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1 What a physiognomist studies 6 Palma’s island 13 Christopher Paolini best seller 15 Hope was once its driving force 16 Sluggishness 18 Act 19 “Well done!” 21 Something with “three deuces and a four- speed” in a 1964 hit 22 30, on a table 23 God 24 Golfer

Mickelson 25 Dryish 27 ___ facie ( legal

phrase) 28 Former Ecuadorean “dollars” 29 London or

Manchester 30 Chicken

characteristic 31 Charles of “Hill

Street Blues” 32 ___ stick 35 Measure of data transfer speed, for short 37 With nothing

on top 38 Touchy subject 40 Successor to

Churchill 41 Noted blind

mathematician 42 Noted boxing

family 44 Blackguard 45 Alliance of groups against a common enemy 47 Measures of

sharpness 49 One- named singer with the 2016 # 1 album “A Seat at the Table” 50 Parts of pit

crews 51 Throw a bomb 52 “You don’t have to explain” 53 Like an eisteddfod festival

Down

1 Hernando’s

“happy” 2 A Musketeer 3 Foxes, e. g. 4 Croissan’wich

alternative 5 Make more powerful, with “up” 6 Rumpled 7 Bloom that’s often white or lavender 8 1940 Fonda

role 9 N. H. L. Eastern Conference team, on scoreboards 10 Camp out in the wilderness, say 11 2/ 2, in music 12 Pertaining to

colored rings 14 Field work 17 Parent, e. g. 20 Does some

runs 24 Annual June

celebration 26 Strand during

a storm, maybe 27 Stuck- up sort 29 Newfoundland or golden retriever 31 Staff additions 32 Spell out 33 Nickname for baseball’s Orlando Hernández 34 Shakespearean

fencer 35 Leave in a

hurry 36 Fast- food icon,

with “the” 38 Neighbor of

Allemagne 39 Hints 41 ___- deux 43 Curry of the

N. B. A. 45 A smartphone has lots of them 46 Go smoothly 48 Country music’s Mike ___