Crossword puzzle answers: January 6, 2017

ACROSS  1 Didn't give way 5 No. 2's 10 -- -back (easygoing) 14 Fridge stick 15 Sir -- Newton 16 Gorby's domain 17 Sharif of the movies 18 Hull filler 19 "Wool" on clay sheep 20 Initialize a disk 22 Most bright-eyed and bushy-tailed 24 Green-egg layers 26 Feel giddy 27 Lacking any comfort 30 Silt deposits 34 Iron pumper's pride 35 Litterbugs 38 Banister post 39 Poetic adverb 40 Win every game 42 Memorable decade 43 Prevent 46 Andrew's ex 48 Snag 49 Just say no 51 Slushy fruit drink 53 London lockup 55 Boot part 56 Soup morsel 60 Account book 64 Jog 65 Hint 67 Chan rejoinder (2 wds.) 68 Handle 69 Take potshots at 70 Earns as profit 71 Musher's vehicle 72 Bellows 73 Afternoon socials

DOWN 1 Horseshoe site 2 Tar's patron saint 3 Nonsense poet Edward -- 4 Attic window 5 Food 6 NASA counterpart 7 O.K. Corral gunfighter 8 Beeper 9 Made a basket 10 Ball or Clifton 11 Arthur of Wimbledon 12 Osiris' beloved 13 Heck! 21 Tsp. and oz. 23 Quick-witted 25 Buffaloes 27 Opera prop 28 Vex 29 Back forty's forty 31 Punk 32 Craggy abode 33 Insults 36 Lillie or Arthur 37 Vassals 41 Early releases? 44 Corrected 45 Romanov title 47 Comet -- -Bopp 50 Foot 52 Bookish one 54 Greene of "Bonanza" 56 Natural elevs. 57 Europe-Asia range 58 Hand ender 59 Body armor 61 Clarified butter 62 Is, in Madrid 63 Mr. Perot 66 An NCO