Heroine of Tennessee Williams’s “Summer and Smoke” Crossword Clue

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Hint 1: Clue Definitions

TENNESSEE (noun)
1. a state in east central United States
2. a river formed by the confluence of two other rivers near Knoxville; it follows a U-shaped course to become a tributary of the Ohio River in western Kentucky
WILLIAMS (noun)
1. United States playwright (1911-1983)
2. United States country singer and songwriter (1923-1953)

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Across

1. Neighbor of Vt. and N.H.

5. Canceled, as a mission

9. Debt to equity, for example

14. Longer of the two lower arm bones

15. Word with monetary or military

16. Option on a popular car service

17. Porn

18. "Designing Women" co-star of 1980s-’90s TV

20. Japanese theatrical genre

22. The new oil, it's said

23. Yahoo alternative

24. Snorkeling site

26. Nonspecific cash quantities

28. Player of the middle son on TV's "The Partridge Family"

33. Egg cells

34. Dress in Delhi

35. Readies, as a fishing line

38. Blowout game, in sports headlines

40. Auto-___, setting for many subscription services

43. American city in the Sonoran Desert

44. Work on with the hands, as dough or tired muscles

46. First corner square after Go on a Monopoly board

48. Author Fleming

49. "E.T." actress

53. One of the life sciences: Abbr.

54. Dry, as the Sonoran Desert

55. Dr. whose "lab" is a studio

58. Bad way to run

60. First basic cable show to win an Emmy for Outstanding Drama Series

64. Singer who starred in "Labyrinth" (1986) and "The Man Who Fell to Earth" (1976)

67. Shakespearean conspirator

68. Nimble

69. Rips in a review

70. Later

71. Carolers' celebrations

72. Sound of either weariness or relief

73. One place to find 18-, 28-, 49- and 64-Across ... or, parsed differently, how these people might introduce themselves

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Down

1. Cologne scent

3. Give the cold shoulder

4. What NASA's Cassini probe orbited for 13 years

5. Gentlemen's club, colloquially

6. Point value of 68% of Scrabble tiles

7. Coat with a thin auric layer

8. Capital city on the banks of the Rideau River

9. Nonsense syllables one might say in a tub

10. ___ Dhabi

11. Contract clause

12. Ticks off

13. Yoked team

19. Slightly

21. Ivories, on a piano

25. Cry from a klutzy golfer

27. Grift

28. Socially awkward sort

29. Stratford-on-___

30. Christened

31. Stealthy assassin with a sword

32. Farmyard refrain in a children's song

36. Ruler opposed by the Bolsheviks

37. Levelheaded

39. Remove the skin from

41. Notable features of elves and basset hounds

42. Latticed metal used in construction and fencing

45. Divisions in some history books

47. Constellation resembling a musical instrument

50. Development center?

51. Arcing baseball hits

52. House of ___ (old Italian banking family)

55. June 6 remembrance

56. Competitor of Rao's

57. Diabolical

59. Title river in an Oscar-winning movie

61. Severely injure

62. Antiquated "OMG!"

63. Modern greenhorn

65. ___ de la Cité

66. Verb suffix

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