Across

1. Beyond what’s expected

7. Moms in wool coats

11. Welcome guest at Thanksgiving?

14. Instrument for Michelangelo

15. Seedy joint

16. Inst. founded by Jefferson

17. Malicious fabrication

18. Big winner of 1967

20. Certain URL ending

21. Joel Grey, in “Cabaret”

23. Soccer objectives

24. NBA center Ming

25. Slangy refusal

26. “Ad astra ___ aspera”’ (Kansas motto)

27. Big loser of 1588

34. Like some communities

36. Reaction to bad news

37. Mood brightener

38. Chalcedony

39. Certain URL ending

40. Line drawer of 1767

42. Capek play

43. Big bore

44. Liqueur flavoring

45. Summer attire

49. The first cardinal

50. Angle attachment?

51. Toy with a string

54. Like some committees

57. Israeli military leader

59. Darth Vader, as a boy

60. Nineties megaband

62. C.S. Lewis’ magical world

64. Seasonal helper

65. “Sesame Street” favorite

66. Connecticut submarine base site

67. Rest

68. Pieces of solid food for dipping

69. Refuses drugs?

Down

1. Real man?

2. Mitchell’s belle

3. Sixties idol

4. Pamplona pronoun

5. Under-the-window performance

6. Hemingway sea-goer

7. Slight advantage

8. Hook up electronically

9. Rapper with a self-named sitcom

10. “If I Had a Hammer” songwriter

11. Orchestral heavyweight

12. Football-shaped

13. Giant among sluggers?

19. Testing standard

22. Foolish fancy

26. Goatish god

28. Canoodle

29. They’re often canned

30. Stuck-up

31. Support staff

32. Harmonizing minimums

33. George I’s predecessor

34. Glad rags

35. Feverish fit

40. Tortellini topping, often

41. Exterminator’s target, perhaps

43. Presidential monogram

46. Marshy expanse

47. Sam and Ben

48. Certain Borneo denizens, briefly

52. The beginning of each theme entry is one

53. Clavichord’s descendant

54. Anthropoids

55. A hero may be on display here

56. Sword handle

57. Humid

58. Biblical prophet

61. Selena portrayer, to fans

63. First name among the “Hee Haw” cast