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Weekend cry (which coincides with Christmas Eve this year!)
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Across
  1. 1A
    Weekend cry (which coincides with Christmas Eve this year!)
  2. 5A
    Lawyer's assignment
  3. 9A
    Resign
  4. 13A
    Jason's vehicle (or a Ben Affleck vehicle)
  5. 14A
    Domain
  6. 16A
    "For ____ us a child is born, ____ us a son is given..." (Isaiah 9:6)
  7. 17A
    ____ CHRISTMASTIME [Crazy Ex-Girlfriend cast] - "Even our Santa has a suntan / He's also an unemployed stuntman / Is he even awake? / (Yeah, I'm just really baked) / If he can be Santa Claus, anyone can!"
  8. 19A
    German plural of 49A
  9. 20A
    Lacto-____ (vegetarian who just can't give up real nog)
  10. 21A
    It can be hydrochloric, or lysergic
  11. 22A
    HAVE YOURSELF A MERRY LITTLE CHRISTMAS [____ in St. Louis cast] - "Through the years we all will be together / If the fates allow / So hang a shining star upon the highest bough,"
  12. 24A
    Famous Bear or Berra
  13. 26A
    WHAT'S THIS? [Danny ____] - "There's children throwing snowballs / Instead of throwing heads / They're busy building toys / And absolutely no one's dead!"
  14. 28A
    ____'S LAMENT [Barenaked Ladies & Michael Bublé] - "Toiling through the ages / Making toys on garnished wages / There's no union / We're only through when / We outdo the competition,"
  15. 30A
    "Quod ___ demonstrandum"
  16. 31A
    Decay
  17. 34A
    Here's a "fun" one: After 1969, Cuba stopped officially celebrating Christmas. It began again in 1998, after Pope John Paul II visited.
  18. 37A
    10D of land
  19. 39A
    Pee
  20. 41A
    THE NUTCRACKER SUITE [Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky] - I. Ouverture miniature. ____ giusto
  21. 43A
    Simple solution
  22. 45A
    Last name of NY governors Mario and Andrew
  23. 46A
    Buddy of SHIFT and ALT
  24. 48A
    Metal surface flaw
  25. 49A
    NUTMEG [John Legend & Stephen Colbert] - "Girl, don't make me beg / I want to nog your ____ (yes I do) / Girl, I'm going to rock you like a cradle / You'll lick the nutmeg off my ladle,"
  26. 50A
    Garbage barge (garbarge?)
  27. 52A
    Author Harper
  28. 54A
    What a retired sailor's lungs may yearn for
  29. 56A
    Beach scuttler
  30. 59A
    LITTLE ____ BOY [Willie Nelson & Stephen Colbert] - "And the wise men started tokin' / And yea the bud was kind / It was salvation they were smokin' / And its forgiveness blew their minds,"
  31. 62A
    Ark guy
  32. 64A
    Video game add-on
  33. 66A
    ____ Against the Machine, whose song "Killing in the Name" was top of the UK charts at Christmas in 2009
  34. 67A
    ____ SANTA [Community cast] - "Santa Claus was born in 1945 / He had a boogie-woogie Coca-Cola army jive / And when the Commies gave the polio to Doris Day / Santa helped the Beatles chase McCarthy away,"
  35. 70A
    Pre-owned
  36. 71A
    Actor Shaquille of Kazaam and The Smurfs 2 (I think he was also an athlete or something)
  37. 72A
    THINGS I ____ [Tenacious D & Sum 41] - "A time machine and a BB gun / A statue of Moby on the surface of the sun / To party naked on a school bus full of nuns..."
  38. 73A
    "I love ____!" (catchphrase of Marie Kondo)
  39. 74A
    Keep the car in neutral
  40. 75A
    Means justifiers, to some
Down
  1. 1D
    Hard-shell or soft-shell treat (¿Por qué no los dos?)
  2. 2D
    HOW TO MAKE ____ [Paul Kelly] - "Who's gonna make the ____ now? / I bet it won't taste the same / Just add flour, salt, a little red wine / And don't forget a dollop of tomato sauce (for sweetness and that extra tang)"
  3. 3D
    Frosty abode
  4. 4D
    Act allowing American citizens to request disclosure of records (abbr.)
  5. 5D
    Captain Hook hunter
  6. 6D
    Eagle's home
  7. 7D
    THE CHANUKAH SONG [Adam ____] - "You don't need Deck the Halls or Jingle Bell Rock / 'Cause you can spin a dreidel with Captain Kirk and Mr. Spock (both Jewish!)"
  8. 8D
    Giant Manning
  9. 9D
    CHRISTMAS ____ [RuPaul] - "Now she here, December 25th / A star is born and she looking so sick / Got three wise men bringing her gifts / Come on death drop, come on high kicks!"
  10. 10D
    Decibel or lumen
  11. 11D
    Object
  12. 12D
    Ripped
  13. 15D
    ____ MIA [ABBA] - "Just one look and I can hear a bell ring / One more look and I forget everything," (I know, not holiday. I just put it on every playlist I make. It's a banger, okay?)
  14. 18D
    Flunk
  15. 23D
    "Don't ____!" (plea from Hansel and Gretel)
  16. 25D
    "Fresh mugs of 38D! ___ while they're hot!"
  17. 27D
    Less constrained
  18. 29D
    Remote
  19. 31D
    Teeming (with)
  20. 32D
    "Come ___, the water's fine!"
  21. 33D
    ____ ME MERRY CHRISTMAS [Straight No Chaser & Kristen Bell] - "A Facebook message isn't quite as sweet / I need more from @you than just a tweet / A snap on Snapchat doesn't last / And voicemail? That's from Christmas past!"
  22. 34D
    PRESENT ____ [Garfunkel & Oates] - "You loathe the gift you opened / Though you try to keep your grace / Your scary grin is frozen / Don't you know you've got a case of..."
  23. 35D
    Chug-____ (what you might do to 38D after being out in the cold)
  24. 36D
    Drain issue
  25. 38D
    Winter quaff
  26. 40D
    Winona of Stranger Things, who puts up Christmas lights in an attempt to find her missing son (A stretch? Maybe, but I'll theme as many of these entries as I possibly can!)
  27. 42D
    "Take a look for yourself!"
  28. 44D
    CHRISTMAS IS ____ AROUND [Billy Mack] - "It's written in the wind / It's everywhere I go / So if you really love Christmas / C'mon and let it snow,"
  29. 47D
    (DO IT ON MY) ____ [SNL cast] - "Back in town, visiting my mom and dad / But that don't mean I don't wanna be bad / [...] Now we're gonna freak / In my monkey sheets / That I've had since I was a kid,"
  30. 51D
    ____-load (have some pre-race mashed potatoes and stuffing, perhaps)
  31. 53D
    Resound
  32. 54D
    You might see kids dragging them up snowy hills
  33. 55D
    A Christmas Prince: The ____ Wedding
  34. 57D
    Don Draper, for example
  35. 58D
    Mix
  36. 59D
    Instrument mentioned in the song 59A is based on
  37. 60D
    Simplicity
  38. 61D
    Matures
  39. 63D
    Competent
  40. 65D
    Flat-screen preceders (abbr.)
  41. 68D
    I KNOW THIS BAR [____ DiFranco] - "I know this bar / With a jukebox full of medicine / And Christmas lights blinking / Around a clouded mirror,"
  42. 69D
    Be in the red
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