1. Wasn't even close, as in comparison → PALED
6. Fashion name that's become slang for "excellent" → GUCCI
11. Binary 10, in decimal value → TWO
14. Garlicky sauce → AIOLI
15. Beef up the arsenal, say → REARM
16. Tuna variety → AHI
17. "Sunday in the Park With George," for one → BROADWAYMUSICAL
20. Big ___ (audacious thing to make) → ASK
21. Ref. work with over 600,000 words → OED
22. Moves (over) → SCOOTS
23. Signs → INKS
25. "Nonsense!" → PSHAW
27. "Oh, that does make sense" → ISEE
29. Milker's handful → TEAT
31. They may be fixed or variable → RATES
35. River at Memphis → NILE
36. "We want more!" → ENCORE
38. Ump's call → OUT
39. Jerry's uncle on "Seinfeld" → LEO
40. Sent away for → ORDERED
41. Historic stretch → ERA
42. That's a me problem → EGO
43. Madison Square Garden team → KNICKS
44. Sporty Pontiacs of the 1960s → GTOS
45. Actress Thompson of "Westworld" → TESSA
47. Oceanic → VAST
48. Ill-considered → RASH
49. Wired → HYPER
51. Unappetizing gruel → SLOP
53. Like a dress that falls short? → PETITE
56. Burlesque accessory → BOA
57. Vietnamese noodle dish → PHO
60. Pulitzer-winning composer and lyricist of "Sunday in the Park With George" → STEPHENSONDHEIM
64. Greenwich Village's Stonewall ___ → INN
65. Poet who wrote "Only through time time is conquered" → ELIOT
66. Grub, e.g. → LARVA
67. Pathetic → SAD
68. Linking point → NEXUS
69. German industrial city → ESSEN