puzzle

 ACROSS

  1 *Pub beverage

  5 Eve's partner

  9 Do some reconnaissance

 14 *$1,000,000, informally

 15 What a rat may wear

 16 Florida's third most populous city

 17 *Animation collectible

 18 Where India is

 19 "... but maybe I'm wrong"

 20 Trattoria order made with cutlets

 23 "I'm unimpressed"

 24 Futbol cheer

 25 "Calm down!"

 28 Stretch across

 31 Disapproving sounds

 35 Kuwaiti leader

 36 A close one is only good in a barbershop

 37 "Little piggy"

 38 Grapelike berry

 39 Diet-friendly ... like 20-Across, 51-Across, 4-Down and 40-Down, as per the starred clues' answers?

 40 *Miner's target

 41 The, in German

 42 Like many a Juilliard student

 43 *Got hitched

 44 Therapy visit, slangily

 46 Annoyance

 47 *Legumes Mendel studied

 48 Grandparent's urging at dinner

 50 Hat named for a Moroccan city

 51 Sushi bar order made with avocado

 59 "Ain't" alternative

 60 Lines up a free throw

 61 Kindle competitor

 63 Lamp spirit

 64 Part of a wooden crate

 65 Boundary

 66 Fragrant compound

 67 Chest muscles, for short

 68 Glimpsed

DOWN

  1 Theater chain

  2 Name hidden in "relieved"

  3 Palindromic beauty magazine

  4 Seafood restaurant order made with squid

  5 Up to one's ears

  6 *Prefix for "honor"

  7 *Singer Grande's nickname

  8 *"Cry ___ river!"

  9 Seat for a stand-up comic

 10 Red thing on Oscar night

 11 Luxury hotel chain

 12 At the top of

 13 Gabrielle of "Uncharted"

 21 Supervillain Luthor

 22 Feeling friendless

 25 Scans, like a barcode

 26 One of three for the 2022 Oscars

 27 ___ dice (deception game)

 28 Oceanfront

 29 Treaties

 30 "Halt," to a pirate

 32 Abolitionist Harriet Beecher

 33 Seoul, South ___

 34 Sunflower products

 36 Suddenly pay attention

 40 Pizzeria orders often made with ricotta

 45 Tush

 47 For every

 49 Chasing

 50 Observes Ramadan

 51 *Number in a Bumble profile

 52 *Hi-___ image

 53 *Sinusitis doc

 54 Speak hoarsely

 55 "Death on the ___" (2022 film)

 56 Computer debut of 1998

 57 Ore deposit

 58 Theater box

 62 Range of knowledge

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