puzzle

ACROSS

 1 Academic hurdle

 6 Far from wealthy

10 Fish-landing hook

14 Fear of Fifty writer Jong

15 Far from polite

16 Spanish stew pot

17 Meaningless verbiage

19 Old-world word of woe

20 Cow catchers

21 She'll curl your hair

23 Blood mover

25 Farmyard noises

26 What a deceitful person speaks with?

32 Red-light situation, in the studio

33 Make like a lion

34 Diesel of Hollywood

37 Pipsqueak

38 High as a kite

40 "The Biggest Little City in the World"

41 Inexact no.

42 Edible Pacific tuber

43 "Put me down, too"

44 Meaningless talk

47 Church instrument

50 ___-jerk response

51 Former Eagles coach Dick

54 Bolivian beasts

59 Malarial symptom

60 Evasive language

62 Fluff found in pockets

63 My Name Is ___ (former NBC show)

64 ___ Rae (Sally Field movie)

65 Fill completely

66 Diarist Frank

67 Bug-hitting-the-windshield sound

DOWN

 1 Experience with the heart

 2 Culinary author Rombauer

 3 Light bites

 4 Performs in a play

 5 Airport event

 6 Toast to one's health

 7 Collective pronoun

 8 They're not in your favor in Vegas

 9 Everything else

10 Hockey player for the defense

11 Dramatic poker bet

12 Drinker's vessel

13 Doesn't eat, for instance

18 Dandelion or goldenrod, e.g.

22 Watch-step connection

24 Virginia port city

26 Fairway cry

27 Tedious task

28 Objurgation

29 Set of parts to be assembled

30 "We are ___ amused"

31 Happy and carefree

34 Presidential thumbs-down

35 Word of division

36 Small recess

38 Igor's workplace

39 Poetic eye

40 Convoy member

42 Variation in color

43 Intensifies

44 Reproduction cell

45 Give the go-ahead

46 Big name in computers

47 Elongated O's

48 Aqua ___ (gold dissolver)

49 Soldier, in slang

52 It can be good, bad or bright

53 Temporary grant

55 On the apex

56 Jung or Reiner

57 ___ mater

58 Three-handed card game

61 Buffet beverage server

solution