puzzle

ACROSS

  1 Shoot an air ball, perhaps

  5 Airport vehicles

  9 Black jack, half the time

 13 Wild way to run

 14 Tons

 15 Come about

 16 Garment worn in Bengaluru

 17 Regan's regal father

 18 West pointers, sometimes?

 19 Dry run of a precollege exam

 22 Strive (for)

 23 Took a risk

 24 Radiologists' imaging devices

 28 Just ___ water

 31 Drag queens' neckwear

 32 Down Under hopper

 33 Undesirable low interest?

 35 In a position to help

 36 Dog collar attachment

 39 Skin concern for a teen

 40 Head lock?

 42 Brew that may be hazy

 43 Let off steam

 44 Largest ethnic group in China

 45 Moment of liftoff, usually

 49 Tire or escalator part

 51 Styling product

 52 Magician's feat, and a hint to the starts of 19-, 24- and 45-Across

 59 Behind the times

 60 271 square miles, for Micronesia

 61 Rights advocacy grp.

 62 Curling item

 63 Lender's holding

 64 Utah national park

 65 Pulls, as a vehicle

 66 Seasoning in savory lassi

 67 Upper hand


DOWN

  1 Dough for tamales

  2 Big Apple purchase?

  3 Put into groups

  4 Tickets to access the slopes

  5 Fried squid dish

  6 Name that anagrams to "Clea"

  7 Word after "life" or "dream"

  8 Big step

  9 Fruit-shipping box

 10 One may do the Macarena

 11 Slicing and dicing, e.g., for a knife

 12 Inferior to none

 15 Opposed (to)

 20 "___ Flair Drip" (2018 rap hit)

 21 Toy that may be remote-controlled

 24 Snake with a hood

 25 Grade school variety performance

 26 Nonverbally agree

 27 Out of office

 29 "I haven't the faintest idea"

 30 Food regimen

 31 Relaxing soak

 34 Practice self-absorbed introspection

 37 Kwik-E-Mart operator

 38 Saturn, for one

 41 Unforested Eurasian plain

 46 Dora's navigational companion

 47 Exemplary standards

 48 Meditative sect of Buddhism

 50 Falls in drops

 52 Bite the ___ (lose)

 53 Really digging

 54 Piece that a diva practices

 55 Film spool

 56 The "A" of DNA

 57 Plumber's woe

 58 Make less sharp, say?

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