The answer to this meta is a command that's... well, it's festive... not really eastery, per se, but ....
Okay. For Easter. But I'm too impatient.
(Wouldn't mind advice on how to construct grids where the symmetry of the black cells do paint me into corners with rediculously long words, or blank areas a mile long though.)
Reference work (pub. 1931 to 1976) where you can look up words like:leum an coineanach glic anns an loch reòthte. [The middle letter stands for the cultural identity of a country-- don't overthink the other two letters
7A
Movie studio where Leo the lion roars "Ars Gratia Artis" (what... he's just roaring? I only assumed he was roaring in Latin? Way to ruin my childhood...)
10A
Foto
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One who brings things to be, who makes them happen
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"--- Nuevo" California State Park where one can view the elephant seals
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Brian who wrote "Music for Airports"
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Yearly payment
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Girls Scout level
20A
Understated. Reigned in.
22A
Alter previously established narrative post-actively in later works
23A
So.... do I do the boring and unoriginal clue about an American rapper... or do I a puerile joke about using fingers to observe a prostate?
24A
Shout like a cat
26A
Overdue payment
29A
Hint to an undergraduate degree
32A
Like Bob Dylan, or Marie Curie, or Henry Kissinger, or Malala Yousafzai
39A
Inability to associate meaning to words
41A
Like Dmitri Mendeleyev, Margaret Atwood , Mahatma Ghandi , or Edward Snowden
42A
Mighty trees covering an area
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Chopped fine
45A
Fit for plowing
47A
A renting of a bit of Halloween fright
52A
Pas une grosse somme
55A
Arachne the weaver was transformed to one
56A
What Rob Stark shouted when he found his younger brother on the courtyard after falling (being thrown) from a turret window
60A
Possible cause why the hard copy is so faded and hard to read
62A
Stimulates
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À cet endroit
64A
1998 Angelina Jolie biopic about supermodel Carangi
65A
"The package has arrived!"
66A
Sympathy's beverage companion
67A
In a palindrome, what ten animals slam in
68A
Science guy Bill who once debated Ken Ham in an excruciatingly awful event I wouldn't wish on my worst enemies.
69A
Color, like Easter Eggs
Verticali
1D
Auditorily perceived
2D
Central not external
3D
"___ Macabre" (Saint-Saens work)
4D
Agitate with a spoon
5D
Popular punishment for boomer kids
6D
During emotional scenes, directors don't want even one of these in the house
7D
Cheese's pal
8D
Twist, into a twisted twisty knot of twisted twisty stuff
9D
Dial-up hardware (whose sound always amused me and never annoyed me at all)
10D
Chain where I could buy supplies for Nova Swan-neck, Gustafer Big-Jowls and Oliver, the Taiko Drumming pisspot
11D
Pulled behind
12D
"Drive-Away Dolls" director Ethan (a first time solo attempt)
14D
Signal for
19D
Nice time to go to the beach. (That pun never gets old.)
21D
Springfield University's Bobby Peterson, for example. (You know, cause he's a university official. Not that he was a bass guitarist for The Pretenders.)
25D
Scientologist Hubbard
26D
Banned (winglike?) apple spray
27D
Genus of Asian deer; another name for Gewürztraminer grape
28D
If you have a scary bridle strap is that a ____ of terror?
29D
Steamed bun
30D
U.S. mental health org.
31D
Ticker symbol for Chesapeake Energy Corp. (RU sure? Pls --- ur src.)
33D
Fail spectacularly
34D
Astrid Lindgren's protagonist from Lönneberga
35D
Queue
36D
Ltd.
37D
Visually observe
38D
Knight who played Baxter
40D
"I have _____ in Kalamazoo"
43D
Period preceding a holiday or Sabbath
46D
Quickest way to Harlem, according to Duke Ellington
47D
What volume measures
48D
Tiny hairs
49D
Fruit drink
50D
If a king doesn't charge for his rule is that a free ____?
51D
Bert's roommate
52D
Sat for
53D
Room for storing water jugs
54D
Prevent 37D from ever happening
55D
Porpoise ----; fictional hometown of Muriel Heslop
57D
Either truly culturally cultivate, or utterly pretentious. I guess, it depends on the attitude of the speaker
58D
What one eye was talking about when it said to the other eye "Between us, something smells" (You know.... as an adult.... I don't really get it)
59D
"Oh..... that was obvious"
61D
Coconino County resident, neighbor of Mouse, Pupp, and Kwakk Kwakk