- 1 ODE
63D Ben Jonson wrote one to himself
58523 - 2 ASH
49A Shade of gray
50458 - 3 EGO
61D Word hidden in this clue that might hold up negotiations
42393 - 4 TEA
43A After-dinner offering
30374 - 5 MET
31D Congregated
25187 - 6 EDNA
45A Woman's name that's an anagram of two men's names
19245 - 7 ENTER
12D Arrive on the scene
19217 - 8 HEN
32A ___ party (all-female get-together)
16188 - 9 TRE
39D Pope Francis III?
15180 - 10 STENT
25A Tool used in angioplasty
1365 - 11 RESET
53D Zero, in a way
10109 - 12 IRAQ
6D Modern-day home of where the biblical Abraham was born
987 - 13 RODS
59A Shapes of some bacterial cells
959 - 14 BLAH
11D Low on the excite-o-meter
880 - 15 KID
34D Josh
867 - 16 NCIS
58D Longtime CBS drama spinoff
858 - 17 NAOMI
54A Mourner in the Book of Ruth
798 - 18 BEET
56D Cardiologist's favorite vegetable?
783 - 19 ADLIB
49D Jack Nicholson's classic line "You can't handle the truth," for one
777 - 20 NACRE
52A Shell material
759 - 21 KIM
9D Despot with a nuclear arsenal
758 - 22 IMON
19A "That's my cue!"
739 - 23 LAN
5D Computer connection letters
667 - 24 LICIT
7D O.K.
625 - 25 NORM
30A Middle of a bell curve
592 - 26 STEPS
14D Things that creak in haunted houses
572 - 27 MEEK
33A Like a milquetoast
548 - 28 DEAF
42A Like the daughter in 2018's "A Quiet Place"
546 - 29 SERENA
29D ___ Slam (sports feat)
541 - 30 REFER
40D Point (to)
456 - 31 BANANA
17A Laffy Taffy flavor
439 - 32 USTED
21D Spanish counterpart of the French "vous"
414 - 33 TERRE
41A Pomme de ___ (potato: Fr.)
344 - 34 TINEAR
15A Weakness of note?
326 - 35 DOMED
13D Round up?
316 - 36 IDEATE
65A Use one's noodle, formally
247 - 37 HABLA
51D "Se ___ español"
215 - 38 COMBAT
62A Try to counteract
214 - 39 ACCRUE
46D Pile up
211 - 40 ALISTER
44D Celeb
28 - 41 23
- 42 RDS
27A Ways: Abbr.
182 - 43 SHANE
50D 1949 Jack Schaefer novel made into an Oscar-nominated film
144 - 44 SENDER
67A Name over a return address
113 - 45 DHABI
55A Abu ___
19 - 46 MIAMIHEAT
2D Southernmost team in the N.B.A.
17 - 47 QUIK
20A Speedy, in adspeak
17 - 48 AWOKEN
8D Disturbed, say
16 - 49 NOFEAR
26D "Don't worry"
14 - 50 THEREST
28A Others
14 - 51 12
- 52 RICES
23A Puts through a sieve
025 - 53 FIEND
35A Rabid fan
020 - 54 LEANER
4D One-point throw in horseshoes
013 - 55 CHEEP
22A Relative of a tweet
010 - 56 CARMEN
48D 1875 premiere at Paris's Opéra-Comique
08 - 57 CERN
57A Org. that operates the Large Hadron Collider
08 - 58 INLEAGUE
64A Conspiring (with)
08 - 59 FRACTAL
47A Snowflake shape
06 - 60 LABELERS
60A They'll show you what's what
03 - 61 NOTTOOBAD
36D "I've seen worse"
03 - 62 02
- 63 02
- 64 BEATPOET
66A Allen Ginsberg, e.g.
02 - 65 ELECTRICFAN
10D Cooler filled with juice?
02 - 66 01
- 67 01
- 68 01
- 69 01
- 70 01