ACROSS

1. Went first

7. Patented product names: Abbr.

10. Place for a lecture

14. It may be artificially sweetened

15. Acorn maker

16. Quito's country: Abbr.

17. Fair-haired one

20. Pressure unit

21. “__ won't be afraid”: “Stand By Me” lyric

22. Drain

23. Like a storied duckling

26. Big jerk

28. Came upon

31. Vile or shameful action

37. Dry gulch

39. High rank

40. Petri dish gel

41. Own, to a Scot

42. Some

43. Wrong

46. Horse pen

48. Attainments of a scholar

50. One or more

51. Memo letters

52. Hieroglyphic creatures

54. __ Lama

58. Heap

60. Japanese aborigine

64. Three sun followers

68. __ buco

69. Eastern title

70. Kind of inspection

71. Drenches

72. Mahayana movement of Buddhism

73. Reaper's tool

DOWN

1. Shopper's notes

2. Prefix with plasm

3. Writer Earl ___ Biggers

4. Japanese city

5. Small number

6. Tide rival

7. Matador's foe

8. Bordering on the sea

9. Blue shade

10. Tiller

11. Rent-__ (security guard)

12. Fontanne's dramatic partner

13. Tramp's love

18. Greek war goddess

19. Commenced

24. Log Cabin Republican

25. Wall St. deal

27. Prefix with lateral

28. Sirs' counterparts

29. Suffix meaning “sensitive to”

30. Rubbish

32. Great wealth

33. Go like mad

34. Prefix with red or structure

35. Main

36. Afresh

38. “___ take arms against a sea of troubles”: Hamlet

41. Patrimony

44. 1966 movie or song hit

45. Mary ___ cosmetics

46. USSR successor

47. Like an ant.

49. Put up

53. Pert

54. RAF decorations

55. Facetious “I see”

56. Speech defect

57. Years abroad

59. ___ empty stomach

61. “But __ art?”

62. Ger. neighbor

63. Certain plaintiff, at law

65. Tornadic Looney Tunes devil, for short

66. Part of UCLA

67. Mandela's org.

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