Crossword Edited by Will Shortz

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ACROSS

One side of a sheet

5 Ending with centior milli

9 Eritrea’s capital

15 Made a fast break after breakfast, say

17 Mob member 18 Dangerously near 20 Some people 21 Playlet 22 Simple chord

23 “Gimme a moment”

26 One who eschews all pop culture, say

28 Word after big or go

29 No-goodnik

30 Like a controversial political issue, maybe

34 Needs to be corrected

36 Goat’s cry

37 Board hiree, in brief 38 Trendy and overconfident, slangily

44 Necklace made from natural materials

45 They check out people who check in, in brief

46 Self-referential

48 Triple-platinum 1991 Hammer album

54 Central 55 Big feller? 56 Mouth-puckering

57 ___ flour (macaron ingredient)

59 Animal that might make a waterslide to play on

62 64

Fad Prohibition

65 Not enough, and without the urgency, to make a difference … or a literal hint to 18-, 30-, 38- and 48-Across 70

71 Some compound gases

72 Great respect 73 Just like *that*! 74 1

2 Hartsfield-Jackson airport code

3 Onetime auto replaced by the Chevrolet Aveo

4 5 Adobe file suffix 6 God of fertility

7 Sci-fi cult classic of 1974

8 Los Angeles neighborhood whose name means “oak” in Spanish

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Water gate

Fortified tower

DOWN

___-Man

Moderates

Branch

10 Sort (through) 11 Secure, in a way 12 The “A” of A-fib 13 Take over?

14 Film character whose lines were all bleeped out?

16 ___ Cherry, singer with the 1988 hit “Buffalo Stance”

19 “And yet …” in a text

23 Iron Range haul 24 Deal breaker?

25 Candied fruits or nuts

27 Romantic music genre originating in the Dominican Republic

PUZZLE BY ROBIN YU

31 “The way,” per 48-Down

32 Prefix with classical

33 Send to a terrible fate

35 Jus ___ (birthright citizenship)

39 Frequent word before “x = …”

40 Common caviar source

41 Long-running forensics drama 42 Stereotypical product for a kid’s first entrepreneurial endeavor

43 “Yer darn ___!”

47 Do some basic arithmetic

48 Noted ancient philosopher

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Praises

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Alley ___ “Scram!”

51 Dutch astronomer with an eponymous “cloud” 52 Reservations

53 Place for a screwdriver

58 Singer Zayn

60 Novelist Wiesel with a Nobel Peace Prize

61 Food often served in bed?

63 Sicilian skiing spot 66 Pro ___ 67

68 Bit of merch 69 In particular: Abbr.