ACROSS

1. “Solitude” poet*

12. Float

13. Pubescent woe

14. Popular 2018 Netflix show

16. Charon’s fee

17. Strong electric battery charge, abbr.

18. Split ___

20. Length x width x height, for short

21. It might be baked on Thanksgiving

22. Firmly ___

24. C’est la ___

26. A director might shout this

28. Star Road character

29. Not truths

31. Berries used to flavor gin

32. Second-largest U.S. city

33. What’s missing from the byline… or, what connects all the starred clues

35. Charlotte, Emily, or Anne

37. Urinary or digestive, for example

40. Grp. that might have rules for your lawn, for example

41. ____ Lumpur

42. Therefore

43. When repeated, a famous Lady

44. Not second

45. “TTYL!”

47. Not a woman or a man, abbr.

49. Leftovers

51. Schindler’s List actor

53. A long, long way to run?

54. A Man Called ____

55. Feminine title

56. Here or there, in German

57. An Indigenous person of the Arctic

59. Gentleman 

61. Identity housing opt. on South Campus

64. Real name of “Royals” singer*

DOWN

1. How the Grinch Stole Christmas town

2. “Peach Scone” Johnson

3. Develop 

4. It might be electric

5. Adobe editing feature, abbr.

6. Aspect of some music festivals

7. British abbr. for toilet

8. Newton’s first law of motion

9. Former Tonight Show host Jay

10. Shellfish delicacy

11. Hugs and kisses

15. Ctrl + Z

17. Opposite of bye

19. Mark a page

21. Where little kids run, abbr.

23. French preposition

25. “It ___ what it ___”

27. What most gasoline is these days

30. Some add it after LGBTQ

31. The First Lady of the Children’s Folk Song*

34. @

35. Comedian Burnham

36. Many live in the New York subway

37. Of the walking or street variety

38. ___ the World Turns

39. Perplexed, in Spanish

40. Legal name of La Casa Hispánica

43. Fool

46. Village Housing option on North Campus

48. Grassroots leader in the civil rights movement*

50. Prefix with phone or gram

52. Oberlin College athlete grp.

55. “Boo’d Up” singer*

58. Female counterpart of a monk

60. Spanish “y” sound

63. When repeated three times, Santa’s catchphrase

1. Watchable by

5. Makeup of a cloud, perhaps

10. ___ to USB adapter

14. Write in C#

15. Zoom component

16. Ultra-wide shoe

17. ___ red

18. Thing above a bucket, sometimes

19. The one that’s not culture

20. Like 14-across vis-a-vis 17-across, maybe

23. Shares piece of writing from memory

24. Aussie slang for relatives

27. Plural of where a train would pull into, abbr.

28. Like this grid’s symmetry upon close inspection

32. Spike The Dragon from My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic would snack on this

34. Aloe vera and long-lasting nail polish are examples of this

35. Former important deet for an Obie ordering a package

36. Regal rival

39. Home to Smith, Hampshire, and Holyoke

42. French relative of “mon”

43. Japan’s first capital

45. Palme ___: Cannes film prize

46. The Phanerozoic is one

48. How one might describe the nature of this puzzle (although I’d beg to differ)

51. Schlemiels

54. Beloved lighter

55. “Thou ___ false,” but fickle, according to Byron

57. With “the,” time at which this puzzle was definitely NOT made

61. Arizona tribe

63. Genre of Star Wars

64. Buds

66. Like Beethoven

67. Lore-accurate

68. Places where the Daily Racing Form is read, in brief

69. 15-Across industry giant

70. “Laborare est ___” (“to work is to pray”)

71. Ellington’s “Take ___ Train”

DOWN

1. Come up, or go down

2. Punny reply to “Whose bills are these?”

3. Zealous type

4. Rife, like a reef

5. Barrel measure

6. Practice in which nothing goes on?

7. Bldg. annex

8. ___ knot

9. Number

10. Frigate cry

11. Dilapidated

12. Satisfied, in a way

13. Good ending?

21. On the Aegean, for example

22. Taxing grp.

25. “How silly ___!”

