‘matching pairs’

ACROSS

1 “Ditto”

6 Monitor for TV?

9 Persuasive assignment

14 Company in a 2001 fraud scandal

15 Evian, par exemple

16 Hot, frothy drink

17 Leslie Odom Jr.’s Tony-winning Hamilton role

19 Goryeo Dynasty’s land, once 20 Roofer’s supply

21 Deviate from the script

23 Popular site for a stud

24 Latin epic poem

26 Marine plant that grows in beds

29 Word after “jet” or “time”

30 Paleo’s opposite

32 “___ the way you think”

33 Soft lock

35 Places for sweaters?

38 Like some tape... and each starred clue’s answer, based on its first and last two letters?

41 They may have creaky boards

42 Stonehenge worshipper

45 Mandolin’s kin

47 Regret

49 Earth-friendly prefix

50 Rib cook-off need

53 Some weight lifters

55 Devour

56 Ivory and Irish Spring products

58 ___ Peter to pay Paul

59 Activist Thunberg

62 License to drill?

65 Fire-setting crime

66 Ernie of golf

67 Exposed as a fraud, e.g.

68 Waiting in the wings, perhaps

69 Actor’s workplace

70 Jawaharlal in Indian history

DOWN

1 ___ otter

2 Experiencing great success

3 Like some marriages

4 G.I. Jane star Demi

5 Cozy stopover

6 Prolonged quarrel

7 The Very Hungry Caterpillar author Eric

8 Marie who was the first winner of two Nobel Prizes

9 Grand Teton beast

10 ___ Tome and Principe

11 Run out of pants?

12 “Relax,” to a drill instructor

13 Many moons

18 Said, as a farewell

22 Russian pancakes

24 PC key that modifies other keys’ functions

25 Narrow-minded

27 Comparatively pleased

28 Choir platform

31 Nobel Peace Center’s home

34 First sound in “Georgia”

36 ___ Lingus (Irish carrier)

37 Cold War initials

39 Yeltsin of the 37-Down

40 Straight up?

43 Brew that’s frozen during production

44 Cinco menos tres

45 Pizza Hut competitor

46 Exam for an aspiring Mensan

48 Sch. in La Jolla

50 Started

51 Gold deposits, perhaps

52 Big spoon, of a sort

54 Have a dispute

57 Vowelless summons

60 Excessively

61 ___ Arbor

63 Many, many moons

64 End of Brown’s URL