Crossword
ACROSS
1 MTV toon teen 7 Sings the blues 14 Planned city in California’s Orange County 15 Conquered 17 General courses 18 “Could be worse” 19 __ talks 20 Ones in a mess, briefly 21 Celestial body 22 Chug-__ 23 Persuaded 25 Instrument dating to the Paleolithic age 27 “Go ahead” 29 One determining 17-Across 30 Wikipedia is an example of it 32 Like most capital costs 33 Kind of response to mortal danger 39 Brody who was the youngest Best Actor Oscar winner 40 Contingency
plan 43 Double-check 44 Old Italian
capital 45 “__ oui!” 46 Provoke 47 San Francisco’s
__ Valley 48 Presages 49 Symbolic attitude? 52 Star close to Venus? 53 Field of dreams? 54 Pucker-inducing 55 Denies 56 Parks with games
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1 Digital image format 2 Jazz virtuoso Garner 3 Street in Manhattan’s Alphabet City 4 Salad bar item 5 __ 500 6 His, to Henri 7 Reunion
discovery 8 Bypass 9 Last team to play in the Polo Grounds 10 Sounds from the stumped 11 Base fig. 12 Bulgur salad 13 Spruce (up) 16 Swedish tennis great 23 Like some patches 24 Harder to explain 25 Precede 26 Inc. kin 28 Blackened from combustion 29 Exfoliation material 31 NFL Titan, once 33 Pasta pellets in Jewish cuisine 34 Thoughtful guy? 35 Breakfast bar 36 Sought anonymity 37 “Just play along, okay?” 38 Exploit 41 “Burnt” crayon color 42 Prose pieces 44 More than a little foolish 47 BCS org. 48 It’s often tapped out 50 North Sea feeder 51 They, in Tours 52 Radical ’70s org.