CROSSWORD PUZZLE

ACROSS

1 Deeply engrossed

5 Played music at a dance club, say

9 Led Zeppelin’s “Whole __ Love”

14 “The Time Machine” race

15 Slippery

16 “Please specify” list option

17 Many many

18 Call on the carpet

20 Triangle or quadrilateral

22 Holds a grudge against

23 Fed. ID fig.

24 Give the boot

26 Boomer’s kid, perhaps

27 Sty emanation

29 Maker of Regenerist products

31 Bath tourist spot

34 First __ equals

36 Pogo stick sound

37 Toy that resembles a gyroscope

38 Rafael who is one of tennis’s “Big Three”

39 Healthcare.gov law, for short

40 Chi-town airport

42 Nothing to do with soccer?

43 Boo-boo

45 Sty emanations

46 World Cup cheer

47 Wonderland bird

48 Abbr. on a company sign

49 Promissory note

50 “My only __ sprung from my only hate!”: Juliet

52 “To a degree”

55 Church deliveries

59 Artist with the 2024 album “Cowboy Carter”

61 Slowpoke’s opposite

63 Petri dish gelatin

64 Ebbing and flowing

65 Old movie spool

66 Answering system limbo

67 Clotted cream accompaniment

68 Site for selling personalized gifts

69 Multitool’s multiplicity

DOWN

1 Cuts with a sickle

2 Singers between sopranos and tenors

3 *Pasta-shaped colorful foam float

4 Itsy

5 Route around a construction area, say

6 Denim pants

7 Rocky Mountain National Park grazer

8 One who adds a little color

9 *Totally chill

10 Aquatic mammal

11 Better __ ever

12 Try out

13 Boats like Noah’s

19 Austinite, e.g.

21 *Celebratory search engine logo

25 *”So awesome!”

28 Personal code?

30 Story teller?

31 Enthusiastic audience reactions, and a feature of the answers to the starred clues

32 Chorizo meat

33 “Planet of the __”

34 __ Domini

35 Pigeonhole filler

36 Storyteller

41 Double or triple, maybe

44 18 holes of golf, typically

48 In equal amounts

49 “To be clear ... “

51 Double-reed woodwinds

53 Ascend, as a peak

54 Giraffe groups

55 Phased-out jets

56 __ fail

57 Upgrade, as decor

58 Parched

60 Banzai Pipeline island

62 Rendezvoused