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1 Manhattan’s ___ D. Roosevelt Park 5 Kunis of “That ’70s Show” 9 Had a bad feeling 14 Added to the ballot, say 16 Bulb unit 17 Terminal request 18 Escalated 19 Ruthlessly aggressive 21 Fails to be 22 Flag carrier with a 17-hour nonstop flight to London 23 Winds up 26 Peer group 27 Egyptian sky god 28 Sticky situations 33 Disney president who oversaw the Pixar acquisition 34 Part of a ream 35 Inner tubes, topologically 36 “Get over here now!” 38 Submerged ridge
39 Wait
40 “For real?” 41 Gave grief, in a way 44 Get back 45 The Hagia Sophia was built in it
50 Triumphant cry
51 Not likely to be upset 52 One end of the railway in “The Bridge on the River Kwai” 53 Euphoric state 54 State 55 Feature of many a diary
56 In a jiffy
1 Clock 2 Stage highlight 3 Reward seeker’s concern 4 Free
5 Accelerator particles 6 Like Wile E. Coyote 7 Incredible person 8 One of the two components of 5-Down 9 It stands for something 10 First name in westerns 11 First of the Minor Prophets 12 Medgar who said “You can kill a man, but you can’t kill an idea” 13 Places for trophies
15 Perfect and then some? 20 Base boss 23 Smart 24 Kangaroo, for 22-Across 25 City on Utah Lake 26 Oomph 28 Game with a ball called a quaffle 29 Vague expression of empathy 30 Ginseng, e.g. 31 Times gone by 32 Cylindrical construction 34 Lull 37 Short yardage play, briefly
38 Having eaten crow 40 Does some course prep? 41 Shaved ice ingredient 42 Heraldic hue 43 Actress Hayek of “Frida” 44 Some tow jobs, for short 45 Front covers 46 Home of The Timespicayune, informally 47 Prefix with -cracy 48 Ashcroft’s predecessor as attorney general 49 Elysium