LIFE / CULTURE
Crossword
Published: Dec 20, 2021 07:29 PM
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 ACROSS


  1 Put up with

  5 Helps badly?

 10 Leave speechless

 13 Roughly

 14 Loosen, in tailoring

 16 Penguins' and Sharks' org.

 17 Missouri structure that is 630 feet tall

 19 Actor Robbins

 20 Light-colored wood

 21 Expressive music genre

 22 Queens team

 24 Rock band or sleep stage

 25 "___ story short ..."

 27 Inactive

 28 Follow behind

 30 Fish commonly served a la Meuniere

 34 Oslo's country: Abbr.

 36 Paycheck deduction

 37 Defeat in wrestling

 38 React under pressure, or a hint to the ends of 17-, 30-, 47- and 65-Across

 44 Cheerios grain

 45 Bit of advice

 46 ___ eye to eye

 47 Game called "noughts and crosses" in Britain

 51 Some essays or assays

 55 Glorify

 56 Dessert made by changing 8-Down's vowel

 58 Spare bed, perhaps

 59 Pitfalls

 62 Square dance partner

 63 Christ the Redeemer's Brazilian city, familiarly

 64 End up in a cast?

 65 '50s sitcom icon with two Hollywood stars

 68 Caps Lock neighbor

 69 Canine protector?

 70 Alternative to a foil or saber

 71 Prez on Mount Rushmore

 72 Vacant

 73 Attains


DOWN

  1 Humphrey of "The Big Sleep"

  2 Pencil part that may be chewed

  3 Reason for wheezing, perhaps

  4 Tobiko, for example

  5 San Antonio tourist destination

  6 Farther than

  7 Waze calculation, briefly

  8 Civil wrong

  9 "Parting is ___ sweet sorrow" (Juliet)

 10 "Home on the Range" animal

 11 Delicate deception

 12 Trees lining the National Mall

 15 Gender-neutral possessive

 18 "Hmm ... I guess"

 23 OB-GYNs, e.g.

 26 Deteriorate

 29 Tired traveler's respite

 31 UPS vehicle

 32 Past partners

 33 Tolkien tree creature

 35 Campus recruitment grp.

 38 One may be potty-trained

 39 Shout "Taxi!"

 40 Incredulous expression

 41 Small complaint

 42 Agree out of court

 43 Tuition, for one

 48 Hard jerk

 49 "30" singer

 50 Baby bird in an aerie

 52 Sticky situation

 53 "Throne"

 54 Expensive wraps

 57 Come back from behind

 59 Cellphone plan component

 60 Mysterious marking

 61 Too-good-to-be-true offer

 66 Little terror

 67 Say "Ple-e-ease," say

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