puzzle

ACROSS

  1 Irreverent talk

  5 Sign of healing

  9 Air spray targets

 14 Not too much

 15 Common cat treat flavor

 16 Like a perfectly pitched game

 17 Squarish

 18 Series finale?

 19 Novelist Walker

 20 "Killing ___" (spy series)

 21 Form of birth control

 22 Rachel of "Crazy Ex-Girlfriend"

 23 Mold into a new form

 26 Heartfelt request

 28 Poems that praise

 29 Extreme indignation

 33 Figure at the center of "The Last Supper"

 36 Totally fine

 37 Many a photo of Bigfoot

 38 "___ After" (Cinderella-inspired movie)

 39 Word after "vicious" or "life"

 41 Teensy amount

 42 ___ West Theatre (organization whose performances use both ASL and spoken English)

 43 Rodent in some apartments

 44 Sanctify

 45 Person who has the scoop

 47 The "C" of C.P.E. Bach

 49 Prepared to drive?

 50 Gathers

 54 What "lit" is for "extremely fun"

 57 Person from Denmark

 59 Toe beans location

 60 Game for a good bluffer

 61 Nerve cell part

 62 Draped garment

 63 Sambuca flavoring

 64 Engage in some snow day fun

 65 Large tea vessels

 66 Past or future

 67 Pianist Myra

 68 Jonathan Van  ___


DOWN

  1 Fencing blade

  2 On top of

  3 Highest dice rolls

  4 Hog heaven?

  5 Vast grassland

  6 Adorable ones

  7 Super uptight

  8 With this clue's number, billiards game

  9 How some dares are done

 10 With this clue's number, banknotes with Hamilton's picture

 11 Only U.S. state to have a nonrectangular flag

 12 Puerto ___

 13 Thorny rose part

 24 With this clue's number, gym chain

 25 Subscriptions often eliminate them

 27 Welsh actor Evans

 30 Soothing balm ingredient

 31 Courage

 32 Chapters of history

 33 Obi-Wan Kenobi, e.g.

 34 Tied

 35 Briny bodies

 36 One of six in the play "The Inheritance"

 39 First Nations group

 40 With this clue's number, sprint at a football tryout

 44 Lingerie item

 46 Deodorant brand

 47 Lightweight boats

 48 Makes changes to

 51 /, in bowling

 52 Brings in

 53 Holey cheese

 54 Petty argument

 55 Solitary

 56 Similar

 58 Bar on a limousine?

 62 "A Raisin in the ___"

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