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 ACROSS

  1 Natural balm

  5 Rolaids competitor

  9 Extremely eager

 13 City near Cologne

 14 Social call

 15 Drink with a nose

 16 Part of an ice sculpture's head?

 18 "I saw ___ sitting on a seesaw"

 19 ___ orientation

 20 Dirty stuff

 22 Checker's target, briefly

 23 Long narrative poem

 25 Gross-out movie measure?

 27 Summer hrs. in the Rockies

 30 Buddies

 32 ___ & the Gang

 33 "I'm impressed!"

 34 O'Day or Baker

 36 Iridescent gem

 39 Fails in a Homeric invocation?

 43 Thus

 44 Wild ride at a rodeo

 45 "Fatal Affair" star Long

 46 Obsessive whale hunter of fiction

 49 Baseball glove

 50 Melancholy

 51 Billboard promoting chain mail?

 54 Faucet problem

 56 Wax maker

 57 Lake by the Ontario Peninsula

 59 Source of bafflement

 63 Too

 65 Certain airport worker's skill?

 67 King David's biblical predecessor

 68 Gold bar

 69 Fork part

 70 What a PR blitz generates

 71 Toward the rising sun

 72 They're attracted to sweets

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  1 Basics

  2 Folk wisdom

  3 Gemstone with bands

  4 Happen next

  5 Up to, briefly

  6 Employs

  7 Florida city where the Herald is circulated

  8 Sounded, like an hour

  9 Wonderment

 10 Wordless plays on words

 11 Unfitting

 12 Low card

 14 Courageous

 17 New York's ___ Zee Bridge

 21 Boxing ref's ruling

 24 Ascend Everest, maybe

 26 "A ___ of One's Own" (Virginia Woolf book)

 27 Partner of mean and median

 28 Way in

 29 "You're busted!"

 31 Violent weather

 35 Eschew

 37 Where most people live

 38 Show the way

 40 Neighborhood in London or New York

 41 Beg

 42 Making a production?

 47 "You ___ here"

 48 Doll with a Malibu variety

 51 Put to shame

 52 Pass along

 53 Roman Artemis

 55 Michelangelo work featuring Mary

 58 It's always legal to poach them

 60 Profit

 61 Coin source

 62 City west of Cedar Rapids

 64 Iberian cheer

 66 Understood

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