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 ACROSS



  1 Like some grapes

  5 Injure

  9 Burst of growth

 14 Part of a poker pot

 15 Soothing substance

 16 Home of the Vietnamese Women's Museum

 17 *Assurances?

 19 Creme de la creme

 20 Middle Eastern leader: Var.

 21 Academic stretch

 23 Diva's performance

 25 Honey ___ bread

 26 *Bicycle parts with grips?

 30 Jelly holder

 33 A Gershwin brother

 34 Man in England, for one?

 35 Irish, perhaps

 38 Number of seas

 40 Actress Longoria

 42 Insect that can hold its breath for 40 minutes, informally

 43 Traps

 45 "Back in the ___" (Beatles title)

 47 Big name in TVs

 48 Part of IPA

 49 *Make uppercase?

 52 Christmas meat

 53 Biography beginning?

 54 Forbid

 59 Optometry school student, aptly

 62 Stick-on strip

 63 *Disintegrate? (Bonus: Note what the ends of the starred clues' answers spell)

 66 Alternative to Helvetica

 67 Be the headliner (in)

 68 British boys' school

 69 More than wants

 70 Bills featuring the Treasury Building

 71 It may end with a kiss

DOWN

  1 Slump

  2 Unpleasant responsibility

  3 Jazz's state

  4 Peruse again

  5 They're handy for emotional moments

  6 PC key used with F4

  7 Becomes inedible

  8 Part of an astronomical shower

  9 Word before "music" or "metal"

 10 Buddies

 11 Military subgroup

 12 Memorization method

 13 Seating level

 18 Company concerned with overbooking

 22 Antony or Anthony

 24 Competent

 26 Angry audience member's sound

 27 Where wrestlers face off

 28 Part of USNA

 29 Gun, as an engine

 30 Pop icon who dated A-Rod

 31 Classic name in video games

 32 Christina of 1991's "The Addams Family"

 36 Book blunder

 37 Tea with a masala variety

 39 Prior to, poetically

 41 ___ Minor (much of Turkey)

 44 Healing sign

 46 Dazed states

 50 In the thick of

 51 Hacked (off)

 52 They're alive in "The Sound of Music"

 54 Strategy

 55 Seldom seen

 56 Theatrical award

 57 Part of a baby that must be supported

 58 French word before and after "a"

 60 Smidgen

 61 Plunder

 64 Fire from a job

 65 ___-size-fits-all

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