puzzle

ACROSS



  1 Concert blasters

  5 Birth control options, briefly

  9 ___ squad (beauty team)

 13 Had a go

 15 Muscat resident

 16 Undercover agent's cell?

 17 Ham ___ (pork knuckles)

 18 Vermont resort town

 19 Pigtailed "Hey Arnold!" character

 21 Kit ___

 22 Prefix with "skeleton"

 24 Clorox competitor

 26 Unfurnished mansion?

 32 "Therefore ___" (Billie Eilish song)

 33 Glide like a bird

 34 Drinks slowly

 35 Got on in years

 37 Concert goods, informally

 39 Small earring

 40 Biological sequence

 42 Awards for John Legend, briefly

 44 First nightly news segments?

 45 Why pillboxes and newsboy caps are still in fashion?

 48 Oscar winner Rami

 49 ___ Lankan

 50 Before, to Elizabeth Barrett Browning

 52 Courtroom event

 55 Remove everything from

 59 Past, present or future

 61 The assumption that two women dating are lesbians, e.g., or a hint to what was deleted from 16-, 26- and 45-Across

 63 Started a poker pot

 64 Add Fido to the family, perhaps

 65 Way off course

 66 Group of buddies

 67 Roll down the runway


DOWN

  1 They require PINs

  2 Like an irrelevant point

  3 Shirt in many school uniforms

  4 Kebab stick

  5 "Kinda"

  6 "That's a bad sign!"

  7 Totally over

  8 ___ Artois

  9 Food that's definitely not organic: Abbr.

 10 Blah

 11 Crooner Paul

 12 Light spray

 14 Peaks

 15 Gymnastics great Katelyn

 20 P.E. footwear

 23 What shows how far you've come?

 25 "My bad!"

 26 Food with a poppy variety

 27 Bill of Rights components

 28 TikTok dancer Addison

 29 Goofed

 30 "Pop!" or "pow!"

 31 Concludes

 32 He betrayed Othello

 36 Qatar's most populous city

 38 Pixar technique, briefly

 41 ___ milk (soda fountain treat)

 43 Ultimatum

 46 Vail luggage item

 47 Targets, as with a snowball

 50 And others: Abbr.

 51 University of Nevada city

 53 Opera turned into a 1998 musical

 54 Rock's Kings of ___

 56 Moth life stage

 57 Dino with comically tiny arms

 58 Mythical Himalayan

 60 Six games, say, in tennis

 62 D&D, e.g.

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