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