Today's crossword
ACROSS
1 “I’ve been here before” feeling
7 __ and carrots
11 Has been
14 Some dometopped venues
15 Roger’s rival, familiarly
16 __ crossroads
17 Playful tune
19 Half a score
20 Low USN rank
21 Fires up, as an engine
22 Converse
24 Japanese art genre
26 Proper conduct,
in Hinduism
27 Threw in the towel
31 Ooze, as charm
32 Addition amount
33 Church bench
36 Made readable, in a way
39 Based on deduction instead of experience
42 Two-time Super Bowl MVP Manning
43 Male sheep
45 Elba of “The Wire”
46 Roadside channel for water runoff
51 Bring on
53 Gave it a shot
54 Threshold
55 Kristen who was on “SNL” from 2005 to 2012 56 Henson who created the Muppets
59 Sweetie
60 Stage a comeback, or an apt title for this puzzle
64 In the style of
65 “That makes sense”
66 Immune system components
67 Fine stone
68 Sugar source
69 Throat-soothing beverage
DOWN
1 Small valley
2 “__ go bragh!”
3 New York NFLers
4 Kitchen pest
5 Kilmer of “Top Gun: Maverick”
6 Login requirement
7 Flowering shrubs used as border hedges
8 Uses (up)
9 Toward the tiller
10 Greets, with “to”
11 Wakeboarding, for one
12 Mr. T’s squad
13 Maxwell House decaf brand
18 Singer Lovato
23 Butter portion
24 Big name in footwear
25 Require
26 Hauler destination, perhaps
27 Give up
28 Figure skater’s jump
29 Certain state of awareness while sleeping
30 Sine __ non
34 Writer/illustrator Carle
35 Genie’s offering
37 Lake near the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame
38 Karate skill level
40 Attraction at a fair
41 “__ my best”
44 Afternoon show
47 Bit of floor decor
48 Like pickling liquid
49 Moxie
50 Half of a fourth
51 ICU hookup
52 Writer Zora __ Hurston
55 Small songbird
56 Leave at the altar
57 Not going anywhere
58 City outside Phoenix
61 Can. neighbor
62 Green beginning
63 Vietnamese New
Year