Puzzle

ACROSS

  1 Closet wood

  6 Some Autobahn vehicles

 10 Thick carpet

 14 "Chasing Pavements" singer

 15 Vietnam neighbor

 16 Bourbon Street's city, informally

 17 Use the kitchen plumbing, say

 19 Again from square one

 20 Less mean

 21 Hybrid plasticware item

 22 Mouthful of gum

 25 Host festivities

 28 Relaxed

 30 Highway off-ramp

 31 Defamatory remark

 32 Home of urban alligators, supposedly

 34 Neon, for one

 37 Start completing chores

 41 Language suffix

 42 Broad cuisine known for stir-frying

 43 "Assuming that's the case ..."

 44 Abbr. on a memo

 45 Young wizard of fiction

 47 What many commuters do daily

 52 Pig enclosure

 53 Subside

 54 Participate in, as a raffle

 56 Beginning of an unwanted call?

 57 Give up smoking, e.g.

 62 Baking soda may counteract one

 63 Basketball ref's call

 64 Fuming

 65 Barack Obama and Madonna, astrologically

 66 Medical breakthrough

 67 Nerve-racking

DOWN

  1 Token in Life

  2 End of Dartmouth's URL

  3 Hibernation site

  4 The first "A" in A.A. Milne

  5 Updates, as factory equipment

  6 More melancholy

  7 Computer shortcut

  8 Misfortune

  9 JFK jet, formerly

 10 Answer brusquely

 11 Samurai's concern

 12 On one's toes

 13 Ungainly

 18 Lovesick feeling

 21 Former vice president Agnew

 22 Word before "paper" or "pipe"

 23 Book often stored horizontally

 24 Tennis deadlock

 26 Champions' cry

 27 Canned

 29 Carrier of animal pairs

 32 Paragon of patience

 33 In-flight approx.

 34 Perfect pitch and others

 35 Useful skill

 36 Reporter's pursuit

 38 Shaping machine

 39 This, in Tijuana

 40 Exciting, in modern lingo

 44 Audition hopefuls

 45 Hummus scooper

 46 Billboard chart history for some "wonders"

 47 Sing joyously

 48 Cabin or cottage

 49 Off-limits

 50 Arise multiple times

 51 Low-down joint?

 55 Hard to come by

 57 Chain selling buckets

 58 "Will pay later" note

 59 Prohibit

 60 "___ now or never!"

 61 Prop not used in mini golf

 

Solution