Weekend cry (which coincides with Christmas Eve this year!)
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Horizontales
1A
Weekend cry (which coincides with Christmas Eve this year!)
5A
Lawyer's assignment
9A
Resign
13A
Jason's vehicle (or a Ben Affleck vehicle)
14A
Domain
16A
"For ____ us a child is born, ____ us a son is given..." (Isaiah 9:6)
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!"
19A
German plural of 49A
20A
Lacto-____ (vegetarian who just can't give up real nog)
21A
It can be hydrochloric, or lysergic
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,"
24A
Famous Bear or Berra
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!"
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____'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,"
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"Quod ___ demonstrandum"
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Decay
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Here's a "fun" one: After 1969, Cuba stopped officially celebrating Christmas. It began again in 1998, after Pope John Paul II visited.
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10D of land
39A
Pee
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THE NUTCRACKER SUITE [Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky] - I. Ouverture miniature. ____ giusto
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Simple solution
45A
Last name of NY governors Mario and Andrew
46A
Buddy of SHIFT and ALT
48A
Metal surface flaw
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,"
50A
Garbage barge (garbarge?)
52A
Author Harper
54A
What a retired sailor's lungs may yearn for
56A
Beach scuttler
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,"
62A
Ark guy
64A
Video game add-on
66A
____ Against the Machine, whose song "Killing in the Name" was top of the UK charts at Christmas in 2009
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,"
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Pre-owned
71A
Actor Shaquille of Kazaam and The Smurfs 2 (I think he was also an athlete or something)
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..."
73A
"I love ____!" (catchphrase of Marie Kondo)
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Keep the car in neutral
75A
Means justifiers, to some
Verticales
1D
Hard-shell or soft-shell treat (¿Por qué no los dos?)
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)"
3D
Frosty abode
4D
Act allowing American citizens to request disclosure of records (abbr.)
5D
Captain Hook hunter
6D
Eagle's home
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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!)"
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Giant Manning
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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!"
10D
Decibel or lumen
11D
Object
12D
Ripped
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?)
18D
Flunk
23D
"Don't ____!" (plea from Hansel and Gretel)
25D
"Fresh mugs of 38D! ___ while they're hot!"
27D
Less constrained
29D
Remote
31D
Teeming (with)
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"Come ___, the water's fine!"
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!"
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..."
35D
Chug-____ (what you might do to 38D after being out in the cold)
36D
Drain issue
38D
Winter quaff
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!)
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"Take a look for yourself!"
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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,"
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,"
51D
____-load (have some pre-race mashed potatoes and stuffing, perhaps)
53D
Resound
54D
You might see kids dragging them up snowy hills
55D
A Christmas Prince: The ____ Wedding
57D
Don Draper, for example
58D
Mix
59D
Instrument mentioned in the song 59A is based on
60D
Simplicity
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Matures
63D
Competent
65D
Flat-screen preceders (abbr.)
68D
I KNOW THIS BAR [____ DiFranco] - "I know this bar / With a jukebox full of medicine / And Christmas lights blinking / Around a clouded mirror,"