JUST THE BEGINNING

Across

1.  Room

5.  Mountain——

8.  Peruses

13.  “The——and I”

14.  WWII theater

15.  Possible

16.  Teen tack-on

17.  ——Lanka

18.  Legal excuse

19.  Center of Florida?

21.  Pericles finale

22.  Interrogator

25.  Basil sauce

27.  Shoe size

30.  Neck wreath

31.  Oklahoma town

33.  Kitchen meas.

34.  Deli choice

36.  Made a lap

37.  Chocolate——

38.  Vadim film

41.  Espy

42.  Sgt. Bilko, e.g.

43.  Plowright film

45.  Neth. neighbor

46.  Traveling music?

48.  Fuss

49.  Fool

50.  Certain blades

51.  “Psycho III,” e.g.

53.  Seaweed

55.  Ray Lawrence film

57.  “The——Thief,” Nichetti comedy

59.  Tic-tac-toe winner

60.  Char

64.  Hurried

65.  Select

66.  Writer Bombeck

67.  Put in a new lawn

68.  New Zealand parrot

69.  Superman’s vision

Down

1.  Alias

2.  Semi

3.  Vane position

4.  Comply

5.  Ancestor, abbr.

6.  Half of an Agnieszka Holland film title

7.  Dramatist’s diary

8.  Gat

9.  Bridge position

10.  Seagal film

11.  Sixth-century date

12.  Yen unit

15.  Lumet film

20.  Film trailer

22.  Pacino and others

23.  Construction battalion

24.  Kubrick film

26.  Heap

28.  “Star Trek” division

29.  Sixth sense

32.  O’Toole’s film debut

35.  Roger

37.  Rebel org.

39.  Land plot

40.  Oasts

41.  Golfer’s org.

44.  Negative conjunction

46.  Like a prison

47.  Leaning

52.  Flynn role

54.  Reverberation

56.  Bit

57.  Second, abbr.

58.  Pool stick

59.  Goof

60.  Med. grp.

61.  Actor Aldo

62.  Med. grp.

63.  Actor Aldo

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