Across

    1. Language of Iran

    6. Walk through water

    10. Launching areas

    14. Postulate

    15. Steinbeck’s “To __ Unknown”

    16. Inkling

    17. White oak of California

    18. Become immovable

    19. Political cartoonist Thomas

    20. Preserved, as fodder

    22. Heyerdahl raft

    24. Multimedia device

    26. Unrefined

    27. Shin bones

    30. Hurt

    32. Whitman or Disney

    33. Biblical marriage feast location

    35. Tally mark

    39. Billy Joel’s “__ to Extremes”

    40. Considered in detail

    42. Tend to the weeds

    43. Bothered

    45. China’s Xiao-ping

    46. Capital of Peru

    47. Pesto ingredient

    49. Elevated

    51. Tasmania’s capital

    54. Vigilant

    56. Rhododendrons’ relatives

    58. Undertake

    62. Burkina __

    63. Wander

    65. Dickensian Heep

    66. Game-ending pronouncement

    67. Cudgel

    68. Totaled

    69. Grey of westerns

    70. Monopolizes

    71. Longer in the tooth

    Down

    1. Meter reading

    2. Neural fiber

    3. Barbecue entree

    4. Ask for

    5. Madame Marcos

    6. “Where’s __?”

    7. In the past

    8. Link with a space station

    9. Former Big Apple mayor

    10. Spanish mackerel

    11. Firefighter Red

    12. School furniture

    13. Debussy contemporary

    21. Pitch

    23. Immensely

    25. 1993 Peace Prize winner

    27. Small offshoot

    28. “Othello” villain

    29. Blemish

    31. First murderer

    34. German car

    36. One of these

    37. Arrive

    38. Chief

    40. Gaze intently

    41. Long-plumed bird

    44. Edible mollusk

    46. Unvarnished

    48. Fabric stiffener

    50. Conductor Toscanini

    51. Muslim who knows the Koran by heart

    52. Longtime Boston Symphony conductor

    53. Washbowl

    55. Young sheep

    57. On one’s own

    59. Look after

    60. Noggin

    61. Norse god of thunder

    64. Calendar abbr.