puzzle

ACROSS

  1 Kids' summer spot

  5 Taxi

  8 Lambs' mothers

 12 Bit the dust

 14 Bemoan

 15 Tinker's receiver in baseball

 16 Spewing fumes, say --> Moping

 18 Michael of Monty Python --> Nuisance

 19 Word before "group" or "rate"

 20 Moves like a crab --> Slaw and fries, for two

 21 Golf ball stand

 22 Get 40 winks

 23 Diamond side

 24 "Same for me"

 26 Six, in Italy

 27 Send, as a package

 30 Modernized

 33 Actress Longoria

 34 Biblical wise men

 37 Skating jumps ... or, read as two parts, a theme hint --> Graph lines

 38 Gem that may be black

 39 In the past

 40 Alerts in advance

 42 Hit with snowballs --> Ferret, e.g.

 44 Cleaning pad brand

 45 Soviet first lady Gorbacheva

 49 Statistic

 51 Letter before omega

 53 Go-to M.D.

 54 Paris or Kathy --> Discover suddenly

 56 Military muckety-muck

 58 "My intent is ..."

 59 It really sucks --> It does the heavy lifting

 60 Dishonor

 61 Argument, to a Brit

 62 Smooths in woodworking

 63 ___ Stadium (L.A. Rams' home)

 64 Accept responsibility for

 65 W, directionally


DOWN

  1 Per ___ income

  2 Makes amends

  3 Got soupy, maybe --> Handed (out)

  4 Heap --> It can be savory or sweet

  5 Like a good apple

  6 Relative who might be great

  7 Implore

  8 Dodges

  9 "Anyhoo ..." --> Barnyard symbol of anger

 10 Noted canal or lake

 11 Sensitive IDs

 13 Radish relative

 15 Amazing

 17 Gossip to "spill"

 20 Declared with authority

 23 Intuits --> Charges

 25 Paris accord?

 26 Parts of instructions

 28 It creeps up

 29 Peace, in Latin

 31 Longtime Nissan brand

 32 Universal truth

 34 GPS forerunner

 35 Number that keeps rising

 36 Fancy foil --> Lose one's hearing

 38 Birds-feather connector

 41 Pats down

 43 Judo mat

 46 Apple product with a notch

 47 Nearly boils --> Oodles

 48 Source of college credit, in brief

 50 It's not what you say but how you say it

 51 Large shrimp

 52 Anatomical pouch

 54 Angry cat's sound

 55 Texter's POV lead-in

 56 Spread a dandelion --> Curtsy counterpart

 57 Fiona of "Killing Eve"

 59 Sis' sib, say

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