themeless 71 { solution! }

ACROSS
1. Mr. Bacharach, to friends
5. Maharashtra mystics
11. "What's the ___?" ("Who cares?")
14. Lt. Tony's portrayer on NYPD Blue
15. Knack
16. The Cars bassist and singer Benjamin
17. Kindness
19. Me, to Macron
20. How some club memberships are started
21. Birth
23. Pioneering leader?
24. Sitting on
26. Endangered Sulawesi bovid
27. Favored strings of Itzhak Perlman, for short
29. Cheetah sound
32. Share
33. The White Stripes, for one
35. Like kefir or buttermilk
37. Wedding page word
38. Make waves
41. Were just now?
43. Drainpipe feature
44. Diminish
45. They've got letters in theaters
47. Litmus test substance
49. Cruise setting
53. Berserk
54. Squirrel's sanctuary
56. Comics legend Stan "The Man" ___
57. One with a latte talent?
61. Newly-minted word
63. Sign
64. Not so easy
66. Wizard
67. Unprincipled
68. Straight up
69. Dime novelist Buntline
70. Hems again
71. "This should come ___ surprise..."
DOWN
1. Jumps to a jazzy beat
2. Early online bulletin board
3. Many a frustrated Internet news site commentator
4. Level
5. Kiwi predator
6. Clobber
7. Pub pour
8. Recuperate
9. Early Cuzco dweller
10. Pickle
11. Akin to an alpha dog
12. Mesabi range output
13. Warship
18. Railway bridge
22. Moleskin surface
25. Bulletin board item
28. Bustle
30. Singer Tommy with the '60s hit "Sweet Pea"
31. Unrefined sort
34. Southern-fried side
36. Machinelike
38. Did some tinkering with
39. Middle of a winning trio
40. Bewitched original airer
41. Desert steed
42. Bookstore section
46. Do some schussing
48. Render impotent, in a way
50. Sends over the moon
51. Mediterranean arm
52. "No ___ thank me!"
55. Makes a mess
58. Proof of injury?
59. São ___ and Príncipe
60. Roots actor John
62. Moppet spoiler, often
65. Historic introduction?
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