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1 [Perfection!] 10 Face to scale 15 Some exercise wear 16 Artist ___ de Toulouse-lautrec What the name “Renée” means List of pointers Pull (out) Overdrawn account? Actress Macdowell Classical music tradition from Hindustan “Dear future me …” Nest egg yield He’s been called the “Father of Science Fiction” Pastoral sound Quarters

Bit of mayo? Scuttled

Taps

With some side-eye Some transcript omissions

40 Strips

42 Home to the three highest capital cities in the world 43 March alternative 44 Big inits. in

admissions 45 Alternatives to toilet paper

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Nose-crinkling They rate very high on the Scoville scale

“I got you” Food truck output Fictional Harvard Law student played by Reese Witherspoon 59 Favored, with “with” 60 Artful

61 Like many apartment rentals Bash 52 53

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Connection point not seen much anymore Establishment where indoor smoking is permitted Beyond the pale Deadly household appliance, according to Korean urban legend 5 Sterilize, in a way 6 First female dean of Harvard Law 7 Straight

8 Wasn’t generous 9 Digits on a paper card, for short Trousers named for an Asian country

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They don’t have a major-label contract

Like many jobs in the gig economy Make whole Book with scales Rock group whose name came from letters found on a sewing machine ___ Sports Bureau (official 32-Down keepers) Mountebanks Stay quiet

See 25-Down Minimalist style Polite form of address, abroad Blades used in “Kill Bill” Masked warning? Notre Dame setting Follower of an “I’m late” text, in brief They might be loaded with singles

Poker declaration Deadpan

Like Falstaff Take the edge off? One might fly close to the sun Printmaker? “No Ordinary Love” singer Pastoral sound