Across

1. She had a “Tootsie’’ role

5. Freeze front

9. One who keeps things kosher

14. “Permit Me Voyage’’ author James

15. Mother of Levi and Judah

16. Sweater synthetic

17. STEP OUT

20. Included afterward

21. He’s number one

22. Pursue with passion

23. Biologist’s medium

26. Lobster serving

28. STEP IN

34. Words with roll or tear

35. Check for letters?

36. Electric surge

38. Entrance for Clementine’s dad

40. Not rinsed, perhaps

43. One type of poll

44. Administered medicine

46. Pistol projectile

48. Hudson Bay prov.

49. STEP UP

53. Luminous topper

54. Warm, in searches

55. Tour operator

58. Hindu royal

60. Cockatoo’s pride

64. STEP DOWN

68. Bridge bid, briefly

69. Pelvic bones

70. Part of a makeshift swing, perhaps

71. What a witness may take

72. Be dependent

73. Fit to finish?

Down

1. Festive fete

2. Made cheddar better

3. Librarian’s urging

4. Bring to light

5. Cat fancier from Melmac

6. Word form for “recent’’

7. Butler’s quarters?

8. “There was no other choice for me!’’

9. Co-renters, slangily

10. Extension

11. Squandered, as a lead

12. Chastity, for one

13. Eagerly studying

18. Prize for a mystery

19. Polite contraction

24. Ones of a kind?

25. City near Lake Tahoe

27. Bounding gait

28. The recently fired hit it

29. Words with “the line’’ or “an era’’

30. Rupee part

31. Store secretly

32. Watergate figure

33. Barely making (with “out’’)

37. Kitchen extension?

39. Word in many college names

41. It may be hatched

42. Type of log

45. 1996 Greg Kinnear film

47. Candied, in cookery

50. Rickman of “Galaxy Quest’’

51. Nicolas Cage film of ‘9752. Novel flubs

55. Advantages

56. Polite bloke

57. In midvoyage

59. Cruise stopover, perhaps

61. Shorten to fit, perhaps

62. Parched

63. Place for a knot

65. Setting for “Newhart’’

66. Feel unwell

67. Hen’s task