ACROSS
1. Bill for drinking
4. Mao’s successor
8. Low-maintenance “pet”
12. Word of greeting or farewell
15. Final option
16. Start of a children’s rhyme
17. Cave __ (“beware of dog”)
18. Cold War competition
20. See 45-Down
22. Italian money replaced by Euros
23. Take to court
24. Month after juillet
25. Exodus of intelligentsia
31. Some Wharton grads
34. Torched
35. Poet Pound and others
37. Doldrums
38. Tolkien race
39. Pertaining to touch
41. “I” piece?
42. Slangy approval
43. Half of the Philly duo behind “You Make My Dreams”
44. Rapper who popularized Auto-Tune effect
46. Narrow opening
48. Repetitive dance
50. Gives a lift, in a way
52. Pronoun heard in 3-Down
53. Concert site
55. Bare bones?
60. Retrace one’s steps
62. Heartless
64. Singer James
65. Royal or Dodger follower
66. Watching with interest
67. Titular character in a Thomas Hardy novel
68. Empty spaces
69. Large body of water

DOWN
1. Word between “tic” and “toe”
2. Jai ____
3. Former West German capital
4. Lucy’s co-star
5. Bygone Montreal baseball player
6. Flatbread from a tandoor
7. SUV manufacturer founded in 1911
8. Element with atomic number 58
9. Sensation for a jilted lover
10. Native Peruvian
11. Words of support
13. Corners
14. Total
19. “Mr. Blue Sky” band, shortly
21. Talk series featuring Barry Schwartz
24. Fastidious
25. Some break-dancers
26. Pastoral
27. Ones with grand designs
28. On the right-hand side
29. Mid-2000s Pontiac model know for its ugly design
30. Angelou’s “And Still _____”
32. “_____ Doggie” (Hanna-Barbera character)
33. Unmoved in expression
36. Bit of stage scenery
40. They follow oohs
45. With 20-Across, a description for 18-, 25-, 48-, and 60-Across?
47. Trucks for tykes
49. Fashionable initials
51. Angkor ___
53. Partner in crime?
54. Wage, e.g.
55. Casa part
56. Single-use coffee pod
57. Gets by
58. Affirmations in Avignon
59. Hawaii’s state bird
61. Second female Supreme Court justice, familiarly
63. JFK alternative