Across
- 1. It's where the heart is
- 5. Famous last words
- 8. Cleaned house
- 9. Microstate country in the Pyranees
- 11. Indigenous Arctician
- 12. five-stringed instrument most often associated with folk and country music
- 15. SE Asian island-country north of Manila
- 16. Time-sensitive exclamation of relief
- 18. What a 49ers' sack may include?
- 20. Locale brewing hard-to-understand dialect, ironically.
- 24. Witticisms, or, a feature of this puzzle
- 26. Terrible Russian dictator
- 27. Central American country to set precedent in accepting Bitcoin as legal tender in 2021.
- 29. 1970 NBA MVP
- 30. Mohammed's final destination
- 31. Woe in the field, say
- 34. Home to Zion
- 40. Tree members
- 41. Prod
- 43. ___ Fighters
- 45. Roughly
- 48. Electric rockers of Australia
- 49. Rival
- 51. Mode of transportation for an A-lister, perhaps?
- 53. World's 2nd largest health insurer, abb.
- 54. Story meant to provide contextual insight?
- 56. Only US president with two non-consecutive terms
- 57. Part of a horned-beast frequently used to describe sporty precision
- 59. It's as good as mine, perhaps.
- 62. Bode
- 63. Imagine ___
- 65. The television, in dated slang
- 66. Word after "mine" or "witch"
- 69. "That's right!"
- 73. Team of NFLer Lawrence Taylor, familiarly
- 74. How Angelina Jolie-played character "Lara Croft" is better known
- 75. It's both an NYC and English neighborhood
- 76. Endings in northwest Asia
- 78. "Acting" governor and president
- 80. Author of "The Leviathan"
- 82. It keeps the man down!
- 83. Rigged
- 84. Acronym for 60's HOF rock band who produced "Fortunate Son" and "Green River"
- 86. The final goal of Buddhism, perhaps
Down
- 2. Harvard and Fenway
- 3. Wonder Woman (2017) lead
- 4. In case of
- 6. US War Hero turned questionable president of Reconstruction Era
- 7. A short way in
- 10. "It may not mean much to you", in text-speak
- 11. Xi or Mao, to China
- 12. Country with largest share of Portueguese speakers
- 13. Uniquely original
- 14. It's a stretch?
- 17. Bugs on the road
- 19. Famous artistic satirizer of many a hit song?
- 21. Royal M.L.B. achievement?
- 22. A guide to Shakespeare, familiarly.
- 23. Matched, in a casino.
- 25. Flop
- 28. Flightless bird of Liberty Mutual ads
- 32. Intercontinental region that doesn't sound like it's mine, so to speak.
- 33. Famous former prison of the Bay
- 35. Line of clothing
- 36. Modern-day Ottoman Empire
- 37. It means there's no end
- 38. A not-so-wavy Medieval institution that was predicated on long-term slavery
- 39. Father of North West?
- 41. Often paired with "neither"
- 42. Venue with redundant phrasing if considered dentally?
- 44. Inferred
- 45. US era of opulent materialism and moving-and-shaking in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with "the"
- 46. Region with the highest share of expats
- 47. 2021 Time's Man of the Year
- 50. Award for growth
- 52. MSG, to a New Yorker
- 55. NorCal mountain or nickname for all-time Yankees' great
- 58. Ruler abolished in 1979
- 60. Modern slang for declaring who's the best?
- 61. Word leading in to "valley" or "implant".
- 64. Fashion giant and producer of some WWII uniforms
- 67. Runways for flyers
- 68. Uber popular Miami music festival
- 70. Put an end to
- 71. I'm sure!
- 72. Course of actions, perhaps?
- 77. A fruity spread or type of band?
- 79. Meal in Spain.
- 80. Manifestations that must be busily tended to
- 81. German city
- 85. A third wheel might sleep on this.
