puzzle

 ACROSS

  1 Goals

  5 Sound of disgust

  8 Worshipper of Jah

 13 Seemingly emotionless sort

 15 Born as

 16 Shining

 17 Paul, in Italy

 18 Get busy, as a bee

 20 Pointless

 22 Rich

 23 Moral trajectory that bends toward justice, per Martin Luther King Jr.

 25 "The end is ___!"

 27 Conan's network until 2021

 28 Henhouse perches

 30 As high as

 32 Tito Puente's "___ Como Va"

 35 Have a cow?

 36 (May I have some milk?)

 37 Infuriate

 38 French for "love"

 39 Make up one's mind

 40 Wedding attendee

 42 Comfy room

 43 Voiced

 45 Way to serve pastrami

 46 Dreyer's partner in ice cream

 47 Civil rights activist Baker

 48 Masthead title

 49 Prefix with "angle" or "cycle"

 50 Dog's space to exercise

 52 Fifth-century nomad

 53 Dealt with bumps in the road?

 57 Oreo filling

 59 "Almost ready!"

 61 Skewered meat dish

 64 Negative person

 65 "C'mon, be a ___!"

 66 Bicycle wheel part

 67 Score that beats a birdie

 68 Period of note

 69 Lovers' quarrel

DOWN

  1 Snake that bit Cleopatra

  2 "Let's call ___ day"

  3 *Fictional lunar settlement

  4 Farm storage spot

  5 Remove, as a wooden pin

  6 Start to cache?

  7 Leader's metaphorical spot

  8 *Iris, in Greek myth

  9 French New Wave director Varda

 10 Kill it, in drag lingo

 11 Bag at a bookstore

 12 Truly impressed

 14 *Fast-casual restaurants offer it

 19 Ball game?

 21 Palindromic sib

 23 Place to play "Street Fighter"

 24 Meandered

 26 *Work week's midpoint

 29 Crime show starring Ice-T, for short

 31 Dog or guinea pig

 32 Wildly exaggerated, or a hint to two words that can precede each starred answer's start

 33 Response to "Who, me?"

 34 Medical student at a hospital, e.g.

 39 "Black gold"

 41 Sea urchin in sushi

 44 Being from another planet

 48 Go astray

 49 Language spoken in Sri Lanka

 51 High-speed Amtrak train

 53 Arborio or basmati

 54 "Orinoco Flow" singer

 55 Sudden feeling of guilt

 56 Scam artist's victim

 58 Atlas contents

 60 Roofing material

 62 T'Challa, ___ Black Panther

 63 As of today

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