“Can I Finish?”— yes I can.
ACROSS
1. Popeyes side
5. “Surprise” subtitle in “The Price Is Right”’s “Hole in One” game
10. Sherman ___, CA
14. Nautical prefix
15. Ecstatic hymn
16. “On Air with ___ Seacrest”
17. Cash cab, really?
19. Architect Saarinen
20. Construction worker on “Fraggle Rock”
21. Brand in the dairy aisle
23. Dumbstruck
26. Too inquisitive
27. On the clock?
30. Gary’s st.
32. Doesn’t give up
35. Recovered from
36. Make it through
38. “___ Junipero” (Emmywinning “Black Mirror” episode)
39. Petty peeve
40. Item near a litter box
41. ___ nutshell
42. “Get ___ Ya-Ya’s Out!” (Rolling Stones album)
43. Like some wages
44. Long journey
45. Parenthetical comment
47. Lao-___ (Chinese philosopher)
48. “The ___” (podcast hosted by Michael Barbaro and Sabrina Tavernise)
49. Math subj.
51. Commend highly
53. Willingly obedient
56. 22-Down variant
60. “Yeah, I get it”
61. Magazine for the discerning Abominable Snowman?
64. Lt. Dangle’s city
65. Prolific writer Asimov
66. Finn on a raft
67. Words of clarification when spelling
68. Lose intentionally
69. Accident-monitoring gp.
DOWN
1. Right ___ Fred
2. Host of the recent “You Bet Your Life” revival
3. Gas brand that’s also a musical direction
4. More dizzy
5. “Jerry Springer: The ___”
6. Templeton, in “Charlotte’s Web”
7. Spilled drink
8. Like some cheese rinds
9. Vegetable for which goggles may be used when prepping
10. End of an ultimatum
11. Electronic assistant Madagascar lemur species?
12. Byron of “MythBusters” for a
13. Runny nose problem
18. Become well
22. See 56-Across
24. Triumph in the end
25. Countersign
27. Margot played her in 2017
28. Elite eightsome of higher ed
29. Author Morrison, when writing poetry?
31. Two-unit home
33. Team of judges
34. Like a winding road
36. “Foucault’s Pendulum” author Umberto
37. “Curious George” author H.A. ___
40. Display unit
44. Word to a hound
46. Japanese radish
48. Means of escape
50. Ark measurement unit
52. “Penn & Teller: Fool Us” network
53. Bilingual explorer
54. Jake Shimabukuro instruments
55. Phil who jammed with Jerry Garcia
57. God, to Caesar
58. Carve in stone
59. “Morning Joe” Brzezinski
62. Stuff in a pit
63. Principle behind yin and yang cohost