Puzzle

ACROSS



  1 Simple dwellings

  5 Objective

  9 Basil sauce

 14 Gumbo thickener

 15 Quick to snap, say

 16 States with confidence

 17 *Hospital wing for a plutocrat?

 19 Amassed, as expenses

 20 Studio supporters?

 21 "Your majesty"

 23 Leb. neighbor

 24 Shakespeare's "For shame!"

 25 Data upload letters

 27 *Message from a scammer?

 29 Tar Heels' sch.

 30 Theater class assignment?

 32 Tempestuous

 33 Leave alone

 35 Center of rotation

 37 Does something with

 38 *Marketers' word choice?

 41 Like a wafer

 44 A person's

 45 Poem by David

 49 Is inadequate

 51 Casual stride

 53 Prefix suggesting revival

 54 *Refuses to settle?

 56 Convent figure

 57 Letter before upsilon

 58 Fuel additive brand

 59 Wiener schnitzel ingredient

 61 Becomes fit to eat

 63 Aboriginal Bahamian people (hidden in "mountainous")

 65 Hair condition that explains how the starred answers break up?

 67 "Snowy" waterbird

 68 Barriers to cooperation

 69 Bendable leg part

 70 Marsh plants

 71 Grains in most breads?

 72 Organs with canals

DOWN

  1 Optimistic

  2 Largest country that's fully in Europe

  3 Divide into thirds

  4 Rescue

  5 Reaches

  6 Certain 8-Down poem

  7 Gets older

  8 Emotional poetic genre

  9 Ewe or ram, for a lamb

 10 Actress Longoria

 11 Next year's alumni, often

 12 "I'm not kidding!"

 13 Large, fish-eating birds

 18 Nobel who established the Nobel Prize

 22 Martini & ___

 26 Unadorned

 28 Objects in English class?

 31 Do wonderfully

 34 Xhosa and Zulu's language group

 36 "Let's fight!"

 39 Lorna ___

 40 Impatient cry on Christmas morning

 41 Tornado

 42 A diplomat may negotiate one's release

 43 Give ideas to

 46 Projecting insect part

 47 He loved Hero

 48 Styles with foam

 50 Golfer's gouges

 52 Strict grammarian

 55 Neon and argon

 60 Women's links org.

 62 Toy from China, briefly?

 64 Nickname for Edward

 66 Texter's reaction to a joke

 

Solution

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