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ACROSS
1 Remark made after catching someone by surprise
10 Alt-rock band with the 2001 hit album “Yankee Hotel Foxtrot”
15 Indoor swimming
pools
16 What might roll in
the leaves
17 Pet dogs and cats,
affectionately
18 Surge protector?
19 Great work
20 Embroiled (in)
22 Stage that you might enter at night
23 Broadband letters
25 Gangs
27 With 39-Across, answer to the question “Who’s the solver of this puzzle?”
28 Bird: Prefix
30 Pro with
extensions, in brief
31 Big ticket item?
35 Leading disability rights activist in the 2020 documentary “Crip Camp”
36 Valuable collection
37 Black _ _ _
38 “Get out of here!”
39 See 27-Across
40 “Get me?,” informally Guileful
43
44 “Love Island” airer
47 Item in Yo-Yo Ma’s
right hand
50 Sound of suffering
… or pleasure
51 Whiff
52 Where the cattle drive in the western epic “Lonesome Dove” begins
55 Consideration when doubling a recipe, perhaps
56 “Don’t worry about
me”
57 Like Alaska on a
U.S. map, often
58 Quite a sight
DOWN
1 Going to get
2 Khaki alternative
3 Use a pick,
perhaps
4 Punches
5 ___ Pippig, threetime winner of the Boston Marathon
6 Word with sister or
story
7 Ride with a third
wheel
8 Outward attitude
9 Bed of roses, so to
speak
10 Character who’s striped and spotted?
11 Causes of some
brain freezes
12 Hot take?
13 Breakfast skillet
Edited by Will Shortz No. 0106 14 What a pointer 35 Arcade game finger can character with a represent propeller beanie 21 Labor relief, 36 Word with store or
perhaps Story
23 Port ___, capital 41 ___ Greenwich,
of Mauritius co-writer of “Do
24 John of “The Big Wah Diddy Diddy”
Lebowski” and “Da Doo Ron
26 Squelched, with Ron”
“on” 42 Dispense
27 His dying words 43 Muscly, in modern were “There lingo is another … 44 Popular talk show Skywalker …” of the 2010s
28 Ghostlike, in a way 45 Achievement
29 ___ Thanh indicator Nguyen, Pulitzerwinning 46 Show of contempt author of 48 Eponymous region “The Sympathizer” of northern France 31 Aids for stage 49 Slick
crews 50 Thick locks
32 Via, informally 51 Title for a guru
33 University in 53 Inits. on some food
Georgia cans
34 Hold on to 54 Knock