puzzle
ACROSS 1 Thorny flowers
6 World capital for fjord explorers
10 Pub projectile
14 "I give!"
15 Fishing platform
16 Notion
17 *Decorative border of many bridal veils
19 Melancholy
20 Poe's "radiant maiden"
21 Crop up
22 "High" waters
24 *Garden section for a leafy green
27 Small salamanders
29 Those, in Toledo
30 Radio host Glass
31 Big game settings
35 BBQ rod
39 Sty dweller
40 *Marred with graffiti, e.g.
42 "___ to Dirt" (Sharon Olds poem)
43 Casual meeting?
45 Relative of yoga pants
46 Cacophony
47 Human rights lawyer Clooney
49 Mexican street food items
51 *Extra charge at an airline check-in counter
57 Agatha Christie title?
58 Straighten
59 Rite sites
61 Omani currency
62 Symbols on a score, or what all letters in the starred clues' answers could be
66 Good name for a DNA researcher?
67 Jazzed about
68 Link with
69 Tolkien's tree creatures
70 Expense
71 Icee insert
DOWN 1 Massage
2 "You're Still the ___" (Shania Twain hit)
3 Ne'er-do-wells
4 Like Kourtney, among the Kardashian sisters
5 "I feel ___" ("You really get me")
6 Word after "soap" or "space"
7 "Ice Ice Baby," to "Play That Funky Music"
8 Femur's limb
9 Vein resource
10 Go off-topic
11 Make up lines
12 Find a new purpose for
13 Brought under control
18 Medic
21 Long, long ___
22 Scissors sounds
23 Hair-raising
25 Place to see umbrellas on a sunny day
26 Helpful trait
28 Feeling blue
32 Mark with a sale price, say
33 Green way to submit taxes
34 Pester
36 Audio show host
37 "Head over heels," e.g.
38 "Bear" has a different one than "bore"
41 Annual reason for lost sleep: Abbr.
44 Bickers at the bazaar
48 ___ bun (hairstyle)
50 Skillful
51 Flat-bottomed boat
52 From another planet
53 "Jack and the Beanstalk" figure
54 Refuses to put away any dishes?
55 "Middlemarch" writer George
56 List-ending abbr.
60 Industrious insects
62 Karaoke prop
63 Tres - dos
64 In-flight guess, briefly
65 Boar's pen pal
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