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ACROSS 1 Wall light 7 “Well, excuu-use me!” 14 Frisk

15 What short sleeves leave 16 Feebleness 17 Wholly

18 The religiously unaffiliated 19 Wipe out 20 Carrier to Tokyo 21 Monk’s title 22 Single-___ 24 Twerp 25 Terse response accepting responsibility 27 Unnerving look

30 4K 32 Midwest tribe 33 Private R&R 34 Frustrating place to be stranded 38 Gambling card game that up to 10 may comfortably play at once 40 Involve, as in controversy 41 Some social media celebrities 45 Days of old 46 Decays

47 Pair

49 Org. that penalizes carrying 50 Places where people wear masks, for short 51 Actress Katherine of “27 Dresses” 53 Fool

55 Like wellconnected investigative reporters, say

57 Detests 58 “If ... then” sort of thinker 59 Faux brother of a popular rock group 60 Do a school visit, in a way?

61 Play favorites with DOWN 1 Rare-earth element named after where it was discovered 2 Engage in some P.D.A.

3 Handy item in the kitchen?

4 The ___ Nugget (alliteratively named newspaper since 1897) 5 English potato chip

6 Subj. of a “Delayed” sign

7 Cheese sometimes flavored with dill

8 Subjects of tests for purity

9 “___ sorry …” 10 Beam 11 Illinois college town

12 Key of Mozart’s “Requiem” 13 Demesne 15 Greek city visited by Paul before Athens 19 Sized up 23 Stick

24 Like a cloudless night

26 Gets carried away 28 Capturer of an unguarded remark 29 Stick in a cabinet, say

31 Latin 101 word

35 Clear choice for auto buyers

36 Like the 101st Division 37 Skin care product

39 Kind of velocity in planetary physics

40 And others: Abbr.

41 Some social media commenters 42 Kept going and going 43 “We’ve got the green light”

44 Most common noble gas 48 Hinder 51 “Shoot!” 52 Emmy winner

Falco 54 “Heavens to Betsy!”

56 Wine aperitif

57 One of the first artists to incorporate random chance