Across
1. Collegiate Iowa city
5. Princess in a Baum book
9. Prepare veggies
14. Jack Black’s alma mater
15. ___ court
16. Roger follower
17. Concluding words about David Ortiz’s team?
19. ___ alia
20. José Martí International Airport city
21. Make a mistake
23. Poem of elevation
24. Cheer for Cristiano Ronaldo
25. Distrusting
28. Dictator Lon
29. Contacts company
31. Alternative word
32. World UFO Day mo.
33. Female prophet
36. Conquistador Hernando
39. “What is the deeeeal with Armageddon? Oh, great, here comes my postal worker nemesis”?
41. Like They Might Be Giants
43. Some lab burners
44. Digital camera type
45. “Is this thing on?”, e.g.
47. “Farther Off from Heaven” playwright
51. Words to go on?
52. “Chicago P.D.” actor
55. “I Will Never Let You Down” singer Rita
56. Ancient
57. Lewis Black’s alma mater
58. Anyone running for president, e.g.
60. Tease relentlessly
62. 3.785 liters of the universal donor type?
65. Piano piece
66. Sausage
67. Broad sts.
68. Does some emailing
69. Whirlpool
70. Time off
Down
1. Storyteller
2. Rockets coach Kevin
3. Bills number
4. “Water for Elephants” writer Gruen
5. When things go poorly
6. Game parks?
7. Italian PM Aldo
8. Star pitchers
9. Vanilla and chocolate soft serve flavor
10. ___ can
11. Singer born Reginald Dwight
12. Beat but good
13. Rage Against The Machine guitarist Tom
18. The check that’s in the mail?: Abbr.
22. Actress Chong
26. R&B singer with the 2006 #1 hit “So Sick”
27. Shingles, e.g.
30. Operator
34. Variety
35. “The Famous Five” writer Enid
37. Humorist Bombeck
38. East German secret police
39. Expert brought into fix a “problem”
40. Feminine ending
41. Measurements of familiarity, as of brand names and celebrities
42. Howl shrilly
46. Convert into cipher
48. Taped
49. Dances
50. Serious
52. Summer vacation times
53. Pooch
54. 59-Down-shaped constellation
59. Ceremonial table
61. Whackdoodle
63. Silent greeting
64. The ___ (appropriately)