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ACROSS

1 Long-term appeal

5 Rock star Cobain

9 Leave off

13 Q: How much does it cost to park at stadiums? A: ___

14 Postpone, as

enrollment

15 Captain in “The Mysterious Island”

16 “My allergies are

really acting up!”

18 Sicily’s highest

peak

19 Unusual time to

start a vacation

20 YouTube content

22 “It ___” (pompous arrival’s declaration)

23 “That third strike

cost us the game!”

26 Like Swarthmore,

but not Bryn Mawr

28 Food industry

lobby, for short

29 Frost bit?

30 Not leave to

chance

33 Run for fun,

perhaps

35 Spanish 101 verb

36 “I keep losing things in the dryer!”

39 Mitch’s husband on “Modern Family”

42 Architect ___

Ming Pei

43 Calligraphy

details 47 Hoard

49 Head across the

pond?

51 Ella Fitzgerald

forte

52 “My iPhone never

works!”

56 Wearer of a “Y”

sweatshirt

57 Wackadoodle

58 Stand by the pool,

maybe

60 Fit for the task

61 “This bug spray is

useless!”

64 Marquis de ___

65 Like many a

campfire story

66 Water pitcher

67 Pressure,

informally

68 It may be on the

house

69 One who’s got

your back

DOWN

1 Maze runners

2 National Medal of Arts recipient whose novel “Juneteenth” was published posthumously

3 Special treats

4 Put (away)

5 Puzzle whose name comes from the Japanese for “cleverness squared”

6 World traveler?

7 Hi-_ _ _

8 Fountain near the

Spanish Steps

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9 Wired

10 Shooting stars

11 “What’s the point

in me even trying”

12 Glass elevator?

14 Easter egg

decorator

17 Absolutely,

informally

21 Call upon

24 Place to purchase

pencils and paint

25 Prizefight ending

27 Lemon or turkey

31 Upped the ante

32 Old-fashioned

preposition

34 Microsoft

Surfaces, e.g.

37 The Big Easy

38 Typical college interviewees: Abbr.

39 Business that offers body waxing

40 Creatures named for their changing shape

41 Roald Dahl

heroine

44 Nickname for the subzero 1967 N.F.L. Championship Game

45 Balls in a pocket

46 Recipe that might call for ginger and soy sauce

48 Word with fair or

fight

50 Chooses to receive marketing emails, say

53 Prize declined by

Sartre

54 Diet-friendly

55 Just scrape (by)

59 Bit of creativity

62 Scented souvenir

63 Is after you?