themeless 16 { solution! }

ACROSS
1. Brezhnev's country, briefly
5. Early 12th century date
9. Tiptoes
13. Daminozide, familiarly
14. Besides
15. Sapphire surface
16. Enduring
18. Leaf stem wrapper
19. ___ to behold (beautiful sight)
20. IMF specialty
22. Rapid
24. Acronym for some car parts
25. Near, in Nürnberg
26. Trojans' sch.
27. Set design style in Top Hat
30. Type of work that may never be done?
32. Pollicle foe
34. Southwestern Philippine sea
36. Poses
37. Brisket alternative
40. LPGA part
42. Loudness unit
43. "Mi casa ___ casa"
47. Fruity compounds
49. It was introduced as "the world's first indoor ball"
51. Some H.S. exams, for short
52. Meadow sound
53. Cartoon cry
55. Jehovah, in Hebrew
57. Like lights at a disco
61. Place to score
62. "___ You", song from the Help! album
63. Global
66. What futures trading is, for many
67. Outstanding notes
68. Malamute's haul
69. Palm closing?
70. Agenda, informally
71. Curved Dash maker
DOWN
1. Portobello piece
2. Purify
3. Steal the wheels from under
4. Certain hospital area
5. The Third ___, 1949 film noir
6. Popular pen
7. Hall of Fame golfer Aoki
8. Car with the first 3-point seat belt standard
9. It's a bargain
10. Cirque du Soleil performer
11. Intensifies
12. Time when things hang in the balance?
15. Onetime name of Taiwan
17. Lt. Robert Barone's employer
21. "Yecch!"
22. Have a late bite
23. Polite rustic response
28. Coffeehouse supply
29. The Jayhawks founding member Mark
31. Title character in a 1952 Tracy/Hepburn film
33. Kilkenny tongue
35. Alternative digest ___ Reader
38. Caught napping, say
39. Sinister: var.
40. How storage locker contents may be sold
41. Most routine
44. Place for splitting cedars
45. Hastened
46. Escort to a seat, slangily
47. High-waisted dress style
48. Collection
50. Late Saudi monarch
54. Fuzzy fruits
56. "What do you mean?"
58. Mobutu Sese ___, former African dictator
59. Recess
60. Chilling effect?
64. It's dropped before some trips
65. McMahon and Sullivan, for example
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