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1 British cartoon whose logo features a curly tail 9 Company offering Viewliner Bedrooms 15 Cape Canaveral’s 321, for one 16 Period of devotion 17 Nearest the back 18 Private __ 19 Tool akin to a staple gun 20 Shelter named for a senator 21 Bean sprout? 22 Printer color 24 Art student’s subj. 25 Orthodox leader? 26 Hedgehog relative 28 Clog buster 29 1993 Jack Lemmon comedy 32 Rentals used on rugs 35 Top 40 hit on the soundtrack for “A Charlie Brown Christmas” 37 Studio bed 40 Stock reducers 41 “My __”: Usher/ Alicia Keys duet 42 Tofu nutrient 43 Darlings 44 Bobby of R&B’s Famous Flames 45 They swell with pride 47 Tick by 49 Do some warehouse work 50 Nick name in Paris? 52 Venetian marketplace 53 One MCU character 54 Frostbite preventer 55 Stood firm

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1 Occasion to say 3-Down 2 Literary devices 3 “See ya” 4 Arctic hunter’s wear 5 Culmination 6 Barely passable 7 Docs with DOBs, often 8 Appreciate 9 Actor Mount who plays Captain Pike in recent “Star Trek” series 10 Name on some magnums 11 Remote possibility? 12 Cone holder 13 Arctic hunter’s wear 14 Summer Olympics debut of 2021 20 Reasons for grievances 22 Sources of saffron 23 Chews out 26 Tenerife’s country 27 Mass performance 28 Fires off 30 Summer salad morsel 31 Locks in a barn? 33 Fortified red wine 34 Filmmaker who helped launch the African Film Heritage Project 36 Was in peak form, vocally? 37 Sculpture, often 38 Muse on the U.S. Naval Observatory’s seal 39 A little buggy, perhaps 43 Before going under, say 44 Curses 46 Hound of whodunits 47 Judgment of Paris instigator 48 “The Periodic Table” author Primo 50 Brita alternative 51 Navigator’s dir.