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Across

1 Kind of case in grammar: Abbr. 4 Pandora and others 8 “Autumn frosts have ___ July”: Lewis Carroll 13 Vichyssoise ingredient 15 ___ cheese 16 Summer camp sight 17 Famous Alan whose last name shares three of the four letters of ALAN 18 Greenhouse gas mitigators 20 Events with booths 22 Big Four bank, informally 23 Contraction at the start of a sentence 24 Olympics event since 1964 26 Children’s author Lowry 28 Third in a horror series 34 Where you might go for a spell? 35 Abbr. on some natural gas bills 36 Betting game 37 Some S.&L. offerings 39 Intermittently 42 City west of Florence 43 ___ Railway, backdrop of “The Bridge on the River Kwai” 45 Fix, as a price 46 Speaker’s place 47 Administerer of citizenship tests 52 Lummox 53 What’s packed in a backpack 54 Fill 57 Small bite, say 59 Dunk alternative 63 Churchgoer, e.g. 66 Frostbite site 67 Popular sansserif font 68 ___-eyed 69 It can be bounced off someone 70 Like chimneys 71 Uptown, so to speak 72 Notoriously hard thing to define

Down

1 “Frozen” character 2 First name in 28-Across 3 “The Last ___” 4 Start of a kindergarten song 5 One end of an umbilical cord 6 Prefix with -scope 7 Hard to get 8 Say “Yeah, right!,” say 9 Conductor’s announcement 10 Over 11 Speck 12 Suffix with bald or bold 14 Co-star of 28-Across 19 Tearjerker? 21 Big ___ 25 Country straddling the Equator 27 Foundational belief 28 Lifesaving supply 29 Kind of push-up 30 German for 72-Across 31 “Giant Brain” of 1946 32 Answer from behind a door 33 Tide type 34 Israel’s Netanyahu, informally 38 Flirts with, in a way 40 “The Ipcress File” novelist 41 Dissonant 44 Back 48 Election after an election 49 Wedding reception cry 50 Variety meat 51 Rial spender 54 Springs for a vacation? 55 Flying start? 56 Athos, Porthos and Aramis, e.g. 58 It may be next to an elevator 60 Sci-fi sage 61 Addict 62 Soil additive 64 One’s partner 65 “Cut that out!”