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CANYONS; Cotahuasi Canyon in this Andean nation is more than 12,000 feet deep; it's a seven-hour hike down to the town of Quechualla at its bottom.
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Horizontales
  1. 1A
    CANYONS; Cotahuasi Canyon in this Andean nation is more than 12,000 feet deep; it's a seven-hour hike down to the town of Quechualla at its bottom.
  2. 5A
    THE WORLD ALMANAC: In 1950 the U.S. manufactured more than 75% of the world's these; in 2018, 12%.
  3. 8A
    ALPHABETIC HOMOPHONES: A football is placed on it in preparation for the kickoff.
  4. 11A
    FRENCH: A sequence of 3 vowels creates this common French word, a homophone of a different vowel altogether.
  5. 12A
    SALT & PEPPER: Coal soot during the Industrial Revolution caused the peppered species of this insect to quickly evolve to have darker wings.
  6. 14A
    SAFETY FEATURES: Sodium azide reacts with potassium nitrate to (quickly!) produce nitrogen gas in this safety feature.
  7. 15A
    ONLINE WORDS: You can get the New York Times or blogs in this type of XML format that's known as "really simple".
  8. 16A
    MATH HYSTERIA: XVI minus IX; respond with the Roman numeral, please.
  9. 17A
    CABLE CHANNELS: Channel that's been home to gritty shows like "Dirt" and "Rescue Me".
  10. 18A
    2-LETTER WORDS: Title of the Peter Gabriel album with the hits "Big Time" and "Sledgehammer".
  11. 19A
    STUFF FROM HIGH SCHOOL ENGLISH: A short essay, or the basic message students are asked to extract from a literary work.
  12. 22A
    MEDICAL SCHOOL: Washington University School of Medicine is the birthplace of this scanner similar to a CAT scanner. It was first to reveal brain function.
  13. 24A
    ZOOLOGY: It's the term for a female rabbit.
  14. 27A
    SCIENCE: This two-letter abbreviation represents an alkali metal in chemistry and can also indicate omission or inapplicability in documents.
  15. 28A
    BROADCASTING HISTORY: In 1991 this young broadcast TV network became the first in the U.S. to run a commercial for condoms.
  16. 29A
    WORD ORIGINS: Meaning to burn with hot liquid or steam, this word comes from calidus, Latin for "warm".
  17. 31A
    IT HAPPENED IN 2023: Tragedy struck this island in August as wildfires ravaged the historic town of Lahaina.
  18. 33A
    GEOLOGY: Pot, meet this deep circular hole scoured beneath a river or glacier.
  19. 34A
    FRUIT: This hybrid of a tangerine and a grapefruit comes in 2 main varieties: Orlando and Minneola.
  20. 36A
    MOVIE NAMES: Madonna in the title role: "Desperately Seeking ____".
  21. 38A
    SMALL TALK: A very small amount of something, or in meteorology, precipitation of less than 0.0005 inches.
  22. 39A
    CONSTELLATIONS: The ancient Greeks compared the constellation Triangulum to this capital letter of theirs.
  23. 41A
    WE PUT CHARACTERS ON TRIAL: Yes, this Indian lad had to kill those endangered sea turtles, but he was shipwrecked, with a tiger in the boat
  24. 42A
    STATES' HIGHEST POINTS: Wheeler Peak in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains.
  25. 44A
    ON THE BILLBOARD CHARTS IN 2020: In a collaboration with the late Juice Wrld, this Detroit man rapped, "I can swallow a bottle of alcohol & I'll feel like Godzilla".
  26. 48A
    IT'S NOT YOU; IT'S ME: In 2019 this shipping company ended its U.S. air and ground delivery contracts with Amazon.
  27. 51A
    WOODWORKING: If the joint called mortis and this is too deep, you get movement; too short, there's not enough gluing surface.
  28. 52A
    THE 10 PLAGUES OF EGYPT: In the seventh plague, this rained "upon the land of Egypt", breaking "every tree of the field".
  29. 53A
    SIGNS & SYMBOLS: From the Latin for "key" comes this symbol on a musical staff.
  30. 55A
    NICKNAMES: Referring to the extensive quarries there, it's "the Granite State".
  31. 56A
    STATE OF THE STATE FOREST: Tillamook State Forest
  32. 58A
    ALONG CAME JONES: Unusual first name of the Jones who founded the English Classical School of Architecture.
  33. 60A
    MEDICAL TERMS: Cerumen is the medical name for this substance.
  34. 63A
    ELECTRICITY: George Westinghouse promoted this type of current that we use today.
  35. 64A
    36 TIMES THE FUN: As a young man, this 36th president taught debate and public speaking at Sam Houston High School.
  36. 68A
    GOLDEN GUYS: In 1948 Peter Goldmark and his team at CBS introduced this type of record.
  37. 70A
    OBSCURE WORDS: This word, meaning "dizzy or in a state of confusion," can also describe the sensation of being lightheaded or off-balance, often as if one's head is spinning.
  38. 72A
    SUFFIXES: This suffix denotes a distinctive doctrine, system, or theory, often used to categorize ideologies or beliefs.
  39. 73A
    NORSE MYTHOLOGY: Much of Germanic mythology comes from old texts known as the "poetic" and "prose" these.
  40. 74A
    5-LETTER WORDS: Islamic legal opinion or directive.
