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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 thirty20 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
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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 gogetters 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 highestgrossing 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