"___, that love, so gentle in his view, / Should be so tyrannous and rough in proof!": "Romeo and Juliet" Crossword Clue

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"___, that love, so gentle in his view, / Should be so tyrannous and rough in proof!": "Romeo and Juliet" Crossword Answer

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(adverb)
1. by bad luck

Hint 2: Clue Definitions

TYRANNOUS (adjective)
1. marked by unjust severity or arbitrary behavior
GENTLE (adjective)
1. marked by moderate steepness
2. having little impact
GENTLE (verb)
1. give a title to someone; make someone a member of the nobility
2. cause to be more favorably inclined; gain the good will of

Hint 3: Anagram

Unscramble the letters below to solve for today's answer.
AALS

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Across

1. Train unit

4. One means of going up a hill

8. Builds

14. Tap it

15. Reese Witherspoon's role in "Legally Blonde"

16. Fictional land of magic and talking animals

17. Baseball great who said "If I'd just tried for them dinky singles I could've batted around .600"

19. Playground retort

20. Untouchable

21. Goalie's stat

23. Genre for “Sunset Boulevard”

24. Designation for some audio connectors

25. Inch (toward)

29. Had the reins

31. Give and take?

32. Word with stop or prize

33. Financial support

36. Lose firmness

38. Punk subculture

39. World capital in central Anatolia

40. Woke

42. That little thing you do?

43. Inits. for cinephiles

45. Struggle to decide

46. "___ a roll!"

48. Spreadsheet units

50. In good shape

51. Corn syrup brand

52. Book of Mormon book

53. Plant watcher, for short

56. Helped temporarily, with “over”

58. Chops

60. High-end suit

63. Locale for a couples cruise?

65. Milieu for the Flying Wallendas

66. Obsessed with

67. Reed in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame

68. Celestial omens, to some

69. Make tears

70. Mind meld?

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Down

1. Part of an airplane

2. Where Davy Crockett died, with "the"

3. Athlete tackling El Capitan, e.g.

4. Relative of a gull

5. Down

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7. See 49-Down

8. A bunch of fruit may grow on it

9. Hurry

10. Wiped out

11. ___ International, channel seen in hotel rooms worldwide

12. Deck the Halls contraction

13. ___ Tiago, largest of the Cape Verde islands

18. Problem solver's cry

24. N.Y. Rangers' home

26. Investor's question for a start-up, to which 3-, 8-, 35- and 49-/7-Down reply "Yes!"'

27. One of the Addams family

28. Slowly diminish

30. Gossip

33. Dyeing technique

34. Jungian archetype

35. Who popularized the proverb "With great power comes great responsibility"

37. Clown

41. Weddings

44. Traffic director

45. Fool

47. Write, as music

49. With 7-Down, worker who likely knows the ropes

54. Subs

55. Invite from atop the stairs, say

57. When ties get untied, for short

58. ___ in three

59. Place offering a Rise ’N Shine breakfast

60. Epitome of simplicity

61. "Flying Down to ___" (1933 film)

62. Lion keeper?

64. Start to count?

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