Crossword

Across

1 Delights

5 James or Luther of R&B

11 Liberal arts dept.

14 Further

15 Orator who declared “Laws are silent in times of war”

16 Drink mentioned in the chorus of “American Pie”

17 Words spoken just before a TV commercial

19 I.R.S. form 5498 subj.

20 Powerful bloodline?

21 “The Black Tulip” author

23 Polo, for one

26 Words of retraction

29 Bad-weather gear

31 Transfer

32 Hebrides isle

33 Pie flavor

36 Credit Suisse rival

39 Comment upon making a fateful decision

42 Attention

43 Swim meet event

44 Brand with “Thick & Fluffy” products

45 Heaven

47 Proceed smoothly

49 “Uh-oh, here they are again”

53 Second-generation Japanese-American

54 Pro and Mini purchases

55 Per person

57 Man’s name that’s three consecutive letters of the alphabet

58 Angry words said after “Get out of here!”

64 Munchkin

65 Battle of ___ (1797 Napoleon victory)

66 State

67 Person using binoculars, maybe

68 Told tales

69 Able to move nicely

Down

1 Gab

2 Shout accented on the second syllable

3 Fashion inits.

4 Vehicle that gets cell service?

5 One doing a mob hit

6 Mob boss Frank

7 I.M.’ing option

8 Agcy. issuance

9 NPR journalist Shapiro

10 He adopted Esther in the Book of Esther

11 Sex drive and others

12 Variety of darkskinned grape

13 Winemaking need

18 This and that

22 Actress Hagen

23 Hurt maliciously

24 Kerfuffle

25 What kindness and honesty reveal

27 Saw

28 Musician with the 1987 instrumental hit “Songbird”

30 Stew (over)

34 “Whereupon …”

35 Cambodia’s Lon ___

37 General Mills corn snack bit

38 Absolut rival, informally

40 Go-between

41 Bases of TED talks

46 Acid

48 Go ___ great length

49 Essences

50 “Gimme a highfive!”

51 Wore

52 More than 1% or 2%

56 Tennyson’s “Geraint and ___”

59 Long in Hollywood

60 Binge-watching aid, in brief

61 There’s one for every season, for short

62 Poetic contraction

63 Shout