Times Square ball drop setting, in brief Crossword Clue

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Times Square ball drop setting, in brief Crossword Answer

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(noun)
1. standard time in the 5th time zone west of Greenwich, reckoned at the 75th meridian; used in the eastern United States

Hint 2: Clue Definitions

SETTING (noun)
1. the context and environment in which something is set
2. arrangement of scenery and properties to represent the place where a play or movie is enacted
TIMES (noun)
1. an arithmetic operation that is the inverse of division; the product of two numbers is computed
2. a more or less definite period of time now or previously present

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Across

1. Schoolroom that serves as a studio

7. Original airer of "Doctor Who"

10. Covenant

14. Give a lashing

15. Whom Will Smith played in a 2001 sports biopic

16. Son of Zeus and Hera

17. Sweetener in some diet sodas

18. *Cat breed named after an Indonesian island from which it didn't originate

20. Places to carry out some takeout orders, for short?

21. Light unit

23. Not in the ___

24. *It's "read" as a stern warning

26. *Relative of a snowboard

28. ___ Men (group that won a Grammy Award in 2001 for Best Dance Recording)

29. Old tone

31. Is for the people?

32. Daffy Duck speaking feature

34. “I wanna!”

37. Brings up a prior topic … or a hint to making sense of the answers to this puzzle's starred clues

41. Country that was home to the Ebla library, thought to be the world's first (2500 B.C.)

42. Sheet music symbol

44. Past-tense verb that's potentially confusing (but grammatically correct!) when written twice in a row

47. ___ salt (form of magnesium sulfate)

50. Lead-in to -nautics

52. *Carve out, in a way

55. *Comedy club fare

57. Columbus’s birthplace

58. "___ My Heart in San Francisco"

60. Video game character speaking a gibberish language

61. Villain's expression

63. Like does

65. ___ Mendoza, former first lady of Puerto Rico

66. Onetime C.I.A. foe

67. Like government secrets, occasionally

68. Title friend of Marlin in an animated film

70. Revered sorts

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Down

1. Soak up

2. Outcome of a hung jury

3. "How stylish!"

4. W.C.

5. Not quite straight up

6. Gorgeous ones, informally

7. Film based on the 1983 children's novel "The Sheep-Pig"

8. Some comforters for toddlers

9. Modern prefix with normativity

10. Dairy-less diet

11. Singer Grande

12. Turn into stars, say?

13. Tswana for "fly"

19. West ___ (furniture retailer)

22. Trailblazing astronaut Jemison

25. Refuge from the heat

27. It's one foot long

30. Calls for sympathy

33. Snoop

35. Big thing in fast food?

36. Splendor

38. Language that gave us "Saskatchewan"

39. Piercings that might be felt while kissing

40. Memento

43. More delicate and weak

44. Who says "You're a wizard, Harry"

45. Skin care brand

46. City that lends its name to a style of omelet

48. Uplifting work

49. Quiet!

51. Popping pills, say

53. Racket-raising

54. ___ pal

56. Source of Andrew Carnegie's wealth

59. Community associated with Out magazine

62. President posthumously inducted in the World Golf Hall of Fame, informally

64. Crackpot

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