puzzle

 ACROSS

  1 It often thickens

  5 Outstanding, financially

  9 Cranberry source

 12 Steamy room

 13 Curve in math class?

 15 Play designed to circumvent the offensive line

 16 Paradoxically named bet

 17 Falls apart

 19 ___ port in a storm

 20 Traditional or SIMPLE plan

 21 Live, but not really live

 23 Country that dissolved in '91

 26 Part of a hereditary pool

 28 What "I'll be," in an expression

 30 Longtime British sports cars

 32 "Suits" actress Torres

 33 Not feel well

 34 Fire crime

 37 Like a serpentine road

 39 Energy

 40 Password creator

 44 One, to Gianluigi Buffon

 45 2010s Anthony Bourdain show, familiarly

 48 Meh

 52 Punch for practice

 53 Adrift on the ocean

 54 "I'm good, thanks"

 55 Chihuahua's greeting

 57 Early-morning sight, or a hint to the word that turns up in 17-, 28- and 45-Across

 60 Keister

 63 Nacho Cheese or Cool Ranch chip

 64 Scantron smudges

 65 Digital party notice

 66 Garden state?

 67 What the wicked don't get

 68 12/1/21, for one

DOWN

  1 Monica who co-hosts the "Armchair Expert" podcast

  2 It may tempt a trout

  3 Burden

  4 Bi-cycles?

  5 Unfilled space

  6 Paddle-propelled surfboard

  7 "Able was I ___ I saw Elba" (famous palindrome)

  8 Carvey who does Biden impressions

  9 Invasive preflight check

 10 Long in the tooth

 11 Neon, for instance

 12 Nocturnal noise

 14 Extra payment for an employee

 15 Juul, e.g.

 18 Mango slicer brand

 22 Decimal base

 24 Moved smoothly

 25 Count (on)

 27 Mopey music genre

 29 What seeing this answer may make you do (sorry, not sorry!)

 31 Antelopes with beards

 34 iPhone downloads

 35 Harvest

 36 Source of an artificial bronze glow

 38 Apple's mobile platform

 41 Jamaican music genre

 42 Logbook listings

 43 Most optimistic

 44 Helpless?

 46 Halves of sextets

 47 Jazz guitarist Montgomery

 49 Where to meet a contractor

 50 Fry quickly

 51 "Good grief!"

 56 Serve, as Chardonnay

 58 Suddenly bright star

 59 Particle of sand

 60 Dispensable candy

 61 "___ you sure?"

 62 Three, on Capri

solution