Crossword Puzzle

THEME: FOOTBALL

ACROSS

1. Figure of speech

6. School org.

9. *Where official places football after a play

13. *Often twirled at football games

14. Nocturnal flyer

15. Ma Bell, e.g.

16. Artificial leg

17. Also

18. Neptune's realm

19. *Team with most NFL championships

21. *_______ league

23. "___ you sure?"

24. Dateless

25. David Alan Grier's initials

28. "I ____ the sheriff..."

30. Uproar

35. The Colosseum today, e.g.

37. Mimicked

39. Inspiration for poets and musicians

40. Oscar winner and directed by Ben Affleck

41. Donkey in Latin America

43. All over

44. Animals of a particular region

46. *Football center move

47. Viscount's superior

48. Start a golf hole

50. *BYU Cougars' home state

52. Fleur-de-___

53. Soap bubbles

55. Not decaf.

57. *Princeton opponent in what is considered first college game

61. Caribbean Sea island country

65. Finno-_____ language

66. Club on a card, e.g.

68. *Home to the Dolphins

69. Michael Moore's hometown

70. Pitcher's stat

71. Painter _____ Degas

72. Ficus tree fruit, pl.

73. A Bobbsey twin

74. Swarms

DOWN

1. Recipe abbreviation

2. Pro ____

3. Ear-related

4. "Roll Out the Barrel" dance

5. Comes in

6. Used for stewing, pl.

7. *Sometimes a team goes for this after a TD

8. High up

9. Religious offshoot

10. Legal action

11. South American wood sorrels

12. *____ Romo

15. *Part of a football cleat

20. *What players do to help fix injured joint or limb

22. "I see!"

24. Chest bone

25. *It includes 7 rounds

26. Saintly glow, pl.

27. Jig, in France

29. "Moonlight Sonata," e.g.

31. Highlands hillside

32. Trite or hackneyed

33. Wombs

34. *Sugar and Orange, e.g.

36. Not to be done, especially for a baby

38. Exclamation of annoyance

42. Style of abstractionism popular in 1960s

45. Change

49. In favor of

51. *Concussion preventer

54. Colorado resort

56. Seeing eye dog, e.g.

57. Queen Elizabeth I's neckwear

58. Tangerine grapefruit hybrid

59. Type of math

60. Tanqueray and Bombay Sapphire, e.g.

61. Extended time period

62. "Leaving Las Vegas" Oscar winner

63. Prayer leader in mosque

64. Manners intended to impress

67. A retirement plan

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