ACROSS
1. Happy __ __ clam
4. High school student metric
11. High school student metric
14. Chaney of old horror
15. Be less critical of
16. 2003 film starring Will Ferrell
17. Glorifies
20. Feb. 14 celebration
21. Religious speeches, abbr.
22. Type of music heard on a night out
23. Blind item?
25. Nelson Mandela’s pol. party.
26. Uno + uno
28. Type of neurodivergence, abbr.
31. Mine find
32. Set fire to
33. Common saying on a candy depicted by this puzzle’s black squares
35. PBS funder
36. ___ Aster, director of Midsommar
37. Hit… or kissed loudly
38. Group of whales
39. Mil. awards
41. Get some shut-eye
42. Soup recently added to the Umami menu
43. Taxi
45. Retired flier
46. ___ Francisco
47. Murder on the Orient Express detective
50. Be housed in temporarily
53. Tries to remove an odor from, maybe
55. Classic Porsche
56. Business abbreviation
57. 1967 hit by The Turtles
59. Noah had a famous one
60. Slippery fish
61. ___ Brown, LGBTQ+ and feminist author
62. Issa ___ of Barbie
63. Dr. of rap music
64. Most sprightly
65. Part of iOS, abbr.
DOWN
1. European peak
2. Trip mementos
3. Region containing the South Pole
4. Substance to soothe a burn
5. Namesake of one of Ohio’s neighbors to the east
6. Emblems that might appear on governors’ podiums
7. Icon of 20-Across
8. Economic system marked by free, unlimited trade
9. Sat on, as a bike
10. Hydrocarbon suffixes
11. Age, put nicely
12. Places with toys and games for children
13. CIO partner
18. Mercedes models
19. Radical ’60s org.
21. Caesar or Greek
24. 20-Across declaration, in Mexico
26. Prefix with a negative or reversing force
27. Resistance units
29. Staircase part
30. Flop
34. Does great on
40. Outbreak of 2003
42. Picasso’s Portrait of Dora ___
44. Unhappy audience memberss
46. Word after “easy” or “sesame”
47. Turned white
48. Persian Gulf ship
49. Spring flower associated with Amsterdam
50. Lee and Bareilles together
51. Ordered assortment
52. Opinions
54. Four, prefix
55. Arrive
58. Dissenting vote
