puzzle

ACROSS

  1 Shoots the breeze

  5 Whispered summons

  9 Davis of "Thelma & Louise"

 14 Peeve

 15 Sound effect in a canyon

 16 Demon's counterpart

 17 Persia, now

 18 Kim Possible, e.g.

 19 Letter after rho

 20 Celine Dion hit heard in "Titanic" (In this clue's answer, see letters 7-11)

 23 Shrimp go-with, on a Southern menu

 24 Intention

 25 Mud bath venues

 27 Go back to square one (Letters 2-7)

 32 Race that's winding down?

 34 "Certainly," by the Seine

 35 Mixer at a bar, often

 36 Part of UCLA

 37 Opposite of 34-Across

 39 Comedian's joke

 41 Hat, slangily

 42 Jazzy Jones or James

 44 Arena arbiter

 46 Qualities

 48 Arcade game with a mallet (Letters 4-7)

 51 Renders speechless

 52 Big bother

 53 Group that protects a QB

 55 Aircraft's delay maneuvers, or what 20-, 27- and 48-Across are doing?

 62 Cried "Foul," perhaps

 63 Google Play purchases

 64 Ugg product

 65 Igneous rock source

 66 Oaxacan bread?

 67 Tropical destination

 68 Says grace, e.g.

 69 Where Adam and Eve met

 70 Sports squad


DOWN

  1 Not looking good

  2 Light and open

  3 Ho-hum

  4 Westernmost country in Africa

  5 ___ dish (microbiologist's item)

  6 Big name in lawn care

  7 Demonstrates for

  8 Nobelist Morrison

  9 Manipulated into questioning oneself

 10 Head-scratchers

 11 "Daylight savings waffle giveaway" brand

 12 Fish in a 2003 Pixar film

 13 Mathematician Turing

 21 Insurance fraud crime, commonly

 22 Wrangler's rope

 25 Sinful animal?

 26 Rigatoni or rotini

 28 Summer mo. without a federal holiday

 29 "Cross my heart!"

 30 Touches up, as text

 31 Mouthfuls of Bubblicious

 32 Large quantity

 33 Like almost all BYU students

 38 "The Matrix" protagonist

 40 Researcher's funding

 43 Much-thanked group on Oscar night, with "The"

 45 Bombed at the box office

 47 Just slightly

 49 Puma competitor

 50 Tick away

 54 "This means war"

 55 Camel part

 56 Ilhan in the House

 57 Org. for good drivers?

 58 Look surprised

 59 Pink hue

 60 Garden District's city, informally

 61 Flower stalk

solution