ACROSS
1. Capital of Qatar
5. Toronto college, briefly
9. Pronouncements
14. Airline to Israel
15. *With 65 Across — Fairy tale about two friends, Gerda and Kai and a troll with a magic mirror
16. Misfortune, archaically
17. *With 53 Down
18. 0, in Spain
19. Oscar winner for “The Cider House Rules”
20. Deeply, as an irritation
23. *“The Little _” — Fairy tale about a girl with six sisters who saves a prince from drowning only to watch him marry another
24. Final stage of life
27. Bristle on a grass spike
28. Golfer Isao
30. British exclamation of surprise (Heart: Latin)
31. Serial publication identifier
34. Food poisoning bacterium
37. Whole ___
39. *The Steadfast _ Soldier” — Fairy tale about a brave one-legged soldier who falls in love with a paper ballerina
40. Tall cheerful flowers, for short
41. One of the music-hating villains from the 1968 film “Yellow Submarine”
44. Break down a cell
45. The Braves, on scoreboards
46. *an evil mountain-dwelling creature
47. French title, abbreviated
49. Lungfish group (Anagram of Pinoid)
51. Words derived from names
55. Classic game show from 1963 — revamped with Wayne Brady hosting now
58. Poet Sylvia that wrote “The silence depressed me. It wasn’t the silence of silence. It was my own silence.”
60. Gulf ruler
61. Assign a value to
62. Al ___ (not too soft)
63. Nevada city
64. Suffix with opal
65. *With 15 Across
66. M.I.T. grad: Abbr.
67. Forecast topic, abbreviated
DOWN
1. Remove sticky stuff from
2. Football’s blockers, informally
3. Explicit movie rating descriptor
4. Call Emand, everyone, to hear this classical dance? (also hidden in this clue)
5. Nickels and dimes, e.g
6. Upturned, as a box
7. Golfer’s warning shout
8. Rare Jefferson bills
9. *”The Ugly _” — Fairy tale about an odd gray bird — said to be an autobiographical reflection of Hans Christian Andersen’s own awkward life
10. For the benefit
11. Kaolin, alternately (essential ingredient for making delicate teacups)
12. “The Joy Luck Club” author Amy
13. “Tarzan” extra
21. Uncooked
22. African antelope
25. Medal-winning finishes
26. Remove pencil marks
28. Variant spelling of a straight path
29. Prefix meaning “all”
31. Restaurant review, perhaps: “__, send it back!”
32. Longtime Chicago Symphony Orchestra conductor, Sir Georg
33. 2004 comedy film with Kevin Hart and Snoop Dogg
35. Essential oil from flowers (Var.)
36. 1940s Hollywood actress who starred in “Christmas in July”
38. Make even
42. Variant spelling of protective sponsorship (Anagram of Gise)
43. *“The _’s New Clothes” — Fairy tale about a vain ruler tricked by swindlers
48. Extinct flightless bird that was native to New Zealand
50. Short form of Funicello’s name
51. Barely managing
52. Brewer’s need
53. *With 17 Across — Fairy tale about a poor, barefoot girl freezing on the streets on New Year’s Eve
54. In Neil Gaiman’s book, “The Graveyard Book,” this is an ancient, terrifying, supernatural entity that lives beneath the graveyard
56. Paltry
57. “You got that right!”
58. Quickly, in slang
59. Romanian currency
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