Hah! He expects me to finish his work for him? Somehow, when he got the memo on how to set this up, I think he followed the rules a little too closely. But if I make a few accommodations, we can please both our clients, regardless of stylistic disagreements.
Across
1. River that flows past Battenberg and Fritzlar
5. Blue striped ball
8. Dorm leaders, for short
11. Actress Winningham
12. Character annoyed by 7 Down
14. Key in a PC-restarting command
15. Fake, in catalog descriptions (abbr.)
16. Eat away
17. Patty Hearst's kidnappers
18. Type of oil similar to bergamot
20. One who fills until full
22. Former Bush press secretary Fleischer
23. Dresses up like
25. "The final frontier"
28. Former FBI director Louis
29. Like the White Rabbit
30. Pal, slangily
31. Thessaly mountain
35. Something to sit on?
36. Like the hills
38. ___ Nui (Easter Island)
42. Abbr. after a few names
43. Little giggle
44. Much of Television Without Pity's content
47. Env. enclosure
49. Moo goo ___ pan
50. They're caught by tanners
52. Out of active duty (abbr.)
55. F ___ "Frank"
56. UN agency that deals with trade unions
58. Taye Diggs movie of 2005
60. 180 deg. from NNW
62. Notes before mi
64. SNL alum Meadows
66. LOL or OMG, e.g.
67. "___ Williams: The Adventure Begins"
68. Tilling tool
69. Aries, for one
70. Predecessor of the World Wide Web
71. Wilbur owned him
Down
1. Kate Bush label
2. Rhett Butler's last word
3. Canal site
4. Go back over
5. Amos or Spelling
6. Dashboard Confessional genre
7. See 11 Across
8. Jah follower
9. Dead Kennedys' "California Uber ___"
10. Texaco symbol
12. Prefix for pad or port
13. Check over once more
19. Cinnabar, e.g.
21. "...who lived in ___"
23. Junkyard dog's warning
24. Multivolume ref.
25. Venetian blinds part
26. They may be checkered
27. Confused
28. He played Klinger
30. ___5 inhibitors (drugs like Viagra)
32. Command to Fido
33. Drains the life from
34. Jolson and Jarreau, for two
36. Zeroes
37. Wine cask sediment
39. "It's ___ cop"
40. Vicente Fox's opposing party
41. Nautical prefix?
45. Ford follower
46. Mild oaths
48. Suffix for human
49. Travelocity mascot
51. "___ For Love" (Johnny Mandel standard)
53. Jazz legend Fitzgerald
54. Ruler until 1917 (var.)
55. Third of five daily Muslim prayers
57. 1987 Chemistry Nobel co-winner Jean-Marie
59. Dublin's land, to some
61. Pitching stat
63. Actor DeLuise
65. Sergio Aragones magazine