26. Some sea rtes.

29. Golden ___(seniors)

30. Prefix with plunk

31. End to an ambiguous threat

33. LI x L

36. 1998 film that shortly preceded A Bug’s Life

37. Half portion at a luau?

38. Parisian’s skillet

40. Insult in a classic Vine about throwing paper

41. Gear part

44. Louden

47. Micro-machine

49. Fair-hiring letters

50. Posed, as for a portrait

52. Critical down

53. Nightclub flasher

56. Main outlet

58. Instagram for the extra-artsy

59. Chevy Bolt, e.g.

60. Little Girl Blue singer Simone

61. Some Vizios or Samsungs

62. War on poverty org. (not to be confused with 49-down)

65. Nine-digit issuer

1. Former presidential candidate Ralph

6. Fat from a pig

10. Some are haunted by theirs

14. Wipe

15. Plains people of the Midwest

16. Japanese folkloric demons

17. Yiddish busybody

18. An organized collection of protons, neutrons, and electrons

19. Constellation representing an ancient instrument

20. ABC sitcom with Jesse Tyler Ferguson

23. State without proof

24. Exclamation of Boston fanatics

28. Carly __ Jepsen

29. Verbal hesitations

31. Expression often accompanied by a thumbs up

32. Result of a failed breathalyzer test

33. Endangering

36. Latin “others”

39. It may be crude, or refined

40. Prophetic occurrence

41. TV show featuring many suitors, with “The”

46. Fib

47. PC linkup

48. Big Californian coastline

49. Drink in small increments

52. Bury

54. Airs an episode of 41-Across from 2019, say

56. Famed Robin Williams TV show

60. What yeast makes bread do

63. Green Gables girl

64. Vision-related

65. Bit___

66. Smokeshows

67. Bloodsucker

68. Members of a colony

69. Heavily armed police unit

70. Speak pompously

DOWN

1. Brazilian soccer star

2. Nipple ring

3. Pamper a baby

4. Cosmetics giant Lauder

5. Debate again

6. Idle

7. Lead-in to “girl” or “boy”

8. Enclosed space

9. Percy Jackson, for one

10. Small projecting growth

11. Whichever

12. Knight’s title

13. Airport org.

21. Captain of Jules Verne novels

22. Tricky deity of Marvel fame

25. Take ___ view of

26. Melody

27. Gesture to communicate non-verbally

30. Little or big cuddler

31. Provence city

33. Rastafarian God

34. Gaseous atmospheric mixture

35. Lenny’s daughter

36. Willing and ___

37. Reposed

38. “Law and Order: SVU” actor

42. Beloved red muppet

43. Disney XD show about superhuman teens

44. Colloquial term for feces

45. Trembling effect in music 

49. Beverage heated with solar power

50. Charge with 

51. Greek goddess of the soul

53. Black cats, e.g.

55. More yellow, as a banana

57. Gnu homonym

58. First name of main actress in Pitch Perfect franchise

59. Bird’s home

60. It might be written on a Strokes album cover, or a microwave

61. Charged particle

62. What you might tell an unruly dog

1. Unit of brightness for screens

5. Lower backbones

10. “I’m gonna pass on that…”

14. Prefix with -matic

15. ___ mignon 

16. ___fried’s dragon

17. Underwater woodland

19. The other authors, briefly

20. Japanese fried cutlets dish

21. *

23. International association for (including, but not limited to) studies and surfing

24. Go, to a Scot

26. Over and over and over…

27. What the starred clues clearly are, or a descriptor of American suburbia

31. Power tools company

34. The transparent part of glasses

35. “You Broke Me First” singer Tate Mc___

36. Hertz competitor

37. Seth MacFarlane stuffed toy

38. Programming for older viewers

39. Get ___ of

40. Bring ___ (two words)

42. *

44. Habitual lifter

47. The guy with the fables

48. Choose, with “for”

49. On the Mtns in the morning?

52. Certain Medieval artilleryman

55. Type of khaki pant

57. Mil. unit

58. *Bows*/ what one might say while bowing

60. ____ Stanley Gardner (Perry Mason creator)

61. ____way to Heaven

62. Plural of an Oberlin street, similar to Maple and Elm

63. One who colors fabrics

64. Connecting the dots (to)

65. “I ___, I float, I fleetly flee, I fly”

