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The rather tasteless mascot suggestion made last week by the Tokyo 2020 opening ceremony creative director to hire a popular plus-size comedienne to portray, after which he promptly resigned (good riddance!)
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Across
  1. 1A
    The rather tasteless mascot suggestion made last week by the Tokyo 2020 opening ceremony creative director to hire a popular plus-size comedienne to portray, after which he promptly resigned (good riddance!)
  2. 8A
    Texting format, for short
  3. 11A
    When you are reading this
  4. 14A
    Most easily accessible
  5. 15A
    Where you might find a 16-Across
  6. 16A
    Sash that can be tied in over 100 different ways
  7. 17A
    "Did you hear about 1-Across? What's next: are we going to have Pumba hop in a pool and play _______ ?!"
  8. 19A
    Preceder of -Aviv or -emundo
  9. 20A
    Does the math, say
  10. 21A
    Criterion
  11. 23A
    "Can I get you some _____ coffee?"
  12. 25A
    Able to be tanged, I guess? English is weird
  13. 26A
    Unit of energy, or sound that someone makes when using a lot of it
  14. 27A
    It is commonly said to be easy, but I know some dyslexics who would disagree
  15. 30A
    "Transmetropolitan" creator Warren
  16. 31A
    Substitution for 'eye' in the Weird Al Yankovic parody of "Eye of the Tiger"
  17. 32A
    Getting attacked by a swarm of bees when you're 6 years old, to pick a totally arbitrary example that hasn't made me terrified of bees to an embarassing degree for a grown man; no, siree; not this guy
  18. 36A
    A Prefect hitchhiking companion?
  19. 37A
    "Did you hear about 1-Across? What's next: are we going to make Babe and Wilbur fight in ______ ?!"
  20. 39A
    Oroku ______
  21. 42A
    "Do you really ______ do crosswords EVERY DAY?!"
  22. 43A
    First follower?
  23. 46A
    My 3 Garfield pogs for for your Pikachu slammer, for example
  24. 48A
    Michael Caine or Sean Connery
  25. 49A
    Car maker whose logo does not, in fact, represent spinning propeller blades
  26. 50A
    Like many prayer rugs
  27. 54A
    Category in which you could find the titles, "I Want You to Make a Disgusted Face and Show Me Your Underwear," and, "Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo"
  28. 56A
    Locale for the first Olympics held in the United States
  29. 57A
    For kids of all ______
  30. 58A
    Madison or Washington, e.g.
  31. 59A
    "Did you hear about 1-Across? What's next: are we going to see Miss Piggy swinging and flipping between the ______ ?!"
  32. 63A
    Partner of feather
  33. 64A
    Part of a monkey gland
  34. 65A
    "My thought, whose murder yet is but fantastical, Shakes so my single state of man, That function is smothered in _______" -Macbeth, Act I, Scene 3
  35. 66A
    Lou Gehrig's disease, briefly
  36. 67A
    Abbr. for a Canadian consumption tax that you can also find in KAZAKHSTAN
  37. 68A
    Contacted, in a 21st-century way
Down
  1. 1D
    Method of walking for Jesus or a Jesus lizard
  2. 2D
    Made-up adjective that could describe the president now, but maybe not last year
  3. 3D
    Gain on a gridiron
  4. 4D
    A certain eponym of Chinese cuisine, but before he became a general? (I know, I know--this was a tough spot to fill)
  5. 5D
    [I curse you!]
  6. 6D
    DSLR setting
  7. 7D
    "Sorry, but my presence is required elsewhere," in a text
  8. 8D
    Japanese name used as a catch-all term in manga to refer to any inappropriately young boy depicted in an sexually suggestive manner (and an anagram of OATHS)
  9. 9D
    "Rochelle, Rochelle: A young girl's strange, erotic journey from ______ to Minsk" (fictional film in the 'Seinfeld' universe)
  10. 10D
    ______-worthy (worth using a certain discontinued birth control to sleep with, as deemed by Elaine on 'Seinfeld')
  11. 11D
    Significant
  12. 12D
    Name of a college in Ohio, or my yet-to-be written ode to Germany's capital
  13. 13D
    "In my ______ dreams..."
  14. 18D
    Winter clock setting for Portland, OR
  15. 22D
    Prop for a live streamer, perhaps
  16. 24D
    What Benjamin Bratt and Chris Pratt have in common?
  17. 28D
    Welsh hill
  18. 29D
    What a batter might produce?
  19. 33D
    Prolific board game designer Rosenberg
  20. 34D
    Forum managers, for short
  21. 35D
    Not at all pro
  22. 37D
    The '20' of d20
  23. 38D
    Well-known contemporary explorer
  24. 39D
    Leaf pores
  25. 40D
    2016 Denis Villeneuve sci-fi film
  26. 41D
    Alternatives to 31-Across in that same Weird Al Yankovic song
  27. 43D
    Actress Breslin who made her debut at 5 years old in "Signs"
  28. 44D
    Baptize, in a way
  29. 45D
    "______ to Impwess": potential title of a toddler fashion blog?
  30. 47D
    Just the right amount
  31. 51D
    North African capital
  32. 52D
    "Seriously, _____ you TIRED of doing crosswords all the time?!"
  33. 53D
    She played Corey in Empire Records
  34. 55D
    Activist and tennis superstar Osaka
  35. 60D
    Dude, en Tijuana
  36. 61D
    Abbr. seen on some keyboards
  37. 62D
    Dude, in a frat
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