Theme: On The Table. Unscramble the circled letters to reveal various tables.
17. Manga series also known as "Mach GoGoGo": SPEED RACER. Card table.
28. Toucan Sam's cereal: FROOT LOOPS. Pool table.
34. Today's painting, sculpture, etc.: CONTEMPORARY ART. Tray table.
43. "Golly!": MY GOODNESS. End table.
57. DJs' devices ... and a hint to this puzzle's circles: TURNTABLES. Vinyl is popular again.
Melissa here. This makes three or four Wednesdays in a row with circles, wonder if it will continue. It also appears to be a corner debut for Zachary David Levy.
Across:
1. Gulf of California peninsula: BAJA.
5. SLR setting: F-STOP. SLR = Single-lens reflex camera. Here's all you want to know about F-STOPs.
10. Exchange words?: EDIT.
14. Voting unit: BLOC.
15. Make amends: ATONE.
16. Headey of "Game of Thrones": LENA. Finally, another Lena.
19. History: PAST.
20. Operates properly: WORKS.
21. U.K. equivalent of an Oscar: BAFTA. British Academy of Film and Television Arts.
22. Crisis point?: MIDLIFE.
26. Day to put all your eggs in one basket: EASTER.
27. Perfectly, with "to": A TEE.
31. Sunday entrée: ROAST.
33. Novelist Grey: ZANE.
41. __ Beat: old fan mag: TEEN.
42. Alternative energy choice: SOLAR.
49. You can skip it: ROPE. Nice.
50. Grieves: MOURNS.
51. Chemist's tube: PIPETTE.
53. Some govt. bonds: MUNIS.
54. Hilarious folks: RIOTS. Perped it.
56. Curse: BANE.
62. Algerian setting of Camus' "The Plague": ORAN. Have heard of this book but never read it. Wikipedia: "The Plague is a novel by Albert Camus, published in 1947, that
tells the story of a plague sweeping the French Algerian city of Oran.
It asks a number of questions relating to the nature of destiny and the
human condition."
63. Maxim: ADAGE.
64. Hawkeye State: IOWA.
65. Saucy: PERT.
66. Bay Area NFLer: NINER.
67. Do as directed: OBEY.
Down:
1. Air rifle ammo: BBS.
2. Swiss peak: ALP.
3. Charlie Brown hero __ Shlabotnik: JOE.
4. Maven: ACE.
5. In the distance: FAR OFF.
6. Rude observer: STARER.
7. Sound heard around the clock: TOCK. Great clue.
8. Tips for a street performer: ONES. Also great.
9. Each: PER.
10. Texas border city: EL PASO.
11. Unwilling to hear, as criticism: DEAF TO.
12. Arched foot part: INSTEP.
13. Volga region natives: TATARS. I did not know Russia's second-largest ethnicity.
18. MADD focus: DWI. Mothers Against Drunk Drivers.
21. Hay bundlers: BALERS.
22. Artist Chagall: MARC.
23. "__ lived - Brooklyn, of ample hills, was mine": Whitman: I, TOO. Crossing Brooklyn Ferry.
24. Campus official: DEAN.
25. For fear that: LEST.
26. Sicilian hot spot: ETNA.
29. Depleted atmospheric layer: OZONE.
30. One may be displayed on a boathouse wall: OAR.
32. View from Yellowstone: TETONS.
35. Scrip orders: MEDS.
36. Signature piece?: PEN.
37. Bygone period: YORE.
38. Tons: A LOT. The alot is better than you at everything.
39. Eagerly attentive: RAPT.
40. Image in the Timberland logo: TREE.
43. 1997 Hanson #1 song: MMMBOP. Ear worm.
44. 1983 Lionel Richie title words before "the sun" and "the rain": YOU ARE.
45. One of the Nelson brothers of '90s rock: GUNNAR. Matthew and Gunnar Nelson are the twin sons of Ricky Nelson. In their heyday, below.
46. "Murder on the __ Express": ORIENT.
47. Dishwashing aid: SPONGE.
48. Parents' date-night expense: SITTER.
52. "The More You Know" TV spot: PSA. Public Service Announcement.
54. Fashion's Gernreich: RUDI. Austrian-born American fashion designer, died in 1985. The brand was relaunched in 2018.
55. OPEC member: IRAN. One of fourteen.
57. Light brown: TAN.
58. LinkedIn profile, e.g.: BIO.
59. Soft toss: LOB.
60. Lamb's mom: EWE.
61. "By the way ... ": SAY.