Answer: KATHLEEN
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An 'across' clue can therefore go in any of the four possible directions, depending on which numbering is used. For example, there are four '1 across' clues given, and their answers go in the four possible '1 across' spots.
Each answer spot in the grid has two possible directions; for example, the '1 across' in the upper-left corner could also be '73 across' going the other direction. In this case, a '1 across' clue is given, and so the answer ODD is filled in going to the right.
We read the highlighted squares in counter-clockwise order to get the answer, KATHLEEN.
Clue | Answer | Direction in grid |
1. Ads | spots | down |
1. Folk song mule | sal | left |
1. Quirky | odd | right |
1. Wild, like a cat | feral | up |
4. Donations for the poor | alms | right |
10. It's more, it's said | less | down |
13. Blood element | iron | right |
13. What Eric Hosmer shouldn't have done in Game 7 | slid | left |
14. Cougars | pumas | down |
15. Banks the spy | cody | down |
15. Pot starter | ante | up |
15. Stereotypical barbershop icon | pole | right |
15. Strong wind | gale | left |
16. "We ___" (convenience store sign) | card | up |
16. "Yes, my ___" | liege | left |
16. Prepare | setup | right |
17. One who prefers elephants to donkeys | republican | up |
17. Org. associated with an alphabet | nato | right |
19. According to | asper | left |
19. Command used to watch log files | tail | down |
20. Auction units | lots | left |
21. Time when you might see tag | recess | left |
22. 9th place award, maybe | ribbon | up |
22. Elevated | raised | down |
24. Adjective describing several AWS services | elastic | up |
24. Club | bat | right |
26. Celebrity gossip site | tmz | down |
26. Toss out, as from one's office | dismiss | right |
27. awk alternative | sed | up |
27. Parachute harness system | rig | down |
28. One cowardly dog | courage | down |
28. Plane tree | sycamore | left |
33. Wait until later | defer | up |
33. What you might do to your loins | gird | right |
36. Lee Kong ___ School of Business | chian | left |
36. One end of a BitTorrent connection | peer | down |
36. Type of hare, in a certain novel | march | right |
39. Big business magazine | inc | right |
39. Overly | too | left |
40. Haggard in the Country Music Hall of Fame | merle | down |
40. Test for a prospective PhD | gre | right |
41. Coke, for one | cola | down |
41. Tranquil | calm | up |
42. Hackers might pick one | lock | down |
42. Not well-done | rare | up |
43. "Picnic" playwright | inge | down |
44. What a lot of nerds don't get a lot of | dates | up |
45. Judas or James | apostle | down |
45. Pierce | penetrate | left |
45. Terminal of a cell | electrode | right |
48. Meta key | alt | down |
49. Bedded | laid | right |
49. Give the role to the wrong person | miscast | up |
51. Hatmaker | milliner | left |
52. Animal that's very rarely blue | lobster | right |
55. Middle Eastern gun | uzi | right |
56. 1/12 of carbon-12 | amu | right |
56. Popular embedded CPU | arm | up |
56. Possesses | has | down |
56. Sin's relative | tan | left |
57. [Literally] | sic | down |
57. Cock's partner | hen | up |
57. Fissures | cracks | left |
58. Express fondness, as to a niece or nephew | dote | down |
59. X, Y, or Z, often | coordinate | up |
60. Call's partner? | beck | left |
62. Additionally | also | up |
64. It has a rich oracle | omaha | left |
64. It means "great O" | omega | down |
65. Sound from a sty | oink | down |
66. Bell starter? | taco | left |
66. Keep in check | rein | down |
66. Meyers with a talk show | seth | up |
66. Online discussion places, according to some | fora | right |
67. Comfort | ease | right |
71. Exhausted | spent | left |
71. Mockery or sham | farce | right |
72. Truth alternative | dare | right |