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1 Architect of the Museum of Islamic Art
4 Shirley Bassey and Angela Lansbury, for two
9 It can come up to your neck in the winter
14 When the moment is right
16 Modify
17 Shakes a leg 18 Prefix with media 19 Kooky, as a scheme 20 James ___ Award (culinary honor) 21 Symbols of slipperiness 22 Bewildered 25 Actress Long 26 Parisian possessive 27 Bakery chain that began as the Saint Louis Bread Co. 29 When said three times, 2012 Taylor Swift song 30 Orbiter until 2001 31 Streamlined type of baleen whale 33 Jake’s love interest in “The Sun Also Rises” 35 Overcooks, and then some
36 Can opener? 39 Yahoo
40 Way to go 41 Puffed-up
43 They get booted at the office 46 Personal pronoun in
Prussia
47 Beatle who wrote and sang “Don’t Pass Me By”
48 Org. with the highest-circulating magazine in the U.S.
49 Travel across the
pond, perhaps 51 “That just might
work!”
54 End of “Hedda
Gabler,” e.g.
55 Dive boat
feature
56 Shiny material in
some guitars 57 Takes steps to
compete?
58 The ___ day 59 Result of
a firing? 60 Language suffix
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1 Last sign
2 It may have one or two sides
3 Things to live up to 4 Something to work on
5 Crowning 6 Resident of ancient Crete
7 Pollution source, say
8 Harden
9 Carnival music 10 One may be left at the scene of a crime 11 Martin Luther King Jr., for one
12 What follows certain deadlocks 13 With this answer’s number, a hit horror movie franchise 15 Supermarket lines, for short?
23 Sign of a hit
24 Bit of dangly jewelry
27 The Panthers of the A.C.C.
28 Onetime N.B.A. star Metta Sandiford-___ 29 Word with crowd or channel 30 “Breaking Bad” drug 32 Jetty
33 Edgar Allan Poe story, with “The” 34 Fix, as the roof of a hut
37 Bio class subject 38 They help you focus 40 Leonardo ___ (Fibonacci alias) 42 Violate, as etiquette 43 Instruction to a kayaker
44 Spots for tadpoles 45 Like the population of Greenland 47 Divide
48 2000 Tony-winning title role for Heather Headley
50 Lose steam 52 Downwind
53 Fancy marbles 55 Spanish title: Abbr.