puzzle

ACROSS

  1 Seeing stars

  6 Nativity figure

 11 Text that might get "ur welcome" in response

 14 Old enough

 15 The Garden of France

 16 "___ is me!"

 17 JD

 19 Charged particle

 20 "... ish"

 21 Previous partners

 22 He knows when you've been

 24 Saigon locale, briefly

 26 Taste, e.g.

 27 "Notorious" Supreme Court inits., once

 30 WE

 35 Gambling opponent that's tough to beat

 37 Greek fertility god

 38 Aspiring atty.'s exam

 39 Enthusiastic about

 40 Natural hairdos

 41 Europe's highest active volcano

 42 Western mil. alliance

 43 Golf bag items

 44 "___ you the lucky one!"

 45 ON

 48 Old-fashioned liquor

 49 Spend time in front of the mirror

 50 Venomous viper

 52 Striped savannah animal

 53 Spot for some needlework?

 56 Sludge

 60 Incoming flight stat

 61 Showing partiality ... or a hint to how the clues for 17-, 30- and 45-Across were constructed

 64 "Shop ___ you drop"

 65 Epic featuring the fall of Troy

 66 Finish off

 67 Falcons, on a scoreboard

 68 Lightly hammered?

 69 Like a stereotypical teen's room



DOWN

  1 Place to learn judo

  2 From a distance

  3 Veers in the other direction

  4 Goad

  5 Rapper Kool Moe ___

  6 Soccer star Morgan

  7 Connecting point

  8 DJ's bookings

  9 Before, poetically

 10 The ___ of two evils

 11 Princess Leia, to Luke Skywalker

 12 Informal party with folk music

 13 TV's warrior princess

 18 Singer Lovato

 23 Someone opening a can of worms?

 25 Wonderment

 26 Give lip to

 27 Creature that may have given rise to the unicorn myth

 28 "Enjoy the meal!"

 29 Bowling alley blunder

 31 Postpone

 32 Slipped up

 33 Largest deer species

 34 Alaska or Hawaii refers to places 

 36 Oklahoma athlete

 40 Heaps and heaps

 44 Beast of burden

 46 "Scram!"

 47 Gave a buzz

 51 Coolness under pressure

 52 Greek Z

 53 Cut, as class

 54 Some South Korean cars

 55 ___ 500

 57 Poems of praise

 58 God often depicted throwing lightning bolts

 59 Female Athlete, e.g. (naming some star sport person)

 62 I'm just the greatest boxer. A quote from someone 

 63 Total, or another way say it, full

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