puzzle

 ACROSS

  1 "So close!"

  7 Promotion on a podcast, say

 11 Rx from Dr. Mom

 14 One may devour "Chocolat"

 15 Flight-related prefix

 16 Snicker syllable

 17 When to sample wedding desserts

 19 Night before a holiday

 20 Pronoun for Rihanna

 21 Sitter'shandfuls

 22 Bert's foil on "Sesame Street"

 24 Know by intuition

 26 Exams scored from 1-5

 28 ___ gobi (Indian dish)

 30 When to present a case

 32 Like a trampoline

 35 They're capped above two feet

 36 Snip

 37 Tracking device

 39 Fir fluid

 42 Suspicious

 43 Lead-in to "intellectual"

 45 When to test an app

 49 Exchange of cross words

 50 Common autobiography subtitle

 51 Arrange, as a shawl

 54 Like proofed dough

 55 Mask or cloak

 56 Softball stat

 59 "___ get over it"

 60 Taxing periods, and a hint to 17-, 30- and 45-Across

 64 "Boyz n the Hood" actress Long

 65 Tablet some take to bed

 66 Gloria Estefan's Cuban birthplace

 67 What an electric car doesn't use

 68 They may be stroked or inflated

 69 In, now

DOWN

  1 Story trajectories

  2 Rachel's biblical sister

  3 Gets to first base

  4 Reverent poem

  5 Take effect

  6 Streetcars

  7 Rewards for "good boys"

  8 Floral garland

  9 Decorative vase

 10 Very enterprising people

 11 Cryptography org.

 12 Actor Joseph Gordon-___

 13 Nacho topping

 18 Design detail, for short

 23 Some lipstick shades

 25 For-ev-er

 26 Julia Roberts, to Emma Roberts

 27 Before surgery, informally

 28 Jackson 5 hit with an alphabetical title

 29 "Skip to My ___"

 31 Gives the green light

 33 Grade school semiformal accessory

 34 Nintendo dinosaur

 38 Blacken

 39 Powerful DC figure?

 40 Computing pioneer Lovelace

 41 Drum for a toddler, maybe

 42 Renown

 44 Clairvoyance, e.g., briefly

 45 Revealing, as one's soul

 46 Clarke who played Mother of Dragons

 47 Certain electric cars

 48 Perfect garden

 52 This way: --->

 53 Place to exchange rings

 55 TikTok content, casually

 57 Stretch, as the truth

 58 "My word!"

 61 D&D, e.g.

 62 NBA legend Ming

 63 "___ been drinkin' ..." (Beyonce lyric)

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