puzzle

 ACROSS

  1 Attract, as attention

  5 Throw for a loop

 10 Out Magazine letters

 14 Top-notch

 15 Pheasant relative

 16 Golden ___ (vanilla cookie)

 17 *Person with a 1.7 GPA, e.g.

 19 Lightbulb unit

 20 Assumed identity

 21 Indian state by the Arabian Sea

 23 NYC subway org.

 24 Cheese in Indian cuisine

 26 *Line dances

 28 ___-bitty

 29 Will's legal ending, usually?

 31 Separated

 32 Casual top

 33 Iroquoian people, or a Great Lake

 35 Song division

 36 *Grannies

 38 When Song's identity is revealed, in "M. Butterfly"

 41 Not quite right

 42 Relaxation destination

 45 Third little pig's building material

 46 Mont Blanc, for one

 47 School orgs.

 48 *Clipping that can expire

 51 Puts to rest

 53 It's often taken lying down

 54 "___ who?"

 55 Sea star's locale, maybe

 56 And others, for short

 58 "Pretend I'm not here," or advice for reading the starred clues' answers

 62 ___ and dine

 63 Baker with eight Grammys

 64 Auction website

 65 Postcolonialism founder Edward

 66 Acknowledge knowing

 67 Draft an email, say

DOWN

  1 Beavers' construction

  2 ___ v. Wade

  3 Somewhat slow, to Scarlatti

  4 Snipes of "Blade"

  5 Sea star's locale, maybe

  6 Failures

  7 Actor Daniel ___ Kim

  8 Special vocabulary

  9 Name that anagrams to "lento"

 10 Like aces, in some card games

 11 Tense subject?

 12 Improves

 13 How salt might be added

 18 Form a knot in

 22 Sources of mezcal and tequila

 24 Peach's center

 25 Consumed

 26 "Really, dude?!"

 27 Gibbons, for example

 30 Zone

 33 Short poems that Kobayashi Issa is known for

 34 Get just right

 36 "Sweet!"

 37 '80s game featuring a chomping character with a hair bow

 38 "Nightline" presenter

 39 Zagreb's country

 40 Orchestral kettledrums

 42 Remain faithful to

 43 Pony up

 44 Stubborn animal

 47 Mercury or Mars

 49 One of seven on a harp

 50 Atmospheric layer with holes

 52 Floral garland

 55 Apt-sounding name for a car buff

 57 Pioneered

 59 Little thing to pick

 60 It may be topographic

 61 Pupil's place

solution