Paraphrasing a tweet I recently saw: "If someone gives me warmed up chocolate milk and tells me it's ___, Imma burn they house down"
16A
From Veep: "Even labor and delivery with her was a nightmare." "Oh, yes? Why is that? You have a very ___ vagina?" "Well, tight. In the States we say tight."
17A
Donkey Kong, for example
18A
Jost: "President Elect Joe Biden has emphasized his commitment to vaccine distribution by promising 100 million shots in 100 days, which is also his ___."
20A
Tin container
21A
Vaccinate, slangily
22A
Animal that can rotate its head 270 degrees (I mean I can too, but only once)
23A
Closest
25A
Lincoln, of 5-dollar-bill fame
27A
Put a stop to
29A
It comes after survival, or before Kat
30A
John or Amy or John Quincy (in that order of greatness)
33A
Jost: "Don't worry, Trump isn't throwing in the towel, because he's been a fighter his whole life. At least that's what it looks like on his ___."
37A
Hack, say
39A
"That being said..." in a text
40A
Shock
41A
Possible pronoun
42A
Suffix meaning "resembling"
44A
"___ soon!"
45A
More polite, "My turn!"
47A
Matchbox Twenty single that precedes the line, "maybe it's time to come home"
51A
Che: "The Texas lawsuit asked the Supreme Court to invalidate election results in four other states, which is a plan so crazy, only Texas could have ___."
53A
Ice sheets that don't rhyme with 36-Down
54A
___ party, nerd gathering
55A
Language in which the word for Ireland uses the word for potato
56A
"The drain is NOT clogged, you ___!!!"
57A
In math, the abstract concept generalizing the idea of an unclosed interval in the real line, -or- Dissects an alien, say
60A
Concealed
62A
"There should be ___!"
66A
Put the pedal to the metal, but only briefly
67A
Jost: "This week the Supreme Court dismissed two different Trump lawsuits to overturn the election results. They were the first rulings by the Supreme Court that were just the ___."
70A
Plural is
71A
Swashbuckling Flynn and others
72A
Georgia, the ___ State (also, the Decider of the Senate Majority State)
73A
Laughter indicated by thumbs
74A
Lipton and Fuze competitor
75A
Can eat right up
Down
1D
Chemicals banned by US law
2D
Questlove or Black Thought, for example
3D
8 prefix
4D
Who likely left urine stains in the White House
5D
___ on the Beach, Bleeding Gums Murphy album
6D
"___ Pronounce you Chuck and Larry", an Adam Sandler film that made almost $200 million for some reason
7D
Rough handlers
8D
New York City subway operator
9D
Produce something dull in a laborious way -or- How to relieve sexual tension on the dance floor
10D
Sharpen
11D
Gets juuust right
12D
A teardrop under the eye, often
13D
Hipster brews
14D
Housing cost
19D
Wade defeater, for now
24D
Puerto ___
26D
Undergraduate degrees in STEM, for example
28D
American rapper born Nasir bin Olu Dara Jones
30D
Best performance
31D
Clean out your ears, say
32D
Where to hang pictures, it's said
33D
Ceremonial guardians of the Tower of London, thought to be nicknamed after the rations they were provided in the 17th century
34D
Gritty genre
35D
Not a soul
36D
Wear that doesn't rhyme with 53-Across
38D
Start to chat?
43D
Go against
46D
Statement of ability
48D
They can be rushing and passing, abbr.
49D
Lubrication injection site
50D
Shined bright (like a diamond, why not)
52D
Not noticed
56D
The "bad" cholesterol (because you want a "low" amount of it, there's a mnemonic device for you)
57D
Like some arguments and sex
58D
But in Spain
59D
Literary heroine Jane
61D
Casablanca role
63D
Insano in the membrano
64D
Not quite shut
65D
It's fine, while liquor is notably quicker
68D
Deteriorate
69D
Organization concerned with clean air (are they though? at least at the moment?)