puzzle

ACROSS

  1 Pick, with "for"

  4 Discard, slangily

  9 Alliance of nations

 13 Ewe call

 14 Became unpleasant, as relations

 16 Handle with ___

 17 Miff

 18 *Five-star lodging

 20 New Year in Hanoi

 22 Part of Ali Baba's password

 23 *Himalayan seasoning

 27 Fish hawk

 30 Car that can't be followed?

 31 Already set up

 32 Cunning

 33 Theme

 35 College near Duke

 36 Like gross income, and where either word in each starred clue's answer can go

 39 ___ code (three-digit number)

 42 Word after "political" or "party"

 43 Psychic ability, briefly

 46 Good wizard in "The Hobbit"

 49 Dubai, e.g.

 51 Bibliographic list ender

 52 *Hot drink with a colorful name

 53 Be in accord

 55 Taste tentatively

 56 *Auctions of homes' contents

 61 Ethical hackers' grp.

 63 Date question?

 64 Strong urge

 65 AAA rescue

 66 Unites

 67 Gush forth

 68 The ___ and only


DOWN

  1 Kimono belt

  2 ___ lunar eclipse

  3 Highly impressed with

  4 Internet connection letters

  5 Due acknowledgment?

  6 Formal wear, informally

  7 Pie base

  8 Not elsewhere

  9 A group of vitamins

 10 Like indirect thinking

 11 Mine material

 12 Toon still

 15 Big name in vacuums

 19 Hinged plate on a door

 21 Ref's ring ruling

 23 Machines with Windows, often

 24 Not all

 25 Starting from

 26 Give a reprieve

 28 Environmental prefix

 29 Yearning

 31 Words that intensify "rarely"

 34 One of the Gershwins

 36 Results of bankers' lending mistakes

 37 Heavy book

 38 India who sang "Voyage to India"

 39 What one can do gracefully

 40 Tattletale

 41 Established by law

 43 Erode bit by bit

 44 Term for a relative that can also be a two-word phrase

 45 Podded legume

 47 "___ No Sunshine" (Bill Withers song)

 48 Unlike slip-ons

 50 O.R. staffers

 52 Comprehend

 54 Applications

 56 "Yuck!"

 57 Pronoun for Indira Gandhi

 58 Lucy of "Chicago"

 59 Go astray

 60 Dip below the horizon

 62 ___-inspiring

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