I don't think it'd be accurate to claim I am this to the puzzle as I only provided the themers; Crosshare software filled in the rest of the grid
17A
"Of all the ----- in all the World", Fallout Boy Song (seriously? I'm going with that clue?)
19A
Barely manage to make it
20A
Her lover and her husband were both named Alexei
21A
How one knows who is calling (3)
23A
To cut, as meat or a wood figurine
26A
Eagerly goes for (as food)
31A
Where both sides may agree (5)
33A
To set up the sails on a boat; to fix something or devise a mechanical solution for
34A
To be full to overflowing
35A
Like e-mails but more demanding
36A
"Cats and Bats and Things With Wings" poet
38A
Predecessors of the Olympian gods
39A
Pollen producer
41A
Of or relating to large groups of people classed according to shared origins
43A
One keyboard character that doesn't leave a mark *
44A
Rock guitarist Van Halen *
46A
"--- Comix"; showcase for Robert Crumb *
48A
Scourge
49A
She's likely to have peridot as a birthstone... or maybe it's ruby
50A
Rude starers
52A
Region that borders Extremadura and includes Cadiz
55A
"___ a Woman?" (Sojourner Truth)
56A
Texas city that is too far to the west to warrant having it's name as it's radio call letters.
57A
Desensitized *
59A
How children often make solemn promises (2)
62A
Standard on which a judgment or decision may be based (such as historically significant movies)
67A
English for Tiburon
68A
Hidu god of love
69A
rm.s to let
70A
You could do this activity without them
71A
Demand for his extradition was the cause of a hostage crises in 1979 through 1981
72A
Baseballer Sammy
Verticales
1D
Gear tooth
2D
Shapiro of NPR
3D
Confucian virtue of co-humanity
4D
Do you ever feel like you've seen this clue before?
5D
Elizabeth was in "God of Love"; Ken was in "Thirty-something"; Lena was in "After the Rehearsal"; Stig was in "Woman without a Face"
6D
Succeed in
7D
Allow
8D
To give support or relief to
9D
Enthused agreements
10D
Make big money
11D
"I Go Pogo" satirized his campaign slogan
12D
"--- may level yam bed" was my mother's attempt at my favorite form of word play (see 27D if you aren't getting it)
13D
-ness
18D
An irritation of Internet listicles is that in a weird belief that longer is better they will over-include and so for a list of this type of celebrity the will falsely include Elvis (Presley), Oprah (Winfrey) and even, god forbid, Ellen (Degeneres) who clearly don't belong on the list at all.
22D
grp, assn, soc (common URL suffix)
23D
This surpassed stop motion animation for the most part
24D
Personal measurement that is very close to one's height as illustrated in "the Vitruvian Man"
25D
"Cyrano de Bergerac" playwright
27D
"T. Eliot, top bard, was I --- I saw drab pot toilet"
28D
Resident of the Internet
29D
Break-time conveyance
30D
Every, on a prescription
32D
Expire
37D
Calf-covering legwear
38D
It's not whether you win or lose; it's how you play this
40D
TV honor last presented in 1997
42D
Spanish uncle
43D
Start-up loan org.
45D
Earworm time: "....---- begin, To tell the story of how great a love can be, The sweet love story that is older than the sea, The simple truth about the love she brings to me, Where ---...."
47D
Pressure unit
49D
"Light" name
51D
3/4 of them have Opal as their birthstone.
53D
Whims
54D
Inner self
58D
State that was the last link of the First Transcontinental Telegraph in October 1861
59D
It's appropriate that this entry is in this position of the grid
60D
After hatching an egg he went on to hear one of these
61D
Aptitude for music
63D
Yay....
64D
Making available to the public for the first time
65D
Extended plays
66D
Code-cracking org. (Three acronyms in a row? Well, not ideal but acceptable)
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The answer to this meta is not a 5-letter word although it wants to be; it's a two word phrase that has nearly nothing to do with any theme or mechanism
There's a bit of creative licensing in the meta answer. And the mechanism requires a bit of out of the box thinking.
Anyway, to my surprise one of the hardest parts of constructing a crossword is making a grid pattern that feels natural and works. This entire puzzle was an experiment. I "borrowed" another grid pattern and entered the themers and let the Crosshare software do all the rest of the work. I'm not sure what I learned. It had to have been something though. Otherwise there would have been no point in doing it.
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The entries for clues with numbers at the end of them are
(Thumb) A RIDE
(Pinky) SWEAR
(Ring) TONE
(Index) CARD
(Middle) GROUND
The entries for clues with asterisks are all typed with one type of your fingers then are, in the order listed above:
[SPACE] (with Thumbs 1) That was the creative license referred to in the blog post
ZAP (with Pinkies 2)
OWLS (with Middle fingesr 3)
NUMB (with Index fingers 4) and
EDDIE (with Middle fingers 5)