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1 Astaire with steps
6 Onetime Virginia senator Jim
10 “My Two ___” (1980s sitcom) 14 French parish priests
15 Piece of merchandise
16 “___ homo”
17 Camaraderie
19 Autumn spice
20 Words to the disloyal
21 Cheryl of “Curb Your Enthusiasm” 22 Binge-watch, maybe
23 Like a Hail Mary
25 “By the way …”
27 “Nothing Feels Good: Punk Rock,
Teenagers and ___” (2003 book) 28 Channel with several spinoff channels 30 Pay
32 Ones who may dress down those
dressing up?
36 Some detox diets
37 Modern college major
38 Former Giants G.M. Al
39 Big name in Art Deco
40 Many a time suck
41 Social reformer Dorothea 44 Comment after a bump
49 Caustic soda, chemically
51 What you might charge for a ride 53 Onetime Korean statesman Syngman 54 Movie villain whose first name is
Julius
55 Part of many an N.Y.C. subway station
wall
57 Lip
58 Video game neophyte, informally 59 Mod bottoms
60 Kvass grains
61 Workers on the hill
62 Brno-born, e.g. DOWN
1 Made (like)
2 On account of
3 Mythical figure often depicted holding a lyre
4 Arboreal primate
5 Largest section of the dictionary 6 “Dunkirk” and “Pearl Harbor,” for short 7 Merit
8 Court submission
9 She convinced George to switch to fivepointed stars, in American legend 10 Show
11 Places of learning
12 Distributor of Penguin classics?
13 What an asterisk may mean 18 “Nigerian prince,” often
24 Sink
26 Some of life’s twists and turns
29 Nick of Hollywood
31 Part of a programmer’s conditional 32 One who sucks the joy out of the room 33 Worker on the Hill
34 Places where brain waves are analyzed 35 Panang curry alternative
36 Show that once had an April Fools’ Day
episode hosted by Pat Sajak
37 More sweeping
42 Book that’s the basis for the movie
“What’s Love Got to Do With It”
43 Gas in arc lamps
45 Actress Ana of “Devious Maids”
46 River crossed in 1945’s Operation
Plunder
47 Thing often described redundantly as
“of the past”
48 “Gimme a break!”
50 Prepares a bed?
52 Tab’s counterpart
56 Hip-hop’s Run-___