Puzzle

 ACROSS

  1 Some are made of logs

  6 Sound of surprise

 10 Angelic circle

 14 Garret

 15 Sch. near Pepperdine

 16 Apple MP3 player

 17 Post-argument small talk? (circle letter 4)

 19 This puzzle's has 78 answers

 20 Alcatraz was one

 21 Place to use a rake and shovel

 23 Half a dozen

 24 High toss

 26 Less adorned

 27 Extreme anxiety

 29 Paper size: Abbr.

 30 Steam, for instance

 33 Pea impaler

 35 Celebrity gossip subject

 39 Once again

 40 Woman in a Space Western? (circle letter 3)

 41 Something to sow

 42 Enter with keys?

 43 Like many rooms after decluttering

 44 Barking marine animals

 45 Mythical bird

 47 Speaks scratchily

 49 Attacks

 53 Lion sign

 54 No-fly zone for a fly?

 57 Finishes, as wood

 59 Make beloved

 61 Fuzzy fruit

 62 Electoral exasperation? (letter 7)

 64 On a par (with)

 65 Part of QED

 66 Countesses' counterparts

 67 Ending for "soft" or "silver"

 68 Matched groups

 69 ___ sixteen

DOWN



  1 Skate park constructions

  2 Company building video game-themed hotels

  3 N.J. army base

  4 Nervous twitches

  5 Knowledge seeker

  6 Feeling "source"

  7 Does something

  8 Many new parents could use it

  9 Like these line segments: /

 10 Flowers that are hard for aphids to reach? (letter 5)

 11 Chef protector

 12 River mentioned on Tours tours

 13 More peculiar

 18 Soon, archaically

 22 Took a chair

 25 Please: Ger.

 27 Kind of dress that projects confidence? (letter 6)

 28 What "explodes" in this puzzle

 30 Word that surrounds "vanilla yogurt"

 31 Whichever

 32 Vim

 34 Birth-related

 36 Beverage made of dried leaves

 37 Wriggly fish

 38 They work with RNs

 40 Territories within territories

 44 Porous ocean creatures

 46 Olive product

 48 Witnessed

 49 Somewhat crooked

 50 "The Destroyer," in Hinduism

 51 System that stinks

 52 Music for a movie

 54 "___ the Champions"

 55 Majestic bird

 56 Northwestern French port

 58 "Now!," in a medical drama

 60 Choose from a hat

 63 Often-mispunctuated possessive

Solution