puzzle

 ACROSS



  1 Join together

  7 "War and Peace," for one

 11 Not well-lit

 14 One giving a speech

 15 ___ or false

 16 Music genre associated with black eyeliner

 17 *Completely immoral supervisor?

 19 Financing letters

 20 Metallic fabric

 21 Burden

 22 Bad throw at a casino

 23 Like the wolf in a fairy tale

 24 *Weaving instructor?

 27 Irritates

 29 Points of view

 30 Like some people who read closed captions

 31 Tightly stretched

 35 Vessels with spigots

 36 *Some under-the-table flirting?

 39 (OMG!)

 41 Maker of Thick & Fluffy waffles

 42 Wyatt of the Wild West

 46 Actress Sorkin

 48 Closer, in a guessing game

 50 *Evidently fake jewel?

 54 Slippery, as a street

 55 Pixar movie with talking vehicles

 56 Sporty auto roof

 57 Angel costume headwear

 59 ___-man band

 60 Mess up ... and a hint to 17-, 24-, 36- and 50-Across

 63 Lead role in "How I Met Your Mother"

 64 Last number in many prices

 65 "Am not!" response

 66 Popular show letters

 67 High cards in royal flushes

 68 Yards' relatives

DOWN

  1 ___ story (sad-sounding tale)

  2 Nutty confection

  3 Layered pasta dish

  4 Something in your cart

  5 Make a visit

  6 Notable span

  7 Was surrounded by wavy lines, in a comic

  8 Quarrel

  9 Party attendees

 10 ___ Lingus

 11 Start of a letter to a longtime advice columnist

 12 Influences

 13 Shape-shifts

 18 Thumbs-down votes

 22 More like sea salt than iodized salt

 23 Like the wolf in a fairy tale

 25 Regarding, in a memo

 26 "Regarding, in a memo" or "Counterbalances"

 28 Counterbalances

 32 Enjoyed a buffet

 33 Big name in boots

 34 "You're it!"

 37 Certain column in the paper

 38 Like freshly cut grass

 39 Dad joke, e.g.

 40 Sauce for fettucine

 43 "Has the meeting started?"

 44 Change the hue of

 45 Inquire nosily

 46 Broad neckties

 47 Kind of acid in fertilizers

 49 Stick (to)

 51 Make amends

 52 Shuffles around aimlessly, say

 53 Decide

 58 Words before and after "is"

 60 Ancestry.com test subject

 61 Spiral-cut meat

 62 ___ Altos, California

solution