*Getting picked off and swinging at strike three, for example
20A
Less convivial
22A
Word with fire or power
23A
*Consideration when buying ballgame tickets
26A
___-X
29A
Some batteries
30A
By way of
31A
The type of solution that a clunky workaround isn't
33A
Put in a sty
35A
"The Power of ___", Joseph Campbell & Bill Moyers
36A
*Eddie Murphy film, or a hint to 18-, 23-, 52-, and 57-Across
41A
Indian tea
42A
Bread ingredients that might get stuck in one's teeth
43A
Like a politician receiving envelopes stuffed with cash
47A
___ Paulo
48A
"Don't immerse an extension cord in water," say
51A
"The Murders in the ___ Morgue", -Edgar Allan Poe
52A
*Worms and grubs and such
55A
"Bad, Bad Leroy Brown" singer
56A
"Fear of Flying" author Jong
57A
*Potential source of resentment for Oates
62A
And others, briefly
63A
SCTV's Catherine
64A
"That makes sense"
65A
Societal convention
66A
One of 22 owned by Walt Disney
67A
British boarding school
68A
"It never ___! It never ___!! Ohh!! Ohh!! Arrrrghh!!" -Sam Kinison
Down
1D
Cannabis variety
2D
Thorny tree
3D
Wish granters
4D
Like a drunkard's tie
5D
___ Moines, Iowa
6D
Commotion
7D
"La Traviata" composer
8D
Captain Quint, to the shark
9D
Tristan's counterpart
10D
"That's hilarious!" in text-speak
11D
"I love their 'Mr. Blue Sky' / Almost my favorite is 'Turn to Stone' / And how 'bout 'Telephone Line'? / I love that ___" -Randy Newman, "The Story of A Rock and Roll Band"
12D
"Law & Order: ___"
13D
Vietnamese New Year
19D
Pie-cooling locale
21D
Went hither and thither
24D
Wrapped up in Marseilles
25D
"Prelude to the Afternoon of a ___" -Debussy
26D
"Inner City Blues" singer Marvin
27D
Sinus doctors, for short
28D
Ultimate degree
32D
Some pick-up trucks
33D
Low-value poker hand
34D
Things to turn in a book (abbr.)
36D
You, in olden times
37D
Medium alternative
38D
Currency in Cancun
39D
Auston Matthews, for one
40D
Photoshop purveyors
41D
"Who'll Stop the Rain" band, for short
44D
Result of an ill-advised social media post, perhaps