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1 Cheap trick,
perhaps
9 Apply pressure to
15 “Stupid me!”
16 Recherché
17 Food, water, a
place to live, etc.
19 Decreases?
20 Who wrote “The poetry of earth is never dead”
21 Drawing method
22 “___ I do!”
(informal assent)
23 Rivals of the 1980s “Showtime” Lakers, to fans
24 Part of a pool
25 Regulation followers, for short
26 Cuts (down)
27 “Wassup, my
dude”
28 Intended
29 Winter slopes
activity
30 One born in the wrong generation, maybe
33 Expands
34 Works with 17
units
35 Like speeders,
often
36 Features of some
glasses
37 Wade in the Baseball Hall of Fame 38 Manhattan campus around Washington Sq. Park
41 Where to set une
couronne
42 Name spelled with six dashes and six dots
43 Air
44 Where Wonder Woman first worked: Abbr.
45 Words of
agreement
46 “Gotcha”
47 Soak up the sun,
say
50 What I might be in
a lab?
51 Multiheaded dog guarding the gates of the underworld, in myth
52 Features of some
accents
53 James Baldwin,
e.g.
DOWN
1 What an aphrodisiac boosts
2 Eastern lodging
3 North Atlantic
island group
4 Tweak
5 Sweeties
6 Modern “art”
7 Young male
chicken
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8 Prepared to
propose, perhaps
9 Holds up
10 Greek counterpart
of Discordia
11 See 18-Down
12 “Perfect!”
13 Dealing directly
(with)
14 They’re saved for
a rainy day
18 High school alternatives to the 11-Down
23 After Kipling, the youngestever Literature Nobelist (1957, 44 years)
24 Turn
26 Reverential
27 Historically Germanic observances
28 Offer to help
29 Shade
30 “You’re such a
tease!”
31 It ends after midnight in New York, with “The”
32 Pepsi Max, e.g.
33 Spots for
archaeologists
35 As an exception
37 Word with shop,
shot or shape
38 Sushi variety
39 2013 #1 album
from Kanye West
40 Civil disturbance
42 Biblical figure
with a large staff
43 Walk in a leisurely
way
45 Track, say
46 “___: Duets” (2007 country album)
48 Main component
of britannium
49 Invoice info: Abbr.