puzzle

ACROSS



  1 "u CANNOT b serious!"

  4 Weird Al's "___ to a Superhero"

  7 Bird that may screech

 10 Bird that may screech

 13 Rapper ___ Kim

 14 Checkmate your opponent, e.g.

 15 Animal that sounds like you?

 16 Pal of Pooh

 17 23andMe offering

 19 Chicken strips

 21 Baby food, essentially

 22 Graceless

 24 Oxen harness

 25 On the ocean

 27 Couples' cruise ship?

 28 Not just happen once

 29 "I know kung fu" speaker, in "The Matrix"

 30 Dangerous current

 33 Black ___ (covert missions)

 34 Got out of Dodge

 36 "Assuming that's correct ..."

 38 Baby 15-Across

 40 Forestland units

 41 Gave the go-ahead

 44 An empty seat is reserved for him at a Seder

 46 Mouthwatering stuff?

 48 The whole shebang

 49 Hunt down

 50 Grab a bite

 51 Muslim ascetics

 53 Big name in private planes

 55 Event for debutantes

 56 Honeydew relative

 59 Graduate of Barnard or Spelman

 63 People go under while on top of them

 64 Scrub, as digital evidence

 65 Former sections of SATs

DOWN

  1 Dad

  2 It passes in 60 seconds

  3 Pairing with 10-Down

  4 Need to pay

  5 Part of DJ

  6 Lure into crime

  7 Bouncy watercraft

  8 Fills with wonder

  9 Money in Kobe

 10 Stackable snacks depicted in this puzzle's grid ... and whose middle layer is spelled by the grid's uncrossed letters

 11 Generate, as a lather

 12 Proverbial weepers

 18 Start of many book titles

 20 Ombre liquid

 23 Child's macaroni creation

 26 "I know you ___, but what am I?"

 28 One who monitors traveling?

 31 University in Pocatello

 32 Break away (from)

 35 Prez who established Medicare

 37 It precedes la

 38 Maple part on the Canadian flag

 39 Spaghetti ___ carbonara

 42 "Dear ___ Hansen"

 43 Numbers to crunch

 45 Tightrope walker, e.g.

 47 Iris rings

 52 "That matters to me!"

 54 Oscar season oversights

 56 Fish known for its liver

 57 Yoshi : dinosaur :: Donkey Kong : ___

 58 Salt, to a French chef

 60 Scholarly style org.

 61 Napoleonic marshal (anagram of 9-Down)

 62 A male one is called a jack

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