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ACROSS

1 Even faster than overnight

8 Creator of Bluto and Wimpy

15 From the heart, in Latin

16 Heart

17 He played an escaped convict in “We’re No Angels”

18 Bad representation?

19 Bucket of bolts

20 Central U.S.’s ___ Plateau

22 Keys are found in it: Abbr.

23 So-called “Caput Mundi” (“Head of the World”)

24 Phrase usually abbreviated

25 Longtime Cunard flagship, for short

26 Polymer add-on?

27 The Allegheny and Wabash, to the Ohio: Abbr.

28 Succession in a board game

29 One for the record books

31 “Clearly!”

32 “How ludicrous!”

34 Town in Connecticut’s Gold Coast

37 Tweak

41 Rte. that ends in 22Across

42 Lounge piece

43 Competitor of Baker’s Joy

44 River of York

45 “Death and the ___” (Bosch painting in the National Gallery of Art)

46 Confusion

47 “The Cocktail Party” inits.

48 With 9-Down, hit sitcom of the 1980s-’90s

49 Prepare for a close-up

50 It could be a blooper

52 Like stars in a review

54 Longtime locals

55 School address

56 Commoner contemner

57 One of a pair a gardener might wear

DOWN

1 Marine 10-legger

2 “Welcome to the Jungle” singer, 1988

3 Marie Curie and Irène Joliot-Curie, e.g.

4Line online

5 More than serious

6 Org. for many residents

7 Go in and out of middle management

8 Mid-luxury Mercedes-Benz line

9 See 48-Across

10 Be lousy

11 Form of the Italian verb “to be”

12 Set electricians

13 Crow’s-foot, e.g.

14 Aggressive poker play

21 Aquarium denizen with horizontal stripes

24 1991 Daytona 500 winner Ernie

25 Classroom command

27 Tickling response

28 Coin at an arcade

30 Packing supply

31 Whale facility

33 Cat’s tongue

34 Photoshop color effect

35 Predictably

36 Mozart contemporary Antonio ___

38 Honest or respectable course

39 It ended after W.W. II

40 Like first drafts, usually

42 Think over

45 Studio equipment

46 “The Outcasts of Poker Flat” author

48 Pandorans in “Avatar”

49 Distance unit of about

30 inches 51 European crested ___ 53 ___ Jiabao, 2003-13 premier of China