Puzzle

ACROSS

  1 Dull-colored

  5 Lumberjack's tool: Var.

  8 Gather together

 13 Italian city whose name anagrams to "anise"

 14 "Star Wars" villain Kylo ___

 15 Word before "airplane" or "home"

 16 *Butt heads

 18 Make up (for)

 19 Grown-ups

 20 Openly transgender

 22 Woodwind that uses treble clef

 23 ___ mortal

 24 *Architecture or construction

 27 Palindromic horn sound

 29 Did a 10K, say

 30 Bundle of grain

 33 Noisy kiss

 36 Part of a play

 39 *Something that catches you off guard

 42 Source of cash

 43 Trigonometry ratios

 44 Extremely angry

 45 Neurologist's scan, briefly

 46 Spanish for "this"

 48 *Evade conviction

 53 Adele or Cher, vocally

 57 Opposite of exo-

 58 Dress code requirement, at times

 59 Hosted a show

 61 Contribute to the mix

 63 Directly in your path, or a hint to what can precede each starred answer's first word

 65 Wafer cookie brand

 66 Summer hrs. on Cape Cod

 67 School year segments

 68 Costly

 69 Pastrami bread

 70 ___ Pie (popular ice cream bar)

DOWN

  1 The "D" of LED

  2 Happen repeatedly

  3 Piece of low art, informally?

  4 Thai money

  5 Cry from a pirate

  6 Noble gas in arc lamps

  7 Come after

  8 Physician's org.

  9 The Supremes' record label

 10 Chicken ___ (Filipino dish)

 11 Mister, in Mexico City

 12 Smooth and glossy

 13 Shut loudly

 17 Munch Museum's Scandinavian capital

 21 Flashlight, to a Brit

 25 "Challenge accepted!"

 26 Pretend to know what you're doing

 28 Compensate for

 30 Org. for mom-and-pop stores

 31 Like the weather in Florida, often

 32 Stately tree

 34 Mrs., in Marseille

 35 Flummoxed

 36 Pie ___ mode

 37 Director's cry

 38 Casual top

 40 "Correct!"

 41 Raised for discussion

 45 French for "star"

 47 Raced

 48 Coffee grinder inputs

 49 Send a breakup text, say

 50 Confuse

 51 Duck with downy feathers

 52 Like a swamp with many plants

 54 Apprehensive

 55 Squads

 56 10 to 1, e.g.

 60 Down Under pal

 62 Nod off briefly

 64 Had a snack

Solution