Across

1. Accident (abbr.)

4. Courses

9. Ultracompetitive

14. Latin I word

15. 10 out of 10

16. Courage

17. Without delay

18. Confection

19. Big name in talk

20. Predicted Super Bowl winner

23. Subj. at a school for the deaf

24. Near

25. “I told you!”

26. Low grade

27. Bird of prey

28. Father Christmas

31. Malicious gossip

32. Advise

33. Search party

34. Namath nickname

38. Permit

40. Reclines

41. Ger.

42. Shelters

44. Where the heart is

48. Steps on the scale

49. Sample

50. Op-ed piece, e.g.

51. Part of NCAA (abbr.)

52. Namath's college

56. Zoo favorite (abbr.)

58. Johnny ___, “Key Largo” gangster

59. Fam. member

60. “The Balcony” playwright

61. Asimov or Stern

62. First name in despotism

63. Grain disease

64. Final Commandment

65. Landscaper's roll

Down

1. Title role for Mia

2. It multiplies by dividing

3. Huddle

4. Ornamental loop

5. Purim time

6. Popular race

7. Trip to Mecca

8. Most vulpine

9. “___ Were the Days”

10. Slangy assent

11. Heaven

12. Sources of some smudges

13. Wheaties box adorner

21. Loud laugh

22. Afternoon ritual

28. Large amount

29. Put two and two together

30. Recently

31. “Zip-A-Dee-___-Dah”

32. Obey the coxswain

33. Bedwear, informally

34. Rubescent

35. Twaddle

36. Feel off

37. Thumbs-up vote

38. Like a zoo escapee

39. Skin of animal

42. “… through the frosty ___ …”

43. Vital essence

44. V-J Day pres.

45. Husband of Isis

46. Got by

47. Blinker

49. Polar explorer

50. Tennyson's “__ Arden”

53. Jazzman Allison

54. Do a checker's task

55. One ___ (ball game)

57. Prefix with “colonial”