CROSSWORD PUZZLE
ACROSS
1 Simon __: kids’ game
5 Not for kids, moviewise
11 Small amount
14 Shopper’s memory aid
15 Aviator Earhart
16 Skating surface
17 “I had no __!”
18 It follows
35-Down
19 Milk grain
20 Imitative bird
22 Pioneering game consoles
24 Reaction to a strange object
28 Lengthy tales
31 e__: online instructional guide
32 Shoot well under par, in golf lingo
36 App purchaser
37 Serious criminal
39 Actress Anderson
40 Everest and K2: Abbr.
41 Out of practice
42 Lender’s claim
43 Stick-in-the-__
44 Make like new, as old furniture
46 Tater __: deepfried potato morsel
47 Parisian season
48 Semiannual occurrence that begins 18- and 66-Across
49 Opposite of WSW
50 Showed again
52 Bandage brand
53 Less adulterated
55 Summoned, as the fiddlers three
58 Comfy shoe pad
61 With milk, as café
65 Crystal ball gazer
66 In 2021, it begins September 22nd
70 Place to de-stress
71 Turkey neighbor
72 In twos, like socks
73 Nosh
74 Fathers’ boys
75 Gets hot on Twitter
76 Many pop-ups
DOWN
1 Lose one’s footing
2 Musical based on an opera
3 Belgian river
4 Movie with R2-D2
5 Dreads sporter
6 Excite, with “up”
7 Thrice, in Rx’s
8 New Haven alum
9 Kitchen dweller of song
10 Motley
11 Designer Christian
12 Smoothie berry dubbed a superfood
13 Wagers
21 “I see” words
23 Ring-shaped reef
25 “Same drink as always”
26 Semi-annual occurrence that begins 28- and 35-Down
27 Black-and-white, e.g.
28 It precedes
66-Across
29 Sharp-witted
30 Word with role or identity
33 Hang around
34 Common soccer deadlock
35 It follows
66-Across
37 MHz measure
38 “Eli’s Coming” songwriter Laura
44 Kidney-related
45 Describes in detail
51 Squirrel’s haul
54 Web address letters
56 Jumped
57 Widely known
58 Wife of Osiris
59 Fiddling emperor
60 Actor Connery
62 Away from port
63 Apple tablet
64 Body art, casually
67 Former Mideast org.
68 Deadlock
69 Keats’ “Ode on a Grecian __”