puzzle

 ACROSS

  1 Battle plan element

  7 Word with "reading" or "oil"

 11 Crew member's need

 14 Benjamin's love in "The Graduate"

 15 Mine, in Marseille

 16 ___ sighting

 17 "In this manner"

 18 Overthink, maybe

 20 Md. athlete

 21 Deejayed?

 22 Egyptian fertility goddess

 24 Motionless

 25 Concert worker who kicks out overzealous fans?

 31 More weird

 32 One may have a hole for a straw

 33 Touch of rouge

 36 Changed, as the Constitution

 38 Stop meeting indefinitely

 41 Kung ___ chicken

 42 Nyets, in New York

 44 Stranded by a winter storm

 45 Overcharge?

 47 Common reaction to dust

 51 Lessen, like a burden

 52 Result of a cereal factory malfunction?

 55 4,132-mile-long river

 59 Be free

 60 Stubbornly demand

 62 Peace activist Yoko

 63 Hydrox competitor

 64 With 67-Across, stay alert (for) ... and a phonetic theme hint

 65 ___ center (community space)

 66 Sheep enclosures

 67 See 64-Across

DOWN

  1 ___ Aviv

  2 Landed

  3 Wedding dessert

  4 Wedding dessert layer

  5 Motivated

  6 Boss's boss's boss, perhaps: Abbr.

  7 Umbrella that isn't designed to keep you dry

  8 Church affirmation

  9 Fill, as a truck

 10 Off the ground

 11 Sixteenth of a pound

 12 Later than

 13 What chickens come home to do, in a saying

 19 End of many a hotel name

 21 Grand Canyon viewing location

 23 Sister of Venus

 25 The moon's ___ of Tranquility

 26 Office fill-in

 27 It may be metropolitan

 28 Boy, in Bogota

 29 By way of

 30 Little whirlpools

 33 Thinker's counterpart?

 34 BMW rival

 35 ___-a-brac

 37 Pentagon org.

 39 Department store chain

 40 Philadelphia-to-Albany dir.

 43 Sound systems

 45 Recovering from surgery, informally

 46 Meat at an omelet bar

 47 Detest

 48 Construction site sight

 49 Chaos

 50 Number within "loneliest"

 53 Lose steam

 54 Sign for the superstitious

 56 Common response from a therapist

 57 Fat removal procedure, briefly

 58 Jacob's brother

 60 Prez who served in WWII

 61 Blasting letters

solution