puzzle
ACROSS 1 Pick, with "for"
4 Discard, slangily
9 Alliance of nations
13 Ewe call
14 Became unpleasant, as relations
16 Handle with ___
17 Miff
18 *Five-star lodging
20 New Year in Hanoi
22 Part of Ali Baba's password
23 *Himalayan seasoning
27 Fish hawk
30 Car that can't be followed?
31 Already set up
32 Cunning
33 Theme
35 College near Duke
36 Like gross income, and where either word in each starred clue's answer can go
39 ___ code (three-digit number)
42 Word after "political" or "party"
43 Psychic ability, briefly
46 Good wizard in "The Hobbit"
49 Dubai, e.g.
51 Bibliographic list ender
52 *Hot drink with a colorful name
53 Be in accord
55 Taste tentatively
56 *Auctions of homes' contents
61 Ethical hackers' grp.
63 Date question?
64 Strong urge
65 AAA rescue
66 Unites
67 Gush forth
68 The ___ and only
DOWN 1 Kimono belt
2 ___ lunar eclipse
3 Highly impressed with
4 Internet connection letters
5 Due acknowledgment?
6 Formal wear, informally
7 Pie base
8 Not elsewhere
9 A group of vitamins
10 Like indirect thinking
11 Mine material
12 Toon still
15 Big name in vacuums
19 Hinged plate on a door
21 Ref's ring ruling
23 Machines with Windows, often
24 Not all
25 Starting from
26 Give a reprieve
28 Environmental prefix
29 Yearning
31 Words that intensify "rarely"
34 One of the Gershwins
36 Results of bankers' lending mistakes
37 Heavy book
38 India who sang "Voyage to India"
39 What one can do gracefully
40 Tattletale
41 Established by law
43 Erode bit by bit
44 Term for a relative that can also be a two-word phrase
45 Podded legume
47 "___ No Sunshine" (Bill Withers song)
48 Unlike slip-ons
50 O.R. staffers
52 Comprehend
54 Applications
56 "Yuck!"
57 Pronoun for Indira Gandhi
58 Lucy of "Chicago"
59 Go astray
60 Dip below the horizon
62 ___-inspiring
solution