puzzle

 ACROSS

  1 Little sweater?

  5 Drink like a cat

 10 Junk email

 14 Bad to the bone

 15 Playground retort

 16 Rose brought on a date, say?

 17 Coats can be hung on them

 18 Painter's support

 19 Musicals often have two

 20 Old-timey way to say "Let go!"

 22 Pancakes that might be served with applesauce

 24 S.F. winter hours

 25 "Oh, absolutely!"

 26 No longer in fashion

 27 Social sensitivity

 29 Is super into

 30 "i" lid?

 33 Pro's opposite

 34 ___ out a living

 36 Ziti shape

 37 It's smaller than a city

 38 Nightclub charge

 39 Like an unenclosed floor plan

 40 Soothing balm

 41 Barter

 42 Hog's home

 43 Golfers want to be under it

 44 Weed-whacking tools

 45 Deep cut

 47 Knightley of "Love Actually"

 49 Back muscle, for short

 50 Flow back

 53 "Well, finally!"

 55 Venomous snake

 57 Blacken

 58 ___ Lodge (motel chain)

 60 Aromatic seasoning

 61 Southward

 62 A1

 63 Final Four letters?

 64 Use some &$^#ing bad language

 65 Many "Euphoria" characters, agewise

 66 Look after


DOWN

  1 Add some zip to

  2 Bakery appliances

  3 They prohibit union membership as a criterion for hiring (In this clue's answer, see letters 14-11)

  4 Disney character who sings "Into the Unknown"

  5 Polygraph procedure (... letters 12-9)

  6 Amy of "Sharp Objects"

  7 Downward dog, e.g.

  8 Deploy

  9 Sites that pool and analyze election prediction data (... letters 6-1)

 10 Attacks, like a fly

 11 Went faster, and hint to this puzzle's theme

 12 Put some chips on the table?

 13 More than just clutter

 21 MoMA city

 23 Total jerk

 26 Yearned (for)

 28 Rice on a shelf?

 29 Opera stars

 31 Fall in line

 32 Lowest card in a royal flush

 33 Fizzy brown drink

 35 Asian region where Seollal is celebrated

 36 Throw out

 37 Bug on a wire?

 44 He/him/___

 46 Off-road four-wheeler, for short

 48 Brings home

 49 Bedsheet fabric

 51 Started

 52 Naan or ciabatta, e.g.

 53 Band with the aptly titled album "Power Up"

 54 Shakespearean "you"

 55 Vatican City VIP

 56 Ain't another way?

 59 Actor's prompt

solution