puzzle

 ACROSS

  1 Sourdough purchase

  5 Director Judd

 11 ___ fuel to the fire

 14 Not yet engaged?

 15 "Rare" singer Gomez

 16 Brazilian metropolis, informally

 17 *Bucks' rhyming slogan

 19 Maintain, as a lawn

 20 English assignment

 21 Olive discards

 22 "Shucks!"

 23 Baton Rouge sch.

 25 Followed a trail

 27 Middle defensive players in baseball: Abbr.

 30 *Patriotic lyric that's also a Gershwin title

 35 Identify, as an ailment

 37 Distance runner

 38 Nevada gambling locale

 39 Penny-pinch

 42 Plumlike fruit

 43 "A turkey sub with chips," e.g.

 45 Gretzky's nickname, with "The"

 47 *Hypothetical human ancestor

 50 W-2 digits: Abbr.

 51 Frosted Flakes mascot, for one

 52 (Not my mistake)

 54 Utah's most-visited national park

 56 Prerelease version

 59 University near Harvard

 63 Mess up

 64 *Walking downtown, say

 66 Actor Roth

 67 More than enough

 68 Jane Austen title character

 69 Braying beast

 70 Movie that isn't silent

 71 Like Santa's cheeks



DOWN

  1 Vitality

  2 Poems of tribute

  3 (Sigh)

  4 Like an alley cat, often

  5 Barbecue residue

  6 Marshmallow Easter treat

  7 Discount grocery chain

  8 Grow molars

  9 What a baby may wear

 10 "___ and Peace"

 11 Some curl into balls when attacked

 12 Fashion's Christian

 13 Up (for)

 18 Oscar winner Cicely

 22 Cease's redundant partner

 24 Sci-fi flyers

 26 Snowboarder Chloe

 27 Obsolescent software format

 28 "Guy's Grocery Games" host

 29 Dusty desert dangers

 31 Syllable similar to "tut"

 32 Katherine of "Knocked Up"

 33 Many OPEN signs

 34 Word before "bean" or "screen"

 36 Enters

 40 Radiology scan, briefly

 41 Signature items?

 44 Place to run drills?

 46 Japanese dog

 48 Interstellar cloud

 49 Hansel's sister

 53 Competitive solver of a colorful toy

 54 Greek letter that surprisingly isn't last

 55 Pigmented eye part

 57 What a gas pump fills

 58 Opposed to

 60 Anxiety spelled out by the starred answers' starts

 61 Rolaids alternative

 62 Stick around

 64 Choose (to)

 65 Gray hair concealer

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