puzzle

ACROSS

  1 Try to draw in

  6 The Golden State, to some

 10 Attended

 14 "Breakout" game console

 15 (Sigh)

 16 Matured

 17 Recipient on Venmo

 18 2022 film by Jordan Peele

 19 Insult, in drag lingo

 20 *Justifies, in a way (In this answer, note letters 3-10)

 23 Don Julio liquor

 26 "We totally should!"

 27 *Perk for a college graduate (Letters 5-11)

 31 Works at, as a craft

 32 Moralistic people

 33 Grandparent's urging at the table

 34 "You sure about that?"

 36 "Do the ___" (soda slogan)

 39 Dramatic effect in an action movie

 41 Purple hue associated with the 1890s

 43 *Coat worn at a cigar lounge (Letters 4-11)

 46 Rain cats and dogs

 47 Tenants

 48 Showing affection publicly, or what the answers to the starred clues are doing

 52 Something prescribed

 53 University in North Carolina

 54 Italian for "love"

 58 Dole (out)

 59 Text status

 60 Game where certain words are off-limits

 61 Time to beware

 62 Caddie's pocketful

 63 Trims, as text


DOWN

  1 Faucet

  2 Letter before theta

  3 Possibly will

  4 Take for granted

  5 Ornaments close to the heart?

  6 Dance with kicks

  7 Soothing succulent

  8 Passes again, on a track

  9 "Interesting ..."

 10 Comedy and medicine, e.g.

 11 "Men in Black" role for Tommy Lee Jones

 12 Some are served in-flight

 13 Little whirlpool

 21 Comedian Wong

 22 YouTube journal

 23 Gift-wrapping roll

 24 "You can stand under my umbrella, ___ ..." (Rihanna)

 25 Throw in the towel

 28 HP competitor

 29 Two less than penta-

 30 Humor

 34 Pad thai vessel

 35 Friend, in France

 36 University in North Carolina

 37 Of all time

 38 Moistens

 39 Old erasers' marks

 40 Country star McKenna

 41 Official directive

 42 Pouts or stomps, say

 43 Salt, for salt water

 44 Research endowments

 45 Psaki on MSNBC

 46 Scrutinized, with "over"

 48 ___ cable (laptop-TV connector)

 49 Hornet's home

 50 Giddy feeling

 51 Whet

 55 Popular Japanese band?

 56 Decompose

 57 Lip balm brand, or a Greek goddess

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