Puzzle

 ACROSS

  1 Paste in Japanese cuisine

  5 Palindromic Swedish band

  9 Hoped-for job interview result

 14 Billionaire Musk

 15 Back end

 16 Unaccompanied

 17 He painted Maja

 18 One may start with starters

 19 ___ Haute

 20 Some are husky

 22 Destination east of Miami

 24 Certain brain cell

 25 Texas city where Dr Pepper was created

 26 Tree ring datum

 27 Bouncers check them

 28 Like the 1%

 30 Submit your tax return online

 32 Aunt, in Mexico

 33 Back of the neck

 34 Absorb, with "up"

 35 Fashion designer's forte

 37 Battering ___

 39 True statements

 43 Bark sound

 45 Celebratory week-end cry

 47 Sturgeon delicacy

 48 Range

 50 Prefix meaning "all"

 51 ___-Ida

 52 "I solved 52-Across!"

 53 Sometimes-bad sign

 55 Scenic views, briefly

 57 What might stop a stream?

 59 Celebration

 60 Crud

 61 Cold, at a coffee shop

 63 7UP, e.g.

 65 Former Yankees manager Joe

 66 Adorbs, non-slangily

 67 Per item

 68 Beginning

 69 Celebrity

 70 Car-buying fig.

DOWN

  1 "Sleepless in Seattle" star Ryan

  2 Rave review remark

  3 *"What I'm hearing is ..."

  4 TV studio alert

  5 Turkey neighbor

  6 Sting-y pollinators?

  7 Outlaw

  8 One of the Caribbean's ABC islands

  9 *Inauguration recital

 10 Cat biter

 11 Dressy dance

 12 Infuriate

 13 Witherspoon of "Big Little Lies"

 21 *Pool shark's call

 23 Pair that defeats kings

 24 What a picky person picks

 25 *Actor Wil

 29 EMT's skill

 31 Light-colored beer, for short

 36 Southeast Asian language

 38 Las Vegas' ___ Grand

 40 Navel-revealing shirts, and a hint to each starred answer's first few letters

 41 Bullfighter

 42 Goes on dates with

 44 Hurricane response org.

 46 Industry expert, often

 48 Stone of "Casino"

 49 Provides food for

 52 Build upon

 54 Massive tales

 56 Indian tea type

 58 Farm area measurement

 59 Cheese sometimes made with goat's milk

 62 Director's "Stop!" order

 64 Phone program

Solution