Crossword Puzzle - The Big Game

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February 7, 2012, 2 AM ET

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Across 1. Common portable device 7. ___ of the land 10. Store 14. Interest 15. State the Jews were in at Har Sinai 16. Last word of “The Shawshank Redemption” 17. Og and kin 18. David Ben-Gurion and Levi Eshkol 20. Acquire 21. One doing a slalom 22. Something of value. 25. Whiz preceder 26. Matter for a dung beetle 30. Kind of shirt 31. Sun south of the border 33. Org. for this puzzle 35. Regret 36. Kinds of 1-Across 38. Clear alcohol 40. Morning poem 42. Where 17 and 18-Across will meet once more 45. Verbal or violent 46. Some degrees, abbr. 47. A Jackson 49. 40-Across, perhaps 50. Sort of suffix 52. Actress Messing to friends, maybe 54. Presently 55. Worth 57. Manning 59. A big wave 61. Water wheel 63. Rainbow shape 64. Owner of a stadium in Jerusalem and of 18-Across 67. Those named after a certain forefather 71. Emerald ___ 72. One might help a sick gerbil 73. Pertaining to an important part of the heart 74. Like the NFC Championship game at the end of regulation 75. Before 76. Property business

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1. Lawrence Tynes used it to win 2. ___ ledodi 3. School org. 4. Shade 5. Groups of eight 6. Nag 7. Expire 8. Rise 9. Bigfoot's cousin 10. Hobbit locale 11. Also 12. Pick 13. Welker 19. Acid annoyance 22. Money letters 23. On the shore 24. Procurer 25. Smooth-talking 27. Desiring 28. One who works for the IRS, perhaps 29. Bruce or Ang of cinema 32. Green fairy tale creatures 34. Not so 37. Relaxing locale 39. City slaughtered by Doeg the Edomite 41. Treif sandwich 43. Will Shortz, e.g. 44. Gully 45. Brady 48. Be in debt 51. A red one would be quite valuable 53. Scold 56. Signed 58. Starbucks option 60. Capital of Ghana 62. Good (reviews) 63. Opened 64. Tad 65. Umenyiora 66. ___ ayin hara 68. Main source of the Arab world's wealth 69. Step to the plate 70. Clever (Answers, next week) Yoni can be reached at yoniglatt@gmail.com.