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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

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