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ACROSS
1 Put it on TV
9 Chowder ingredients 14 Cooking grease
15 Not too cute
16 Cause of inflation 17 Historic period 19 Looked over
20 Stunt plane maneuver 21 Get better 23 Nonconformist group 25 Pleads
27 Not on the rocks 29 Bongo or snare 31 Type of dressing 33 Oxygen or nitrogen 35 Vicinity
37 Factual
39 That woman
40 Not in stock
41 Long seat
43 Type of exam 45 Straddling
47 Get rid of
49 Fathers
52 Athletic group 53 Therefore
54 Stuff full 56 Do the backstroke 58 Strong smell
59 Shirt part
62 Follow undercover 64 Mathematic relation 66 Take a load off 67 Strange
70 Put your foot down 72 Writes a letter 73 Distress call
74 Puts on the press 76 Matures, as wine
78 Juno star Ellen 79 Garden tube 82 Applications
85 Mimic
88 Use the phone 90 Proboscis
92 Greasy spoon sign 93 Holy cow!
94 Big continent
95 Lose one’s grip 96 Simmers slowly 97 Speak for someone
DOWN
1 Huffed and puffed 2 TV star Rachael 3 Mine finds 4 Supplemented 5 Laboratory growths 6 Way back when 7 Messy person
8 Use a keyboard 9 Fords, Chevys and Chryslers
10 Commit perjury 11 Pendulum’s path 12 Seas and deadly sins 13 On down the road 18 Stretch for
22 U2 hit song
24 Tasty crustaceans 26 Understand 28 Béarnaise and Hollandaise
30 Group of guys
31 Lining for gloves 32 Enjoy a book 33 Capricorn symbol 34 Cow bedding
36 Played a part 38 McGowan or Byrne 42 Great privilege
44 Doily material
46 Leave out
48 Leftover material 50 Frock
51 Heroic one 53 Doughnut center 55 New York team
57 Sail support
59 Just one
60 Comes in last
61 Certain flowers 63 ___ a Wonderful Life 65 Lipton product 68 Stage play 69 Fingers 71 In favor of 75 Badminton barrier 77 Transmits 79 Cuts down 80 Wound reminder 81 Goes with comfort 83 Painful 84 Saved for later 86 Fill with wonder 87 Pull with a hitch 89 Back talk 91 Daughter’s brother