puzzle

 ACROSS

  1 "Ditto"

  6 Monitor for TV?

  9 Persuasive assignment

 14 Company in a 2001 fraud scandal

 15 Evian, par exemple

 16 Hot, frothy drink

 17 *Leslie Odom Jr.'s Tony-winning "Hamilton" role

 19 Goryeo Dynasty's land, once

 20 Roofer's supply

 21 Deviate from the script

 23 Popular site for a stud

 24 Latin epic poem

 26 *Marine plant that grows in beds

 29 Word after "jet" or "time"

 30 Paleo's opposite

 32 "___ the way you think"

 33 Soft lock

 35 Places for sweaters?

 38 Like some tape ... and each starred clue's answer, based on its first and last two letters?

 41 They may have creaky boards

 42 Stonehenge worshipper

 45 Mandolin's kin

 47 Regret

 49 Earth-friendly prefix

 50 *Rib cook-off need

 53 Some weight lifters

 55 Devour

 56 Ivory and Irish Spring products

 58 ___ Peter to pay Paul

 59 Activist Thunberg

 62 *License to drill?

 65 Fire-setting crime

 66 Ernie of golf

 67 Exposed as a fraud, e.g.

 68 Waiting in the wings, perhaps

 69 Actor's workplace

 70 Jawaharlal in Indian history

DOWN

  1 ___ otter

  2 Experiencing great success

  3 Like some marriages

  4 "G.I. Jane" star Demi

  5 Cozy stopover

  6 Prolonged quarrel

  7 "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" author Eric

  8 Marie who was the first winner of two Nobel Prizes

  9 Grand Teton beast

 10 ___ Tome and Principe

 11 Run out of pants?

 12 "Relax," to a drill instructor

 13 Many moons

 18 Said, as a farewell

 22 Russian pancakes

 24 PC key that modifies other keys' functions

 25 Narrow-minded

 27 Comparatively pleased

 28 Choir platform

 31 Nobel Peace Center's home

 34 First sound in "Georgia"

 36 ___ Lingus (Irish carrier)

 37 Cold War initials

 39 Yeltsin of the 37-Down

 40 Straight up?

 43 Brew that's frozen during production

 44 Cinco menos tres

 45 Pizza Hut competitor

 46 Exam for an aspiring Mensan

 48 Sch. in La Jolla

 50 Started

 51 Gold deposits, perhaps

 52 Big spoon, of a sort

 54 Have a dispute

 57 Vowelless summons

 60 Excessively

 61 ___ Arbor

 63 Many, many moons

 64 End of Brown's URL

solution