Crossword

ACROSS

Early finisher’s luxury

12 Word heard

before a hike 15 Paper Mate introduced one in 1979

16 Hearth debris 17 Mock question

of literacy 18 Poe’s __ Morgue 19 Casual greeting 20 Struggle with

one’s sins? 21 Vicuña cousins 23 __ pit

24 Trap

25 Set out

28 Relay

29 Some memory

triggers

30 Polite gesture from Alice Malicious gossip Actions to avoid “The Hound of the Baskervilles” setting

Trial results “Nobody Listens to __ Poundstone”: comedy podcast 39 Not on the ball 40 Spacely Space Sprockets employee

Some pending cases

43 French bean? 44 Twist in pain 45 Play the sycophant to, with “over” 46 Ms. Pac-Man

ghost 49 Hedonist’s goal 50 Boss’s unsettling

request

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41 53 A, to Amélie 54 Barcelona star 55 “__ Miz” 56 Thurible go-with

DOWN

Modern fixer Hymn singer’s wrath?

3 Loads

4 Part of i.e. 5 Musical family including James and Livingston 6 One behind a

violist, maybe 7 Wintry nuisance 8 BOLO target 9 Clint’s Clyde, in a 1978 movie Dreamers’ opposites

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Circular, in a way Like Pentatonix numbers Expected

What we have here

Sailor’s shout Strict disciplinarian Play things __-Frank: 2010 financial reform bill

Singer Brickell Natural-born quillers?

Like Nash poetry 30 Brewery in Golden, Colorado

Short court plea 11 12

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Pop’s ma Focused

One of Kenya’s official languages 38 Honey or sugar 40 The Dresden Green and The Graff Pink 41 Not good at all 42 Cut back 43 Occupied 45 Okay

46 Just okay 47 Space bear 48 Change the narrative? “Funky Cold Medina” rapper Tone __ Pathological liar’s creation 32 34 37

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