Across
1. Environmental wonder or environmental menace, depending on the usage
6. “__ ___, so good.”
11. Ex-Yankee Martinez
12. Italian River that Caesar famously crossed, making it used as an idiom for “going too far”
14. Really upset
15. Western border of southern California that passes through the Hoover Dam, forming Lake Mead
16. Here and there, in footnotes
18. freshwater endpoint or stopover for a river
19. Fifth Edition D&D feature offered at levels 4, 8, 12, 16 and 19 for most classes
20. “Full steam ____!”
22. The border between the living and the dead
25. Himalayan or Appalachian, abbrv.
26. Many rulers of Russia, Nicholas II for example
27. A river’s bottom
28. “!eip __ ysaE”
30. Support group for those with drinking problems
31. Creators of “You’ve Got Mail”
32. Annoy
34. https://miscellanynews.org
35. Committee of Soccer Moms and Lawnmower Parents, abbrv.
36. Precedes “F” to make a versatile file
38. Vassar’s response to Yale in November of 1967
39. Vassar’s “campus-wide initiative dedicated to building communities of belonging, inclusion, and equity at the college.”
40. “’Tis but a ____ wound.”
43. Entertainment Org. behind “Raw” and “SmackDown!”
46. Africa’s most famous floodplain
48. Vowels
49. Stephen of “The Crying Game” and “Breakfast on Pluto”
50. First Lady before Michelle
52. Improvises
54. Rivers from the heart
57. The Union of the Hammer and Sickle, missing an “i”
58. The border between Boston and Cambridge, MA
60. Frankfurt’s RIver
61. A bottomless pit of gloom and despair (as mythologized at least)
62. They decide what goes where in a city
Down
1. Someone will generally propose this at a wedding reception (2 words)
2. Mark Twain’s meandering muse
3. They preface “-logy,” “-lyze,” and “-gram”
4. The signs on page 11
5. Dreaded Knights of “Monty Python and The Holy Grail” use this utterance to scare travelers
6. Pout, or be bad tempered
7. Double-reeded woodwinds
8. Often promised to witches
9. Obamacare legislation abbrv.
10. Serling of “The Twilight Zone”
12. As opposed to streets, lanes, drives or avenues
13. Number, abbrv.
14. Unwanted calls or emails
15. Red Cross founder Barton
17. Frequency unit, abbrv.
21. Aircraft enthusiast org
23. This colorful body of water is the second longest of its kind in China
24. Dying of Laughter, to a texter
29. Class of large and heavy long-ranged military weapons
31. Gold, to a chemist
33. With ba and akh, comprises the essentials of a human soul in ancient egyptian religion
36. Statements submitted as “Guilty” or “Not guilty”
37. As an acronym, some of 39A’s core goals
39. Turns nouns into adjectives
40. Price for a bus or train
41. “__ _ wise guy, eh?” (2 words)
42. ____ River School, a mid-19th century art movement, 45D’s counterpart
44. SI units for magnetic flux
45. O’Keeffe painted this river more than a dozen times (and the Loeb has #3!), 42D’s counterpart
47. Between Marquesses and Viscounts
51. 180 degree turns
53. A vein of metal ore
54. Vassar dorms don’t have it, making August quite difficult
55. British earbud producer
56. The key above caps lock
59. Your location when it doesn’t seem like Kansas anymore
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