Last Tuesday’s freestyle solution
Word count: 72
Mean word length: 5.31
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The seed for this grid was, as you’d guess, the center answer across. One problem, though — for some answers (like this one), nice as you think they are, you don’t really think about how tough they would be to clue without using a word from the answer in the clue (which is, obviously, a no-no). I managed to think of one, obviously, but… it’s a consideration for next time.
You’ll notice that most of the long answers, across and down, are all pretty close to the center. That was by no means my intent — even after I came up with the central horizontal stack. It was very fortunate that it all fell together — there were a couple spots where only one or two entries fit, but just happened to work with the surrounding ones.
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Club 72 
Needed some serious heavy lifting to get 55A. When I looked for it on YouTube after solve I thought “This better be a good tune Croce!” It was. Thanks for the challenging puz.
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It was a hit about when I was in middle school so I remember it well. I suspect you and some others might recognize it from playing the song, if not from the title.
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