puzzle

ACROSS

  1 Apple tablet

  5 Hard tennis shot

 10 Palindromic alternative to a Game Boy

 13 "Sad" color

 14 Cinnabon's smell, e.g.

 15 Beehive State natives

 17 Smidge

 18 *Retaliate

 20 Rushes, like a castle

 22 Dos + uno

 23 Word after "UV" or "X-"

 24 "___: Vegas" (CBS show)

 25 *Play cooperatively

 27 Apt job for Joe?

 30 Asthma trigger

 31 *What your patience may gradually do

 33 Con artist's assistant

 37 Projectile path

 38 Drain problems

 41 "I never saw your text," perhaps

 42 Goes up and down and up ...

 45 *Event for Trixie Mattel or RuPaul

 48 After the penultimate

 51 Cold country known for hot springs

 52 *Heels-over-head stunt

 56 French denial

 57 Bachelor's final words

 58 Jackrabbit, e.g.

 59 Investigative piece by Ida B. Wells

 62 In need, or two words that can follow both parts of each starred clue's answer

 65 Chatted on Slack, say

 66 Strange-sounding lake

 67 Insults during a roast

 68 Jack or Jill

 69 The 30th, for June

 70 Ore analysis

 71 Gleeful look


DOWN

  1 Nile wader

  2 It may thicken ... or be full of holes

  3 Rome under Augustus, e.g.

  4 Outdated letter opener

  5 Fresh talk

  6 "Rocky III" actor

  7 Vital artery

  8 Mocking looks

  9 Olajuwon nicknamed "the Dream"

 10 Place to order ale

 11 Bart or Ringo

 12 Nut in a pie

 16 "The ___ the limit!"

 19 These, in Havana

 21 Victoria Falls spray

 25 Follow surreptitiously

 26 "How frustrating!"

 27 NYC theater district

 28 Bubbly British chocolate bar

 29 Potent part of pot

 32 Silent agreement

 34 Member of Congress's "Squad"

 35 Cecil or Simba

 36 Obscene

 39 Many a city street layout

 40 Word after "egg" or before "fly"

 43 Passe

 44 ___ Fierce (onetime Beyonce alter ego)

 46 Group after boomers

 47 Like ski trails that aren't flat

 49 Poem unit

 50 Time machine on "Doctor Who"

 52 ___-and-seek

 53 Love a lot

 54 Lose-lose

 55 Ultrabright colors

 59 Crafty website

 60 Prefix for "final"

 61 Biblical utopia

 63 "The Simpsons" neighbor

 64 U.S. school in Athens

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