Across

1 Neck and neck

9 Orange Minecraft wood

15 What a basketball player is to three squirrels in a trenchcoat, for example

16 Painfully

17 Turf’s Spotlights were mistaken for this Aurora

18 The “I” of E. I. Du Pont

19 “Chandelier” singer

20 1973 Aerosmith hit

22 Nike competitor

25 Cocktail perfect for people switching majors to Information Science

29 ___ to (took care of)

31 Aang and Korra

32 Egypt’s second president

35 Chinese dynasty following Han

36 The type of oddly secretive company that killed me, the creator of this crossword

42 Purple yam

43 Winning hand after hand in poker, say

44 Parachute opener

48 Brother of Set

52 Objects that have been removed from campus because drivers were not following them

55 Artery implant, a large model of which can be found in Clark Hall

56 First half of a record

58 Alphabet trio with 4-Down at the center

59 Soccer star Messi

62 Maryland Governor who dissolved the Terrapins after an embarrassing football performance

65 Repeated name in “The Raven”

66 Characteristic of a certain author’s fables

67 Like a student in class at 8 in the morning

68 Things given to movies with violent or sexual content

Down

1 Blots lightly

2 Second daughter of the Bridgerton family

3 New York City Subway line that is the subject of a Duke Ellington jazz standard

4 Grade that might as well be an eff

5 When preceded by Pan, a popular restaurant on campus

6 Grassland in Southern Africa

7 A bathwater saleswoman, in some cases

8 “Long time ___”

9 Creator of the three laws of robotics

10 Virus that probably ruined at least a year of high school for you

11 “The Origins of Totalitarianism” author Hannah

12 100 yrs.

13 Infant follower? 

14 Exclamation of agreement in pirate speak 

21 Egyptian archaeological site 

23 Systems of servers created for faster Internet use: Abbr. 

24 Hall of Fame linebacker Junior 

26 Catchphrase for a member of Unifursity Furries 

27 City south of Salt Lake City

28 Wave function symbols

30 Outdated ISP alternative

33 Filling food, to a British exchange student

34 Like an SSN, but for a corporation

36 Aggressive dogs

37 A dedication to a graduating senior that you might find in this mag

38 Type of baby that Gracie Abrams is

39 Miracle-___ (gardening brand)

40 Make a big deal (over)

41 The “H.” in Adele H. Stamp

45 “Strangers and Brothers” writer

46 North American dogwoods

47 “The Force Awakens” actress Daisy

49 Bring back, as silver dollars

50 Wearing clothes fit for a queen?

51 Dutch paintings like “The Dancing Couple” and “Skittle Players outside an inn”

53 Pacifist’s goal

54 Look of disdain

57 She, to an Italian studies major

59 Honorary legal deg.

60 More than “-y”

61 Japanese singer Yoko

63 Le ___ (French Wordle equivalent)

64 Nail polish brand

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