puzzle

ACROSS

  1 Scout's award

  6 Innovative spark

 10 Use scissors

 14 Kagan in the court

 15 All over again

 16 Aspect of Lao or Thai

 17 Brilliant success

 18 Types who frequent shopping centers?

 20 Arrives at, in a brainstorm

 22 Arctic people

 23 Race, as an engine

 24 Spanish for "for"

 26 Parent's snarky reply

 27 Colleague's expression of agreement?

 31 She/___ pronouns

 32 Pita sandwiches

 33 Howl toward

 36 Rising agent for Adam and Eve?

 40 Divide, as a bill

 41 Soothing succulents

 44 "Quiet!"

 47 Online journals about a Mediterranean morsel?

 50 ___ catcher (paper fortune-teller)

 53 "Gender" lead-in

 54 "___ Quixote"

 55 Mean critic

 56 Infinite ___ (web feature that its inventor apologized for)

 59 Sandwich request added on the side in 18-, 27-, 36- and 47-Across?

 63 Elite group of colleges

 65 Golda who was the first woman to lead Israel

 66 Ride-booking app

 67 Past or present, in grammar

 68 Award for Megan Rapinoe

 69 Understands

 70 Teen's turmoil


DOWN

  1 Spell-off

  2 Ancient pseudoscience

  3 Labor and ___ (pregnancy pairing)

  4 Bug in a swarm

  5 Consumes

  6 Irritated response to "Are you awake?"

  7 Ancestry.com sample

  8 Snaky swimmer

  9 Leatherworking tool

 10 Covered with small rocks

 11 "This can wait"

 12 Not too late

 13 Nag

 19 "Elastic Heart" singer

 21 Choose

 23 Cloth by a sink

 25 Like an android

 26 Scottish terrier type

 28 Denials

 29 "This can't wait!"

 30 British flying grp.

 34 Small amount

 35 Bad thing to have in poker

 37 Fruit that flavors gin

 38 "___ death do us part"

 39 Catching catfish bare-handed

 42 Beyond humble

 43 W-2 digits: Abbr.

 44 Conspire

 45 Major pranks

 46 Piece of inside info

 48 Baseball cap parts

 49 "Get me out of here!" key

 51 ___ cloth (absorbent fabric)

 52 Apt name for a retirement planner

 57 Actress Moreno

 58 Pizza place?

 60 Ceramic cup

 61 "Honest" prez

 62 "That said ..."

 64 Like concrete with hardened footprints

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