Theme: Connection - One word that works with four different words.
62A. Perform a cheerleader's feat, and a hint to what 17-, 23-, 40- and 50-Across' first words have in common : DO THE SPLITS...and the connection is SPLIT.
17A. Sensible : LEVEL HEADED. Split level, like a house.
23A. Actor's tryout : SCREEN TEST. Split screen, like this film, Woodstock(1:12).
40A. Romantic anniversary getaway : SECOND HONEYMOON. Split second.
50A. Concert memento : TICKET STUB. Split ticket, when a voter doesn't follow party lines and votes for candidates from more than one party.
Argyle here. Personally, after the last three puzzles, I was ready for a Monday.
Across:
1. __ fit: tantrum : HISSY
6. Alabama civil rights march city : SELMA
11. Muddy farm abode : STY
14. Send to seventh heaven : ELATE. Like a pig in a sty.
15. Earlier : PRIOR
16. Drain-clearing chemical : LYE
19. Alias, for short : AKA. (also known as)
20. Private school attendee : PREPPIE
21. Actor Rob of "90210" : ESTES. Rob Estes was born on July 22, 1963 in Norfolk, Virginia, USA. He appears as Harry Wilson on 90210, the fourth series of the Beverly Hills, 90210 continuity. Prior to this role, Estes starred in the franchise's second series as Kyle McBride, and appeared in the guest role of Sam Towler years earlier.
27. Padlocked fasteners : HASPS
32. Maintained, as beliefs : HELD TO. Colloquialism?
33. Extremely : EVER SO. Colloquialism?
35. Wheel tooth : COG
36. Judge's garb : ROBE
43. 1970s-'80s sketch show : SCTV. (Second City Television)
44. Letters of obligation : IOU. Sound it out.
45. Took by force : SEIZED
46. "Full House" acting twins : OLSENS. They both portrayed Michelle Tanner, the youngest daughter in the Tanner family.
49. January, to Juan : ENERO. The start of verano.
54. Irish actor Milo : O'SHEA
55. Hopi homes : PUEBLOs
61. Hard __ rock : AS A. Do not play if easily offended. Very suggestive.
66. Pester for payment : DUN
67. Bull on a glue container : ELMER
68. Assume as fact : POSIT
69. Up to now : YET
70. Curbs, with "in" : REINS
71. Sandwich cheese with ham : SWISS
Down:
1. "SOS!" : "HELP!"
2. Robert who played Anthony Soprano Jr. : ILER
3. Keep in reserve : SAVE
4. Ladder rung : STEP
5. Shrill bark : [YELP!]
6. Orator's delivery : SPEECH
7. Chapter in history : ERA
8. Jar cover : LID
9. Cohort of Curly and Larry : MOE. Not the bartender today.
10. Intensely devoted : ARDENT
11. List of candidates : SLATE. Straight ticket.
12. Tricycle riders : TYKES
13. Bread-baking need : YEAST
18. "__ Girl Friday": 1940 Cary Grant comedy : HIS
22. Enter angrily : STORM IN
24. Runner-up's demand : RECOUNT
25. North Carolina university : ELON
26. Outer margins : EDGES
27. Gas brand with collectible toy trucks : HESS. Hess has been sold to Speedway but does that make the Hess trucks even more collectible?
28. With, in France : AVEC
29. Breakaway religious group : SECT
30. Egg on : PROVOKE
31. ID on an IRS form : SSN
34. Creator of praiseful poems : ODIST
37. Move like slime : OOZE
38. Afrikaans speaker : BOER
39. Prefix with skeleton : ENDO
41. Sod-busting tools : HOEs
42. "__-haw!" : YEE. Almost done!
47. Orchestra conductor, e.g. : LEADER
48. Building custodians : SUPERs. Shortened superintendent.
50. Sycophant : TOADY
51. Magazine edition : ISSUE
52. Repeated unison rallying cry : CHANT
53. Urban transport : BUS
56. Omar of "House" : EPPS
57. Low __: cheap shot : BLOW
58. Italian actress Virna : LISI
59. Elevator pioneer : OTIS
60. Former Mach 2 fliers, briefly : SSTs
63. World Cup cry : ¡OLÉ!
64. Texter's "Keep the details to yourself" : TMI. (Too Much Information)
65. One in a coop group : HEN
Argyle
