Puzzle

ACROSS

  1 Next in line for a throne

  5 "On the Origin of Species" author

 11 Criticize harshly

 14 ___ facto

 15 "Me! Me!"

 16 Game with +2 cards

 17 Spanish guy who plays a certain basketball position?

 19 Word after "living" or "dead"

 20 Small couch

 21 Some Mad magazine pieces

 23 Like the math problem 1+ 1

 26 Fedora, for one

 27 Playwright-turned-president Vaclav

 30 Dorm VIPs

 32 Ones with "superior" taste

 35 "Garfield" dog

 36 Move with stealth

 38 King, to Brigitte Macron

 39 German guy who fixes things up?

 42 Decide

 43 Smart ___ (know-it-alls)

 44 Almondlike color

 45 What minimalists have a minimal amount of

 47 Every other hurricane

 48 Lip application

 49 Work of ___

 50 Bicker

 52 Actress Flockhart

 56 Pressing

 60 "Uh-huh"

 61 French guy who's a pool shark?

 64 Absorbed, as a cost

 65 Capers

 66 People want to receive bills from them

 67 "As if!"

 68 Brother's daughters

 69 Disorderly crowds

DOWN

  1 Blow off steam?

  2 Blunted blade

  3 Fails to be

  4 Dad's product

  5 Chops into cubes

  6 Citrus drink suffix

  7 Director Howard

  8 Clever types

  9 You may bounce one off of someone

 10 View from Edinburgh

 11 Island near Dominican Republic

 12 Author Rice

 13 Silent signals

 18 Authentic

 22 "At Seventeen" singer Janis

 24 Floral painting by Van Gogh

 25 Personal check?

 27 Santa's favorite snacks?

 28 Highly skilled

 29 Digital dog, e.g.

 31 Furnace feeder

 33 Ill-mannered sorts

 34 Skull cavity

 36 Abbr. before a number

 37 Sterile workplaces, briefly

 40 River worker ... or, if "C" is added, trade worker

 41 Old-fashioned message

 46 Part of TGIF, briefly

 48 Expert

 51 Answer you're not confident about

 52 Printer's blue hue

 53 One for the road?

 54 Braxton who sang "Un-Break My Heart"

 55 A chip, maybe

 57 Opposite of endo-

 58 Deaden

 59 "Working Girl" girl

 62 (Not my error)

 63 "On the rocks" rocks

Solution