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 Across 
 1. Bull markets 
 4. Pillow covers 
 9. High school  
 formal dance 
 13. ___ juice (milk) 
 14. Type of poem,  
 e.g. ode 
 15. Allotment 
 16. Public place in  
 ancient Greece for  
 athletes 
 18. Small coins of  
 ancient Greece 
 19. Centers 
 20. Highest heaven 
 22. Slow-witted  
 person (British) 
 23. Marienbad,  
 for one 
 24. “___ Maria” 
 25. “For ___ a jolly  
 ...” (contraction) 
 26. 007, for one 
 28. Head newspaperman 
 31. Crumbs 
 33. Diacritic mark  
 over German  
 vowels 
 36. Enthralling  
 novel or play 
 40. Big test 
 41. Convene 
 44. Casual eatery 
 47. “___ rang?” 
 50. “Tarzan” extra 
 51. Charlotte-to- 
 Raleigh dir. 
 52. The “p” in  
 m.p.g. 
 55. Leader born in  
 Georgia, Russia 
 9 
 57. Improbable  
 story (2 wds) 
 60. Medieval  
 surcoat 
 61. Iron/nickel/ 
 carbon alloy used  
 in watches 
 62. Anesthetized 
 65. Industrious 
 66. Complain 
 67. Armageddon 
 68. European language 
 69. Cat calls 
 70. Undertake, with  
 “out” 
 Down 
 1. Person in a  
 mask, baseball 
 2. One who hunts  
 illegally on another’s  
 property 
 3. Musicians who  
 perform individually 
 4. Makes smooth  
 and glossy 
 5. European mint  
 used in perfume 
 6. “A jealous mistress”: 
  Emerson 
 7. Entangles 
 8. Little rascal 
 9. Dock 
 10. Echo 
 11. Printed sheet  
 of paper folded  
 three times 
 12. Nastier 
 15. Carry on 
 17. Parenthesis,  
 essentially 
 21. Song of joy 
 22. Even if, briefly 
 27. Christmas  
 season 
 29. Clinker 
 30. Any thing 
 32. Advance,  
 slangily 
 34. “Dilbert”  
 cartoonist Scott  
 Adams has one:  
 Abbr. 
 35. Easter flower 
 37. “To ___ is  
 human ...” 
 38. Drug to treat  
 Parkinson’s disease  
 (hyphenated) 
 39. Understands  
 clearly 
 42. Lacking vigor 
 43. Big ___  
 Conference 
 44. Happen to 
 45. Comparatively  
 cockamamie 
 46. Individuals 
 48. Bony 
 49. 180’s (hyphenated) 
 53. Mournful poem 
 54. Back in 
 56. “Gimme ___!”  
 (start of an Iowa  
 State cheer) (2  
 wds) 
 58. Put on board,  
 as cargo 
 59. “Don’t give up!” 
 63. “___ do you  
 do?” 
 64. “Silent Spring”  
 subject (abbrev.)  
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