puzzle

ACROSS

  1 Greyhound vehicle

  4 Fruits used in chewy cookies

  8 Deals with adversity

 13 Soprano, ___, tenor and bass

 15 "haha can u believe that?!"

 16 Put up with

 17 Head of the class

 19 Turn yellow, like a banana

 20 Bert's buddy

 21 Like a noble gas

 23 "Rear" or "dead" follower

 24 States split and founded in 1889

 26 "Talked" in the cow barn

 28 One is tall and attractive

 32 Tampa neighbor, informally

 35 Entirely

 36 Part of an important sequence

 37 Drop the ball

 38 Letters describing many kits

 39 Good card in poker

 40 Some summer babies

 42 Room for lounging

 43 Moved like a nomad

 46 One framework for analyzing gender roles

 49 Sag

 50 Lets off the hook

 54 Place for a facial

 56 "___ Wilson" (1992 Barenaked Ladies song)

 58 Related to hearing

 59 Backyard grill site

 61 Crunchy holder for ice cream

 63 Each

 64 Soul singer James

 65 Gigantic

 66 Spots for students and teachers

 67 Qatar's capital

 68 Mark before "com"


DOWN

  1 Headquartered (in)

  2 Super: Prefix

  3 Deserved one star

  4 Target of a yearly shot

  5 Like Dennis the Menace

  6 Alternative to Tide

  7 Proper way to swear?

  8 27-Down holder

  9 ___-Wan Kenobi

 10 Wishful fantasy

 11 Genesis setting

 12 Gmail button

 14 Bird on Cal Ripken Jr.'s cap

 18 ___ four (small cake)

 22 Muddy up

 25 What may improve whiskey

 27 Quiche ingredient

 29 Damage, as a reputation

 30 Fairy-tale beginning

 31 Monopoly card

 32 Egotist's focus

 33 Kite flyer's hazard

 34 Senior partners, say?

 38 Hated

 41 Title for Elton John

 42 Gucci rival

 43 Name fit for a king?

 44 Like some headphones

 45 To the same degree

 47 Gendered sign on a clubhouse

 48 12 inches, for many a ruler

 51 Not ashamed

 52 Dance banned by Pope Pius X

 53 Messy winter forecast

 54 Risked a ticket on the freeway

 55 Surface, as a road

 57 Prefix for "pilot"

 60 Annoy

 62 TripTik org.

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