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1 Dish whose name means “pierce flesh” 8 Squids’ squirters 15 What can get two feet higher 16 Chocolate truffle filling 17 Snapping … as suggested by some black squares in this puzzle 19 Summer shade 20 High-and-mighty sort 21 Asian capital that’s home to Jokhang Temple

22 Sci-fi TV series before “DS9” 23 Attack, as a gnat 25 No longer flexible 26 Got things down

27 It has the world’s highest per capita income

28 One surrounded at sea

29 Ferris wheel part

30 Fall ___

31 Thanks for waiting 33 Not remote

35 Person picking a ticket 39 Goes through

the motions of? 44 Sack

45 Oscar follower, in

communications 48 Fictional hero who wore

a sombrero cordobés 49 Beam that might hit someone hard? 50 Heretofore

51 Football lineman 52 Staten Island Railway inits. 53 Childproofing option 55 Meter masters 57 Singer Green and others

58 With only slight provocation … as suggested by some black squares in this puzzle 61 “Toodle-oo!”

62 Board near a gate 63 Pincered bugs 64 Villain whose alter ego is Edward Nigma

DOWN

1 Its shell isn’t hard 2 Brave person,

typically?

3 Brandy cocktails 4 Quick flight 5 Parenting challenges 6 Steady

7 Not even slightly 8 “You can’t stop me!” 9 Bread also called khamiri 10 Assumed the hero pose, in yoga 11 Something the narrator of “A Visit From St. Nicholas” threw up 12 Compact Mercedes-Benz 13 Chip maker 14 Tranquil

18 One forced to take the blame 24 What we have “in order not to die of the truth,” per Nietzsche 28 Fitbit had one in 2015, for short 30 Former telco giant 32 E.R. staples

34 Plan for later yrs. 36 Attraction on the bank of the Yamuna River 37 Branch from an artery 38 Enhance, as

a recording 40 Amateurs

41 Sci-fi beeper 42 Trumpet vine, e.g. 43 Trattoria

treat

45 State quarters? 46 Name on an annual literary award 47 Literary orphan who lived for a while in a cupboard 51 Dearest, in Dijon 54 Cogitate (on)

56 Cal tecs?

59 Go for

60 City govt. official