puzzle

 ACROSS



  1 Monster such as Shrek

  5 5 + 5 = 10, for instance

  8 Barber's quick job

 12 "Me too!"

 14 Creole vegetable

 15 Sandwich also called a grinder

 16 Builder's sign on a vacant lot?

 18 Cheese in a ball

 19 Say yes to

 20 Beautyrest mattress maker

 22 Like pigs in a blanket?

 23 Dove call

 24 Green Hornet's sidekick

 27 Sport where everyone dresses like a catcher?

 33 Balances (out)

 35 Actor Diggs

 36 Earl Grey, say

 37 Bleat

 38 Modernizes

 41 Some run between Olympic races

 42 "We ___ to please"

 43 Kid's query

 44 Divination deck

 46 Political group focused on supplying schools with building toys?

 50 Is victorious

 51 Cheer in Spain

 52 Carnival attraction

 54 Arctic shipping hazard

 58 Peter or Paul, but not Mary

 62 Fly high

 63 Small bathroom fixture?

 65 Flow that may be 2,000 degrees Fahrenheit

 66 Rental company that used the slogan "We Try Harder"

 67 Essential acid variety

 68 Split personalities?

 69 Acquire

 70 Terminates

DOWN

  1 Fed. workplace watchdog

  2 Gunk

  3 Freeway entrance

  4 Boston college

  5 Make tracks in the snow

  6 Coffee dispensers

  7 '90s optical illusion fad

  8 Group with family ties?

  9 Overhaul

 10 Country known for rug weaving

 11 Some PTA members

 13 Clickable image

 14 Alpha's opposite

 17 Egg cell

 21 Unlikely to brag

 24 Food that a chef might skewer

 25 Be of use

 26 Latin lover's line

 28 Step in a flight

 29 Kit ___ (breakable candy)

 30 Classic video game company

 31 Strung along

 32 Stands the test of time

 34 Nurse, like a piglet

 39 Sack lunch holder

 40 Chain letters?

 45 "Very cool!"

 47 Deadly snakes

 48 School lunch holders

 49 Sharp barks

 53 Qatar's capital

 54 Little bit of land

 55 Cajole

 56 Gutter site

 57 ___ a hoot (cared)

 59 Perfect choice for a body double, perhaps

 60 Allow to borrow

 61 Cupid, to the Greeks

 64 Boring thing?

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