Here’s contest puzzle #1. Solve using the Crossword Compiler applet below, download a PDF, or use Across Lite. The meta is a band that would complete this puzzle's theme. Submit your answer to the meta using the form on the home page.
New Order by Pete Muller
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1. Beer hat?
5. Drawing at a fundraiser
11. "Watchmen" airer
14. Guthrie whose third album was the "Alice's Restaurant" soundtrack
15. Paid taxes online
16. ___ of Osuvox (Level 99 magic artifact in "Ready Player One")
17. Gives a pass to, in a way
19. Bolo, for instance
20. Fund fees that decrease investor returns
21. Goo Goo Dolls hit from "City of Angels"
22. Summer thirst quenchers
23. Purported immortality provider
26. Confused
29. Olenna Tyrell portrayer Diana on "Game of Thrones"
30. Brown of country music
31. Miscellany
35. Rick Blaine portrayer, for short
38. Very topical
42. Bowie or Guetta
43. Site of a 1956 Mideast crisis
44. Add (up)
45. "Gymnopédies" composer Satie
47. Non-explanation, after "because"
50. Bird whose most prominent feature makes it appear surprised
55. "___ the Unknown" ("Frozen II" song)
56. Select stadium section
57. "Dog the Bounty Hunter" airer, once
61. CCR bassist Cook or early Beatle Sutcliffe
62. Preprandial exhortation
64. Favor preceder?
65. Queen's "Under Pressure" in "Ice Ice Baby," e.g.
66. "Santa Baby" singer
67. Place where someone might walk all over you?
68. Navigation system owned by GM
69. Toward the sheltered side
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1. "A Hard Rain's A-Gonna ___" (Dylan classic)
2. Treat whose name can be formed by concatenating a Cirque du Soleil show and a car
3. Ski resort known for its super-cheap "Ski after 3" tickets
4. Rapper who played Ford Prefect in "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"
5. Worker with a whistle
6. Stick on, as a label
7. Guy in front of a stove
8. Pizzazz
9. Real estate rent recipient
10. Dreyer's original partner in the ice cream business
11. Dog predecessor?
12. Get up to speed
13. Like a 40-pound house cat
18. City with a fjord
22. Programming language that gave rise to Pascal and C
24. Stravinsky, for one
25. Petite prevarications
26. Erstwhile crocodile-bearing shirt
27. Sha successor?
28. Movie detective whose dog helps him crack a case
32. Fleur-de-___
33. Chit
34. U2 classic
36. Lyft and Uber milestones of '19
37. Latin word in the Idaho state motto
39. Freddie Mercury, Avicii, or Bebe Rexha, astrologically
40. New Bohemians frontwoman Brickell
41. Opera basso Pinza
46. Whiskas cat food, from 1936 to 1988
48. Letters on a bulletproof vest
49. Whence Jewel
50. Talks like Winthrop in "The Music Man"
51. "Love ___" (Beyoncé hit)
52. Gads about
53. 43-Across's country
54. Mysterious Street?
58. "Heart of Gold" singer Young
59. 12/12/12, e.g.
60. Rock ending
62. Special Agent ___ (cartoon panda bear)
63. Always, if you're a poet and need to spare a syllable
