puzzle

ACROSS

  1 Serious movie genre

  6 Common number of weeks given for notice

  9 What a snooze button pauses

 14 Protector for waves

 15 Play it by ___

 16 Grill brand

 17 Colorful fish

 18 "You ___ So Beautiful"

 19 Expresses speechlessness

 20 *Feminist slogan coined in the '90s

 23 Grilled sandwich

 26 Kermit creator Jim

 30 Ma's ma, maybe

 31 "The final frontier"

 35 National sport of Japan

 36 SAT alternative

 37 Flavoring from the ocean

 39 Floating leaf of a lily

 40 *Math whiz

 43 Like some plant-based diets

 44 Bay Area airport code

 45 It goes with "neither"

 46 "Shabbat ___"

 49 Candy with white nonpareils

 52 Payment for canceling an accepted manuscript

 54 (More information elsewhere)

 55 North Pole worker

 56 *Outfielder's catch

 58 Great Basin native

 59 Town NNE of Santa Fe

 61 6-Across, in cards

 62 Libra's birthstone, often

 63 Boast

 64 Mopes

 65 Knee bend in ballet

 66 Jekyll's alter ego

 67 "Finding Your Roots" network

 68 See to, as a bar

DOWN

  1 Banned pesticide

  2 Feel remorse over

  3 It may be abstract

  4 Place for a teacher's comments

  5 "Here we go ___!"

  6 Blue-green

  7 Bend out of shape

  8 "Milk's favorite cookie"

  9 "You're making me blush!"

 10 Takes in, as information

 11 Six-pack contents?

 12 Public image, briefly

 13 ___ Fields cookies

 21 Out of bed

 22 Pup

 23 Org. for Tiger Woods

 24 Curved landmark at Washington Square Park

 25 *It may be free of additives

 27 Jay-Z and Beyonce, for one ... or a hint to what can precede both words of each starred clue's answer

 28 Epps of "House"

 29 Silent approval

 32 Grps. that fund campaigns

 33 Starting on

 34 G.I.'s garb

 37 Remove, like a branch

 38 Method of escape in "The Great Escape"

 41 Shopping center

 42 Mickey Mouse or Scooby-Doo

 46 Humorous segment of "In Living Color"

 47 Actress Swank

 48 Blends together

 49 Tennis champ Monica

 50 Achieve

 51 Removed the rind from

 53 Give a once-over

 54 Burlap bags

 57 Onion, e.g.

 60 Stockholm's country: Abbr.

 62 Choose

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