puzzle

ACROSS

  1 Collision sound

  4 Sauvignon ___ (white wine)

  9 Outset, slangily

 14 Monster within "armor-clad"

 15 Home that's always cold

 16 Exit sign symbol

 17 Knee tissue, for short

 18 *Assignment to pick up a laundry detergent?

 20 Part of a devil's head

 22 Rink surface

 23 QBs' successes

 24 *Workday-ending performance?

 29 Zealous

 30 Eye part, or something over an eye

 31 Half of bi-

 32 Home for cubs

 33 Self-referential

 34 One born in the early 2010s, in 2022

 36 *Initial untruths?

 38 Move in together, with "up"

 40 George of "CSI"

 41 Drink from a bowl of hot ramen

 44 ___ system (GPS)

 45 "The Lion King" lioness

 46 Maniacal Melville mariner

 47 *Gown for a presidential ceremony?

 51 ___ and downs

 52 Make after taxes

 53 Stops waiting around

 54 Product for carpet stains, and a theme hint

 59 Spoke connector

 61 Contradict

 62 Delete

 63 Australia's unofficial national bird

 64 Walk like a giant

 65 Polite fellows

 66 "Indubitably!"


DOWN

 1 Squeezing snake

  2 Record holder?

  3 "Romantic" alias in "Superbad"

  4 Definitive rejection

  5 Queens airport code

  6 Mahershala of "True Detective"

  7 Prefix for "binary"

  8 Stand-up people

  9 Neon and xenon

 10 Trauma centers: Abbr.

 11 Interval of three whole steps, in music

 12 Ginnifer of "Once Upon a Time"

 13 Possesses

 19 "Eww"

 21 Like a literary herring

 24 It's hot until it's not

 25 Judge's assistant

 26 "Why don't we!"

 27 Killing it

 28 Shades of color

 33 Word before "drop" or "check"

 34 Powerful kind of wave

 35 Name hidden in "narrow escape"

 36 Broad kind of bean

 37 Syllables repeated while plugging one's ears

 38 Bit of a conversation

 39 Chewbacca's co-pilot

 41 Trans person's pronoun pair, perhaps

 42 "That's my guess"

 43 "POV" network

 45 Component of pumpkin spice

 46 Lob trajectory

 48 General Assembly figure, for short

 49 "Aw, shucks!"

 50 Takes a risk

 51 Some PC ports

 55 Actor Curry

 56 Rock to assay

 57 Moving vehicle?

 58 Winter setting in NYC

 60 City tour vehicle

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