Theme: Give My Regards To Broadway - Things you see in a theater.
17A. *Last leg of a journey : FINAL STAGE
57A. *Matching breakfast nook furniture : DINETTE SET
11D. *Thanksgiving night snacks : TURKEY WINGS
25D. *Cold War barrier : IRON CURTAIN
43D. Broadway building, and where to find the ends of the answers to starred clues : THEATER
Bonus entry: 39A. Broadway productions : SHOWS
Argyle here with an anagrammed constructor. Some new stuff, some old, and some to see if you've been paying attention the last few weeks. Enjoy!
Across:
1. Borscht veggies : BEETS
6. Garden neighbors of glads, perhaps : MUMS
10. "Looking at it differently," in texts : OTOH. (On The Other Hand)
14. Play the coquette : FLIRT
15. Part of MIT: Abbr. : INST. (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
16. Make all better : CURE
19. Cleveland's lake : ERIE
20. Protruding-lip expression : POUT
21. Made minor adjustments to : TWEAKED. Like using botox to get that pout.
23. Enjoy snowy trails : SKI
26. Constellation bear : URSA
28. Discussion groups : PANELS
29. Stephen King's harassed high schooler : CARRIE. "Carrie: The Musical" was both on Broadway(1988) and Off-Broadway(2012)(Revival).
31. Shiny photo : GLOSSY. "27 8×10 color glossy pictures with circles and arrows and a paragraph on the back of each one explaining what each one was to be used as evidence against us" ~ Arlo
33. Great Plains natives : OTOEs
34. Largest Greek island : CRETE
35. Roll of cash : WAD
38. Comes out on top : WINS
40. Actress Sorvino : MIRA. Screen and TV but no stage work that I could find.
41. "Just a __!" : SEC
42. How not to talk in libraries : ALOUD as distinguished from whisperingly
43. Piquant : TANGY
44. Stereotypically wealthy city area : UPTOWN. Sans shades.
46. Clavell novel of feudal Japan : SHOGUN. On Broadway in 1990, "Shogun: The Musical".
47. Take out a loan : BORROW
49. Ice hockey feint : DEKE
51. Observe : SEE
52. Intermittently : AT TIMES
54. Perfume container : VIAL
56. Fava or soya : BEAN
62. Spy novelist Ambler : ERIC. NYTimes Obit
63. Japanese noodle : UDON
64. Midterms, e.g. : EXAMS
65. "The __ Ranger" : LONE. The Green Hornet's great-uncle.
66. Chapel seating : PEWS
67. Assemble, as equipment : RIG UP
Down:
1. Texter's soul mate : BFF. (Best Friends Forever)
2. Yalie : ELI
3. A, in Austria : EIN
4. Mouse catcher : TRAP. Board game with cheese-shaped tokens, "Mouse Trap". "The Mousetrap" is a murder mystery play by Agatha Christie. It opened in the West End of London in 1952, and has been running continuously since then. Will it come to Broadway?
5. Arch city : ST. LOUIS
6. Catchers' gloves : MITTS
7. __ vez: Spanish "once" : UNA "At once" or 58D. Without delay : NOW
8. High-ranking NCO : MSGT. (Master Sergeant)
9. Gumbo cookers : STEW POTS
10. Pacific and Atlantic : OCEANS
12. Bay window : ORIEL
13. Pays attention to : HEEDS
18. "Be glad to" : "SURE"
22. Effortlessness : EASE
23. Garbage haulers : SCOWS
24. News anchor Couric : KATIE
27. Bad way to run a yacht? : AGROUND
30. Legal thing : RES
32. Indecent : LEWD
34. Vittles : CHOW
36. Take issue (with) : ARGUE
37. "Tell It to My Heart" singer Taylor __ : DAYNE
39. Decelerated : SLOWED UP
40. Chinese chairman : MAO
42. Molecule part : ATOM
45. Royal son : PRINCE
46. "SNL" segment : SKIT
47. Biblical tower site : BABEL
48. Alamogordo's county : OTERO, New Mexico. Update: Otero County was created January 30, 1899 from the eastern end of Doña Ana County, the southern portion of Lincoln, and southeast corner of Socorro County. Otero County was named after Miguel Antonio Otero, New Mexico's governor at the time (the first Hispanic surnamed governor of New Mexico Territory, served 1897-1906). His father, by the same name, had served as Territorial Representative to Congress from 1856 to 1861.
50. Odds alternative : EVENS
53. Either team on the field : SIDE
55. LPGA golfer Thompson : LEXI. Hmm, golfer or model, Images.
59. Droop in the middle : SAG
60. Down Under bird : EMU
61. Baker's meas. : TSP
Argyle