puzzle

 ACROSS

  1 Break between notes

  5 Features of feet

  9 "Como estas?" response, often

 13 The fossil Big Al, once

 16 Indie pop singer Parks

 17 Hypothetical body beyond Pluto

 18 Grain tower

 19 Audio player

 20 Relates (with)

 22 Just slightly cooked

 23 Big cheese

 24 "That's false!"

 27 Whip up

 28 Librarian's rebuke

 29 L.A.'s region

 31 Plucked instruments

 33 Usher in?

 35 ___ and true

 37 Shade darker than turquoise

 38 Passion

 40 Map close-up

 42 The record-holding cat Creme Puff's was 38 years

 43 Sign the back of

 45 Made embarrassed

 47 Prepare, as a factory

 48 Orange skin

 49 Con artists' accomplices

 50 Their tails have scales

 54 Mani's partner

 55 Online blurb that may include your pronouns

 57 He was trapped in a net with Aphrodite

 58 Where to "find" the McCrepe

 59 ___ lover's pizza

 60 Necklace bit

 61 Recipe division


DOWN

  1 Laser-focused

  2 Spanish for "she"

  3 High-five noise

  4 Exfoliation products

  5 Spud nugget

  6 Eighth of a cup

  7 "Red" Viking

  8 Early riser?

  9 Layer under nail polish

 10 Liqueur invented in Dublin

 11 Actor who appeared on Time's cover with the quote "I'm fully who I am"

 12 Apt time given this clue's number

 14 Family cars, often

 15 Placed atop

 21 Twelfth of a foot

 23 Young adult novel in which campers dig

 24 Rae of "The Hate U Give"

 25 "You'll be OK"

 26 "That's news to me!"

 27 Michael of "The Muppet Christmas Carol"

 30 Like a good apple

 32 Snow day transport

 34 One lets you earn checks for doing chores

 36 Left in the lurch

 39 It's called in class

 41 NYC museum in "Ocean's Eight"

 44 Oxidizes

 46 Security devices

 48 Jordanian city named one of the New Seven Wonders of the World

 49 Flood with messages

 50 Trackpad alternatives

 51 "A likely story!"

 52 Have a nice meal

 53 Miso dish

 56 Caught in a ___ of lies

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