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This week's theme: Women in Sports

Across

1. * Like father, Like daughter: Laila ___ has followed in the footsteps of her legendary father to become a Boxer.
4. * Ms. Retton
10. The Beatles album: "Let It ___"
12. "Lake" in French
13. Ibsen character
14. Character from "The Wizard of Oz" (1939)
16. * She won gold for Australia in the 80m Hurdles event at the 1956 Melbourne Olympics: Shirley ___
19. * They're made in Softball
20. Item hanging from a shirt in a clothes store
21. Three vowels
22. Staples
24. * Figure Skaters and Rhythmic Gymnasts must devise them
27. Undergrad
28. Greek deity
29. Bear young
31. Approximated, briefly
34. Spiked wheel at the end of a spur
37. Genetic letters
38. Popular dessert
40. Given to imitation
41. Play a Part
42. Give out
43. * Ms. Krone who, on June 5th, 1993, made horse-racing history when she became the first woman to win the prestigious Belmont Stakes
44. Type of Tape used to Tape a TV Show
45. * Equestrian's instruction: "Yell ___ get the horse to speed up."
46. Non-verbal form of communication (Acronym)
47. * Athlete on a Horse, without the "R"
49. Word before Culpa
50. Question posed of a Librarian: "___ Hinton the novelist of The Outsiders ?"
52. * Name from the 1992 movie about women's baseball called "A League of Their Own"
57. Contact Lenses company: ___ & Lomb
59. Type of cuckoo bird
60. By way of
61. Song of praise
62. * Goddess of Golf
65. Poisonous gas
67. Type of pen
68. Make a Mistake
69. Not you
70. * Titaness of Tennis
71. Flight schedule acronym

Down

1. Something in a church
2. Key follower
3. French for "Here"
4. * Sports Factoid: In most sports, female athletes don't ___ much money as their male counterparts
5. * Dieter's comment: "For breakfast, I had ___-Fast."
6. Name from "The Crying Game" (1992)
7. Office Manager's comment: "We us the abbreviation of ___ way of saving space on our letterheads and business cards."
8. Greasy, without the "ly"
9. Square
10. * Softball players use them
11. Alphabet letters
15. * Ms. Kwan the Figure Skater
16. * Letters on a woman's (or man's) racecar
17. * Olympic gold medalist in Figure Skating, in 1960
18. Canadian prov.
23. * Skating Star
25. Revelation at the Filing Cabinet: "Look at all of the ___ got stuck with for filing! Yesterday, the same thing happened to me, but with all of the Dees!"
26. * Some swimmers display their artistry in it, for short
30. Consumes grub
32. One-armed bandit, with "Machine"
33. Dorothy's Dog
34. Royal Family member in India, variantly
35. Piece of music
36. * Serena or Venus
37. Mr. Winfield
39. Kid who was held in Miami
48. * Middle-Distance Runner: Mary ___ Slaney
49. * Ms. Seles of Tennis
51. * Tennis Star's pout: "This ___ playing in is burning my powerful forearm!"
53. Singer who Sang "Splish Splash"
54. * Famed tennis player
55. Sign of the Zodiac
56. Experimental locale, for short
57. Cow shelter
58. Laughing sound
61. Lunchtime sandwich
63. * Baseball stat.
64. Teensy
66. Symbol for Sodium