Exam that serves as a qualifier for the National Merit Scholarship Crossword Clue

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SCHOLARSHIP (noun)
1. profound scholarly knowledge
2. financial aid provided to a student on the basis of academic merit
QUALIFIER (noun)
1. a content word that qualifies the meaning of a noun or verb
2. a contestant who meets certain requirements and so qualifies to take part in the next stage of competition

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Across

1. Part of a student's schedule

6. Quality of a gravelly voice

10. Jackson who won 11 NBA titles as a head coach

14. British comedian Alex who created Taskmaster

15. Quite the distance away

16. Akin to

17. Southern or Indian, for example

18. Social-media accounts for laughs

20. "I can't think of a rational explanation, can you?"

22. ___-de-sac

23. Second chances

24. Make small talk

25. Pivot a camera horizontally

26. "Brain" of a computer

29. Colorful beach debris from bottles

32. The Souls of Black Folk author W.E.B.

35. Bone next to the radius

36. Always product

38. Mom on The Simpsons

39. Read quickly

40. Flatbread for falafel

41. Machine for making apple cider

42. Actor Romero who played the Joker

44. Sheet-music symbol that means "don't play"

46. ___ mode (car setting)

48. Be partial to

50. Break in relations

54. The Queen's ___ (Netflix miniseries about a chess prodigy)

56. BuzzFeed's "23 Times People Blurted Out Major Confessions and Left Those Around Them Totally Speechless," for example

58. 'Nice thinking!'

60. Refrain (from)

61. Norse god who was killed by the wolf Fenrir

62. "The ___" and "they see" (apt pair of anagrams)

63. ___ for (desired)

64. Number of batters in a baseball lineup

65. NPRs Tiny __ Concerts

66. Like the retort "I don't know, can you?"

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Down

1. Grub

2. ___ Ness

3. Region

4. RuPaul's Drag Race challenge that parodies a classic comedy panel show

5. "The ___ World" (Kate Bush song inspired by Ulysses)

6. ADA-compliant entrance

7. Not very many

8. Orange Is the New Black actress Wiley

9. Make-believe

10. Philosopher who originated the allegory of the cave

11. Gamer's achievement

12. Store that sells the plushies Blåhaj and Djungelskog

13. ___ we forget …

19. Degree that MLK earned at Boston University

21. Beauty store inside some Targets

24. "Knock, knock!"

27. Snowball and Napoleon in Animal Farm, for example

28. Applies

29. Acting shady in a game of Among Us

30. Second-largest member of the deer family

31. Pointed feature in architecture

33. They call people out at work

34. Event with a music round

37. "Probably don't want to know the answer, but ..."

40. Did some celebrating

43. ___ it out

45. Settings for The Pitt and Code Black

46. Coax into doing something foolish

47. Rapper ___ B

49. Gets out of there

51. Venerated figures

52. Controls a 737

53. Bear named after a president

55. "It's the ___ of my existence"

57. Faucets

59. Henna, for example

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