puzzle

 ACROSS

  1 Give kudos at a poetry slam

  5 German sausage, informally

  9 Outfit that clashes?

 14 Prefix for "pilot"

 15 Sole

 16 Ross of the Supremes

 17 Web address starter

 18 *Like swords with two sharp sides

 20 "Who ___ kidding?"

 21 Be in debt

 22 Play before the headlining band

 23 Any "Golden Girls" episode, now

 25 "Care for a bite?"

 29 *Spy on the inside

 32 Texter's chuckle

 33 Paddled down a river

 34 There are two in a double pike

 36 Dating site named after the Roman god of love

 39 Drop, like an album

 41 Less than 90 degrees

 42 Earhart known as "Lady Lindy"

 44 Dry ___ (barbecue seasoning)

 45 *Betray

 49 Comedic bit involving a sprayed beverage

 52 No secret

 53 Conversation in Slack

 54 "___ Miserables"

 56 Craps cube

 57 *DNA shape

 61 Skiing area near Salt Lake City

 62 "Me, Myself & ___" (Jim Carrey film)

 63 It might unfold into a bed

 64 "What the ___!"

 65 Duties

 66 "The Hill We Climb," e.g.

 67 Like a used firepit


DOWN

  1 Largest hot desert in the world

  2 Spice in many fall beverages

  3 Apparel

  4 "___ Goes the Weasel"

  5 Played a harmonica

  6 Took the subway

  7 Director Lee

  8 Shirt that might be fired from a cannon

  9 Highly capable

 10 Amusement park attractions

 11 Mississippi state flower

 12 Washington's bill

 13 "Totally tubular!"

 19 "___ worry about it!"

 21 Recorded

 24 Not abridged

 25 Tiny

 26 Guitarist Segovia

 27 Shaggy hairdos

 28 "Did anyone ___ hear that?"

 30 Singer DiFranco

 31 Close temporarily, like a theater

 34 Movies

 35 Gain knowledge

 36 Gondoliers' needs

 37 Single-serving coffee product

 38 Partitioned-off work spaces

 40 People in Chicago look up to them

 43 "The Simpsons" bartender

 45 Pope's religion: Abbr.

 46 Lots and lots

 47 Word after "light" or "Nintendo"

 48 Sly

 50 Use your noggin

 51 Payments that might be e-filed

 54 Term length for a Supreme Court justice

 55 Big test

 57 No. 1 song

 58 Obama ___

 59 Clairvoyant's skill

 60 British throne?

 61 "It just clicked!"

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