ACROSS
1 Has the spotlight
5 Daughter, en français
10 False alternative
14 -Japanese War
15 Address with an @
16 Show the door?
17 Quickly
18 Never-ending chasm
19 Protein-building molecules
20 1995 Thriller featuring Kevin Spacey, with "The"
23 Have dinner after 9 PM, maybe?
24 San Antonian siege site
27 Miyazaki character, e.g.
28 Had Danson or Cruz as a boyfriend, say
32 Ref's ruling
34 Director Michael of the "Transformers" franchise
35 Block (off)
36 Bother
39 Alternative to "Monkey Mimicked" or "Chimp Copied"
42 Wanna- (aspirants)
43 Wreak havoc, with "run"
45 Explosive material
46 2012 Taylor Swift album
48 Went to an amusement park, maybe
51 Remain undecided
54 Health insurance giant
55 Board, as one might at Grand Central Terminal
58 Radical shift, or, when rearranged, like the circled words in clues throughout this puzzle
62 Deny a score, in soccer
64 Mrs. Gorbachev
65 Dozes (off)
66 Leader of “piper” and “-à-terre”
67 Yemeni capital
68 Uric acid buildup consequence
69 9/11 heroes, for short
70 Celebrity gossip show
71 Cardiac monitor readouts, for short
ISON
FILLE
TRUE
SINO
OUST
STAT
ABYSS
RNAS
USUALSUSPECTS
EATLATE
ALAMO
TOON
DATEDATED
TKO
BAY
WARD
NAG
APEAPED
BES
AMOK
TNT
RED
RODERIDES
PEND
CIGNA
ENTRAIN
INTENSECHANGE
SAVE
RAISA
NODS
PIED
SANAA
GOUT
FDNY
ENEWS
EKGS
Major Shift
Will Gold
2024
DOWN
1 Problem
2 Joins a table, maybe
3 Functioning by itself
4 Very few
5 Thanksgiving spread
6 Steeped
7 Potato chip giant
8 Oratory oddity
9 Otherwise
10 Legal field that covers slips and falls
11 Gains a bartender’s trust, maybe
12 ____ Today
13 Aliens, for short
21 Sri ____
22 Auto___, 3D model design software
25 Trifling
26 Vegas concern
29 Die down
30 Dance genre with special shoes
31 Watcher
33 -Free (contact lens solution)
36 Dealer's downfall
37 To me, to a Frenchman
38 Natural, as a right
40 Terminate
41 What a fathom is used to measure
44 Ted or John
47 Unhinge
49 Synonym of 36D
50 Playground fixture
52 " of the North" (1922 film)
53 1982 Namco arcade maze game
56 College competitions, briefly
57 Bird abodes
59 Gaelic tongue
60 Palindromic bread
61 Cosine over cotangent
62 Sunscreen letters
63 Assist
ISSUE
SITSAT
ONAUTO
NOTALOT
FEAST
IMBUED
LAYS
LISP
ELSE
TORTLAW
RUNSATAB
USA
ETS
LANKA
CAD
MERE
ODDS
ABATE
TAP
EYER
OPTI
NARC
AMOI
GODGIVEN
END
DEPTH
KENNEDY
DERANGE
RAT
SEESAW
NANOOK
DIGDUG
NCAAS
NESTS
ERSE
NAAN
SINE
SPF
AID