Verticales
  1. 1D
    ANIMAL SOUNDS: From Latin, it means "for each".
  2. 2D
    A RELIGIOUS SERVICE: In an Orthodox church, a priest with his back to you isn't rude or shy, he's facing this direction like the congregation
  3. 3D
    PRIME NUMBERS: Alex Lifeson co-wrote this Canadian trio's "Prime Mover".
  4. 4D
    SOUNDS LIKE TENNIS: Ambrose Bierce defined it as "A temporary insanity curable by marriage".
  5. 5D
    CHIPS: This Mexican pepper is actually a smoked jalapeno which can be dried or canned in an adobo sauce.
  6. 6D
    TOM SAWYER: Form of transport commandeered by Tom when he ran away from home with Huck and Joe.
  7. 7D
    BROADWAY ON THE POP CHARTS: This numerically named show about the wives of Henry VIII debuted at no. 1 on Billboard's cast album chart.
  8. 8D
    2-LETTER ABBREV.: Sadly, what Keats and Chopin died of.
  9. 9D
    ANAGRAMS: If an artist doesn't own this kind of support, he should lease one.
  10. 10D
    WORDS IN STATES: Me, myself and I in Eugene's state.
  11. 13D
    IT'S ALL A PLANT: It's the Hawaiian good luck plant.
  12. 20D
    COMPUTING: In 1949 this acronymical computer found pi to more than 2,000 digits; modern ones have passed 2 quadrillion.
  13. 21D
    2-LETTER WORDS: Familial word before "Bell" in an alternate name for AT&T.
  14. 23D
    AN ENCOURAGING VERB: The Latin tollere, "to raise", gives us this verb meaning to praise highly.
  15. 24D
    ELECTRICITY: It's the 2-letter abbreviation for a flow of electric charge that doesn't change direction.
  16. 25D
    COMPLETE THE RHYMING PHRASE: "Little strokes fell great...".
  17. 26D
    UNREAL ESTATE: Though filmed on and around Martha's Vineyard, "Jaws" took place on and near this fictional New York island.
  18. 28D
    MORE THAN ONE MEANING: To consume, or a live video signal.
  19. 29D
    ETYMOLOGY: The kids of 15th century B.C. Mesopotamia might have liked Samassamu Street; samassamu gave us this word.
  20. 30D
    TEXTILES: Dungaree is a sturdy type of this cotton cloth used to make dungarees.
  21. 32D
    IT'S THE JURASSIC PERIOD: Jurassic National Monument, southeast of Provo in this state, is the site of a noted dinosaur quarry, home to over 12,000 fossils.
  22. 33D
    ABBREV.: In lowercase a metric unit of wt.; in uppercase it stands for "Knight of the Order of the Garter".
  23. 35D
    DUCK, DUCK, GOOSE!: In 1952 the population of this double-talk Hawaiian goose was about 30 but today it thrives on Kauai.
  24. 37D
    DAYS: When founded by Benjamin Day in 1833, the New York Sun was sold daily for this much per issue.
  25. 40D
    HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES: Lunar New Year is called Chunjie in Chinese and this three-letter name in Vietnamese.
  26. 43D
    AT THE ANCIENT ROMAN CINEPLEX: 1997: Wesley Snipes, and Ronny Cox as the President, in "Murder at ____".
  27. 45D
    SPANISH CLASS: Help! My pluma is out of tinta, this.
  28. 46D
    WHAT'S THAT SONG?: Meghan Trainor's title advice for how to respond to a boy who "ain't giving up"? This word.
  29. 47D
    2-LETTER WORDS: In the "Little House" books, it's what Laura Ingalls calls her father.
  30. 48D
    POISON: The venom of the Gaboon viper can affect the way your blood does this inside you--either too much or too little.
  31. 49D
    MISSING MOVIE NAMES: A post-apocalyptic tale starring Denzel: "The Book of ____".
  32. 50D
    SCIENTISTS: Astronomer Michael Brown discovered the object classified as UB313 in 2003 and named it for this TV princess.
  33. 52D
    LOW TECH: It originally had a stone or wood blade, but "The Man With" one in the Markham poem probably used metal.
  34. 54D
    BOTANY: The benjamina species of this genus is the one most commonly grown as a house plant.
  35. 57D
    4-LETTER WORDS: Poet James Lowell asked, "And what is so" this "as a day in June?".
  36. 59D
    KINGS: Killed in battle in 1031, this king of Norway was made a saint in 1164.
  37. 61D
    DISEASES: In 2001 Frank Carlson fought an awful diagnosis and started the Foundation for Life to fight this neuro-degenerative disease.
  38. 62D
    3-LETTER ABBREVIATIONS: Your car's tachometer measures them.
  39. 65D
    POTPOURRI: The June 1989 Life cover story was an uplifting piece on the 100th anniversary of this apparel.
  40. 66D
    BEJEWELED: When dense, black lignite coal takes on a high polish and is used for jewelry, it's called by this high-flying name.
  41. 67D
    SPACE EXPLORATION: This American aerospace manufacturer, founded in 2006, is known for its work in launching satellites and crewed missions.
  42. 69D
    TECHNOLOGY: An erasable form of this audio product will allow a PC to store 275,000 pages of print.
  43. 71D
    MAGAZINES COME & GO: In 2019 this magazine about pop culture kept its name but went monthly.
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