Across

1. Spring follower
4.  Spring, for one
8.  Assist
11. Be a bother to
13. So. CA city
14. Purchase order, shortened
15. Bikini part
16. Spiders, ticks and centipedes
18. Gales
20. Father
21. Showers month
22. Sometimes it’s not enough
25. Hint
27. Add on
28. Acorns, for example
31. Landscape feature
32. Long, long time
34. Extraterrestrial, for short
36. Damp
37. Shoreline finds
38. Egotist’s word
39. Short for Associated Press
41. Holmium symbol
42. Spring month
43. That is (abbr)
44. Stately tree
46. Spelling, shortened
47. Tend to the vegetables
50. Ave. cousin
51. Take to the trail
53. Smeller
55. Darn it!
57. Monarch, for one
60. Original Volkswagen, for instance
63. Place for a BLT
64. Associate of Arts, for short
66. Symbol of strength
67. Short for drill instructor or didymium
68. Public relations, shortened
70. Precipitation
72. IX minus III
73. Outdoor luncheon
74. Jiminy, for one

Down

1.  Blossoms
2.  Miner’s delight
3.  It can be spare
4.  Inline, for instance
5.  Mohammed, for one
6.  Open footwear
7.  Pine leaf
8.  Barbecue fare
9.  Long-playing, for short
10. Reproduction for 1 down
12. Train syst.
17. Short for calcium or California
19. Particular wine
23. Symbol for sodium
24. 101, Roman
25. Wormlike larva or certain tractor
26. Utilize
29. Reverberated
30. Of the sun
33. Not sufficient or nanosecond
35. Tantalum symbol
36. Unwanted plants
37. It could be a T
38. Alda show
40. Window box
45. Something to go fly
48. Flower or wine variety
49. Electrical engineer, shortened
52. Workplace for 69 down, perhaps
54. Popular bulb plant
56. First two of twenty-six
57. Flower ending
58. Symbol for titanium
59. Between mi and sol
61. Fall in ____
62. Way out
65. Nervous movement
68. Politically correct, shortened
69. (see 52 down)
71. Not rated, for short

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