‘following directions’

ACROSS

1 Words of understanding

5 “Sounds good to me!”

9 Young goat

12 Academic session

13 Insertion symbol

15 With 46-Down, toy to bounce on 16 Choice of actions in online dating? 18 Golfer’s alternative to a wood 19 Ginger cookies

20 They join top and bottom sheets 22 New Mexico Pueblo

24 Nickname for tennis great Nadal 25 Window frame

28 Chillax

30 Casual shoes, casually 33 Aardvarks’ foods

34 College major for some aspiring

actuaries

36 Huge concert site

37 ___ B. Wells (inspiration for a 2022

Barbie)

38 Song or dance

40 Like unproc-essed data 41 Eminent 43 Call at first

44 Small bay

45 Current fashions

47 Dorm VIPS

48 Sanctioned

49 Alter in Photoshop, say

50 Fish used for a steak

52 Flabbergast

56 Peers in a house?

59 Lobster’s pincer

60 Choice of hip-hop styles named for

US regions?

63 Quarterback’s syllables

64 Couric who guest-hosted Jeopardy!

in 2021

65 Napoleon’s exile isle

66 Med. drama sites

67 Rip apart

68 Bring up, as a child

DOWN

1 That object’s

2 Puts in stitches

3 Climate activist Brockovich 4 Feelers?

5 Freezes up 6 Navigator’s need

7 Colored eye part

8 Semiaquatic salamander

9 Choice of countries on an East Asian

peninsula?

10 Frankenstein’s film flunky

11 Gets into, as clothes

14 Many ruled from Russia’s Winter

Palace

15 Commit petty theft

17 Antipollution org.

21 Airline in Catch Me If You Can

23 Religious divisions

25 Peter, Paul or Mary

26 Conjunction pair

27 Choice of locations for a New

Yorker?

29 Succeed big-time

31 Rascal

32 Made a cut in wood

35 What Jack Sprat could eat 38 Contribute to the pot

39 Followed as a consequence 42 Provides funds for

44 More rough 46 See 15-Across

51 “As if!”

52 Advil target 53 Disparaging comment 54 Fly high

55 Can’t stand

57 Broad valley

58 Thin Japanese noodle 61 Anger or envy

62 Part of a traffic jam