"I'm a ____, Dottie. A rebel." (warning from an isolated yet overly dramatic Pee-wee from "Pee wee's Big Adventure") R.I.P.
17A
Auction off
18A
Early toddler lesson
19A
Protruding bellybutton
20A
September 22, 1995 -- Morgan Freeman and Brad Pitt track down a serial killer, resulting in a gruesome end for Gwyneth Paltrow. But the other movie was NC-17 and bombed? I guess sex doesn't always sell.
23A
Condition causing repetitive behaviors
24A
Owns
25A
Obamacare, in bills
28A
Cold porridge consumer, in Barcelona
30A
Puzzling thing
34A
November 17, 2006 -- A freshly blonde James Bond gambles with his life and cheats death just as a group of animated penguins do the same, dancing with hungry orcas and seals.
38A
Shrinking Asian sea
39A
Act wrongly, in more Biblical parlance
40A
Trucker's license, for short (or 450 for Brutus)
41A
As a whole
42A
Lake connecting Cleveland and Buffalo
43A
July 18, 2008 -- Double daddy issues. Amanda Seyfried ab(ba)-solutely sings her way through figuring out her parental origins, while Christian Bale's lack of a father figure has him battling all kinds of freaks and clowns.
45A
Instrumental musical composition
47A
Those likely to take an SAT or apply for AARP
48A
Start to a few California cities
49A
Start to more than a a few rapper names
50A
President pro ____
52A
June 8, 1984 -- If there's a strange little creature, giving you a fright. Who ya gonna call? If that little furball, eats after midnight. Who ya gonna call?
60A
Target, with a firearm maybe
61A
Common Jewish or Italian food establishment
62A
Secure a boat
64A
Reason for petty retaliation, often
65A
Actresses Hathaway or Heche
66A
Raison d'____
67A
Reduced down in size
68A
Classification for any of the proper names listed in the clues
69A
Home for tools in the suburbs
Down
1D
Feminine suffix (think big cats)
2D
Untruths
3D
Weekly French fashion mag
4D
Swedish auto brand
5D
Inconsequential or unmemorable person in the retelling of a story
6D
Planets, to poets
7D
"Toccata and Fugue in D minor" composer
8D
"And another thing . . . "
9D
Brand tagline
10D
The Pelican State
11D
Psych 101, for example (abbrev.)
12D
Armstrong (not Louis) or Tyson (not Mike)
13D
Pre-PhD exams
21D
Low-budget, in hotel names
22D
Pique one's appetite, say
25D
Zeniths (or where to buy TNT and rocket-propelled skates, perhaps)
26D
Northeast Africa capital
27D
Words after guilty or ugly
29D
US org. for Bill Bellichick, Nick Saban, and even that local guy at the high school
31D
Dime bag units of measurement (even in America)
32D
First daughter, in the 00s
33D
Poe's middle name
35D
Marriage material
36D
Summer hrs. for NYC
37D
Large, shady trees
41D
Response when you're satiated or brushing off a business offer, for instance
43D
Indonesian paradise
44D
More pretentious, like an indie flick
46D
Angry state at the poker table
51D
Viral Internet tropes -- like Barbenheimer, at this point