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This week's theme: Women's HER-story

Across

1. * HERstory's Number One Woman
4. * Foe of Feminism
9. Conference, for short
13. * American zoologist who won international acclaim for her study of mountain gorillas (Last Name)
15. * For short, it was devised to combat #4A
16. Singer Smith
17. Word with Rummage
18. It'll turn "ual" into a custom
19. It'll make "tional" unreasonable
20. Type of Tree
21. * This novelist works didn't receive much attention during her lifetime, but today are regarded as masterpieces which feature vivid characterizations (Last Name)
23. He does commentary on "60 Minutes" (Initials)
25. Course Circuit
27. Danish physicist
29. Particular Pronoun
30. * Mariah Carey is on the top three list (along with The Beatles and Elvis) for artists who have had the most Number One singles on the Billboard charts. Question: Mariah is with Columbia Records which has an association with which company?
32. * This actress once portrayed #8D (First Name)
34. Bottle tops
36. Classify
38. * In 1919, Mary Pickford co-founded this gr. in order to increase her share in the profits from her movies
39. Faith, for short
41. * One of the most famous women in HERstory
46. Singer Shannon
47. Jazz composer: Sun ___ (b.1914 - d.1993)
48. Golden: French
49. Japanese beverage
52. Actress Ekland
55. Heap of combustibles
57. He co-starred in "The Odd Couple" (Initials)
58. Breakfast Cereal Brand
59. Health resort
61. * Gloria Steinem was the founding editor of this magazine in 1972
62. * Madonna is one of the most famous women in music HERstory, and this is a song from her critically acclaimed "Ray of Light" album of 1998: "___/Ashtangi"
64. Business name abbr.
66. Nighttime talk show name
67. For short, it's measured at the Prime Meridian
70. Koran chapter
72. Picnic invaders
73. The Common People: ___ Polloi
74. * Queen Hippolyta, for one
76. Labyrinth
77. * Child star who grew up to be a United States ambassador (Last Name)
78. Sea eagle (var. sp.)

Down

1. Small lizard
2. Whiskey bottle acronym
3. "Fin" Finisher
4. Actress Blair
5. Peeper
6. "Funn" Finale
7. Word with Lanka
8. * She was executed by the French in 1917 for spying for Germany during Word War I
9. Sliders on the Slopes
10. * International star and multi-talented performer who once portrayed Helen of Troy (First Name)
11. * Academy Award winning actress who participated in the 1994 "A Century of Women" television project (Last Name)
12. Connery or Penn
14. * In 1983, she became the first American woman to travel into outer space
22. City of ancient Sumer
23. Shakespeare's "___ You Like It"
24. * She is an American civil rights leader who inspired the civil rights movement across the nation (First Name)
26. Movie rating
27. * Queen of The Netherlands who ascended to the throne (in 1980) after her mother Juliana abdicated in her favor
28. Long hockey game acronym
31. And not
33. * Hillary Rodham Clinton has made HERstory by becoming the first First Lady to ___ for Senate
34. * One of the most famous women in HERstory
35. * Female pronoun
37. Golfer's prop
40. Film Finale
41. * Female form of address
42. * In 1997, she became America's first female Secretary of State (Last Name)
43. Cereal grain
44. Attempt
45. Condition
50. * The Parthenon was dedicated to this Greek Goddess
51. * World-renowned top-selling modern female novelist (Last Name)
53. It's one of the original Thirteen Colonies, briefly
54. Mr. Eliot
56. Atomic #99
58. * She is one of the women pioneers of popular music and remains one of the World's top performers today (Initials)
60. * Early female novelists often chose to use a male nom-de-___ in order to have their books published, such as England's Brontë sisters whose first published work (of 1846) was called "Poems by Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell"
62. Flap down
63. Olfactory Organ
65. Stupor
68. The Three Stooges member
69. Comedian Conway
70. Mr. Mineo
71. * World famous advice columnist (First Name)
75. Alternative indicator