HALLOWEEN

ACROSS

1. Cut of lamb

6. Numbers, abbr.

9. Friend from Down Under

13. Jonas Salk's conquest

14. Bingo!

15. Secret storage

16. Like a beaver?

17. Sun, in Spain

18. Knightly suit

19. *Can take the form of a certain flying mammal

21. *Spell casting

23. Between E and NE

24. Fisherman's fly

25. Away's partner

28. Biology lab supply

30. Offspring of alumnus

35. Month before Nisan

37. Latte choice

39. Filthy dough

40. Sound on a scale

41. *Homeowner's Halloween option

43. Subsequently

44. A deadly sin?

46. Competitive advantage

47. Assigned theater spot

48. Popular post

50. Biblical firstborn

52. What skeletons and skedaddlers have in common

53. Tiresias in "Oedipus Rex", e.g.

55. French vineyard

57. *Grisly

61. *Ghostly apparition

65. Throat dangler

66. *"The Murders in the ___ Morgue"

68. Actress Watts

69. Relating to a lobe

70. Songwriter Gershwin

71. a.k.a. tangelos

72. Pitcher

73. Lt.'s inferior, in the Navy

74. River clay deposits

DOWN

1. Hightailed it

2. *Adjective for Merlin, hairwise

3. Aquarium scum

4. *"Unattractive" Munster relative

5. Sl vakian monetary unit

6. Project Apollo org.

7. Exclamation of surprise

8. Pico de gallo, e.g.

9. Painter Chagall

10. Pinnacle

11. Chris Hemsworth's Marvel role

12. *Like decorated house on Halloween

15. El Chapo's organization, e.g.

20. MC Hammer's "Too ____ to Quit" album

22. Black gold

24. Puppy purveyor, often

25. *Teeth of #19 Across

26. Love intensely

27. a.k.a. honey badger

29. 0.405 hectare

31. *Blood and ____

32. Partner of pains

33. *Spooky house sound

34. "Fiddler on the Roof" gossipy character

36. Coral barrier

38. Gads, anagrammed

42. Mold a mind

45. Expel a lawyer

49. Ever, to a poet

51. Bluish planet

54. *#12 Down, alt. sp.

56. Sushi option

57. Stubborn beast

58. Swear, not curse

59. Type of hexahedron

60. Having wings

61. Black-eyed legumes

62. Sound of a bell

63. Fail to mention

64. Magnolia State, abbr.

67. *R.I.P. container