puzzle

ACROSS

  1 Apt rhyme for "exam," to a procrastinator

  5 Robe closer

  9 Some free Wi-Fi hubs

 14 Tomato type

 15 Tennis great found in "smashes"

 16 TV host ... or, read backward, a Marx brother

 17 Couple, in a tabloid

 18 End of a kite

 19 Cautious

 20 Set of local laws (In this answer, note the first + last letter and letters 7-9)

 23 Win over

 24 Unit of resistance

 25 "Barry" network

 28 Output of some agencies

 29 Prejudice

 32 On deck, say

 34 Chocolaty, coffee-flavored dessert (First + last letter and letters 6-8)

 36 Band formed in Stockholm

 39 Before now

 40 3/15, e.g.

 41 Piece of plastic found on the beach? (First + last letter and letters 5-7)

 46 Wrinkled plums

 47 Sister of Rachel

 48 Acquire

 51 "Didn't I tell you?"

 52 Fuss

 54 Shower sponge

 56 Reject on ethical grounds (First + last letter and letters 4-7)

 60 Give a talking-to

 62 What might be on the house?

 63 Decorate with tinsel

 64 Rock similar to a thunder egg

 65 Lazing about

 66 Slushy treat

 67 Like rock-hard abs

 68 Athletic award

 69 Stereotypical Scrabble pro

DOWN

  1 Black Sea peninsula

  2 Stout

  3 What you might make with an enemy

  4 First lady Eisenhower

  5 Like The Onion

  6 Right away, briefly

  7 Sect that doesn't have a Sunni disposition?

  8 Adele hit whose title is a greeting

  9 Sri Lankan metropolis

 10 Mimicked

 11 Drawn without instruments

 12 Cornfield unit

 13 Bashful

 21 Playa del Amor's resort, informally

 22 Blacken

 26 Spreadable cheese

 27 Keatsian poems

 30 Ishmael's captain

 31 Katey of "Sons of Anarchy"

 33 Boo-boo

 34 ___ drag

 35 Dull date

 36 Energizes, with "up"

 37 Lead-in to "bones" or "knuckle"

 38 Belgian White beer brewer

 42 Having a goatee, perhaps

 43 Food-inspecting org.

 44 "Nonsense!"

 45 Breakfast chain

 48 Formula One driver's sensation

 49 Not as hard

 50 Like this puzzle

 53 Half-pipe jump

 55 Pay to play, say

 57 Like a shoppe

 58 Tupperware toppers

 59 Company with many reviews of itself

 60 Mil. bigwig

 61 Corp. bigwig

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