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EASY AS 1-2-3
ACROSS 1 Grad 5 Cricket ground shape 9 Plummet 13 Maggie ___ Walker 14 Olympian Ledecky 16 Close by 17 Medieval storyteller 18 Fancy-schmancy 19 Prefix for “penultimate” 20 All over the place, perhaps 23 Device at a concert 24 Pop star Cyrus 25 Musical conclusion 26 Soccer great Hamm 27 NBC sketch show, for short 28 Glass’s lip 31 ___ Double (special “Jeopardy!” clue) 33 Holds together 37 Printer purchases 38 “Don’t just stand there!” 40 Whirl 42 Rectangular toaster pastry 43 Wave’s highest point 45 “A long time ___ in a galaxy far, far away . . .” 46 Most-nominated female artist of the 2018 Grammys 49 Decay 50 Outer limit 54 Jots down 56 Connections 57 Unwelcome visitors 60 Place to do laps 62 Up through 63 Sunburn soother 64 Sass, colloquially 65 Director Gerwig 66 “You go, ___ Coco!” 67 Hiccup 68 Notable periods 69 Sunrise direction DOWN 1 “19,” “21” and “25,” for Adele 2 Shift one’s weight forward 3 Straighten out from a coil 4 Sierra ___ (literally, “mother mountain range”) 5 Vegetable in kurkuri bhindi 6 Conceited 7 Room with cobwebs, maybe 8 “Cuz I Love You” singer 9 Double-helix molecule 10 Giving a new designation 11 Vegan hot chocolate option 12 Settles ahead of time 15 Follower of “eagle-” or “wild-” 21 Greek wraps 22 Robbie Rogers or Greg Berlanti, to Caleb and Mia 29 Breakfast chain 30 Office communication 32 “If I ___ Got You” (Alicia Keys single) 33 Pros’ opposites 34 Congressional title (Abbr.) 35 R&B singer ___ James 36 Rug with a coarse texture 38 Sugar-free drink 39 Some golf clubs 40 Playwriting contest submissions 41 Bit of bio info 44 Vietnamese Lunar New Year 46 Name that’s the Latin word for “star” 47 Binary digits 48 Agreement 51 Pharmaceutical product 52 Literary category 53 Title role for Rowin Amone in a 2019 web series 55 Oklahoma people 58 Hummus accompaniment 59 Mournful word 61 Trip segment