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ACROSS

  1 Sleeve's end

  5 Starter dish, informally

  8 Garments worn under jackets

 13 Singer India.___

 14 Payment to post

 16 Second-largest religion

 17 Narrow stage for a musical group?

 19 Teatime treat

 20 It tastes like licorice

 21 Letters missing from this word: _p_ropria_e

 23 Athletic org. with a Tour

 24 Acorn, for one

 25 Where a thunder god keeps his dirty laundry?

 30 Since

 32 Leading in a poll

 33 Is sick

 34 Museum item

 36 Woody Guthrie's son

 37 Whine "Please, PLEASE can I play with the green 'Thomas the Tank Engine' character?"

 40 Cookie in some pie crusts

 41 Speak on a soapbox, say

 42 "I'll have what ___ having"

 43 Spiky but soothing plants

 45 Chuckles, slangily

 49 "Check out that car's display of stickers!"?

 52 Race unit

 53 "Yipes!"

 54 Crash sound in a comic

 55 Couldn't not

 57 Follow as a result

 59 Entertainer, or a three-part hint to the shift behind 17-, 25-, 37- and 49-Across

 63 Write by hand

 64 Sheet on a ship

 65 Rightward, on a map

 66 Matches up

 67 Doll or teddy

 68 Insects that bury their dead


DOWN

  1 Poolside shelter

  2 Planet that spins on its side

  3 What's done in Italy?

  4 IRS agents, e.g.

  5 Nickname related to Bram

  6 ___ for the course

  7 Insta posting

  8 Scenic route stop

  9 F1 neighbor

 10 In a careless way

 11 Hybrid orange fruit

 12 Ink mishaps

 15 ___ apso

 18 Furry friend, maybe

 22 Advanced deg.

 26 Word before "empty" or "full"

 27 State with a five-sided flag

 28 Pool table's place, informally

 29 Name that anagrams to "calmer"

 31 Least inhibited

 35 It may be inflated or bruised

 36 Fitting name for a sculptor?

 37 Wears for a while, like new boots

 38 Activity before an exam, briefly

 39 Lack of problems

 40 Candy bar whose name ends with "!"

 42 Goes undefeated in

 43 Lawyers' org.

 44 Groups (together)

 46 Papa

 47 Greatest partner?

 48 The "S" of ESPN

 50 Helps unlawfully

 51 Greek P

 56 Square footage

 58 Chapel Hill sch.

 60 Gobble up

 61 Spanish for "river"

 62 Certain fishing lure

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