Think Outside The Box (Meta)

At a ___ (and definitely not an imperial unit)

Place of lodging, informally

Type of exercise that gets your heart rate up and keeps it up (and definitely not rapper ___ B)

Shorthand for New Orleans

Double-___ experiment, that showed that light can behave like a wave

Drained of colour

First king of Israel

A loooooooooong time

H-bomb trial, for example

"May ___ be with you."

Five octave singer, ___ Carey

Used a shovel

Abbr. for the place where I work (OK, that's not fair; it's Donvale Christian College)

Never, in German

How things are decided in a democracy

Label for an elderly person, but also a pun on the supermarket chain in 64 across

Go to rack and ___

"Or so ___"

Short form of the current name for the city formerly known as Leningrad

Arithmetical value (and definitely not an earthy pigment)

Approx.

Directed towards the inside (and definitely not "All's fair ___ and love", which is wrong anyway)

___ kwon do

City in Greece known for its oracle

Life of ___: what we all aspire to

Frankenstein's sidekick (but only in the movies, not the book)

Solicit, as business

French for Fri.

"That's ___ from me" (you're 20 down!)

What Pilate would have written in Latin if he neglected to specify who Jesus was king over (abbr.)

Brought to mind

Chambers where people sleep

Twelfth studio album by American rapper Nas

See 29 across

"Gone With the Wind" plantation

Thor's answer when asked, "Whose eye patch is that?"

"___ anything," said the omnivore

___-bitsy spider

Become apparent (and definitely not come together)

When repeated 4 times, Crash Test Dummies' biggest hit (but only outside of Canada, interestingly)

Person in charge of a meeting (and definitely not a spiced beverage)

Tech. school

Joan of Ark's husband?

What a detective looks for at a crime scene

50% completed

___-voting, the curse of Eurovision

Name of the puzzle where you are told to link the vertices of a three by three grid using four straight lines or fewer, without lifting the pen and without tracing the same line more than once, the solution of which is a hint for solving the meta

Only K-pop group I know of

Town where Jesus turned water into wine

Sci. of the stars

German river, in German

4th Prime Minister of India, Morarji ___

"The hero arrived ___ nick of time"

Rachmaninoff's first name

What it means when the umpire raises their finger in cricket

Mid 15th-century date

Person of the ___ (priest)

Very dry, as champagne

Western movie, "3:10 to ___"

"It's the ___ of the thing" (famous line from Australian movie "The Castle")

First name of a Ugandan dictator, who definitely gets way more exposure in crosswords than he deserves

Honeydew or cantaloupe

Did the first stage of a triathlon

Mining town in west-central Moresby Island in the Queen Charlotte Islands off the North Coast of British Columbia (Google Maps here you come!)

First year of school in Australia, for short

Nutritional stat.

Emotionally unstable

60 down from the time of the Scarlet Pimpernel, perhaps

"Hooray for me!"

Time off, for short

What it seems every animal in Australia is only too keen on injecting into you at the slightest opportunity

Get around

Polite refusal (or 63 across with one letter changed)

Head of state in a monarchy, perhaps

Celtic language

Cheese that comes wrapped in red wax

44 down, for example

Nickname for Mr. Armstrong's wife, perhaps

"Don't ___ didn't warn you!"

Objective