DOWN

1. Point of commonality between leading female GOP presidential candidate and Review Editor-in-Chief 

2. Light bulbs, figuratively

3. ____whirl, a popular carnival ride

4. Soaks 

5. Bay Area airport

6. Bouncy mattress

7. One of three fictional mermaids in a hit 2000s TV show

8. Molded differently

9. Abbreviation for the position held by Jeff Sessions from 2017–2018

10. Password partner, often

11. Land close to home

12. Clean

13. To stare, mouth agape

18. Centri____ force

22. In, in French 

25. Jazz Pianist Tatum 

27. Job for un détective privé

28. Celebrated anonymous Italian author Ferrante

29. A rose by any other ___ would smell as sweet

30. Shade of blue

31. One of two sides in the movie franchise Star Wars 

32. How Perry the Platypus might describe Doctor Doofenshmirtz

33. 0.5 setting

37. “Free Fallin’” and “American Girl” singer

38. Primary psychoactive compound in cannabis

40. “Make ___”(two words): “Star Trek” Catchphrase

41. *

42. Aglet, to a shoelace

43. “Smart” accessory

45. *Painter, with Canadian accent 

46. What a weather reporter might say on a sunny day

49. *

50. Edible Japanese mushroom

51. 0/100, say

52. Street ___

53. Eagle’s nest: Var.

54. Morales of “Ozark”

56. The Devil’s cloven ___

59.Houston’s ___ Stadium

1. ___ Sutra

5. European crow

9. Nine-member band

14. “It is ___less, tasteless, dissolves instantly in liquid, and is among the more deadly poisons known to man”

15. Potent prefix

16. Mexican street corn

17. Figs.

18. Texan’s preferred second-person pronoun

19. Tim ___, director of the Oberlin Contemporary Music Ensemble

20. Body of knowledge that stems from textual analysis, and a field for 25-, 48-, and 57-Across

23. Lacking functional harmony, as of a musical work

24. Unit of 16-Across

25. “Once we think of Orientalism as a Western projection … we will encounter few surprises” -____

30. Place to take a stroll near campus, for short

33. Name originating from the Hebrew for “ascent”

34. “I had a great time tonight” reply

37. Medieval body armor 

39. Tear on the soccer pitch

41. Autumnal ailments

42. Shakes on

45. Dawn goddess

47. Max. or min.

48. “Masculine and feminine roles are not biologically fixed but socially constructed” – ___

52. A dove’s gentle cry

53. Seldom-used Oberlin email suffix

57. “In its function, the power to punish is not essentially different from that of curing or educating.”- ___

62. Forbidden

63. __ meets West

64. Mark as important

65. Ksoik ekop gninid supmac

66. Funny

67. Obnoxiously large volume

68. Diamond unit

69. Carioca’s greetings

70. Pea variant

DOWN

1. Down Under slumberer

2. Fess up (to)

3. “Live Free or Die,” for New Hampshire

4. ___ Lupin (Maurice Leblanc novel)

5. Her highness’ preferred pronoun

6. Actor Sy of Netflix’s Lupin

7. Just

8. Nae, not skirted!

9. These begin with every presidential inauguration

10. Sonny Rollins tune… or another word for margarine

11. Dark film genre

12. Place to order some customware

13. French second-person possessive pronoun (pl.)

21. Sick

22. ___ go at

26. In the style of

27. Houston univ.

28. Middle Eastern military

29. Salmon garnish, sometimes

30. Key with three sharps (abbr.)

31. Mixture that can be made with lamb or beef… or whatever, really

32. One of many antagonists in a 1963 Hitchcock film

35. Drunken charge

36. Belief system suffix

38. Hawaiian garland

40. His wife was turned into a pillar of salt

43. Engrave with acid

44. “Old Brown ___” (George Harrison)

46. Goes Sherlock-mode

49. Cuban song genre that shares its name with a Ravel composition

50. “Yadda yadda,” abbr.

51. Ridicules, sometimes with an audience

54. “___ a limb”

55. Acrimonious Andean herd animal

56. Cause to buy Throat Coat

57. Papa’s partner

58. Letter-shaped construction beam

59. VERY deep sleep

60. Get an F

61. Hark! It’s an org. with a Tank and a Keep!

62. Transient ___ Disorder

1. Learning and ____ (OC motto)

6. Pout about

10. Pole, e.g.

14. Lyric poem

15. Relative of a cor anglais

16. Jacques of French cinema, or a 6ix9ine song

17. “… What a way to make a livin’”

19. It might be pumped… or mined

20. Duchamp or Dalí

21. Like most nursing home residents

23. GPS suggestions, abbr.

25. Pastoral prose

26. “… Another day older and deeper in debt”

32. Packing

33. Head honcho

34. Deg. for a 15-Across player

37. Busy, with “up”

38. Pisa dough?

40. Doe’s beau

41. ID on a 1040

42. ____ facto

43. Pious

44. “… I wish it was Sunday”

47. ____ nova

51. “Nuts!”

