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ACROSS
1 Admissions might give one away 10 Order at an osteria
15 Winner of the inaugural College Football
Playoff
16 x + 0 = x, e.g.
17 Equal rights subject
19 Homer’s father
20 3-Down inventor’s inits.
21 Best Picture after “The Last Emperor” 22 Fear-inducing phrase
25 Word with reel or rule
26 Scamps
28 Actress Michelle of “Crazy Rich Asians” 30 One showing firm leadership?
33 Early major-league game setting 34 Destination of Muhammad in his Night
Journey
36 Persian for “place of”
37 Skedaddle
38 “Dr. T and the Women” star, 2000 39 Squirt
41 Over
42 Conference member: Abbr.
43 Fixes
44 Wool sources
45 Late major-league game setting: Abbr. 46 Those needing onboarding
48 “D’oh!”
52 British grandma
53 EWR alternative
56 Auto-mated things?
59 “M” or “Z”
60 Print source
61 Thwacks
62 Progress
DOWN
1 Thing: Sp.
2 Literary character likened to a “mute, maned sea-lion” 3 Reproductive system?
4 “Star Wars: The Last Jedi” pilot 5 Company whose headquarters were built from its own product 6 Unbelievable bargains 7 Ceilings
8 Site of some credit card skimming, for short
9 Flavor of some eau de vie 10 Lepers
11 Canceling
12 Neighbor of India and China on a Risk board
13 Senate coverage?
14 “Yes, exactly!”
18 Fricassee relative
23 Pompeii, e.g.
24 Narrow margin
26 Says harsh words?
27 The “o” of Verizon’s Fios
29 N.B.A. coach Spoelstra
30 New year, metaphorically
31 Like a howl at night
32 Howls at night, maybe
34 Relative of a .png file
35 College Station player
37 One looking for a hand
40 Scanned smartphone graphics 41 Requites
44 Like most of the Home Depot
logo
45 “Come ___!”
47 Permanently
48 Ideologies
49 “Got milk?”
50 Part of 20-Across
51 Ride
54 Purchase
55 Cousins of garters
57 Through
58 L.C.D. forerunner