puzzle

 ACROSS

  1 School year divisions

  6 Fill with food

 10 Frosts, as a cake

 14 Use one end of a pencil

 15 Soothing succulent

 16 ___ pit (slam-dancing area)

 17 Like a blunt refusal

 19 Button you may click before a Zoom lecture

 20 SSNs, e.g.

 21 Pick up sound waves

 22 Free-for-all

 23 Word before "freeze" or "fry"

 25 One who catches poachers

 28 Abyss

 30 Makes "it"

 31 Loads (of)

 33 Body of water between Cleveland and Detroit

 37 Sushi tuna

 38 "Time for a short break!"

 41 Not well

 42 Cookie with a green filling

 44 Poster fasteners

 46 Dromedary camel feature

 47 Gawk

 49 Unchangeable

 53 Froyo chain

 56 Adjective for Al Yankovic

 57 Tempo

 59 Pie ___ mode

 60 Galena and magnetite

 61 Fixer-upper?

 64 Ridiculously funny person

 65 Composer Satie

 66 "To clarify ..."

 67 Refuse to admit

 68 Chicks' mothers

 69 Items on a to-do list

DOWN

  1 Not so hot?

  2 Wear away

  3 Create a ruckus

  4 AOL alternative

  5 Meyers of late night

  6 Greeting that's Arabic for "peace"

  7 Frighten

  8 Elephant weight unit

  9 Sound after a mouse sighting

 10 Dunk into liquid

 11 "You ___ have fooled me!"

 12 Cosmetician Lauder

 13 Gloss

 18 Pleads

 22 Purplish ink color

 24 Prof.'s degree, usually

 26 French for "state"

 27 Stop sleeping

 29 Amaze

 31 Patriotic uncle

 32 Chinese life force

 33 Sign of summer?

 34 Crunchy, puffed foods

 35 Type

 36 Golf champion Ernie

 39 Octopus parts

 40 Best-___ secret

 43 In need of a drink

 45 Sunflower oil, perhaps?

 47 Chips and pretzels

 48 It's part of IT, informally

 49 Zorro's weapon

 50 Like a haunted house

 51 Attach, as with string

 52 Choose to participate

 54 Gloomy

 55 Sailors' tales

 58 Send forth

 61 "I've seen better"

 62 "You really ___ too much!"

 63 Dr.'s org.

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