52. Pretend

55. “See ya later”

60. Not this

61. Worker with a big set of keys

63. Apple discard

64. Fictional company responsible for the “Instant Road” and “Giant Rubber Band” 

65. Fields of expertise

66. With 67- and 68-Across “… And I’ve been workin’ like a dog”

67. See 66-Across

68. See 66-Across

DOWN

1. Loan

2. Samoan capital

3. Fuse together, as atoms

4. Music halls (Greek)

5. In emeritus, say

6. Directive for a stick of butter

7. Semper ___ sub ___ (Latin proverb)

8. “All you need,” according to The Beatles

9. Ship’s spine, so to speak

10. Penned like a pig

11. King or bird

12. Ring-shaped island

13. LPs and 45s

18. Bone: prefix

22. It may be compact

24. Boost for a gym rat

26. Seniors’ woes

27. Good-looking flower?

28. Marvel mutants

29. TV’s Lasso

30. Palindromic name in kitchenware

31. Wii ancestor

34. Home to Azzie’s and A–Zs

35. Sch. near Beverly Hills

36. Grey Goose competitor

38. Air-quality watchdog

39. Admiral’s org.

40. “Appétit” lead-in

42. “___ happy as can be”

43. Sunbathed

45. The Weird Sisters in Macbeth, for instance

46. Speedy shark

47. Cookie quantity

48. Golf great Lorena

49. Drummer on 66–68-Across

50. Fully-satisfied

53. Rectangular apple

54. Pay stub abbr.

56. Cosmonaut Gagarin, first human in space

57. Rare blood type, for short

58. Casual assent

59. Shakespeare’s “once”

62. Poehler of Parks and Recreation

DOWN
1. Record company founded by Clive Davis:
2. Trim down?:
3. Hack into:
4. Apt rhyme with stunk:
5. Mexican wolf:
6. Therapistsʼ org.:
7. Revenue figure:
8. Pant:
9. Represented with octagonal sign:
10. Played (with):
11. Like plants, to a carnivore:
12. Woos:
13. Boils up:
15. 9-down, Fr.:
23. Happens to:
24. Floods:
27. Brightest star in Cygnus:
28. Ran 100m:
30. Hoover, for one:
32. Caesarʼs 605:
33. Cultural ancestry:
34. Brought to life:
35. Nomad:
36. U.S. Marines motto:
38. “Yes you do!” rebuttal:
41. Norwegian king, 995–1000:
42. Scribeʼs bottle-full:
43. Commercial space?:
44. Bird, in Brittany:
46. Jason of Game of Thrones:
48. Rice dish, Var.:
50. She-bears, Sp.:
52. Gyro meat:
55. Frequent subject of a shoulder tattoo:

1. Kate Bush debut studio album
10. Tractor trailer
11. Cicero or Seneca
12. Athletic wear brand __lemon
15. Grain container
16. Fruit juice often paired with vodka (abbr.)
17. Yeast or baking soda in bread
21. Cartwheel with no hands
22. A necessary service that may cost over $1,000 (abbr.)
24. Garden guardian
26. Prepare milk for a latte

29. They may be guided by a compass

31. Sound made by 37-across
32. __ and flow
34. Gold bar
35. Amandla Stenberg’s breakout role
36. Hoppy beer style
37. Amphibious ExCo subject
39. Victorian-inspired Japanese fashion
43. Clue weapon not made of metal
45. 2017 thriller __ Blonde
46. More cruel
48. Bob-tailed animal in “Jingle Bells”
49. The Aegean, for one

50. Part shared by insects and radios

Down

1. Throat tissue often removed

2. Oberlin English program for world language speakers
3. “Flamingo” alternative trio
4. Meek Mill’s “__ Boss”

5. SF-based publisher of Ginsberg’s Howl and Other Poems

6. A texter’s agreement
7. Cook in shallow oil

8. Appalachian instrument favored by Joni Mitchell

9. Yoruba god of war and metal
13. Containers for ashes
14. A gamerʼs scapegoat
18. The Sims developer (abbr.)

19. Category of aquatic photosynthesizers

20. “No one” in Latin
23. Thin as spiders’ silk
25. Professional mediator
26. The end of a French fish
27. Feminist often featured on socks and candles
28. Type of bird closely related to chickadees
30. The Copper State
31. __ Believe It or Not!
33. __-lette
38. At the exact right moment
40. Archaeologist Croft
41. Japanese fighting dog
42. Religious utterance
43. A Flock of Seagulls’ “I __ (So Far Away)”
44. They may be square in round holes