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ACROSS
1 Stagger
9 Incomplete
Wikipedia entry
13 Part of many a software demo, informally
15 Former Philadelphia mayor Wilson
16 Unanticipated
deficit
17 Bug
18 Piercing tool
19 Children’s toy that’s sprayed from a can
21 Informal pronoun
23 Prefix with
pronoun
24 You ___ (words before an amount after discount)
25 Tautological words of resignation
31 Something to take
home
34 [not our typo]
35 Adviser, e.g.
36 Room where a Peloton may double as a clothing rack
38 Literally, “guilty
mind”
40 Codeshare partner of American Airlines
41 Make a quick visit,
with “in”
43 Most alert to social justice issues 44 “Let’s move on”
47 Broadway star
Phillipa
48 “Was ist ___?”
49 Renders
53 They’re not always free with their advice
58 “That’ll be the
day!”
59 “Mae alsalama,” across the Mediterranean
60 Tex-Mex brand
62 Writer of the line “Did you ever stop to think, and forget to start again?”
63 Extent of a commuter rail system, perhaps
64 Gender-neutral
pronoun
65 “This stays
between us”
DOWN
1 Test for purity
2 Either side of
Alaska?
3 Online heckler
4 “The Strife Is ___, the Battle Done” (Easter hymn)
5 Table tennis
equipment
6 Luxury home installation with a vanishing edge
7 Horoscope symbol
8 Makes sacred
9 “Oh, never mind — you clearly don’t want to talk about
5
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it”
10 Amos with the 1994 hit “Cornflake Girl”
11 Soba alternative
12 Icy detachment
14 Practice
15 Try to say
20 Genre for “Cowboy Bebop” and “The Mandalorian”
22 Subjects of some
parental speeches
26 Comedian Notaro
27 “What’s eating
___?!”
28 Exhaust
29 Day after Pi Day,
e.g.
30 Parking spot?
31 “That was a close
call!”
32 Ensemble part
33 One member of Congress’s “Squad”
37 Part of many a three-day weekend: Abbr.
39 Here-there
connection
42 Biked
45 Put out
46 Give in person
50 United hub
51 Stand for
something
52 Large mass of
swimming fish
53 Purchase at a military supplies store, informally
54 Anthony Hopkins’s character in the Marvel Universe
55 Shade of green
56 ___ yum (hotand-sour Thai soup)
57 Blank on a sign-up
sheet
61 Down ___