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

EMAIL

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