Sing praises of

Video game franchise where you play a criminal trying to advanced in organized crime... except in a universe where automobiles were never invented and donkeys are used instead

"Incidentally" in text

Embellished resume lands Maya Vargas (Jennifer Lopez) a prestigious job

What remains after you throw the chopping tool into the fire?

Atmospheric prefix that's an anagram of 17A

Time period that's an anagram of 16A

I've never actually played this card game

"I see dead people" movie

Classroom instructor

Number of fingers most people have. (We need softballs every now and then)

Limited supply: only one --- customer

"You -------"; Sarah Palin catchphrase (that, if you think about it, is redundant. But then again so was Sarah Palin)

Love of money vis a vis all evil

Elude

Ian Hood saves the world from bad science. This was actually two different TV series; one with Patrick Stewart and the other with Rufus Sewell. It's also the name of an unrelated Kim Bassinger movie about adopting a baby on the black market.

What sum meant to Descartes

Limited mobility Vietnam veteran becomes an human rights activist in "Born on ------"

Telepathy

Non-written exams

In agreement

Early(ish) host of the "Tonight Show"

Terminal member of a foot

Thus you and I arrive at an archaic spelling for a female pig

Number 1 on the Mohs scale

Gershwin who wrote the words

Pale

Evil aliens try to conquer the universe but are countered by a brain surgeon, rock musician: "The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across----"

Where Roger Rabbit was framed

Shortstop who dated J-Lo looses five hundred and becomes disinterested in dating anyone

In the web comic "Skin Horse", Leo the genetically engineered sapient lion talks in his sleep about this lioness. "Oh ----, .... but what will ... SNRRK... Simba say?"

Soft cheese

Animal doc

Nasty creature. (No, not the guy who made this puzzle)

Heros from fairy-tales exist in a parallel universe in this 2000 TV mini-series

Dine from (as with a table or dishes)

NYC subway org. (I'm sorry about all the TLAs in this puzzle)

"Things Fall Apart" author Achebe

Load (Homonym of 26D)

Tempo

Manages to say aloud

Animal vermicelli resembles

Settle in-- maybe with a tent, some sleeping bags, instant hot cocoa....

Home of the largest fortress in Värmland province (which was made obsolete by the Union of Sweden and Norway of 1814)

80A's birthday: --- 3rd.

Where unchangeable things are written

There are one hundred of them in this puzzle

Matt Gaffney's daughter

"Sluggo is ---" says Nancy while riding a hoverboard, holding a selfie stick, and wearing .... I don't know what those glasses are called. "Nancy"'s too hip for me these days.

Anything can be purchased on Vienna's black market. Harry Lyme (Orson Welles) sells stolen penicillin.

Land in France

Shortstop who dated J-Lo looses top grade and becomes.... a curtain holder? Yeah, okay. Whatever.

Annapolis grad.

I guess this is no longer the vulgarity it was when I was younger (half of 44D)

What the chickens come home to do

Gah! I can't stand the harsh sound of your voice! Must you ---- --?

Take the green character from Netflix's "Disenchantment" off the payroll?

Rembrandt

S... but spelled out

That girl

Perhaps the devil is real in this Johnny Depp thriller about a book dealer trying to determine a book's authenticity

Cut some cuspids

Circumpolar constellation within which is the north pole of the ecliptic and other constellations with the same name (if any)

Co-host of "The View" Joy; also the 32nd weekly Torah reading (usually read in May)

How many letters there are in a TLA if you speak Italian

"Eaters of the Dead" by Michael Crichton is the basis of this Antonio Banderas movie

Self-acting

Tech review site

A weight that is not reversable

Canopies couples stand under in Jewish wedding ceremonies

How did that ship turn on its axis?

Boating need (Homonym of 68A)

Ale houses

Rambo movie

Tradition knowledge (not to be confused with Data)

Never play chess against a tall figure in black robes. I guess Max von Sydow never got the memo

To damage the surface a second time after it had been fixed? To comment upon without knowledge? Or maybe just the actor James (born on Dec 31. 1953... there are a lot of actors named James)

Statement of where one was (somewhere else) at the time in question

Involucre of an oak seed

The song is technically called "Dance: Ten, Looks: Three" but everyone refers to it by what this is an (sanitized) abbreviation for

Sleet storms in the Outback and unnaturally wet weather in Sydney prophesize the end of the world in this Peter Weir movie

Vicinity; field of expertise; length times width

Pretty good

Cosmic weapon played by Milla Jovovich is regenerated to save humanity in the 23rd century

Lady Olivia (Helen Bonham-Carter) falls for Viola (Imogen Stubbs) in this adaptation of the Shakespeare classic

Revise and correct

Eight furlongs

Samurai swords

On March 30, 2023 this exchanges for one (U.S.) dollar and nine cents.

Kills with intent

Hockey great who happens to be yet another homonym of 26D and 68 A

Home of UPS (the University of Puget Sound)

How one often buys dishes

Outdoes

Who controls the British Crown? Who keeps the metric system down? Who keeps Atlantis off the maps? Who keeps the Martians under wraps? Who robs cavefish of their sight? Who rigs every Oscar night?

Department where guys can find clothes

Distant

Diarist who is seldom, if ever, assigned as middle-school reading

British academic journal of performing arts when abbreviated becomes middle of the road

Sapient lion from the web comic "Skin Horse" (I already told you the answer. "For an actual lion, you're easy to forget"-- Sweetheart Fancy)