NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 With 44- and 76-Across, way to put legislators on record … or the start, middle and end of a word ladder 5 Some six-packs 8 Dual-purpose viewing equipment 13 Toasted breakfast items 15 Second word in the word ladder 17 Talk show host/actress Tyler 18 Nudge 19 Nice genealogical find 21 Start to instigate? 23 Third word … 24 Fourth word … 26 Wild ones 30 Watches for 34 Barn youngster 37 Multigrain component 38 Fifth word … 39 Many a postcard picture 42 Author Bates and musician Guthrie 44 Sixth word … 45 100, in Italy 46 Tight restraint 49 Seventh word … 50 Note in a poker pot 51 Free-for-all 52 Sacred birds of Egypt 54 Bright star of Aquila 56 Eighth word … 58 Ninth word … 60 Criminal intent, at law 65 Promontory with a tragic romantic story connected to it 70 Free of drugs 71 First in a line of Russian autocrats 72 Tenth word … 73 Possessed, in the Bible 74 Classic fantasy game, informally 75 Homer’s neighbor 76 End of the word ladder

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1 Part of a film archive 2 Spend a long time checking out? 3 Pride parade letters 4 Heist take 5 Earth Day month 6 Rude response from the bleachers 7 Skilled at deception 8 Mobile workstation 9 Vacation home 10 Brandy letters 11 Comic Margaret 12 “Groovy,” updated 14 Tidied up, in a way 16 Place for a grandchild, maybe 20 Pigeonhole 22 Tabula ___ 25 Mood around the office 27 Part of A.S.A.P. 28 Say what someone naughty did 29 Bar fixtures 30 Gum arabic source 31 Source of multicolored Maos 32 With full strength 33 “How are you?” response 35 Artist de Kooning 36 ___ land 40 E.P.A. subject: Abbr. 41 Powerful engine, informally 43 Like the western Great Plains, climatewise 47 Breath mint brand 48 Tick off 53 Yank from the game 55 Change 57 Superexcited 59 Common street name 61 Pole, for one 62 Overhaul 63 Only direction not in a state name 64 Pot part 65 Pot part 66 Inventory at a fertility clinic 67 Ryder rental 68 Lo-o-ong stretch 69 Took the cake?