Puzzle

ACROSS

  1 Prepares, as a table

  5 Popular corn chip

 10 Bench press muscles, for short

 14 Complain

 15 Ancient fabulist

 16 ___ year (2024, for one)

 17 Solo at the Met

 18 Grannies

 19 Actress Hathaway

 20 Movement that empowered African American creators (Hint: Unscramble this answer's last word and think "Toronto")

 22 Vacuum brand

 23 Piglet's milk source

 24 Like many hippies' shirts

 26 Degree within "in the end"

 28 Jeopardy

 31 In the style of

 32 Fa follower

 33 Tasks assigned at a meeting (... "New York")

 38 Kermit, famously

 40 Annoy

 41 Physical, for one

 42 One doesn't work in a calm environment (... "Chicago")

 47 Virtuoso

 48 ___ Jordan sneakers

 49 "That hurts!"

 50 Relay race section

 51 They come with a kids' menu

 55 "War and Peace," e.g.

 57 Damages

 58 Interstate oasis (... "Washington")

 63 ___ mater

 64 Ragu competitor

 65 Certain pop star

 66 Casino machine

 67 Yo-Yo Ma's instrument

 68 Head ___ heels

 69 Bronte heroine Jane

 70 Shower with too many gifts, say

 71 FedExed

DOWN

  1 Scrape covering

  2 Apt name for a sandwich lover?

  3 Event requiring goggles, a helmet and running shoes

  4 "The final frontier"

  5 Zealous supporter

  6 Raise, as children

  7 "___ She Lovely" (Stevie Wonder classic)

  8 Maid of honor's duty

  9 Photo ___ (media events)

 10 Toddlers' get-together

 11 So, so tiny

 12 White water boat

 13 Go on a shopping spree

 21 Tech journalist Swisher

 22 Place to buy a hero

 25 Novelist McEwan

 26 (Don't watch this in the office)

 27 Singer Amos

 29 Mix around

 30 Vanessa of "The Crown"

 34 "___ dokie!"

 35 "$#@!," e.g.

 36 Colt's mom

 37 Skyline obscurer

 39 Greeting Down Under

 43 Uncles, in Oaxaca

 44 Large coffee vessel

 45 "That crossed the line"

 46 "Return of the Jedi" furball

 51 Pursue

 52 Campaign event

 53 Knight's protection

 54 ___ throat

 56 Precursor to Windows

 59 Move, in real estate parlance

 60 Wrinkly tangelo

 61 Word before "timer" or "thermometer"

 62 Dividing line?

 64 IBM products that ran 56-Down

Solution