puzzle

 ACROSS

  1 Leafy side dishes

  7 "Marriage Story" Oscar winner Laura

 11 Type of therapy for people with autism: Abbr.

 14 2017 skating biopic

 15 Oregon Trail animals, once

 16 Mire

 17 *Primate exhibit

 19 Disapproving noise

 20 Spice Girl B or C

 21 Afro-Brazilian dance

 22 "Little Women" sister

 23 Site that prohibits the selling of souls

 25 "Respect your ___!"

 27 Animal that plays dead

 30 *Matcha, for instance

 32 Park, e.g., in NYC

 33 City where pesto originated

 35 In any way

 36 Whiskey flavoring

 38 Nary a soul

 40 Peace Prize city

 41 Plot ___ (protagonist's "protection")

 43 Assail

 45 Casual shirt

 46 *Have mercy

 48 "Mister ___ Neighborhood"

 50 Conundrum

 51 Journalist Ifill

 52 Group of performers

 53 City near Dallas

 55 Poke bowl tuna

 58 Telecom letters separated by an &

 59 *"Shocker!"

 62 "To Kill a Mockingbird" author

 63 "Sure about that?"

 64 Hairdo whose "business in the front, party in the back" description hints at what can follow the two words in each starred clue's answer

 65 New Deal prez

 66 Oscar-winning director Chloe

 67 Arranges, as hair


DOWN

  1 Kind of card in a phone

  2 Molecule component

  3 Word before "wolf" or "Star"

  4 Often-rolled joints

  5 Good ___ Young (hair color brand)

  6 Concludes a prayer, maybe

  7 Apt rhyme for "gloom"

  8 Jumping for joy

  9 Transaction at a flea market

 10 Washington-to-Syracuse dir.

 11 Lingering flavor

 12 Successful book

 13 Word hidden in "Tutank-hamun"

 18 Stable staple

 22 Box in Japanese cuisine

 24 Creepy-crawly

 26 Grp. that regulates LSD

 27 Dads

 28 Wasn't cool enough?

 29 Kraken or Scylla

 30 Like undercooked brownies

 31 Soothing succulents

 34 Feeling of longing for the Before Times

 37 Namely

 39 Songs stuck in peoples' heads

 42 D&D, e.g.

 44 Lower-body ring site

 47 Mischievous

 49 "Far out!"

 51 Bearded antelope

 52 Baby whale

 54 "___ your other question ..."

 56 "The ___ We Climb" (Amanda Gorman poem)

 57 "Got it"

 59 URL ender for a company

 60 Place (on)

 61 UFO occupants

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