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This week's theme: Plays

Across

1. * Playwright of "Peter Pan"
7. Haggard novel
10. Item worn by Monica
13. * Play of 1928 by #9D: "___ Interlude"
14. Promissory note
15. * Member of the great theatrical Lupino family who found her fame in the movies
16. Hemp shrub
17. Word before Gratin
18. * Partial title of a play that's part of Neil Simon's autobiographical trilogy
20. Accordingly: ___ turns out
22. Heavyweight champ
24. Ostrich-like bird
25. * George Bernard Shaw play of 1923
29. Maple Syrup base
32. Type of program on the WWW
34. Forlorn
35. Cdn. City: Sault ___ Marie
36. Consumed
37. * Shakespeare wrote it, Hamlet said it: "To be, ___ to be..."
39. Guido's note
40. Jillian and Landers
41. * Famous play that has the characters Estragon and Vladimir
45. Never: ___ point in time
46. Table scrap
47. Flynn of Flicks
48. Customary Observance, minus the "ual"
49. Compass point
50. Lifesaver, for short
52. Single
53. Lah-di-___
54. * George Bernard Shaw play of 1913
57. Record label
59. One Time connecter
60. Accompanying
63. * Ugo Betti play of 1927: "The ___"
67. Sodium Symbol
69. British gold medal runner: Sebastian ___
70. French coin
71. Once Lifetime connecter
72. * Star of the movie version of the musical "My Fair Lady" (Which is based on the play at #54A)
74. * "A Night at an ___": Play of 1916 by Irish playwright Edward J.M.D. Plunkett (Also known as Lord Dunsany)
75. * Stoppard the Playwright
76. * Desired military command, in Neil Simon's "Biloxi Blues", for example

Down

1. Heat quantity measurers, for short
2. * Lorraine Hansberry's critically acclaimed play of 1959
3. Sun God
4. Genetic stuff, for short
5. * Tennessee Williams play of 1961: "The Night of the ___"
6. Cummings the Poet
7. * Title for the Playwrights at #1A and #32D
8. Word with Polloi
9. * Mr. O'Neill who wrote "Beyond the Horizon" (1920)
10. * Play by William Shakespeare
11. * Shakespeare comedy: "Much ___ About Nothing"
12. * George Bernard Shaw play of 1894: "Arms and the ___"
13. Health resort
18. Trinket, minus the "ou"
19. Metric unit of length, for short
21. "Thanks" to a Brit
23. Company abbr.
26. Heard in Music Class: "Miss, ___ the seventh tone of the diatonic scale?"
27. Norwegian capital
28. Essential oil (var. sp.)
30. Heard in the Theater District: "I think we should go to the show ___ this time because the tickets are usually less expensive."
31. * Francis Beaumont play of 1607: "The Knight of the Burning ___"
32. * Playwright who wrote "Private Lives" (1930)
33. Certain payment, with "Ex"
38. Prefix that means "Ear"
39. Newt
40. Heard in Kindergarten: "Class, what is the first letter of the Alphabet --___ B?"
42. Snoopy
43. Mr. Louganis
44. Old Spice?
49. * Play of 1941 written by #32D, with "Blithe"
50. * Animal that is part of the title of a Tennessee Williams play
51. * Gore Vidal play: "Visit to a Small ___"
55. Partners for Pas
56. "That hurt!"
58. Abbreviation with Everest
61. Ripped
62. Biddy in the Barnyard
63. Electronics acronym
64. Charged particle
65. Co-producer of the U2 album "All That You Can't Leave Behind"
66. * Shepard the Playwright
68. Primate mimer
72. It goes with "Gotcha!"
73. "Summer of '69" singer (Initials)