Puzzle

ACROSS

  1 Smoke an e-cig

  5 House positions

 10 Goes back

 14 Greek H's

 15 Dark

 16 Bear with a hard bed

 17 Letters for cadets

 18 *Handle (Miss!)

 19 Subject of Niels Bohr's model

 20 Sarah's husband

 22 Certain wounded vet

 24 Pundit's fodder

 26 Fast pace

 27 Verdi's "___ tu"

 28 They shouldn't drop the ball

 30 Legendary 2016 MLB team

 31 *Nike competitor (Miss!)

 33 Recipe amts.

 35 Walks heavily

 37 Nutty kind of butter

 39 Inlet such as New York Harbor

 40 Terse negative reaction

 44 "___ minute"

 45 Oodles of

 47 Morning ritual, maybe

 48 Like an echoey theater

 50 1997 animated film set in Russia

 53 *I-E connector (Miss!)

 55 *Harmless (Miss!)

 58 Test option

 59 It might be 45 degrees

 61 Square root of nueve

 63 Comedian Maron

 64 Uncovered

 65 Prefix with "flot" or "mexico"

 66 *Langston Hughes poem (Hit!)

 67 Slopes transports

 68 *Triumphant cry (Hit!)

DOWN

  1 Designer Wang

  2 Simple step

  3 What you might sink by calling 66- and 68-Across, in some versions of 11-Down

  4 Reading romance novels, for some

  5 ___ B. Anthony

  6 The Hatfields and the McCoys, e.g.

  7 Tap output

  8 Ship that went down in 1912

  9 Walk heavily

 10 Symbols of rank

 11 Game phonetically hinted at by this puzzle's starred entries

 12 Lodge acronym

 13 "___ difference"

 21 With it

 23 Stew-cooking vessel

 25 ".... ___ quit!"

 26 Tchotchke

 29 Wiped out

 30 Shift neighbor

 31 Wildfire evidence

 32 Poli ___

 34 Rock

 36 It has keys and pedals

 38 Didn't dine out

 41 Army/Navy store?

 42 Pharaoh for about 10 years

 43 Empowered

 46 Mariners' field

 49 Tiki bar offering

 51 Many Omanis

 52 Bird snacks

 53 Dennis the Menace, for one

 54 Capital of Latvia?

 56 Shot up

 57 Emperor for about 13 years

 58 "No more," in texts

 60 Test whose max score is 340, briefly

 62 Junior

Solution