puzzle

 ACROSS

  1 Mix with a spoon

  5 Flower's deer friend, in a Disney film

 10 Support for a crow's nest

 14 Actress Anderson

 15 Out of bed

 16 Big name in beauty stores

 17 All excited

 18 Barely defeated

 19 Cash advance

 20 Course to follow

 22 Some siblings

 24 Tik___

 25 King of France?

 26 Olympian who might weave through gates

 31 Channel that shows college games

 34 Name for an unknown commenter

 35 Medical research agcy.

 36 : : :

 38 Brat

 39 Say hello to

 41 Longtime columnist Bombeck

 42 Beach headwear

 44 Website info section

 45 Marvel Comics group

 46 Bloodsucker

 47 Curtail

 49 Nickname that rhymes with "Clay"

 50 Relative of -esque

 51 Trust in

 55 Shoes named for a British university

 59 Tel ___

 60 Whiz at setting up office PCs

 62 Chain that sells links?

 63 Fodder holder

 64 Addition symbol?

 65 Wrestler/actor John

 66 Coin opening

 67 "Family Ties" mom

 68 3:00, on a compass

DOWN

  1 Hit, as a handball

  2 Ancient Roman's attire

  3 When a tense NBA situation may occur

  4 *Exactly atop a golf course clump? (Note each starred clue's number)

  5 *Quitting a bad habit?

  6 Bryant of "SNL"

  7 Flavor enhancer: Abbr.

  8 Some visit violets

  9 *Man of La Mancha, when beating around the bush?

 10 *Decision about which many-screened theater to patronize?

 11 Succulent whose gel is mostly water

 12 Asterisk

 13 Shades around sunglasses?

 21 Misery

 23 Meh

 26 Elliot of the Mamas and the Papas

 27 Invalidate

 28 Everybody's opposite

 29 "Dear" one

 30 Larceny or piracy

 32 Representative Torres

 33 Not fulfilled

 37 Showing sound judgment

 40 Organ with a canal

 43 Lot or plot measure

 48 Nonmedical research agcy.

 51 Low-pitched voice

 52 Bad to the bone

 53 "___ & Stitch"

 54 And others, for short

 55 Assayers' rocks

 56 Name hidden in "clearheaded"

 57 Gets dressed in

 58 Couple's clash

 61 Ask intrusive questions

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