Puzzle

ACROSS

  1 Loud kiss

  6 Flat-panel TV type

  9 Some H.S. exams

 14 Tart ingredient, in two ways

 15 Viking ship tool

 16 4/, in a date

 17 "You first," literally?

 19 Discourage

 20 It's lower in mini golf than in golf

 21 Like some poetry

 22 3 button letters

 23 Famed elevator man

 25 "Don't stay out too late," literally?

 30 "Buenas ___!" (Spanish for "Good night!")

 32 Assenting nonverbally

 33 ___ a soul

 34 Stuff in a box

 36 Like many North Africans

 37 Rule that "weird" violates, literally?

 40 Quahog or geoduck

 43 Out of the wind

 44 Half a paper bundle

 47 One may be settled in small-claims court

 49 Angela Merkel, e.g.

 51 "Your grades are slipping," literally?

 54 In need of a rubdown

 55 Bolted

 56 Parting exclamation

 58 Cybersecurity org.

 59 Work unit

 61 Commercial break lead-in, literally?

 63 Relatively new relative

 64 Rap's ___ Khalifa

 65 Painter's frame

 66 Gives kibble to, say

 67 Card in a blackjack

 68 Pacing, perhaps

DOWN

  1 Apply carelessly, like paint

  2 Large unit for explosives

  3 "Beautiful" place of song

  4 Corn part

  5 Muay Thai fighter's weapon

  6 One of Donald Duck's nephews

  7 Simple ball game

  8 Towel off

  9 Having a cushion

 10 Singles who rotate to meet other singles

 11 Event featuring paintings

 12 Twisted fastener

 13 Digital ___ camera

 18 Alerts about missing people, perhaps: Abbr.

 24 Cold seafood dish with mayo

 26 Served cold

 27 Agent after top secret info

 28 Protein synthesis mol.

 29 Spy grp. until 1991

 31 Sight on the back of a dollar bill

 34 Free-for-all

 35 Tool that's sharpened

 38 Notoriously finicky pets

 39 Apt lead-in to "fix"

 40 Org. encouraging flu shots

 41 Small, cutesily

 42 In most cases

 45 Surrounded by

 46 Wetlands

 48 ___ & World Report

 49 Acquires

 50 How origami paper is folded

 52 Protestant work ___

 53 Early Mexican corn

 57 1/2 x base x height, for a triangle

 59 Skippy competitor

 60 Smallest possible party

 61 Old airline with a K.C. museum

 62 Scottish form of John

 

Solution