Puzzle

ACROSS

  1 "Missouri borders on eight states," e.g.

  5 "The Bachelor" handout

  9 Buddies

 13 Ernie's red friend

 14 Some parental siblings

 16 "I've got this!"

 17 *Eye movement?

 19 Wrinkly tangelo

 20 Chimney swooper?

 21 McBride of "Hawaii Five-0"

 22 Wu-Tang ___ (rap group)

 23 *Car shopper's surprise

 27 Lead-in to "historic"

 30 Academic URL ending

 31 Pig's place

 32 Many a singing show performance

 34 Niihau neckwear

 36 Space flare-ups

 41 *Paused a game

 45 Past or future

 46 Branford Marsalis' instrument, informally

 47 In ___ straits

 48 Down Under runner

 51 Bitter brew, briefly

 53 Drops on the ground?

 54 *Car's anti-theft device

 60 Early bird's reward

 61 Bothersome racket

 62 Items on a to-do list

 66 Jordanian or Syrian

 67 Share-increasing action, or a hint to the word that bookends the starred answers

 70 10, for the decimal system

 71 City east of Phoenix

 72 Part of 51-Across

 73 Place to store a rake, perhaps

 74 List keeper in college?

 75 Each

DOWN 

1 Own (up)

  2 Wasatch ski resort

  3 "Are you kidding me?!"

  4 Civil wrongs

  5 Mouse relative

  6 First word of the Lord's Prayer

  7 Celery or potato chips

  8 Writes in stone, say

  9 Joey's home

 10 ___-Saxon

 11 Light purple

 12 Unpleasant fuss

 15 Blouse partner

 18 Friend, in Australia

 24 Just hanging around

 25 Prompted

 26 Match up

 27 Discreet "Hey, you!"

 28 One way to learn

 29 Musk who's dating Grimes

 33 Special ___ (some missions)

 35 TGIF segment

 37 Word before "times" or "news"

 38 Empty space

 39 Woodland measure

 40 Alter, as findings

 42 Look narrowly

 43 Noisy precipitation

 44 Big convention

 49 In the ___ of

 50 As one

 52 "Hamilton" divisions

 54 Q-tips, for instance

 55 Holy Hebrew scroll

 56 Delete

 57 Insert, as a video

 58 Garden adornment

 59 K, on a sorority sweatshirt

 63 Hockey shot sound

 64 Drug bust unit

 65 Part of the plan?

 68 1040 pro

 69 Barbie's boyfriend

Solution

 
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