PUZZLE POTLUCK 3

Iron Man
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Tony Stark was playing with his favorite set of clubs.
“The ball just sailed right over the hole! F.R.I.D.A.Y., you saw that right?”
“Well, boss, from my number crunching, it looks like the longer your club, the farther the ball goes. If you want, boss, I can grab a couple of physics textbooks—”
“No, F.R.I.D.A.Y., I think I'm all good there.”
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ACROSS
2Communist supporter, looking back, becomes one who might enjoy tits, boobies, and hooters casually? (6)
7Counter endless snack sacks (4)
11Pull contents out of EpiPen to get something hollow (4)
14First off, stop, tail off (4)
15Actor follows direction, movie ultimately results in disgrace (5)
16After start I bit back a bone (5)
17After losing two articles, Japanese blows up vehicles (5)
18Constellation obscured by revolutionary military leaders (4)
19Desperate? Run and get treatment! (6)
21Time to mature (3)
23Island musicmaker shortly zaps ends off (3)
24Stars endlessly stuffed inside French religious hypocrite (8)
26Word reversed, back to back, in front (4)
28Starts to see, then hears something abbreviated (3, abbr.)
29"For Tiff," I said, "Make the drink stronger" (7)
31A word that knights say follows you to school (3, abbr.)
32Headless Eastern European head (3, abbr.)
34Teams cracked puzzles combining answers (5)
36Like a risque picture, using oil and stuffing the front bits into the back bits (4)
37I worked into the morning hours to target my goal (3)
38Pale color father allows back (6)
41The first embrace is criminal (4)
44Luxury fashion brand is all good, slangily (5)
46Drawn using slide rule, somewhat retro (5)
48Terrible ruler terribly vain (4)
49His got scrambled, somewhat colloquially (3)
50Sounds like a mark worse than a competition (3)
51Expert men received input (5)
53Peanut butter brand sounds like 58-across, to some (3)
54Make fun of relative after tea (5)
55Stab king with nickel and iron (5)
56Back on a ship after stopping just past halfway (3)
58Image format featuring member of army force (3, abbr.)
59Ready to go from soft to loud everywhere (4)
61Sculpting material miserable without echo and is blown up (6)
62Open battle before leader of engineering program released without a charge (8)
64Musical set, missing the ultimate hearts (4)
66Imprison writer (3)
68Splitter of basketball mostly backwards way of walking (4)
69Country put right in front of mural Mike removed (5)
71Tuck in the woods sounded like a small chicken (5)
73Regardless, a confusing treaty hides article (2 3 4)
74Girl loses her head shortly in meatspace (3, abbr.)
75Stored back in refashioned vault (4)
76Girl ground meat (5)
77In exasperation over instrument (3)
78NYC Dec. time offset (3, abbr.)
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1Familiar feeling, taking two characters each to debug Java vulnerability (4 2)
2Sweetheart oddly brazen (3)
3Overheard cold and slippery phrase of understanding (1 3)
4Country to criticize without evil population (8)
5Kids corrupted hard drive (4)
6Mashup of odd T-Shirt and unending hymn creates catchy beat (6)
7God is found in coffeeshop drink container (6)
8Alcohol knocked back, oh god! (5)
9Nature ruined and left bland (7)
10Rush, but stopping halfway between street and back street parades (6)
11Scoundrel left half of bird (3)
12Woody taking pinky, swapping fourth with fourth of index (5)
13Snacks on snacks, the first two are gone (4)
18Recalled part of telephone call requiring new service (3)
20Heartless elf with vial; disease inside is related to invisible emanation (9)
22Brought up appealing drug, going inside brains (6)
25Lie covered by thumb if reversed (3)
27Mir orbiting the outer reaches (3)
28Snipe a confused singular human (6, nonstandard)
30Suggested in extreme antiquity (5)
33Tax covers the French servant (5)
35Adolescent lost tail where Tony takes his first swing (3)
37Silver gram hiding in the process of growing older (5)
39Last part of a retro musing?! (3)
40Back third of orchestra (a bit noisy) came before Claude's first and last Reverie (6)
41Spanish to have provided economic start to make Spanish island (8)
42Veil made from Hawaiian Punch (5)
43It's a mistake for spotted mammal to lose iridium (5)
45Bistro took on extra height to rub you the wrong way (5)
47Failures used flat blend (8)
50Butter mixed with bit of egg in glass tube (7)
52Enthusiasm is one in five thousand (3)
54Illuminati ran around enclosed European capital (6)
55At the outset, "Kick every Republican running!" yelled former Secretary of State (5)
57Blatantly hides color (3)
60Sofa: unable to hide a group of wild animals (5)
63End of the shoot sounds like a knock (4)
64What Beyoncé might do, for example, around 50? (4)
65Kids' meal is first two of tray nine (4)
66Happy relationship hides pile ready to burst into flame (4)
67Slippery, tailless, backwards fish (4)
68A large group of actors turned up: a good time (3)
70Shakespeare's second person is dirty 72-down (3)
72Varmint hiding inside grate (3)
Iron Man has a special ability that will assist you in solving one of the "snapped" puzzles. What is his special ability?
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PUZZLE POTLUCK 3