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Alternate Uses

By Graham Meyer

Across
1. Measure of hospital size
5. One of Jon Gruden’s players, to fans
8. Recently
14. Physical, for example
15. The largest college west of Tex.
16. Longhorn rival
17. Cipher
18. Hit YouTube video from SNL
20. What you could make with this page if you’re feeling crafty
22. Early adopter of the forward pass
23. Number of As in Argentina
24. ___ planet
28. “That hurts!”
30. Hint of Scotch?
31. Twin Cities airport code
34. What you could make with this page if you’re hungry
38. Journey, pointwise
40. The Donald’s ex
41. It might trouble Spot
42. What you could make with this page if you’re cold
45. Staple in night sch.
46. Unlearned
47. Chip off the old block
49. Defeated feeling?
50. Gp. formed by the Treaty of Rome
53. How a French dip is served
57. What you could make with this page if you’re frustrated with this puzzle
60. “It’s certain”
63. 7-Down resident
64. Two-time title role for Damon
65. Pirate base, maybe
66. Vichyssoise ingredient
67. Lectured
68. The Mighty Mighty Bosstones’ music
69. Sois is a form of it

Down
1. Amazon.com founder Jeff
2. Marshal
3. Beavis and Butt-Head spinoff whose protagonist was a cynical teenage girl
4. Like L.A.
5. It might soothe your sole
6. Government org. with a Sub-Saharan Africa bureau
7. City whose altitude is more than twice Denver’s
8. Real mountain appearing in Greek myth
9. Spoon mold site
10. One who travels unpacked?
11. Word often shortened to its central letter
12. Rooibos, for one
13. Suffix for rook
19. More than mos.
21. Nutty
25. Like kick returners
26. Fronts
27. ___ position
29. Use a quill
30. “. . . by yon bonny ___”: “Loch Lomond”
31. Sinister cadre
32. Smart
33. Sequel to Irvine Welsh’s Trainspotting
35. X chromosome carriers
36. Neon, for example
37. Med. specialist you’d see about strep
39. It’s sold in rectangular blocks
43. Monomer base for foam coffee cups
44. Way to go?
48. Like some maidens
50. Expert in CPR
51. The Iliad and the Odyssey, for example
52. Screen
54. Album with a cover that was also a notorious Rolling Stone cover
55. Possible cause of a stomachache
56. Assuage
58. Not new, or not new (to)
59. “Sail Away” musician
60. The Peacock
61. Expression of awe
62. On the ___ vive

Get up and do something! That’s what my mother always told me during summer vacation, when I was doing crossword puzzles all day. I finally heeded her advice, lo, these many years later, and did something. I made a crossword puzzle. The one that appears on this page, in fact. You should do something, too. Like this crossword puzzle. Actually, this one’s a twofer, because it’s got ideas at 20-Across, 34-Across, 42-Across, and 57-Across for what you can do after attempting the puzzle. After that, you’re on your own.

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