Theme: You can be a comic book artist - If you can draw these simple shapes found at the end of the four longest answers, you may have a future as a comic book artist!
17A. Ships' drop-off location? : BERMUDA TRIANGLE. Not only ships but planes also have disappeared in the Bermuda Triangle.
26A. TV witch series based on L.J. Smith novels : THE SECRET CIRCLE. It premiered on September 15, 2011, on the CW Television Network. On May 11, 2012, the CW cancelled the series so you are forgiven if you missed it. It wasn't on my radar, or television, for that matter.
45A. 1989 Beijing protest site : TIANANMEN SQUARE. While most just remember the picture below, it was much more violent than that. A square is a special case of a equilateral rhombus with right angles.
59A. "Field of Dreams" field : BASEBALL DIAMOND. "Field of Dreams" is a film(1989) about Kevin Costner building a field(baseball) in a field(corn). A diamond is a square with its diagonals vertical and horizontal.
Argyle here. Four grid spanners; how neat is that?
Across:
1. "Star Trek" milieu : SPACE
6. Kermit, for one : FROG. (Muppet)
10. Droop : WILT
14. "Dear me!" : "OH, GOD!"
15. Pinocchio, at times : LIAR
16. "__ out?": choice offered a pet : IN OR. A dog always wants to be on the other side of a door; a cat just wants to sit in the middle of the open door.
20. Quid pro quo : SWAP
21. "If __ told you once ..." : I'VE
22. In silence : MUTELY
23. "I see," facetiously : "AH, SO!"
25. Marquis de __ : SADE
33. Like Dylan Thomas, by birth : WELSH. Or Richard Burton.
34. Caustic drain unclogger : LYE
35. Fly in the clouds : SOAR. Sure beats clouds of flies.
36. Fury : IRE
37. Helped with the dishes : DRIED
39. Calypso cousin : SKA
40. TV warrior princess : XENA
42. Cyclades island : IOS. If you go to this site, click on "View Ios on Greece map" to see where exactly where this little island is. The Cyclades are so called because they encircle the sacred island of Delos.
43. Can't stomach : HATES
49. Roller coaster feature : DROP
50. Brewer's kiln : OAST. It's hard to believe now that there was a time we didn't know what an oast was.
51. "Gone With the Wind" family : O'HARAs
54. Just fine, at NASA : A-OK
55. One of Chekhov's "Three Sisters" : OLGA. (Olga, Masha and Irina)
62. Ingrid's "Casablanca" role : ILSA
63. Unsuccessful '80s gridiron org. : USFL. (United States Football League)
64. Caesar or Waldorf follower : SALAD
65. Small fry : TOTS
66. Flimflam : RUSE
67. Box score numbers : STATS
Down:
1. Blubbers : SOBS
2. "That was a close one!" : [PHEW!]
3. Home of the Taj Mahal : AGRA
4. It can point you in the right direction : COMPASS. Certainly.
5. Student's Web address ending : .EDU
6. One of Baskin-Robbins' 31 : FLAVOR. (ice cream)
7. Bat mitzvah, e.g. : RITE
8. Blade on a boat : OAR
9. Made a pained face : GRIMACED
10. Bundle-up times : WINTERS
11. "Picnic" Pulitzer winner : INGE. William but there is a baseball player named Brandon Inge. C.C.? (From C.C.: Yep! He was with Jazzbumpa's Tigers for a long time. We had hoped Twins would pick him up.)
12. Recline lazily : LOLL
13. There's only one card it can beat : TREY. Beats the deuce.
18. Tiddlywink, e.g. : DISC. It seems to be interchangeable with DISK these days.
19. Autobahn car : AUDI
24. Devious laugh : HEH. Huh? It meant "Clever" on Sunday.
25. Eyelid irritation : STYE
26. Between, in poetry : TWIXT
27. "Ready or not, __ come!" : HERE I
28. Justice Kagan : ELENA
29. Beethoven's "Für __" : ELISE. For a different take on it. Link
30. Land by the sea, in Saragossa : COSTA. (Spanish) Zaragoza is on the Ebro River, many miles from the coast, however.
31. Staples Center player : LAKER. (Los Angeles)
32. Prepare to change, as a wrong answer : ERASE
37. Jurassic beast : DINOSAUR
38. Easy win : ROMP
41. San __ Fault : ANDREAS
43. Mil. command bases : HQ's. (headquarters)
44. Coin-operated cafeteria : AUTOMAT. Are there any left? Interesting answers. Link.
46. Bedouin, e.g. : ARAB
47. Pasta piece : NOODLE
48. Notable pen name in storywriting : SAKI. With an "I". (H. H. Munro)
51. Passing remarks? : OBIT. (obituary)
52. Saintly symbol : HALO
53. D.A.'s underling : ASST.
54. Politico Landon and an extraterrestrial : ALF's. Alfred and Alien Life Form
56. "Damn Yankees" seductress : LOLA
57. Pesky flier : GNAT
58. Extends, with "to" : ADDS
60. The NCAA's Fighting Tigers : LSU. Louisiana State University
61. Beast of burden : ASS
Argyle
