LIFE / CULTURE
Crossword
Published: Jan 06, 2022 06:32 PM
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 ACROSS


  1 Soak (up)

  4 Bottle lid

  7 It cuts with the grain

 13 One might be fraternal

 15 National bird of Australia

 16 Pop star Grande

 17 Place that accepts plastic

 20 Yearly

 21 Colorful fish in a pond

 22 Stitches

 23 Last letter in the Greek spelling of "Cyclops"

 24 Sch. in Cambridge

 26 "___ Week" (Barenaked Ladies hit)

 28 Worker with a stop sign

 35 Peter Hernandez, ___ Bruno Mars

 36 Catch some rays

 37 "Wowzers!"

 38 What a bloodhound tracks

 40 Toupee, slangily

 42 Astronomer Carl

 43 Dehydrate

 44 Org. with many return envelopes?

 46 Web destination

 47 Hook, line, sinker, etc.

 51 Keanu's role in "The Matrix"

 52 Arid

 53 Chatterbox's "gift"

 56 SIMPLE savings plans, e.g.

 60 Graffiti, to some

 62 Llama's smaller relative

 64 Stereotypical nerd accessory, or a punny hint to the football positions at the ends of 17-, 28- and 47-Across

 67 Look up to

 68 Curve

 69 Like feet after a long hike

 70 Less shallow

 71 "I'm not impressed"

 72 ICU workers


DOWN

  1 Helmet fastener

  2 Olympic legend Jesse

  3 Folks with a blanket and basket, say

  4 Musician such as Yo-Yo Ma

  5 Buddy, in Bordeaux

  6 Trick, slangily

  7 Competing on a track

  8 Wrath

  9 Strikes topple them

 10 Make full

 11 Once more

 12 Armed conflicts

 14 Sch. in Greenwich Village

 18 Clothing for hunting, briefly

 19 Hoodlum

 25 Pre-Soviet ruler

 27 They often clash in Hollywood

 29 Dude ___ (vacation spot)

 30 Arctic native

 31 Option if one wants to make a move?

 32 Site with content from many sites

 33 Genuine

 34 Locale for thieves

 35 Inch-long berry

 38 Coppertone letters

 39 Like insubstantial evidence

 41 June honoree, familiarly

 45 Hit the cue ball into a pocket

 48 More tidy

 49 Trail mix

 50 Actor Chandler

 54 Part of a squirrel's hoard

 55 Uncovers

 56 Tablet with a mini variety

 57 Traveled on a Harley

 58 Peak

 59 Ditch, as a class

 61 Airport conveyance

 63 Alternatives to Macs

 65 Before, in a sonnet

 66 Mineral deposit
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