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Across

1 ___ alphabet 5 Dream big 11 ___-Signal 14 Mystery writer? 15 Place to hide in

hide-and-seek 16 Donkey Kong, for

one

17 Classic song that starts

“I was working in the lab late one night” [2003, 1970]

19 Hwy.

20 Viking beverage 21 Popular New

Orleans dessert 23 Start of the Depression [1987, 2004]

27 ___ vera 28 Bequeaths 29 Works of Picasso

y Goya

30 Gotham inits. 31 Small wind

instrument 32 Gamblers’

calculations 33 Line at the top or bottom of a website [1997, 2019]

36 Help up a slope 38 Popular

depilatory

39 Busy body?

42 It was cool in the

’90s

43 Search blindly 45 Strives (to) 46 Commuter’s headache [1998, 2000] 49 1986 #1 hit for Patti LaBelle and Michael McDonald 50 Throne material on “Game of Thrones” 51 Lovelace of early

computing 52 Editing device suggested by 17-, 23-, 33- and 46-Across? 57 Crossed 58 Michelle Obama or Jill Biden, informally 59 Request accompanying puppy dog eyes, maybe

60 ___ Lankan 61 Mac-versus-PC

and others 62 Lead-in to sax

Down

1 “Full Metal Jacket”

setting, in brief 2 Surprise for a

statistician 3 “Funky Cold

Medina” rapper 4 In the bargain

bin, say

5 Tennis feat

6 Nikon D3500, e.g. 7 Certain lap dog,

informally 8 Allende who wrote “City of the Beasts”

9 Goes back to

square one 10 Moral code 11 Alma mater for Martha Stewart and Joan Rivers 12 Hurdles for many honor students, in brief 13 Something most babies do at around six months

18 The Rams scored none of these in the ’19 Super Bowl, and the Chiefs none in ’21 22 Ex-seniors 23 Sickly-looking 24 Mattress size 25 Big break 26 58-Across between Lou and Bess 31 Supporting

32 ___ Lady of

Guadalupe 33 Often-frazzled

comics character 34 Rank below adm. 35 Seating section 36 What the N.B.A.’s SuperSonics became in 2008 37 Type of rice 39 Like some glasses 40 Highly

respected

41 Help button 42 Some celebrity

sporting events 43 Rampage 44 Dwindle 45 Birthplace of

Homo sapiens 47 So-called “Godfather of the Teamsters” 48 Be bedridden, say 53 Big Apple

subway inits. 54 Opposite of

norte

55 Email addenda,

for short

56 Vegas hotel and casino that is the longtime host of the World Series of Poker