puzzle

ACROSS

  1 Word before "easy" or "budget"

  5 Test for purity

 10 Greeting in Perth

 14 Bit of cunning

 15 Gaze

 16 Irritate

 17 Often-braised meat dish -› *On the ___ (fleeing) + Actor in "Big" and "Forrest Gump"

 19 "The Last Dance" channel

 20 Abrasive powder

 21 Unsaid yet understood

 22 Martial arts star in "Mulan"

 25 Graveyard sight -› *Male cat + Sound quality

 28 Anvil's body part

 29 ___ Vegas Raiders

 31 Confident bettor's words

 32 Throngs

 34 "Keep Austin ___" (Texas city's slogan)

 35 Really enjoying

 36 Use a credit card

 38 Washington-to-Idaho direction

 42 Tantrum thrower

 44 Olympic diver?

 46 Be the go-between

 48 ___ Lingus

 49 Blasting letters

 50 Some pickup spots --> *Mean dog + March 15, e.g.

 52 Stopped sleeping

 54 Usually Australian gems

 55 In a fitting way

 57 ___ golf (putt-putt)

 58 Tribute groups, or a four-part hint to the starred clues' answers

 63 "Seriously?"

 64 Madison Square Garden, for one

 65 Hype up

 66 Group of actors

 67 Like fingers after eating wings

 68 City that took in a wooden horse


DOWN

  1 Bird that flies silently

  2 Travelling through

  3 Shade tree

  4 *Fishing spool

  5 Tennis legend Arthur

  6 Begins

  7 Japanese electronics giant

  8 Where lions and zebras coexisted?

  9 Positive response

 10 "I love that suggestion!"

 11 Strobe spots

 12 Skiing type

 13 "Fiddler on the Roof" matchmaker

 18 *Four laps on a track, say

 21 *Road goo

 22 Luke Skywalker, e.g.

 23 Merit

 24 Brisk pace

 26 Demeanor

 27 *Chain of hills

 30 Birthplace of St. Francis

 33 *Singer

 34 Exchange vows

 37 Responded, legally

 39 ___ clef (viola music symbol)

 40 Dirty dish's destination

 41 French for "head"

 43 *That guy's

 45 Toothbrush brand

 46 Nyong'o of "Us"

 47 Neighbors of Pakistanis

 48 Trembling trees

 50 Joan Rivers

 51 Spots for icicles

 53 Earp of the Old West

 56 Aircraft carrier?

 58 Video chat need, briefly

 59 5-Across specimen

 60 Neither here ___ there

 61 Twosome

 62 Swine's home

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