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Crossword clue for "MARCHMADNESS"

MARCHMADNESS: Annual sports event that begins with Selection Sunday on 3/15 ... or, cryptically, a hint to the scrambled word found at the starts of 20-, 29-, 37- and 45-Across

MARCHMADNESS: Theme of this puzzle; Annual sporting event suggested by the circled letters; Annual basketball event; Bracketology event (Cambridge); NCAA basketball tournament nickname; Annual NCAA tournament; NCAA tourney nickname; The Elite Eight are associated with it; What a bracketologist is caught up in; Affliction suffered by bracketologists; Annual college basketball tourney, rounds of which can be found in the circled squares at their appropriate numbers; Basketball tournament since 1939; Spring basketball tournament; Name of two springtime basketball tournaments; Annual event with brackets