‘give this puzzle a shot!’

ACROSS

1 “So close!”

7 Promotion on a podcast, say

11 Rx from Dr. Mom

14 One may devour “Chocolat”

15 Flight-related prefix

16 Snicker syllable

17 When to sample wedding desserts

19 Night before a holiday

20 Pronoun for Rihanna 21 Sitter’shandfuls

22 Bert’s foil on Sesame Street

24 Know by intuition

26 Exams scored from 1-5

28 ___ gobi (Indian dish)

30 When to present a case

32 Like a trampoline

35 They’re capped above two feet 36 Snip

37 Tracking device

39 Fir fluid

42 Suspicious

43 Lead-in to “intellectual”

45 When to test an app

49 Exchange of cross words

50 Common autobiography subtitle

51 Arrange, as a shawl

54 Like proofed dough

55 Mask or cloak

56 Softball stat

59 “___ get over it”

60 Taxing periods, and a hint to 17-, 30and 45-Across

64 Boyz n the Hood actress Long

65 Tablet some take to bed

66 Gloria Estefan’s Cuban birthplace

67 What an electric car doesn’t use

68 They may be stroked or inflated

69 In, now

DOWN

1 Story trajectories

2 Rachel’s biblical sister

3 Gets to first base

4 Reverent poem

5 Take effect

6 Streetcars

7 Rewards for “good boys”

8 Floral garland

9 Decorative vase

10 Very enterprising people

11 Cryptography org.

12 Actor Joseph Gordon-___

13 Nacho topping

18 Design detail, for short

23 Some lipstick shades

25 For-ev-er

26 Julia Roberts, to Emma Roberts

27 Before surgery, informally

28 Jackson 5 hit with an alphabetical title

29 “Skip to My ___”

31 Gives the green light

33 Grade school semiformal accessory

34 Nintendo dinosaur

38 Blacken

39 Powerful DC figure?

40 Computing pioneer Lovelace

41 Drum for a toddler, maybe

42 Renown

44 Clairvoyance, e.g., briefly

45 Revealing, as one’s soul

46 Clarke who played Mother of Dragons

47 Certain electric cars

48 Perfect garden

52 This way: --->

53 Place to exchange rings

55 Tiktok content, casually

57 Stretch, as the truth

58 “My word!”

61 D&D, e.g.

62 NBA legend Ming

63 “___ been drinkin’...” (Beyonce lyric)