ACROSS

1. Certain wooden sticks

5. Particular fowl

12. Associate of Arts, shortened

13. Another name for an animated character

14. Flightless bird

15. Unit of meas.

16. BBQ, lengthened

17. Half a tropical fly?

19. Short for Account Of

20. Type of curve

21. District Attorney, for short

22. Meat bees and flies

23. Initials for using another name

27. UFO pilot

28. Structure for a checkered tablecloth (2 wds)

34. Tacoma state (abbr)

35. Strawberry follower

36. Particular gas

39. ___, shucks!

40. Quaint hotel

41. Fix up

43. A cold one, usually

46. Another unit of meas.

47. Morse code part

49. Burned; charred

51. Cured, in a way

52. Heat up

53. Small crawling visitor

55. Common link between friend and enemy

57. Swallow loudly

60. Peppers and such

64. Popular tenderloin

65. American Motorcycle Association, for short

66. Des Moines locale

67. More than eight hrs.

68. Potent bulb

69. Moray or electric

71. Mahi mahi and shrimp

74. Word ending in this clue

75. Cooling syst.

76. Symbol for aluminum

77. Grub; spread

78. Fragrant wood

DOWN

1. Green, potato, and macaroni

2. Meat and veggies on just one 1 across

3. Chardonnay on the rocks, perhaps

4. Particular bone parts for gnawing

5. Corn on the ____

6. Turned up the soil

7. “Man of royal blood”

8. _____ a lid on it

9. Dorothy's aunt

10. Acorns and pistachios

11. Cooler; ice _____

13. Precedes tip or cycle

18. Hamburger, hot dog, or a sirloin _____?

24. It might say World's Best Chef

25. Cut into small cubes

26. “____ a girl!”

29. Briquettes

30. Utterance of discovery

31. Common container

32. Lawrencium symbol

33. When you're going to be where (abbr)

34. Sweet and juicy treat

36. Good fruit for 1 across

37. ER worker

38. Comes before line or lace

42. Unusual

43. Where to “belly up”

44. Shoe width, perhaps

45. Ave. cousin

48. Not spicy, but _____

49. NE opposite

50. Apiece (abbr)

53. Precedes IOU

54. Symbol for tellurium

56. ____ and improved!

57. Another word for 16 across

58. England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland (abbr)

59. Outdoor sitting area

60. Roanoke state (abbr)

61. Pit Master's tool

62. Sm. amount of info about yourself

63. Something to slather on the meat

67. Insect repellent brand

68. Solitaire number

70. What steak and oatmeal have in common

72. Extremely

73. Letters preceding TV

74. Instant Messenger, for short

75. Already there

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