ACROSS
1. Backup procedure
6. Zone Chicago is in: Abbr.
9. Balearic resort isle
14. Stamp on mail from Mexico
15. Some inkjets
16. Squelched
17. Toy named after Theodore Roosevelt
19. “Star Wars” droid, informally
20. Quad quarters
21. Subject of many a viral video
22. Geezer
26. Furniture to reupholster
31. Like a rainbow
33. BBC nickname, with “the”
34. It may be slapped after a joke
35. Shooting star
37. Early computer game set in hell
39. Glass of “This American Life”
40. It may be inflated
41. Obama or Hillary, informally
43. Org. for Wizards and Magic
44. Bovine mouthful
45. Experiment site
46. “Understood”
48. Something locked in a cell?
50. Singles
52. TV’s “Deal ___ Deal”
54. More achy
55. Pasta that was, in legend, inspired by Venus’ navel
58. B&Bs
59. Ashland or Cottage Grove
60. Mannerly man
62. Punishment’s partner
65. “I couldn’t eat another bite!” or a clue to 17-, 26-, and 55-Across
70. Swiss mathematician
71. ___ kwon do
72. Make fun of
73. Chicago-based magazine founded in 1945
74. Upper-left computer key: Abbr.
75. Milk dispenser
DOWN
1. Word before or after “down”
2. Harper who wrote “To Kill a Mockingbird”
3. Suffix with dull or drunk
4. Neighbor of Homer
5. William who played Hopalong Cassidy in old Westerns
6. Imp’s opposite
7. Sent junk email
8. Co. that introduced Dungeons & Dragons
9. Sci-fi writer Asimov
10. Composer Bela
11. Hairy TV cousin
12. Menagerie
13. “It’s ___-brainer”
18. Arg. neighbor
21. RoboCop, e.g.
22. King Arthur’s home
23. Common pizza seasoning
24. When Canada celebrates Thanksgiving
25. Golf ball support
27. Indentured servant
28. Mythical symbol of purity
29. Earwax
30. Soccer shots that aren’t kicks
32. ___ al-Fayed (friend of Diana)
36. Fix, as a shoe
38. Fannie ___ (securities)
42. Keyboardist Saunders
47. Mysteries
49. “There is ___ in team”
51. Male flower part
53. “Just a moment”
56. Each’s companion
57. Negative stat. for a QB
61. Ballet attire
62. Former communist states
63. Massage
64. U.N. workers’ grp.
65. Suffix with 35-Across
66. U.S. central bank system, with “the”
67. Craze
68. Relative of -ish and -ian
69. German magazine ___ Spiegel
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