Puzzle

ACROSS

  1 "Como ___?"

  5 Feed the kitty

  9 Fable's lesson

 14 Mini-___ (convenience store)

 15 Beach bucket

 16 Chip away at

 17 Spill the beans

 18 Gloomy aura

 19 Requirements

 20 Lobster trap foilers?

 23 He followed FDR

 24 Dingy dwelling

 25 Sound effect in a tunnel

 27 Plea at sea

 28 Despite the fact that

 32 "The Addams Family" cousin

 35 Ball girls?

 37 Wan

 38 What some trees provide

 40 Lithium-___ battery

 41 Inch along

 42 Singer India.___

 43 Take care of

 45 "I told you so!"

 46 Present period?

 48 Recede

 50 Sign to interpret

 51 Manhunt target?

 55 Bud you constantly text, perhaps

 57 Steamed green part of a lobster?

 60 Dinghy mover

 62 Quattro automaker

 63 Light source

 64 Scented candle emanation

 65 Tech news site

 66 Fourth-largest Great Lake

 67 Yarn purchase

 68 Smoothie green

 69 Bears' lairs

DOWN

  1 Fire remnant

  2 Taco topper

  3 Land parcel

  4 Royals' opportunities?

  5 Placate

  6 Org. that awarded John Lewis a Spingarn Medal

  7 Cash box

  8 Jazzy Fitzgerald

  9 Stand-up person

 10 Unrefined find at a mine

 11 Where lobsters keep their eggs?

 12 What a summer does?

 13 Out of concern that

 21 Congressional investigation

 22 Dampens

 26 Lead-in to "frost"

 28 Singly

 29 Allow to use

 30 Indian clarified butter

 31 Flashy promotion

 32 Brit's "My word!"

 33 No ___ Traffic

 34 Not-so-meaty lobster posterior?

 36 Wasn't truthful

 39 Judge to be

 41 Hooded snake

 43 Nickname that anagrams to "not I"

 44 One may eat at your place

 47 Capital of Iran

 49 Sent an invoice

 51 Runway walker

 52 Summer driving hazard

 53 Leave no way out for

 54 Works with keys

 55 Push-up ___ (certain undergarments)

 56 Item for eating or tuning

 58 Poster holder

 59 Albacore, for one

 61 Early Beatles label

 

Solution

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