée item
43. Concentration components
45. Seers
46. Unsociability
47. Sapling
48. It's west of the Ural Mtns.
50. Start of an Irish fleet
54. Lecture
56. Strive to
59. Author/civil-rights activist Guinier
60. Apex sea predators of Asia
61. Chilean painter Camilo
62. "And When ___", hit for Blood, Sweat & Tears
63. Cries of discomfort
66. Sign of a hit show
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