puzzle

 ACROSS

  1 Mark from a wound

  5 Transmission concern

 10 Donkey

 13 Mythology and such

 14 Come about

 15 Man in "The Matrix"

 16 *Seasoning for the Christmas turkey?

 18 Thieves' place

 19 Word after "black" or "photo"

 20 ___ gras

 21 White rice's lack

 22 Pointless to discuss

 24 *Part in a play put on at the end of the school year?

 28 Protrudes

 30 Lead singer, often

 31 Oktoberfest souvenir

 32 Rap's ___ Rhymes

 34 Two, in Toledo

 35 *Halloween costume, e.g.?

 38 Yes, in Yokohama

 41 "Bland" color

 42 Kind of fork

 46 Italian football club in a fashion hub

 48 Go in circles, literally

 49 *Condition after hours of lolling in the sun?

 52 Web location

 53 One of 12, in recovery

 54 Job for a body shop

 56 Failed firework

 57 Football Hall-of-Famer Dawson

 58 Luxury hotel chain, and a hint to the phonetic "changes" in the starred clues' answers

 62 Most frequent letters in "lollipop"

 63 Ready to film, say

 64 Widespread

 65 Stain, as cloth

 66 Rush hour sounds

 67 Some signable files

DOWN

  1 Leave surreptitiously

  2 Gaming device

  3 Forger's domain

  4 Coral ridge

  5 Disgruntled diner's decision

  6 Yellowish shade

  7 Cold and slick

  8 Total

  9 Before, poetically

 10 Mobile operating system with a robot logo

 11 "For more information," in a dictionary

 12 Fourteen-line poems

 16 Beds before cribs?

 17 "Friends" friend ... or supreme Supreme

 21 Dude

 23 "So glad the week is almost done!"

 25 Cause for concern

 26 "Wasn't me," quaintly

 27 Like expressionless eyes

 29 Give the power to

 32 Like someone who may read braille

 33 Fluffy boot brand

 36 King whose youngest daughter was Cordelia

 37 Listening devices?

 38 Bothered

 39 With intensity

 40 Huge

 43 Finally left alone

 44 Makes harmonious

 45 Exploits

 47 Little troublemaker

 48 Chromosome component

 50 Commercial salesperson

 51 Scrapes the peel of

 55 Diamond cover

 58 Watch chain

 59 ___-trick pony

 60 Exploit

 61 Nickname within "president"

solution