puzzle

ACROSS

  1 San Diego slugger

  6 "Ab Fab" network, once

  9 Has in one's hand

 14 Mathematical truth

 15 ___ de toilette

 16 Spiritual board

 17 *What people are saying

 20 San Diego-to-Las Vegas dir.

 21 "It's fine"

 22 Deg. for a drill master?

 23 Animation frame

 24 Use a Singer, say

 26 Didn't topple over

 29 Stop ___ (school bus attachment)

 32 "I rock!"

 36 Bird's prey

 37 Stop for an intermission

 39 Paper unit

 40 Any object

 41 Stop doing

 42 DEA agent

 43 Roman robe

 44 Stop at

 45 Land surrounded by the sea

 46 Political pal

 48 Rand who allegedly stated "The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me"

 49 Loosen, as a hair bow

 50 Civics and Accords

 52 Childbirth experts, briefly

 53 "Sussudio" singer Collins

 55 Cons' opposites

 56 Dickens character who lacked holiday spirit

 59 Refusal to a repeated request

 63 Racketeering charges?

 64 "Uh-oh"

 65 Tries to hit, as a cat toy

 66 Catch in a trap


DOWN

 1 Promotion piece?

  2 Nerve fiber

  3 Urgent

  4 Cone's counterpart in the eye

  5 Hammed it up

  6 Alpha follower

  7 Thai money

  8 Billiards needs

  9 Digital shortcut

 10 "___ Lips Are Sealed" (hit for the Go-Go's)

 11 Didn't tell the truth

 12 Played records at a party

 13 College entrance exams

 18 Oilers' org.

 19 Letters read from a rescue plane

 23 *Military leader's spot

 25 *Red flag

 26 Nintendo console, or an electrical device

 27 Miyazaki's "My Neighbor ___"

 28 Portland's state

 29 Large concert venue

 30 "All set?"

 31 Professional stoner?

 33 Like the smell of fresh dough

 34 Black, blue or striped fish

 35 Ceremony co-hosts

 37 Prior to A.D.

 38 Barbie's partner

 47 Total boors

 49 Old German subs

 51 Letter between rho and tau

 52 "Citizen Kane" director Welles

 54 "___ we forget ..."

 55 Tree with needles

 56 Graduates-to-be: Abbr.

 57 Crow's cry

 58 Single-stranded molecule

 60 ___ big favor

 61 Neither's partner

 62 Poetic celebration

solution