Across

1. Brewery need

5. Big East team

10. Overactors

14. Get ___ on the back

15. Give extreme unction to, old-style

16. Would-be MD's course

17. Parade honoree

18. Opposition

20. “The World ___ ___ ___,” John Irving novel

22. Where the buck stops?

23. Lollapalooza

24. Sloppy digs

27. Undivided

29. ___ rasa (clean slate)

34. “A Prayer for ___ ___,” John Irving novel

38. “The ___ New Hampshire,” John Irving novel

39. Cover with wax

40. Cut's partner

42. Knife

43. Meat and vegetables on a skewer

45. Connecting flight?

47. Declares

49. Norma ___

50. Riddle-me-___

51. Sighs of relief

54. Indy 500 month

56. “The ___ ___ ___,” John Irving novel and movie

64. Publicist

65. Morning haze

66. Augur

67. Peep show

68. Film rating org.

69. Equal

70. Goose genus

71. Part of BYOB

Down

1. “Very funny!”

2. Oil cartel acronym

3. Green spot in Paris

4. Prepared to sing the national anthem

5. Inveterate

6. “Dedicated to the ___ Love”

7. Kind of question

8. Bring into a line

9. Sonnet ender

10. Dutch name of The Hague

11. Oscar winner Paquin

12. Large, in combinations

13. Rung

19. Scroll in an ark

21. Scope

24. Punches

25. Bird word

26. ___ Buena (island in San Francisco Bay)

28. Drum sites

30. Anjou kin

31. ___ Pradesh (Indian state)

32. Contract

33. Pulitzer dramatist: 1994

35. Like some drinks

36. It may be picked

37. “A Widow for One ___,” John Irving novel

41. Distance across a circle

44. “Setting Free the ___,” John Irving novel

46. Posterior

48. Desert in N Africa

52. Hulk of wrestling

53. Court figures

55. Scrumptious

56. Navy noncoms

57. Role for Shirley

58. Judge

59. Crossword worker?

60. Large knife

61. T'ang dynasty poet

62. Jacob tricked him

63. *

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