- 1 ATE
2D Verb that sounds like a number ... and is a letter backward
76598 - 2 EAR
25A Locale for a cochlea
57485 - 3 SEE
45D Go out with
44430 - 4 NEO
47A Prefix with soul or classical
43332 - 5 SEA
31A Kind of cucumber that isn't a vegetable
40370 - 6 ETNA
58A Mythical forge locale
36334 - 7 SHE
68D "There ___ Goes" (1988 hit by the La's)
35345 - 8 EDIT
42D Button added to Apple's Messages app in 2022
32302 - 9 REN
27D The Knights of ___, shadowy side group in "Star Wars"
27198 - 10 ESE
48A Spanish letter before te
26386 - 11 STU
30A ___ Holden, U.S. soccer player-turned-commentator
24190 - 12 ETTA
22D Singer James
23254 - 13 OER
36D Poetic contraction that omits a "v"
22248 - 14 ENTER
12D Return to a PC keyboard?
19217 - 15 NED
63D Subject of Homer's loathing on "The Simpsons"
18233 - 16 AKIN
59D Similar
18138 - 17 TOO
29A "You Come ___" (Robert Frost collection)
17189 - 18 DAB
1D Dollop
16124 - 19 AGAR
32D Food thickener
15172 - 20 DEER
21A Animal known for freezing under pressure
13154 - 21 DRY
28A Deadpan
13115 - 22 ANYA
39A Actress ___ Taylor-Joy
1358 - 23 FOE
66D One of "them"
12112 - 24 AFEW
41A Some
1057 - 25 ASIF
26D Cher's catchphrase in "Clueless"
9105 - 26 ENOKI
57D Skinny white mushroom
940 - 27 EWW
54A "Get that away from me!"
933 - 28 OFAGE
38D –
931 - 29 OBESE
7D Overly big
8145 - 30 STOW
40D Stash
8117 - 31 KID
9D Josh
867 - 32 UNCLE
53D Mr. Reed, to Jane Eyre
774 - 33 LOIN
23D Selection at the butcher's
769 - 34 USED
10D Put to work
6165 - 35 STALE
49D Far from fresh
684 - 36 MOVE
6D "Outta my way!"
652 - 37 PIECE
72A –
636 - 38 PRADA
46A Eponymous Italian designer Mario
633 - 39 ACC
67D Sports org. that now includes U.C. Berkeley and Stanford, strangely enough
560 - 40 ATONAL
14A Like some experimental music
554 - 41 LEAPT
15D Sprang (at)
544 - 42 ROM
3D CD follower
481 - 43 BERG
61D Floating mass
471 - 44 GENRE
51D Mixing thematic elements and tropes … or a feature of this puzzle?
468 - 45 GIG
50A One of many listed on the back of a tour shirt
454 - 46 AVI
64D Bird-related prefix
437 - 47 WOMEN
55D People celebrated worldwide on March 8
421 - 48 KNISH
4D Potato turnover
321 - 49 STREETS
56A Grid lines, perhaps
320 - 50 WAGS
43D Jokesters
319 - 51 MATED
11D Like some socks and chess players
313 - 52 TOUCHE
20D "Nice one, you got me"
39 - 53 CEN
8D One of 10 in a millennium: Abbr.
238 - 54 STATES
19A They might be all over the map
229 - 55 BEMINE
17A Valentine's Day sentiment
211 - 56 GSU
51A Atlanta sch.
26 - 57 ELCHAPO
22A Noted criminal extradited to the U.S. in 2017
25 - 58 SHEAF
40A Bundle of paper or grain
128 - 59 EDKOCH
70A 1980s New York mayor
119 - 60 OBTAIN
60A Get
115 - 61 MYSTERY
44A –
18 - 62 STIEB
52D Dave ___, seven-time All-Star pitcher for the Blue Jays
17 - 63 VENDETTA
18A More than a mere grudge
17 - 64 FANTASY
5D –
16 - 65 OBEISANT
16A Deferential
14 - 66 NICKNAME
62A Second calling?
13 - 67 TIZZY
33A Dither
13 - 68 LOOFAS
65A Items that gather lather
12 - 69 MAYEST
37D Might, to Shakespeare
12 - 70 ZAYN
34D One-named singer who's a former member of One Direction
12 - 71 11
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- 73 11
- 74 11
- 75 11
- 76 11
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- 78 11