puzzle

ACROSS

  1 "The Sweetest Taboo" singer

  5 Tallboy beer can's capacity

  9 Hen home

 13 Recuperate

 14 Nebraska city on the Missouri

 16 Congres-sional staffer

 17 Messes up

 18 ___ hand (advantage)

 19 Huffed and puffed

 20 One-dimensional

 22 Donald Glover voiced him in 2019's "The Lion King"

 24 Expense

 25 Return from Osaka, say?

 27 Tells off

 30 Do a trucker's job

 32 Nevertheless, in texts

 33 Have debt

 35 Runny cheese

 37 Body Snatchers, e.g., briefly

 39 Trivial Pursuit response

 41 "Such is ___"

 42 Director Sam

 44 Ctrl+Z

 45 Like lime juice

 47 WPM part

 48 Some feta sources

 49 Spoiled

 50 Sorrow

 52 Thompson of "Thor: Ragnarok"

 54 Let know

 56 Chopping weapon: Var.

 57 Kunal's role in "The Big Bang Theory"

 60 Surmise

 62 Vend

 64 Leave, as a lover

 67 Meriting VIP treatment

 69 Mildew's smell, for one

 70 Solo such as "Musetta's Waltz"

 71 Duck variety

 72 Nun's relative?

 73 "I've ___ there ..."

 74 Fender ding

 75 Bits of caviar


DOWN

  1 Drawer alternative

  2 Cliffside home

  3 Start of a fatalistic saying (In this answer, note letters 8-11)

  4 Beyond that

  5 Certain java (Letters 4-8)

  6 Little devil

  7 Preschool refreshers

  8 Believer in a higher power

  9 Scheming group

 10 Vinegar accompaniment

 11 "___ to the Mets" (Strokes song with a poetic title)

 12 Bench that may hold Bibles

 15 Unqualified pro (Letters 8-10)

 21 Boxer Laila

 23 Godsend

 26 Type of ray or blocker

 28 Yoga pose demonstrated three times in this puzzle?

 29 Greta Thunberg, nationality-wise

 31 Swamp plant

 34 Cupid's counterpart

 35 Be a poor confidant

 36 Costa ___ (Panamanian's neighbor)

 38 Nurse a drink

 40 Takes to court

 43 Like a joke about jokes

 46 Cry of victory

 51 Lashes grow on it

 53 Get, as a concept

 55 Cronus or Atlas, e.g.

 58 Word after "tag" or "run"

 59 Obnoxious people

 61 Train trip

 63 Rounded roof

 64 Vaccine, informally

 65 Hot temper

 66 Untruth

 68 Base of modern society?

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