CROSSWORD PUZZLE
ACROSS
1 Soft side? 5 Recipient of a half- hearted gift? 8 "I'm all __" 12 Encouraging start 13 Square footage 15 Understood 16 "Alert: Yo-yo's here!"? 19 Peak near Catania 20 Book end, perhaps 21 Breezy goodbye 23 Game, __, match 24 Machines used on a peacock farm? 28 Caribbean island with the Pitons 31 Tylenol target 32 Piggy bank addition 33 __ bunny 36 Performed a saut de chat, e.g. 39 Director Lee 40 Staple legumes, or parsed differently, what 16- and 24-Across did for 51and 63-Across 42 Like some larb 43 Maestro Zubin 45 Tit for tat, maybe 46 Ages and ages 47 Reusable 5-Down 49 Goes deep 51 Really hot person in the cockpit? 55 Prof's email ender 56 Philip Marlowe genre 57 Story with a lesson 61 Ruckuses 63 Wooden model of an Italian city? 66 Uncomfortable sensation 67 Uncomfortable sensation 68 Ilsa __: "Casablanca" heroine 69 Arthur who authored "A Hard Road to Glory" 70 Dark side of a notable pair 71 Chocolate brand owned by Berkshire Hathaway
DOWN
1 Question of permission
2 So much
3 Poker variety
4 "Live it up!"
5 Groceries carrier
6 To, the contrary
7 "Go get it," to a dog
8 Just scrape (out)
9 Picnic snack that appears to have picnic invaders
10 Not allow to expire
11 Goes after a fly
14 Tahiti sweetie
17 Board VIP
18 Org. with sponsored Medicare plans
22 Australian gems
25 Many a "Veep" role
26 Say "neener neener," say 27 Deception
28 Deception
29 Vocal quality 30 Small salad and half a sandwich, say 34 Pig pad
35 Actress Hedren
37 Window section
38 Lob
40 Exempli gratia, e.g.
41 Relax
44 Ore-ida offering
46 Requires
48 Son of Seth
50 Sch. with a Twin Cities campus 51 Marshall Mcluhan focus
52 Uses Photoshop
53 Bhagavad-__
54 A bit steep
58 Word with blood or moon
59 Rural road
60 Finishes
62 Pronoun option
64 Flat-iron brand
65 2023 role for Ryan, Simu, Kingsley, and others