"I'll do what I want" (including a hot evening spent with my lover)
25A
Suburban transportation
27A
Lacking nothing
28A
Suffix for specialized activity venues, such as those for gym classes, planet viewing, auditory performances, and sanity restoration
29A
Snake-like creature that does not sound like 62D; rather, according to the National Park Department, its "chirping or slurping sounds can be heard on warm summer evenings near low bottomlands."
30A
"Yeah right"
32A
_____ lazuli
34A
Outward image maintenance (and concealment of sexual escapades)
41A
Hesitant or sarcastically hesitant consent
42A
Swallow alternative
43A
One of way too many in a window, often
46A
NHL tiebreakers
47A
Donkey, or what a rider rests on a donkey
50A
Supplies not recommended for use by the general public early in the COVID era
51A
Holidays, often (and a stolen meetup with one's paramour)
55A
Poly under duress goddess who seeks revenge on her husband's mistresses
56A
Showing some cleavage, perhaps
57A
Business it's best not to ask about (lest one discover the sordid extracurriculars indicated by the circled letters)
63A
Examined closely, with "over"
64A
Crosshare.org, for one
65A
Heaps
66A
Had
67A
Mind-related prefix
68A
Kinda sketch
Verticali
1D
Lout
2D
Announcement in the interest of the common good
3D
Third prefix -- which also means third -- in this series: prim-, sec-, ____
4D
Like sex with condoms
5D
Taoism founder
6D
____ Till, whose 1955 murder brought attention to racist injustice in the United States
7D
Take one's talents to the big leagues, or a device for those who wish they were in the big leagues
8D
Stain
9D
Germanic folklore figure
10D
Link
11D
Confine again, as escaped zoo animals that are eventually found
12D
It can be a struggle to arrive like this
17D
Beams
18D
Act of glimpsing, archaically
21D
Scary or Sporty Spice
22D
Scissor or grind, in slang
23D
Chrysalis, for one
24D
Not orig.
25D
Limit
26D
Sun Devils' sch.
31D
Illness that can have similar symptoms to covid
32D
"____ Miserables"
33D
Bro's sib, maybe
35D
Response to "How are you?" that is rarely true
36D
Prefix with -plasm
37D
Outcome
38D
Rival teams, for short
39D
Pocket Fireball, for example
40D
Sault ___ Marie
43D
Lead-in to a vulnerable text, perhaps
44D
Syrian city
45D
Representing his power, influence, and masculinity, Beowulf's is described as "a mound on a headland, high and imposing, / a marker that sailors could see from far away."
47D
Some political mudslinging
48D
It puts you out of the running but helps your buddy score
49D
Double-____ Oreos
52D
Environmentally controversial trail marker
53D
Starting at the closed end, when knitting socks
54D
Les ___-Unis
58D
Neck style for some garments, some of which are 56A