crossword puzzle

ACROSS

1 Throw 4 Very tiny animal 9 Vows 14 Negros island 15 Cebu cardinal 16 Native Americans 17 Bench 18 Terminal abbr. 19 Away 20 California university 22 Tin (abbr.) 23 Southwestern University 25 Dekameter 26 Telegraphic signal 29 Catholic worship services 32 Ski jacket 36 Saloon 37 Stretchy gloves 39 Engaged in (war, for example) 41 Desert condition 43 __ acid 45 Card game 46 Perfect 48 City in Nebraska 50 Dynamite 51 Land surrounded by water 53 Ridges 55 Billion years 56 Limited (abbr.) 59 Bullfight cheer 61 Strontium (abbr.) 62 Body of water 66 Cebu mall 68 Twitching 71 Constrictor 72 Small herring 73 Raccoon-like animal 75 Possessive pronoun 76 American frozen pizza brand 77 Wit 78 Ending

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1 Lapu-____ 2 Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries 3 Game with pins 4 Avenue 5 Scale note after re 6 Eve’s garden 7 Flutter eyelashes 8 An expression 9 Tropical island 10 Brew 11 Incline 12 Huckleberry Finn’s nickname 13 Tuber 21 Advertisements 22 Package 24 Compass point 27 Sign language 28 Tennis player Steffi 29 __ Gras 30 The Ram 31 Arose 32 Axile 33 Ouch! 34 Multi-colored rock 35 Adjusts space between characters 36 Tibeto-Burman language 38 Shade tree 40 Tiny mark 42 Painter of melting clocks 44 Applaud 47 Scale note after sol 49 Hubbub 52 Football league 54 Gross national product (abbr.) 56 Final 57 Misprint 58 Fix the socks 59 Cereal plant 60 Engrave 61 Sham 63 Double-reed instrument 64 Sentence part 65 Group of Indic languages 67 Rest 69 Note of debt 70 Evergreen tree 74 Toward