ACROSS

 

1. Eats a calorie surplus, say

 

6. Urban air pollution

 

10. Heap

 

14. Female organ that produces eggs

 

15. Clean (off)

 

16. ______ coffee

 

17. Altercation

 

18. Oldest independent state in the Arab world

 

19. Step on a ladder

 

20. Like one who still uses a typewriter

 

22. Sample

 

23. Crosby, Stills, ______ & Young

 

24. Nincompoop

 

25. Envy, wrath, e.g.

 

26. US state whose official motto is “Live Free or Die”

 

32. Wolverine’s alias

 

35. Red, black, yellow, e.g.

 

36. Grey, in a way

 

37. “______ we there yet?”

 

38. The Jazz Age, for one

 

41. Have a 22-across

 

43. Author Harper of To Kill a Mockingbird

 

44. It may be smoked or cured

 

46. ______-Wan Kenobi

 

48. In first place

 

50. Risky thing to be living on

 

54. ______ and outs

 

55. Hockey player Bobby of the Boston Bruins

 

56. Respite

 

60. Hint

 

63. Wireless technology named after 10th-century King of Denmark and Norway

 

65. Jerk

 

66. Filled to the ______

 

67. Early ______

 

68. Stereotypical air freshener shape

 

69. Actress Minnelli of Cabaret

 

70. You can watch it on Crunchyroll

 

71. Feature of Nintendo Switch model released in 2021, for short

 

72. Many a prom attendee

 

73. Like black holes and pound cakes

 



DOWN

 

1. Element whose symbol is its first letter

 

2. Lump in your throat?

 

3. Arrives at JFK Airport, say

 

4. Hindu deity often depicted with blue skin

 

5. Lip-______

 

6. Nike logo

 

7. Bottomless brunch cocktails

 

8. October birthstone

 

9. ______ Z

 

10. Predator whose name literally means “biting fish”

 

11. Critical hospital areas: Abbr.

 

12. Fast time?

 

13. What a circle lacks

 

21. “Yee-______!”

 

22. “______ better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all”

 

25. Quarrel (with)

 

27. Opposite of WSW

 

28. ______ Gala

 

29. Bali, Bora Bora, et cetera

 

30. Actress Perlman of Cheers

 

31. Starry-______

 

32. Nanny : kid :: ewe : ______

 

33. Cookies and cream cookie

 

34. Sleeping bag, portable stove, and flashlight for one going camping

 

39. Columns’ counterpart

 

40. Face on the US penny, familiarly

 

42. Thanksgiving serving

 

45. Bamboozled

 

47. Put someone on a pedestal

 

49. Emma, in Emma

 

51. Formula ______

 

52. The ______ Show (1998 movie about a man whose entire life is a reality TV show)

 

53. Rage

 

57. Red dye used in cosmetics

 

58. Arises (from)

 

59. A crowd?

 

60. There’s one in tihs clue

 

61. Word with guard or safety

 

62. ______ of Green Gables

 

63. Soft cheese on a charcuterie board

 

64. Based on established conventions: Abbr.

 

66. Classic diner sandwich

 

  

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