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ACROSS
1 “Mind blown!” 5 Elected position 9 Moo’s source 12 Bracelet trinket 13 Name that becomes another name if you put it between C and S 14 No longer here 15 Figurative gateway to a long series of distractions 17 Give off 18 “Always Be My Maybe” star Wong 19 Out of charge 20 Frozen rains 22 Sister in “Little Women” 24 Opera piece 26 68-Across alum Gasteyer 27 Florida NBA team 32 Having the wherewithal 34 Clothing 35 “It just doesn’t ___ up” 36 Emphatic refusal 39 Bullying types 41 Little criticism 42 “Is ___ so?” 44 Movie critic Stevens 45 Occasion to dress down at work 49 Little rascal 50 Father 51 Droops 55 Sty 58 Another name for bubble tea 60 ___ fitting 61 Benzoyl peroxide target 62 Try to fall asleep, perhaps 65 “Frog and ___ Together” 66 Keen on 67 Greek vowels 68 Long-running sketch show, briefly 69 Noticed 70 Suffix for “Oktober”
DOWN
1 Marine mammal 2 It might be hard to break 3 Sphere 4 Amongst 5 Desert traveled by Ibn Battuta 6 Wearing away 7 Not just some 8 Pedicurists work on them 9 “Say what now?” 10 “Way ahead of you!” 11 Sprays, say 12 Sideways-walking crustacean 14 The ___ Davis Institute on Gender in Media 16 Bluish-green color 21 Brazilian dance that’s a Greek letter with an extra A inserted 23 Spring festival 25 Biblical garden dweller 28 Bureaucratic headache 29 Mining target 30 Brainstorming breakthrough 31 Some music holders 32 Japan’s continent 33 Searchlight in Gotham 36 Abbr. in a company name 37 Willie O’Ree played in it (Abbr.) 38 People prone to clumsiness 40 Ayes’ counterpart 43 Homage 46 Called a softball game 47 Patch applied using heat 48 Ower’s onus 52 Helps with something illegal 53 “That’s what’s up!” 54 Exhausts 55 Positive feedback on the back 56 App symbol 57 Long-running CBS drama 59 Skeptical retort 63 Word before “blastoff!” 64 Tool in a shed