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 ACROSS

  1 Blood bank supply

  7 Made before taxes

 14 More in a lather?

 15 Part-time player

 16 Getting close

 17 Getting close, and an anagram of 16-Across

 18 Certain colas

 19 One may sit on your keyboard

 20 Lower leg part

 21 Beach

 23 ___ Jackson Jr. ("Straight Outta Compton" star)

 26 2-inch No. 2 pencil, say

 29 Musical sound

 30 Musical sound, and an anagram of 29-Across

 31 Angler's hope

 32 Feeling of wonder

 34 Descriptor for a dad

 37 Facing a judge

 41 Pub serving

 42 Descriptor for a dad, and an anagram of 34-Across

 44 Ashes holder

 45 Barely at all

 46 Wicked

 48 Wicked, and an anagram of 46-Across

 52 Called the shots

 53 Australian "bear"

 55 Its initial three letters spell an apt dessert

 56 Awards sweep, for short

 58 Baby's syllable

 60 Liquor sometimes mixed with tonic

 61 Made irate

 64 Made irate, and an anagram of 61-Across

 66 Utensils for making juice

 67 Kerry Washington or Amy Adams

 68 Upper canvas on a ship

 69 Put up a fight

DOWN

  1 Rain garment

  2 "The Far Side" cartoonist Gary

  3 Doctors' grp.

  4 Because

  5 ___ Millions

  6 "Am not!" retort

  7 "People Puzzler" channel

  8 Della of "Touched by an Angel"

  9 City in eastern Nebraska

 10 Voice on some phones

 11 On a cycle at the gym, perhaps

 12 Suffix with "southwest"

 13 Loyal pet

 14 Blue-ribbon position

 22 Brought up, as a child

 24 Fuel treatment brand

 25 Principal, for a school

 27 Bryce Canyon's state

 28 Boxing prize

 30 "Cool!"

 31 Country largely surrounded by Malaysia

 33 Earn the blue ribbon

 35 Factual

 36 Place for an AirPod

 37 Australian precious stone

 38 Basketball Hall-of-Famer Archibald

 39 Commerce imbalance

 40 What can cool into basalt

 43 Start of many rappers' names

 47 Athletic shoe brand

 49 Chills (out)

 50 Most frigid

 51 Gives for a while

 53 South ___ (Seoul's country)

 54 Comic Cheri

 55 Harbor cities

 57 Diamonds and others

 59 Way back when

 61 Word after "fine" or "folk"

 62 "The Matrix" hero

 63 Fiber internet alternative, briefly

 65 Mario's middle name?

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