Theme: It's a wrap! Each theme entry wraps around to the first square to complete the word or phrase. The down grid-spanner provides the hint.
17A. *Major financial concern : ECONOMIC COLLAPS (E) This foxed me for a while as I had ECONOMY from my spelling of SHYEST.
22A. *Numbers field? : ANESTHESI (A) Very nice misdirection in the clue here. I couldn't think of a mathematics subject area until my numb brain woke up
50A. *Fantasized : DAYDREAME (D) I tried DAYDREAMT as the past tense before I got the theme; did you know that "dreamt" is the only word in the English language that ends in "amt"?
59A. *Misrepresent, in a way : TAKE OUT OF CONTEX (T) Quite a few of us don't bother to pronounce the final "T" of "context". I wouldn't be surprised to see Webster's allowing CONTEX in about 20 year's time.
7D. Hint for understanding this puzzle's starred answers : BACK TO SQUARE ONE. I had to go and do this with a few of the entries today.
Very tidy theme; I like that the first and last theme entries are phrases and the two middle ones are single words giving a neat symmetry. The long down hint entry was nicely done.
Across
1. You might do it after making a wish : BLOW
5. Equally undesirable : AS BAD
10. Sitting around : IDLE
14. Stopped sitting around : ROSE
15. "10 Things __ About You": 1999 comedy : I HATE
16. Symbol of courage : LION
20. Already old, with "so" : LAST WEEK
21. Words before "Do I have to?" : AW GEE
25. Quits : STOPS
28. Caring but strict approach : TOUGH LOVE
32. Get ready for a concert : TUNE UP
34. Orch. section : STR
35. Noted 16-Across portrayer : LAHR
36. Put away : ATE
37. Some awards : PLAQUES
40. "Dracula" director Browning : TOD
41. Kid's reward, maybe : STAR
43. __ Dhabi : ABU
44. Electronic music genre : TECHNO
46. Certain settler's tract : HOMESTEAD
49. "It's nobody __ business" : ELSE'S
52. Dispossess : EVICT
55. Japan and China are in it : EAST ASIA
62. "You said it!" : AMEN
63. "Exodus" actor : MINEO
64. "The __ Affair": Jasper Fforde novel : EYRE
65. Squabble : SPAT
66. Fired, as a cartridge : SPENT
67. Epitome of thinness : REED
Down
1. Songwriter Jacques : BREL
2. Crazy, in a Ricky Martin song : LOCA
3. Baja bears : OSOS
4. Lost it : WENT APE
5. Name meaning "beloved" : AIMEE
6. Slowest to mix, perhaps : SHIEST
8. Flight coordinators: Abbr. : ATC
9. "Gloria in Excelsis __" : DEO
10. Hostility : ILL WILL
11. Rect. bisector : DIAG.
12. Run easily : LOPE
13. Massachusetts motto opener : ENSE
18. Confesses : OWNS UP
19. Whip part : LASH
23. Native Rwandan : HUTU
24. Everglades wader : EGRET
25. Put away : STASH
26. All, in Asti : TUTTO
27. Graveyard shift hr. : ONE AM
29. Promising words : OATHS
30. "Pop Up Video" airer : VH ONE
31. Subject of the biography "The Man Who Loved Only Numbers" : ERDOS
33. Prefix with -pus : PLATY
38. Retired : ABED
39. Apparently do : SEEM TO
42. Insignificant amount : RED CENT
45. Grime fighter : CLEANER
47. '60s-'70s Japanese leader : SATO
48. Make really uncomfortable, in a way : DEAFEN
51. Fancy neckwear : ASCOT
52. LAX postings : ETAS
53. Siren : VAMP
54. Big name in furniture : IKEA
56. Lid trouble : STYE
57. "Able was __ ..." : I ERE
58. Fired : AXED
60. Thinking-on-one's-feet indicators : UMS
61. It may be left on a table : TIP
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