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1 Barely keeping up with things, say 10 Group featured on many “Sesame Street” episodes
14 Look down on something? 16 Suckling site
17 Starter’s follower
18 Home for a Hogarth or a Constable, with “the”
19 Word with twenty- or thirty
20 Robust
21 Medium state
23 Name that’s an anagram of both 16- and
18-Across
24 Key
25 M.L.B.’S oldest continuously operating franchise, established as the Boston Red Stockings in 1871
28 One watching the kids?
29 Drew
30 Causes of puckering
31 “My man!”
32 “___ Ordinary Man” (“My Fair Lady”
tune)
33 Binary code snippets
34 Scott of “See Dad Run”
35 Aristocrat, in British slang
36 They’re broken at marathons
37 Unit of magnetic flux
38 Doesn’t travel, say
40 Bacchanalian beasts
41 Congresswoman who once served in the
U.S. cabinet
42 Item for a croupier
43 Chain with a loaf of bread in its logo 44 Starburst?
45 Engine speed inits.
48 Mount near Olympus
49 Means of devastation on “Game of
Thrones”
52 Level
53 Fantabulous 54 One week, for many beach house rentals 55 Just barely reacts
DOWN
1 ___ pants
2 Text notification before a time stamp 3 Like much of Arizona
4 Cab alternative
5 Went cruising, say
6 Puffs up
7 It’s down in the mouth
8 “Your majesty”
9 Confirmation
10 Online action symbolized by a paper clip 11 Collectible from what’s been called the
world’s first internet sensation 12 Claw-proof crate
13 Hefty barriers to entry
15 Spineless sorts, metaphorically 22 Hazards for rural travel
23 Level
24 Traffic directors
25 Shortcomings
26 “I heard …”
27 It’s east of the Horn of Africa
28 Flight board column
30 Like go-getters
33 Burns’s “The Soldier’s Return” and
others
34 “La Belle et la ___” (French fairy tale) 36 Bit of a lift
37 Fictional land in the highest-grossing
film of 2018
39 Like one’s eyes after a poor night’s sleep 40 Doesn’t inhale, say
42 Substitute teacher?
44 Where many stop and smell the rosés 45 Completely ready
46 They’re low on the food chain
47 No more than
50 Chafe
51 Goal of a diversion