Puzzle

 ACROSS

  1 "NBA Countdown" channel

  5 Top drawer?

 10 Without a date

 14 Little bit of a lot, perhaps

 15 States confidently

 16 100%

 17 Realtors like to __ __, especially if they're ____

 19 Gobs and gobs

 20 Bestow

 21 Apple that can have eight cores

 23 Formal wear, informally

 24 180 degrees from sur

 25 Imaginative children often __ __ in a ____

 27 Prefix for "graphic"

 28 What you break with a golf club

 30 Daisylike bloom

 31 Ground cover

 33 Capital of Cyprus

 37 An orchestra member must __ __ before performing ____

 40 Makeup removers

 41 Matterhorn, e.g.

 43 Inexperienced

 46 "Psych!"

 48 Nautical deviation

 50 Chief inspectors sometimes __ __ that involve ____

 54 Fritter away

 56 Stop waffling

 57 Biblical birthright seller

 58 Young Persian

 59 Appear

 61 The king maintained a __ __ on power from his ____

 63 Former skater Lipinski

 64 Vowel-heavy spread

 65 Nothing more than

 66 Charon's river

 67 Atlas enlargement

 68 Caribbean and others

DOWN

  1 Making simpler

  2 Chumps

  3 Stage storage space

  4 Inexperienced with

  5 Brewer's need

  6 Longoria of "Desperate Housewives"

  7 Rhodes of scholarship fame

  8 Espresso froth

  9 Test, as ore

 10 Aroma-therapy site

 11 "For shame!"

 12 Excite

 13 Boomer's kid, maybe

 18 SAT ___ course

 22 Committee head

 25 Jimmies

 26 Japanese city that will host the 2025 World Expo

 29 Aardvark fare

 32 No longer relevant

 34 French vineyard

 35 Olympics legend Jesse

 36 Meh

 38 Because

 39 "Everyday People" performer

 42 Kneecap

 43 Trick-or-treaters with simple costumes

 44 Word before "after me"

 45 Diner

 47 Bird's nest part

 49 Frosty fast food chain

 51 Very, in music

 52 Gown material

 53 Continental money

 55 Friend of Aramis

 58 Make a scarf, say

 60 Nth degree

 62 "Bravo!"

Solution