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ACROSS

1 Egyptian beetle

7 Word before sheet or

battle

10 First president to be buried at Arlington National Cemetery 14 Nabokov novel 15 Lobster ___ Newburg 16 Instrument that an

orchestra tunes to 17 X-rayed, e.g.

18 Bit of acne

19 Went 90, say 20 Intertwine

21 That, in Tijuana 23 Classic Led Zeppelin song represented by the ascending circled letters and this answer 25 Bruins : U.C.L.A. :: ___ :

Princeton

28 Whole bunch 29 ___-Magnon man 32 Transportation hub named for a 1930s-'40s mayor, in brief

33 A Cyclops has one 35 Piece of limbo

equipment

37 Get tangled up 39 Catch wind of 41 Director Guillermo del

___

42 German/polish border

river

43 Offerings from Pottery

Barn and Chipotle 44 Yemen's capital 45 Opening of some

formal letters 46 Territory

47 Peeled, as a pear 48 Soak (up), as gravy

49 “___ but a scratch” 50 Nevada's largest

county

52 One doing an oral

exam, in brief

53 Org. with programs

that are taking off? 55 Types in

58 Home of the oldest

active M.L.B. ballpark 60 Y.M.C.A. course, for

short

61 Classic AC/DC song represented by the falling circled letters and this answer 65 Maya Angelou's “And

Still I ___”

66 Musical ability

68 Part of N.H.L. 70 Offshore

71 Like 2019 and 2021,

but not 2020 72 Fumbles and flubs 73 Pupil's place 74 Platform for Dr. Mario

and Final Fantasy 75 Places for toasters

DOWN

1 Next to nothing, as a

chance

2 “___ as you are” 3 “So sad”

4 Correct

5 Supped 6 No-goodnik

7 Schick product 8 2001 Will Smith title

role

9 Course of action 10 Completely wreck

11 Open and honest 12 Tipped off

13 Many a Tiktok user 22 Fish in the genus

Hippocampus 24 Opposite of WNW 26 Think ___ of

27 Deck protectors 29 With 36-Down, intersection … as suggested by the circled letters in the middle of this puzzle? 30 Static, maybe

31 Cloverleaf features 34 2019, 2020 and 2021:

Abbr.

36 See 29-Down

38 CPR sites

40 Animal that sounds a

lot like you?

41 Letters on some

airport uniforms 43 Antioxidant juice brand

47 The “p” of m.p.h. 49 “___ Te Ching”

51 Shouted 54 Porterhouse,

e.g.

56 Aptly named shelfmate of Smarties candy

57 Ventriloquist

Lewis

58 Flat-headed fastener

59 Gas in glowing signs 62 Teamwork disrupters 63 Tackle box item 64 More, as the saying

goes

67 Juice suffix

69 Obama ___