Across

1 Sneaker feature

5 Balance scale container

8 Plays the role of

14 Milky white gem

15 Focus of modern-day surfing

16 Most achy

17 *Spends time in the gym

19 Shrimp entrée

20 Prime meridian std.

21 Make into law

23 Quaking tree

24 One of the Coen brothers

26 *Upscale eatery service for topper wearers

28 Big-time celeb

31 P-like Greek letter

32 ACLU issues

33 Smell really bad

34 Crosses (out)

36 Antiquated

38 James Taylor classic ... or, respectively, what can precede the two words in each answer to a starred clue

42 “__ on my watch!”

43 Chaney of horror films

44 Where some surfers shop

47 Nonprofit URL ending

50 __ Lingus

52 Ophthalmologist’s field

54 *Times Square New Year’s

Eve custom

57 Calf-length skirts

58 Like the sea when waves are

crashing

59 NFL Dolphins’ home

62 Bloodshot

63 Broadway’s Ethel

65 *When employment ends, formally

67 Cheese in some bagels

68 Freight weight

69 Old Spice competitor

70 Balanced conditions

71 Aardvark’s morsel

72 Common flag symbol

Down

1 Transmission choice for steep ascents

2 Biblical disciple

3 One driving the wrong way?

4 Lodge member

5 Menial laborer

6 Océano filler

7 V-shaped slit

8 Pack animal

9 Pepsi rival

10 Vandalize

11 Start of the Marines’ motto

12 Appearance

13 Smells really bad

18 Dispatched

22 Driveway material

25 Welcome to one’s home

27 Like rosebushes

29 New Hampshire prep school town

30 Actor Stephen

35 NBC weekend show

37 Cinque times due

39 Blowup on the highway

40 Buck’s partner

41 Annual hoops player selection event

45 Short operatic solo

46 “Whatever you say, honey”

47 Trumps’ White House predecessors

48 Least cooked

49 Vocalist Estefan

51 CD follower

53 Radiate

55 Asian priests

56 Michelangelo masterwork

60 Neural transmitter

61 Like new

64 Turndowns

66 Courtroom figs.