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Across
  1. 3. One might be squeaky or shaped like a bone
  2. 5. Pesky summer swarm
  3. 7. Friend of Mickey & Goofy
  4. 9. Bottled water brand
  5. 11. How salt and pepper may be added, in a recipe
  6. 13. Christmas season
  7. 14. Commodity measured in barrels
  8. 16. Dart around
  9. 19. They brighten everyone's day
  10. 22. Fallback option
  11. 23. To date
  12. 25. Nursery rhyme about a disastrous trip up a hill
  13. 26. Sch. in Lower Manhattan
  14. 29. Many a customer service assistant, nowadays
  15. 30. Very small
  16. 32. Comedian Schumer or Poehler
  17. 34. Valvoline competitor
  18. 36. Like birthday candles before the party starts
  19. 37. Barely scratch (out)
  20. 38. How often many people brush their teeth (avert your eyes, dentists!)
  21. 43. "____ all good!"
  22. 45. Belly
  23. 46. Work with needle and thread
  24. 47. Word repeated in a double negative
  25. 48. ____ Mahal
  26. 51. The Bible has and Old and New one
  27. 53. Fashion magazine with a palindromic name
  28. 54. "Four score and seven years ____."
  29. 55. Eight-armed creatures
  30. 59. Blackjack card worth 1 or 11
  31. 61. Actress Kendrick
  32. 62. How heavy metal bands typically play
  33. 63. Pass idly, as time
  34. 64. Subject of a will
  35. 67. Place for a snuggly cat
  36. 70. Drunk-ish
  37. 71. Angler's supply
  38. 72. Stories
  39. 74. Acorn-bearing tree
Down
  1. 1. Beverage with a Big Mac, perhaps
  2. 2. Animal on the state seal of Maine
  3. 3. "Submit by" dates
  4. 4. Operatic highlight
  5. 6. Nickname for the World Series... or what you might call 17-, 28- or 45- Across
  6. 8. Obstacle for a would-be castle attacker
  7. 10. Ginormous
  8. 12. Energy, idiomatically
  9. 15. Flat tire's lack
  10. 17. Nursery rhyme about the hazards of decaying infrastructure
  11. 18. Quality of a hoarse voice
  12. 20. Downhill skiing event
  13. 21. Respond to a stimulus
  14. 22. Susceptible to sunburn
  15. 24. R&B singer Baker
  16. 27. Doesn't waste
  17. 28. ____ carte
  18. 31. "Napoleon Crossing the ___" (painting series)
  19. 32. Kind of clock that's ultraprecise
  20. 33. Country south of Saudi Arabia
  21. 35. Hawaiian taro dish
  22. 39. Dine
  23. 40. Turn at the turntables, for short
  24. 41. "My Zoom joke flopped... I guess it's not remotely funny," e.g.
  25. 42. π˜›π˜©π˜ͺ𝘴 𝘡𝘺𝘱𝘦𝘧𝘒𝘀𝘦
  26. 44. Hearty meal in a bowl
  27. 49. ___ Z, a.k.a Zoomers
  28. 50. Nursery rhyme about the perils of sitting on a wall
  29. 52. Sparkly headwear
  30. 56. Water, in French
  31. 57. Purpose
  32. 58. Marx who co-wrote "The Communist Manifesto"
  33. 60. ___ Island (historic entry point for immigrants)
  34. 65. Lacking slack
  35. 66. Poet S. Vincent Millay
  36. 68. Hypotheticals
  37. 69. Verbalize
  38. 72. Knotted neckwear
  39. 73. Southeast Asian language