- 1 ODE
10D Verse that exalts its subject
58523 - 2 IRA
3D Nest egg letters
46448 - 3 LSD
59D "Acid"
41245 - 4 AHA
22A Exclamation of epiphany
40379 - 5 UNO
60A Card player's call
30241 - 6 REN
63A Kylo ___ of "Star Wars"
27198 - 7 ORS
57D Common conjunctions
25161 - 8 ICEE
39A Slushy summer treat
2591 - 9 RHO
56D Letter after pi
23191 - 10 ESS
19A Feminine suffix
22413 - 11 ADELE
11D "Easy on Me" singer, 2021
22158 - 12 LOO
58D John of Salisbury
18162 - 13 SUE
48A Go a-courting?
17183 - 14 LOL
25A Not quite ROFL
17132 - 15 ALP
27D Mont Blanc, for one
16187 - 16 ABU
11A ___ Dhabi
1686 - 17 IRATE
43A Furious
14194 - 18 CAB
1D Taxi
14129 - 19 EVES
50A Big nights before big days
14108 - 20 ACLU
52D Rights advocacy org.
13137 - 21 DIP
16A Hummus, for one
13111 - 22 EDDY
31D Whirlpool
12154 - 23 SLOE
21A Gin flavoring
11164 - 24 GEESE
36D Flappers in a gaggle
11130 - 25 LOCO
4D ___ citato (in the passage quoted)
1191 - 26 AARON
14A Composer Copland
10133 - 27 AMIGO
24D Compadre
1067 - 28 ARGO
37A Oscar-winning film set partly in Iran
9148 - 29 HAL
2D "2001: A Space Odyssey" antagonist
9140 - 30 MIC
55A A live one might be hot
962 - 31 UKES
53D Some four-stringed instruments, for short
761 - 32 RECON
47D Intel mission
753 - 33 EUROS
62A Pisa dough?
750 - 34 OFUSE
64A Serviceable
731 - 35 TSE
49A "The Waste Land" author's monogram
6228 - 36 TURN
44D Community card between "flop" and "river" in hold'em
659 - 37 CHILI
1A Hot dish that sounds cold
642 - 38 BOLT
33D Bit of lightning
637 - 39 BLARE
42A Trumpet's sound
538 - 40 IDIOT
32A "It is a tale told by an ___, full of sound and fury": Shak.
484 - 41 STARE
48D Gawk
481 - 42 NERDS
35D Bookish sorts
465 - 43 COOL
18D Cucumber-like, maybe
460 - 44 ASIAM
22D "Take me ___"
418 - 45 FOREST
45A Sherwood ___
417 - 46 UPSET
13D Surprise win
366 - 47 ADDTO
6A Increase, as a pot
344 - 48 BEALE
30A "If ___ Street Could Talk" (2018 film)
316 - 49 SYMBOL
28A $, %, & or @
38 - 50 OVINE
46D Sheepish
272 - 51 DAFT
8D Loopy
256 - 52 BEARD
15A Feature of five U.S. presidents from Lincoln to Harrison
235 - 53 ICANT
34D Defeatist's assertion
235 - 54 BELLE
30D Book-loving Disney princess in a yellow gown
234 - 55 PATENT
26A Inventor's protection
228 - 56 BISON
12D Plains figure replaced by Monticello on U.S. nickels
226 - 57 TRENDS
44A Prevailing tendencies
222 - 58 STERILE
21D Lifelessly dull
220 - 59 MOLDS
38A Jell-O shapers
214 - 60 CRUE
54D Mötley ___
130 - 61 JRS
41D PSAT takers, often
119 - 62 FEMUR
45D It's connected to the tibia
112 - 63 TRESPASS
9D Overstep one's bounds
110 - 64 ABOIL
6D Bubbling away
043 - 65 RESOD
65A Put down new turf on
030 - 66 HALER
61A More robust
014 - 67 OBOISTS
20A They play among the reeds
010 - 68 DEFS
7D Dict. offerings
09 - 69 ROCKANDROLL
56A Genre with a Hall of Fame in Cleveland … or what can follow the respective halves of 17-, 33- and 40-Across
08 - 70 HYDRO
23D Water power, informally
07 - 71 BREEDER
42D Operator of a stud farm
06 - 72 INKBLOT
5D Rorschach pattern
06 - 73 MEATLOAF
38D Late singer with a food name
06 - 74 BOONIES
29D Outskirts of the outskirts
04 - 75 LAUTREC
51A Artist Henri Toulouse-___
03 - 76 BLACKCOFFEE
17A Easy order for a barista
02 - 77 MOONJELLY
40A Ocean invertebrate with a round, translucent body
02 - 78 01