puzzle

ACROSS

  1 Throw out forcefully

  6 Hookup for electric instruments

  9 Surgery marks

 14 Word before "chip" or "cheese"

 15 Auto

 16 Number of people in a trio

 17 Humanlike robot

 18 French for "friend"

 19 Rarin' to go

 20 *Award-winning writer and director of "Lost in Translation"

 23 Lansbury who will appear posthumously in "Glass Onion"

 26 Anna's sister in "Frozen"

 27 *Game-winning scorer in the Olympic Women's Soccer finals in 2008

 30 Mediator's asset

 34 "Here's when I'll show up" letters

 35 Phishing, e.g.

 36 Coins

 37 ___ for tat

 38 As desired, in recipes

 41 Difference between 9 and 10

 42 2, 4, 6, 8, etc.

 44 Basil or cilantro

 45 Maine winter hrs.

 46 Claudius' successor

 47 *"Tattooed Man at a Carnival" photographer

 50 Bugs Bunny or Mickey Mouse

 52 "Relax, soldier"

 53 Meteor that might be wished upon ... and a literal hint to the asterisked clues' answers

 58 "I wish I ___ done that"

 59 Bitter beer

 60 Jazz style

 64 "Curiouser and curiouser!" speaker

 65 Driving accessory?

 66 Author 

 67 Hopeless case

 68 "OMG a bug!"

 69 Landscaping tool


DOWN

  1 Finale

  2 Pickle container

  3 Green prefix

  4 Sculpt a body?

  5 Task organizers with checkboxes

  6 Trendy berry

  7 Baby's first word, sometimes

  8 Steep, in a way

  9 Choreography units

 10 Flatbread cooked on a tava

 11 Jason's ship

 12 Fishing rod attachment

 13 Medicinal fluids

 21 Actress Edie whose surname anagrams to "focal"

 22 Not new

 23 Ideal blackjack combo

 24 Indigenous

 25 Parmesan shredder

 28 Back muscle, informally

 29 Nebraska's most populous city

 31 Single-celled creature

 32 Population-counting survey

 33 Biting African fly

 36 Up for discussion

 39 Legislator

 40 Pick up the tab

 43 Never

 47 "___ even stand a chance?"

 48 Like traits you're born with

 49 Look over again

 51 Furry aquatic mammal

 53 Hair or carpet style

 54 Overhead light?

 55 Loki's adoptive father

 56 Sheer joy

 57 Hide and ___

 61 Huge

 62 Futbol cheer

 63 Golf course goal

solution