Puzzle

ACROSS

  1 Speak to a crowd

  6 Pack (down)

 10 Actress Catherine ___-Jones

 14 Send payment

 15 Only state with a swallowtail flag

 16 One-named model who co-wrote "The Beauty of Color"

 17 Acts as storyteller

 19 Watch, as a campfire

 20 Sandwich served with tzatziki sauce

 21 Five times six

 23 Part of www

 26 Roma's country

 29 Test for an aspiring Ph.D., maybe

 30 Debtor's letters

 31 Droplet from exercising

 33 Hardens (oneself)

 35 "Aladdin" antagonist

 36 Micronesian island country

 37 Wet dirt

 38 Prolonged attack

 42 Plant secretion

 44 Emma who played Meg March in "Little Women"

 45 Former name of Muhammad Ali

 49 Tack on

 50 Metaphor for monotony

 51 $100 bills, in dated slang

 52 Ado

 53 Gets out of bed

 55 Prefix for "body" or "biotic"

 57 Golf course warning

 58 Pinto

 64 Factual

 65 Shrek, for example

 66 Make into law

 67 Puppy sounds

 68 Irked, with "off"

 69 ___: The Gathering (collectible card game)

DOWN

  1 Surgeons' workplaces, briefly

  2 Exercise unit

  3 Parisian friend

  4 Trace of color

  5 Website selling custom Halloween costumes

  6 Prius maker

  7 "I thought so!"

  8 Former space station

  9 Noted Vatican City resident

 10 Often-baked pasta

 11 Come out in the open

 12 Hindu scripture

 13 "Even so ..."

 18 Ram constellation

 22 Gets to voice an opinion

 23 Tiny amount of smoke

 24 Tiny amount

 25 Hamilton/Burr confrontation

 27 Type of professor

 28 Burden

 31 Colorful glacial feature

 32 Legal order

 34 Lending them doesn't require giving anything away

 37 Fermented soybean paste

 39 He traded his birthright for lentil stew

 40 Greek mythological figures

 41 Odds' partner

 43 Dark solar patch

 44 "He ___ Man Enough" (Toni Braxton song)

 45 Sly, or an alternate title for this puzzle?

 46 "Borealis" opener

 47 Rile

 48 Tilted

 52 Apple on Apple Music

 54 Doesn't miss?

 56 Gender-neutral pronoun

 59 "Bronze" or "Iron" follower

 60 Fury

 61 Cleaning cloth

 62 ___-fi

 63 Catchall abbr.

 

Solution

Newspaper headline: Crossword