puzzle

ACROSS

  1 "Let's get this show on the ___"

  5 Covered up

  8 Greeting to a matey

 12 R&B star India.___

 13 Exalting poem

 14 Leia's twin

 15 Designation for the Nelson-Atkins Museum's ~19-foot-high shuttlecocks

 18 2009 Miranda Lambert song about a cheater

 19 Scared

 22 Game spelled by removing "w" from "Twister" and rearranging the rest

 26 "Birds of ___"

 27 Third-smallest country

 31 Prefix for "dynamic"

 32 Group of whales

 33 "You serious?"

 35 2021 WNBA champs

 36 Roster of people hoping to be admitted

 39 The ___ (New York City borough)

 41 Donkey, biblically

 42 Far from excitable

 45 West African currency units

 47 Understands

 48 Ultimately became

 50 "You couldn't find any more?"

 51 Mo. when the new year festival Quviasukvik starts

 52 All-out brawl

 54 Game with Reverse cards

 55 Sports stat that's a hint to the initials and meanings of 15-, 18- and 36-Across

 60 In-flight guesses: Abbr.

 61 Rowboat tool

 62 Lightsaber fight

 63 Given a new hue

 64 Pig's place

 65 Fried okra, e.g.


DOWN

  1 Uncooked

  2 Gold, in Spanish

  3 Route for a plane

  4 India's capital territory

  5 Amber Ruffin, for "The Amber Ruffin Show"

  6 Inactive

  7 "I accept your offer!"

  8 Organisms in birdbaths

  9 Labor leader Dolores

 10 Signs off on

 11 Thus far

 16 Failed to

 17 Religious ceremony

 19 Grindr, e.g.

 20 To's counterpart

 21 Silicon Valley location named for a tree business

 23 "Don't worry ..."

 24 Annoy

 25 ___ latte

 28 Piece in an opera

 29 Vases with bases

 30 Authorities' rules, for short

 33 "There, it should work now"

 34 Oct. 20 zodiac sign

 37 Author Moody or Bronte

 38 Wooden strip

 39 Didn't stay colorfast

 40 Kept for another season

 43 Tool for making yarn by hand

 44 This, in Spanish

 46 Japanese wrestling form

 47 Clarified butter in biryani

 49 Mexican money

 50 Novelist McMillan

 53 Aspiring attorney's exam

 56 Scottish no

 57 "Acid"

 58 Music holders in cases

 59 French yes

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