Quick Crossword

Across

1 Beginning of space? 5 With 71-Across, event for today’s puzzle’s circles 10 Sea that’s a shrinking lake 14 Jazz Age toon 15 Comes (from) 16 Roast, in Rouen 17 __ about 18 “Miss __ Playhouse”: jazz CD for kids 19 Fishing, perhaps 20 Outlaw Belle 22 PBS funder 24 Tally 25 Prize for today’s puzzle’s circles 29 Org. with a snake in its logo 31 Detestable sort 32 Late 19th-century presidential monogram 33 Family babysitter 35 Cut 40 Dignify 42 Fireworks reaction 43 Starters 44 Curaçao’s capital 47 Conclusion preceder 48 Andean tuber 49 Turkmenistan neighbor 51 Want-ad letters 52 Introductory words for each set of puzzle circles 56 Titled rapper 57 Radical ‘70s org. 58 Teen superhero’s family 60 Pupil’s place 62 “You __ one!” 65 Nantes nothing 67 Disencumbers 68 Sacks 69 Conductor Klemperer or an emperor 70 Reformed demon on “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” 71 See 5-Across 72 Place to find bullets

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1 Blood system letters 2 Ages 3 Ordeal at the dentist’s office 4 Oxygen network co-founder 5 Soup container 6 Proverb ending? 7 Up to, commercially 8 Southwestern plain 9 Perfume 10 Altar in the sky 11 Mantegna’s “Criminal Minds” role 12 Really enjoyed 13 Singer Payne of One Direction 21 Proverbial deserter 23 Grilled, in Mexican fare 26 California’s __ Verdes Peninsula 27 Beyond silly 28 Golfe de la Gonâve country 29 From the top 30 Modest skirt 34 Mete out 36 “Cuchi-cuchi” celebrity 37 Akhenaten’s queen 38 Subdue, perhaps 39 Melville novel 41 Staffers of Apple’s Genius Bar 45 Send 46 Least lit 50 Butte-to-Helena dir. 52 NFL Network analyst Michael __ 53 Unable to make ends meet 54 Slasher film sequel of 2005 55 Become a member, in Manchester 56 Commercial prefix meaning “long-lasting” 59 Places 61 Hard-rock link 63 Unit of work 64 Verbal shrug 66 “Tricked you!”