puzzle

ACROSS

  1 Words of understanding

  5 "Sounds good to me!"

  9 Young goat

 12 Academic session

 13 Insertion symbol

 15 With 46-Down, toy to bounce on

 16 Choice of actions in online dating?

 18 Golfer's alternative to a wood

 19 Ginger cookies

 20 They join top and bottom sheets

 22 New Mexico Pueblo

 24 Nickname for tennis great Nadal

 25 Window frame

 28 Chillax

 30 Casual shoes, casually

 33 Aardvarks' foods

 34 Coll. major for some aspiring actuaries

 36 Huge concert site

 37 ___ B. Wells (inspiration for a 2022 Barbie)

 38 Song or dance

 40 Like unproc-essed data

 41 Eminent

 43 Call at first

 44 Small bay

 45 Current fashions

 47 Dorm VIPs

 48 Sanctioned

 49 Alter in Photoshop, say

 50 Fish used for a steak

 52 Flabbergast

 56 Peers in a house?

 59 Lobster's pincer

 60 Choice of hip-hop styles named for U.S. regions?

 63 Quarterback's syllables

 64 Couric who guest-hosted "Jeopardy!" in 2021

 65 Napoleon's exile isle

 66 Med. drama sites

 67 Rip apart

 68 Bring up, as a child


DOWN

  1 That object's

  2 Puts in stitches

  3 Climate activist Brockovich

  4 Feelers?

  5 Freezes up

  6 Navigator's need

  7 Colored eye part

  8 Semiaquatic salamander

  9 Choice of countries on an East Asian peninsula?

 10 Frankenstein's film flunky

 11 Gets into, as clothes

 14 Many ruled from Russia's Winter Palace

 15 Commit petty theft

 17 Antipollution org.

 21 Airline in "Catch Me If You Can"

 23 Religious divisions

 25 Peter, Paul or Mary

 26 Conjunction pair

 27 Choice of locations for a New Yorker?

 29 Succeed big-time

 31 Rascal

 32 Made a cut in wood

 35 What Jack Sprat could eat

 38 Contribute to the pot

 39 Followed as a consequence

 42 Provides funds for

 44 More rough

 46 See 15-Across

 51 "As if!"

 52 Advil target

 53 Disparaging comment

 54 Fly high

 55 Can't stand

 57 Broad valley

 58 Thin Japanese noodle

 61 Anger or envy

 62 Part of a traffic jam

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