puzzle

 ACROSS



  1 Muscles used while rowing, for short

  5 List-shortening abbr.

  8 Etsy shop contents

 14 Far from calm

 16 Like some traditional medicine

 17 Less nice

 18 Visual sharpness

 19 Forest moon of "Star Wars"

 20 Steal from

 21 Muscles used while planking

 23 Often-anticipated day of the wk.

 25 Tool useful for latke-making

 29 Close to one's heart

 31 Decided to discuss later

 33 X-___ machine

 34 Richards of "Starship Troopers"

 36 Double-checked

 38 Activity of high interest?

 40 Kondo on Netflix

 41 Muscular dog

 44 Settings for a photographer

 47 Tool thrown in some bars: Var.

 48 Remove using a crowbar

 50 Cleveland's lake

 51 Manager's concern

 53 ___ Lipa (Grammy winner for "Electricity")

 54 Not many

 55 48 teaspoons

 56 Crown for a princess

 59 "Oh, really?"

 62 Frequent flyer's rewards

 65 More simple

 66 Scouring supply

 67 One receiving texts at work?

 68 "___ Miserables"

 69 Pastrami purveyor

DOWN

  1 Lucy of "Elementary"

  2 "Raggedy" doll

  3 Ride-shares, in a way (see letters 9 to 7)

  4 Go in circles?

  5 One may list grades (12 to 9)

  6 Earth, in Spanish

  7 "Proud Mary" band, briefly

  8 Ambassador's subordinate (9 to 6)

  9 Elementary school instruments

 10 First island mentioned in "Kokomo"

 11 "Fidelity, Bravery, Integrity" agcy.

 12 Bit of ink?

 13 Sneaky

 15 Time ___ again

 21 Get to a total

 22 Sometimes-fuzzy buzzer

 24 Early PC maker

 26 Binary test options (8 to 5)

 27 Body part with a canal

 28 Kind of bread

 30 Bread-related verb that sounds like 28-Down's plural

 32 On the ___ (escaping)

 35 Excess amounts

 37 Place in cyberspace

 39 Celebratory cry

 41 River barrier

 42 Maker of Good Grips products

 43 Agree without speaking

 45 3/14 dessert, for some

 46 Cross-stitch, perhaps

 49 Destined to fail

 52 Second part of "Cats"

 57 Q&A on Reddit

 58 Watermelon discard

 59 Vietnamese holiday

 60 Food for horses

 61 Egyptian snake

 62 Knee part: Abbr.

 63 Unagi or anago, at sushi bars

 64 Hindu honorific

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