Long note!, but please read: It’s the fourth installment in a series… it’s either garbage and we jumped the shark, or we hired Dwayne Johnson and we are about to give the franchise a whole new life. Thank you all for the support ! And thank you for solving !! Love you all. (Ps, if you really need a clue to the two unchecked squares: “_ / _ selection theory (representing our understanding of how traits in living things trade between quality and quantity)”… But you shouldn’t need this clue
Pgrm. that provides training and development tools for staff, supervisors, and managers, or a puzzle archaic misspelling of a common lotion ingredient
35A
“___ mouse!”
36A
*Palindrome (phrase): a brief summary of “The Shinning”, perhaps
42A
*You before before you (43a *)
43A
*uoy erofeb erofeb uoY (42a *)
44A
*Common hwy descriptor
45A
*Uses a mouse catching contraption, say
47A
*Words unlikely to describe this puzzle
51A
*Many BBC accents
52A
*”When ___ Rome”
53A
*What a GED receiver likely didn’t finish
54A
*Favre or Cooper
55A
*Palindrome (phrase): Kris Kringle in space, perhaps
60A
*Prefix meaning bad
61A
*One who does a showing
62A
*Hello and goodbye
63A
*”Planet of the ___”
64A
*Administrative division in Bulgaria, Russia, Belarus and Ukraine, or a possible exclamation of frustration
65A
*Not close
66A
*Most commonly under-appreciated instrument in a conventional rock band
Verticali
1D
Girl, in Guadalajara
2D
Space effect, briefly
3D
Colombian cornmeal cake
4D
Concerning, briefly
5D
The plural letter, or a clue to the start and finish of 29-, 30- and 31- down
6D
Tag cry
7D
Executes
8D
NASCAR sponsor
9D
Nein and nein and nein, in total
10D
Directional ending
11D
Love to pieces
12D
Gym unit
13D
More than doubled (yes, it’s an actual word… go figure)
14D
Many a bonus features disc clip
18D
Brief battle of wits?
21D
Eyes
23D
(*)Palindrome: A word from the vocabulary of Mrs. Quickly (the hostess in Shakespeare’s Henry IV.), meaning terror
24D
Charli Baltimore’s “Pimp Da ___ Love”, or the possible name of a college for a single pupil
29D
(*)Palindrome: short Kikuyu daggers or swords
30D
(*)Palindrome: ecological evolutions
31D
(*)Palindrome: like the details given for a police sketch
32D
(*)Palindrome: harness ring
36D
*One who uses that file-looking tool that you always saw in your family’s toolbox, but had no idea what it was for
37D
*“Time ____” (has excess)
38D
*”The Matrix” ___ Keanu Reeves
39D
*70’s tennis star from Spain
40D
*Top level in a hierarchy
41D
*Russian pop duo consisting of Lena Katina and Julia Volkova, with a homophonic name to the word for arm ink
46D
*Fried Jewish holiday treat that’s a mash-up? (Var., especially so that this puzzle maker learned to spell it this way, and it’s apparently not convention)
47D
*Like a bad odor or a suspect situation
48D
*Opportune moments, or another tennis star, who, ‘this time’ (see 39d) was born in the 70’s in Yugoslavia but represented the United States (#AccidentallyPalindromic)