puzzle

ACROSS

  1 Weaver's device

  5 Young chaps

  9 Breakfast strips

 14 Volcano that towers over Catania, Italy

 15 Plenty

 16 In the know

 17 You may make a bed of it (E.B., Anne)

 19 Core belief

 20 Settle once and for all

 21 Urban haze

 23 Dwell

 25 Power shots in volleyball

 29 Comes to a red light

 31 "Jeopardy!" focus

 33 Current carrier

 36 Sheet metal producer (Danielle, John Stuart)

 38 Largest cells in the human body

 39 Continuously

 40 As well

 41 English version of the Bible (Stephen, P.D.)

 44 Clarinet container

 45 Smooth transitions

 46 On account of

 49 Start to floss?

 51 Sufficient

 54 "Grand" baseball feat

 56 Steal like Cruella de Vil

 58 Bluegrass instrument

 62 Literary collaborators ... or 17-, 36- and 41-Across, in a sense

 64 Hunter constellation

 65 Islamic ruler

 66 Four of diamonds, for short?

 67 Messages from cells

 68 Challenge

 69 Flea or fly


DOWN

  1 Raunchy

  2 Questionnaire's last choice, often

  3 Being chilled

  4 Fauvist painter Henri

  5 Texas city on the Rio Grande

  6 Actor Mahershala

  7 Rx writers

  8 Vase inserts

  9 Alter ego of Barbara Gordon

 10 Wonderment

 11 One may be full of Natural Light

 12 Mined matter

 13 Table tennis divider

 18 Polish, like prose

 22 Chose

 24 ___ salts (bath additive)

 26 Snowboarder Chloe

 27 Musical set in Argentina

 28 Farm towers

 30 Spirited horse

 32 Source of a skin-care balm

 33 Stir-fry cookers

 34 Like some college walls

 35 Singer's span

 37 Happen next

 39 Twangy

 42 "Glue" or "staple" follower

 43 Futuristic animated family on an old sitcom

 44 Hand over reluctantly

 47 Continue to exist

 48 Sound of a tugboat's horn

 50 Tied, as running shoes

 52 Garden guardian

 53 Heavenly instruments

 55 NYC gallery

 57 Attention-getting whisper

 58 Droid

 59 "___ we there yet?"

 60 Put the kibosh on

 61 Make a note of, with "down"

 63 Football filler

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