The Crossword

Across

1 meter maid, of song

5 colby kin

9 Top mark

14 ---- now: immediately

15 Outsized: prefix

16 Curtain

17 Late-night guy

18 Spring formal

19 Piddling

20 Reason to refuse an invite

23 Bully

24 "---- Mujer Sin Amor": Buuel film

25 Bacall's beloved

29 TV handyman Bob

33 With 42 Across, mergers

37 Rock-garden plant

38 Unconcealed

39 Give ---- a break!

40 Hackneyed

41 Hands, in Hidalgo

42 See 33 Across

44 Ball of goo

45 Mallet

46 Adventurer Johnson

48 Exactly right

53 Greeting for the unwelcome

59 Knight's spear

60 Blueprint item, briefly

61 Border on

62 Did some home-cooking

63 SWAT apparel

64 ---- Verde

65 Painter's undercoating

66 Caresses

67 Get set, for short

DOWN

1 Actor Fiennes

2 Grenoble's river

3 Elixir

4 In progress

5 Nero or Caligula, e.g.

6 Laura, of "Blue Velvet"

7 Wide-eyed

8 Talking-doll word

9 Promo pros

10 Pasta dish

11 Byway

12 Fairy tale word

13 Spanish muralist

21 Mechanized servants

22 Stomach

26 Greek letter

27 Elite group

28 Provide more munitions

30 Understood, daddy-o

31 Minstrel's strings

32 Hawkeye State city

33 Sift through

34 Racetrack

35 Attorney general since 1993

36 Schnozzola

37 Agitate

43 Says no way!

45 Fodder

47 One-time office worker

49 Philatelist's buy

50 Eternal City waterway

51 Drench

52 Handy

53 Become pooped

54 Part of APR

55 Tenner change

56 Invitation letters

57 Foil alternative

58 "---- la vie!"