puzzle

 ACROSS

  1 Puts one and one together, say

  5 Handbag monogram

  8 Cliff notes?

 13 (I touched your nose!)

 14 Shop selling salami

 15 Soft palate projection

 16 Wrestling popular in Tokyo

 17 "Everything's fine!"

 18 Bread crumbs used for tempura

 19 They relate well to others

 22 Spanish custard

 23 "Family Guy" matriarch

 24 Cut, as grass

 27 Employ

 29 Boardroom VIP

 32 "I want to see!"

 34 Prez before Jack

 35 Cobra curl

 36 With 38-Across, snitches

 37 Size above med.

 38 See 36-Across

 39 Sitter's bane

 40 Triumphant cry

 41 Photo often snapped at arm's length

 42 Bottle alternative

 43 Lab report writer?

 45 Hither's partner

 46 Cut, as costs

 47 Director Ephron

 49 What Kevin Love achieved in 53 consecutive NBA games, or a theme hint

 53 One may have attachments

 55 Touch a side of

 56 "Carpe diem" acronym

 58 Pop, as a balloon

 59 Covers with black goo

 60 Shout after the pound of a gavel

 61 Collections of bits

 62 Hurricane's center

 63 Drove lickety-split

DOWN

  1 Muscles below the ribs

  2 Arrange, as hair

  3 Rounded roof

  4 "Spaceballs," for "Star Wars"

  5 Sana'a citizen

  6 Sty food

  7 Have a crush on, informally

  8 Affluent '80s city dweller

  9 Flattened circles

 10 Mound in the Sahara

 11 Animal with antlers

 12 Southeast Asian language

 14 What pupils may do during an exam?

 20 Prunes, once

 21 Flow like molasses

 24 "The ReidOut" channel

 25 Catherine of "Schitt's Creek"

 26 "I'm Every ___" (Chaka Khan hit)

 28 Hardly heavy

 29 Like pj's

 30 "Old MacDonald" letters

 31 Elizabeth of "Wanda-Vision"

 33 Just out of the jacuzzi

 35 Stanford's rival, for short

 37 Airing in the wee hours

 38 India's first prime minister

 40 Parsley, sage, rosemary or thyme

 41 Gets a move on

 43 Bank heist targets

 44 Stick it out

 46 Personal grace

 48 Bottomless pit

 49 It's thrown at a board

 50 PayPal's parent company, once

 51 Circular Blue Angels stunt

 52 Palindromic fashion magazine

 53 Gradually decline

 54 "___ bien, gracias!"

 57 Like 2021, but not 2022

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