puzzle

 ACROSS

  1 Woofer's acoustic range

  5 Weaves' partner

  9 Group of species

 14 Australian gem

 15 Skeptic's scoff

 16 Popped up

 17 Bigfoot's cousin

 18 Z, in sorority names

 19 Water-based paint variety

 20 *Ball pits' spots (In this clue's answer, note the first letter + the last 3)

 23 Three, for a short golf hole

 26 Tax agcy.

 27 Puppy

 30 Picture by a username

 32 Nook and Kindle

 35 *Debt instrument backed by a tangible asset (first 3 letters + last 3)

 37 Received

 38 Family ___ (Ancestry.com diagram)

 39 Delivery docs

 40 Ocean predator

 41 And so on, briefly

 42 *Jamie in "Halloween," e.g. (first 3 letters + last 3)

 46 "Grateful" band fan

 48 Wished evil on

 49 Newfoundland's output?

 50 Word before "garden" or "party"

 51 Six-pt. plays in football

 52 Hair frustrations, or what the words broken across the starred clues' answers are?

 56 Subway handhold

 59 Fly like an eagle

 60 Spoken

 64 Public perception

 65 VIP's ride

 66 Rooster, for a hen

 67 Pied ___

 68 "What ___ is new?"

 69 Observed carefully


DOWN

  1 Peter Pan, permanently

  2 Large primate

  3 Took a load off

  4 Lose your footing

  5 Just weird

  6 Heeds

  7 ___ blocker (heart drug)

  8 Headliner

  9 Lancelot's son

 10 Unwritten?

 11 "Kidding!"

 12 Take advantage of

 13 M, e.g., on a form

 21 Unpopular inventor?

 22 Bremner of "Our Flag Means Death"

 23 Copied and ___

 24 Prevented, as a crisis

 25 Formula One palindrome

 28 Recliner part for a lower limb

 29 Continue along

 31 Common day to vote: Abbr.

 32 Waned

 33 Icon Parks

 34 Farmers market structures

 36 Bilingual explorer on TV

 40 "Days of ___ Lives"

 42 Mall customer

 43 Mobile phone, informally

 44 Temperamental tennis great John

 45 Campus courtyard

 47 Prescribed amount

 50 Groups often named after fierce predators

 53 Capri, for one

 54 Drudgery

 55 A handful of

 56 Small taste

 57 "I've heard enough!"

 58 Best ___ Song (Grammy since 2004)

 61 Sunshine or hope "unit"

 62 Consumed

 63 Efficient bulb letters

solution