puzzle

ACROSS

  1 TV series set on an island

  5 Makes a sound like a donkey

 10 Go a mile a minute

 14 Just hanging around

 15 Tear to pieces

 16 Big name in big screens

 17 Distribute cards

 18 Bakery emanation

 19 Firm up, like muscles

 20 Almond paste confections (in this clue's answer, note letters 4-6)

 23 III + IV

 24 Words exchanged after vows

 25 Pie a la mode feature (letters 3-5)

 34 Tapenade ingredient

 35 Hero

 36 Against

 37 Laverne of "Orange Is the New Black"

 38 "Mamma ___!"

 39 Leather color

 40 Matey's greeting

 42 Came and ___

 43 Get down on the dance floor

 45 Some tropical cocktails (letters 5-8)

 48 "ur so funny"

 49 Coffee vessel

 50 Tender words often whispered, and a hint to this puzzle's theme

 57 Capsule in a bottle

 58 Person handing out Playbills

 59 Piece of furniture where you might find loose change

 62 Mallorca, por ejemplo

 63 Use your brain

 64 Monopoly token replaced with a cat

 65 Defrost

 66 Fresh

 67 Digital message, in more ways than one


DOWN

  1 Tupperware top

  2 Poetic tribute

  3 Word after "grand" and before "dunk"

  4 Second most populous city in Israel

  5 Country where Neymar was born

  6 "Love on the Brain" singer, to fans

  7 Each

  8 Southwestern Arizona city

  9 Droopy-eared dog breed

 10 "Let You Love Me" singer

 11 Wild way to run

 12 Support staff?

 13 Flames that have been snuffed out?

 21 Tick off

 22 Org. that works with the WHO

 25 Words on flash cards, for short

 26 Luau greeting

 27 Cynthia of "Sex and the City"

 28 Pointed (at)

 29 Menzel who voiced Elsa in "Frozen"

 30 Raccoon relative

 31 Go in

 32 "Space Invaders" maker

 33 Weasel cousins

 41 Where Justice Sotomayor got her degree

 42 Waldorf salad morsels

 43 Use a steering wheel

 44 Flies by the seat of one's pants

 46 "Psych!"

 47 Eccentric

 50 Stick in the fire?

 51 "I ___ you were here!"

 52 Jazz's Fitzgerald

 53 Dept. of Labor agency

 54 Not that

 55 Layers?

 56 Achy

 60 Sly critter

 61 Queen of the hill?

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