Across:
1. Ready to swing
6. Think ahead
10. A text, for short
13. Quagmire
14. Structure in a grainy photograph?
15. Shirts
17. Prefix with -plasm
18. Radiate
19. Unmoving
20. Result of a hard drive crash, maybe
23. “___ humbug!”
25. Doze, with “off”
26. Pontius ___
27. “The back door”
29. Injection risk for a herpetologist
32. Transforms
34. BMW competitor
35. Punishment for wrongdoing, per Hammurabi
36. Unit of resistance
37. Significant
42. ___ avis
44. Nobel-winning mother
45. – Nevada’s capital
50. 1998 animated film about a bug’s life
51. Late Swedish musician with the 2013 hit “Wake Me Up”
52. Mid-Apr. pen pals, for many
54. Dedication
55. Bonnie, vis-à-vis Clyde
59. Seven Dwarfs’ refrain
60. “So long!”
61. Shocking defeat
64. Revise
65. Point-of-view newspaper piece
66. The Philippines’ highest peak: abbr.
67. French possessive pronoun
68. Finger, as a culprit
69. Animation studio behind 2021’s “Luca”, and four other films hidden in the starred clues
Down:
1. Unit of current
2. Street sludge
3. Pamphlet
4. Regarding
5. Plant pricker
6. False prefix
7. Walk unsteadily
8. Touched down
9. Spot to jot
10. Halt, as a laugh
11. Middle
12. Do business with
16. “I call ‘em like I ___!”
21. Mythical birds
22. Holy
23. The Crimson Tide, colloquially
24. Auth. unknown
28. Act as mole might
30. 19th-century Persian-born religion with over 5 million followers worldwide
31. Spirit made from fermented sugar
33. Addictive drug
36. Villainous creatures of Middle Earth
38. 60 minuti
39. John Coltrane’s instrument of choice
40. Founded: abbr.
41. In a ___ (confused)
43. “Friends” actress
44. Banks of modeling fame
45. Squirrel away
46. Dodges
47. Lionel of Neo-Soul
48. Moves over a bit
49. Slew of invective
53. Befuddle, as with a brain teaser
56. Daddy
57. Part of a supermarket list
58. Eye opener?
62. Gov. group formed by Nixon
63. The Raptors, on scoreboards