puzzle

 ACROSS

  1 Alligator ___ (avocado)

  5 Trite

 10 What goes sideways?

 14 Instrument described as "an ill wind"

 15 Justice Samuel

 16 Prince Charles, e.g.

 17 Cheap beer to sip while golfing?

 20 Cared for a friend's cat, say

 21 Harris who made history in 2020

 22 Mathematician Lovelace

 23 Issa of "Insecure"

 25 "That hurt!"

 26 Name within "Benedict"

 27 Chant from a crowd that hates Thunderbolt ports?

 30 "Frontline" channel

 32 Wintry mix

 33 What may require a 20-sided die: Abbr.

 36 Was on TV

 38 Above, to a bard

 39 Diet that avoids processed food

 41 Confucian path

 42 Figurine of a "notorious" justice?

 45 Santa ___, California

 46 Oddity

 48 Slob's opposite

 50 Part of a precarious chain

 51 Hiss sources

 52 Utensils for detangling spaghetti?

 56 Dragon's burst of smoke

 59 New Zealand native

 60 Toy for a windy day

 64 Great Plains people

 65 Flashiness, informally

 66 Bus. class

 67 Special brownie ingredient

 68 Old Pontiac

 69 Like pink hair


DOWN

  1 Daddy's partner, maybe

  2 Went out like the tide

  3 Major artery

  4 Shot callers

  5 They're settled when they're picked up

  6 ___-country (music genre)

  7 Dr. Fauci's agcy.

  8 Breakfasted or lunched

  9 Strand, as one's babysitter

 10 Buddy

 11 Was on TV again

 12 Lit path on a train

 13 "Daily" food in a prayer

 18 Rowing tools

 19 Uncultured people

 24 Memorial speech

 25 "A Midsummer Night's Dream" king

 27 One of many for a Q-tip

 28 Pea, for a pea plant

 29 ThirdLove undergarment

 30 Upright or grand

 31 Ride for a Quidditch player

 34 Endurance exercise for abs

 35 Wish granter

 36 Ever so slightly

 37 Liquid-Plumr alternative

 39 Morning-after pill brand

 40 Acorn makers

 43 Word that means "flowers," with or without "ss" at its center

 44 Musical set in France, to fans

 47 Less than pleased

 49 Assigned work to

 53 "Rats!"

 54 Cover in chocolate, maybe

 55 Ricelike pasta

 56 "Bam!"

 57 Colorado native

 58 Enemy

 61 Slick, as a road

 62 One has a nail

 63 Apt word for this slot

solution