1. Giant ocean cryptid and what some call “the green-eyed monster”
8. Word repeated by the boy in The Shining
14. Halloween costume according to the Plastics in Mean Girls, with animal ears
15. “Whatever works”
16. Groups of bones in feet
17. Ghost
18. “___ and Oh’s” (Elle King song)
19. Harden
20. Second to none
24. Prince Valiant’s wife
29. Rower
32. ____ City, where Elphaba has one short day
34. Nosferatu count; also a feared Scottish lake-dweller
37. Book jacket blurbs
38. Star Wars droid, familiarly
39. Harrington of Stranger Things
40. Listening device for a performer, briefly
41. Bigwig
42. Activist Brockovich
43. Conservation organization, abbr.
44. Heart imaging test
45. To Live and Die __ __ (1985 film)
46. Those opposite the center and guards, in NFL lingo
50. Elite athlete
54. Many an ex-lib
55. Pretend to be on Halloween
56. Prof’s aides
58. Headless folklore creature or a nightmarish figure from Yellowjackets
60. How __ __ Your Mother: CBS sitcom
61. Frozen costume
62. Gave stars to
64. Whichever
67. Ibuprofen or another pain reliever, briefly
69. Progressive costume?
70. Reddit Q&A
72. Paranormal pool?
73. Sports org. of the early 2000s
74. Fool
75. Pick up the tab
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1. Ash, Kristofferson, and other younglings in Fantastic Mr. Fox
2. Genetic messenger
3. Show where Simon Cowell is a judge
4. Mauna ___
5. Goof
6. Grafton’s ___ for Noose
7. Accessory for Emily in The Corpse Bride
8. Tombstone letters
9. Suffix after supr-
10. Solstice month
11. Rodents in Halloween decorations
12. Certain plaintiff, at law
13. Hogwarts bathroom haunter
14. Supervillain Luthor
16. Young Frankenstein director Brooks
20. Household places for skeletons, or where witches might find their rides
21. Some PC keys
22. “Tsk, tsk,” in textspeak
23. The Witch Elm novelist French
24. Bullets and such
25. Actor Rossi of Halloween II
26. Sea eagles
27. Be tantalizingly close to victory
28. One after the other
29. Planet’s path
30. Famous sci-fi and horror franchise extraterrestrial and a Minecraft mob that is dangerous to look at
31. Chutzpah
32. Gullets
33. Bottom feeder fish named for their horn-like features
35. Bic Clic ___ pen
36. Sofer of soaps
47. Lipton offering
48. Eating sound
49. Bambi’s aunt
51. Tolkien trilogy, to fans
52. ___-di-dah
53. Nine-digit ID
54. Dark film genre
57. Mermaid’s home
59. Sommelier’s prefix
63. Younger brother of the Pickles family on Rugrats
64. Pub pint
65. Sentry’s shout
66. Dracula, sometimes
68. Central concept of philosophy for Laozi
69. Tree with needles
70. Weapon for an American Psycho
71. Juilliard deg.
