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1 Obtain with difficulty
10 You can’t make one by yourself 14 Place where you pay for what you break
16 Villain who says “What you know, you know” 17 “Wow”
18 See 19-Across 19 ___ bourguignon (variety of 18-Across) 20 A symbol of Australia
21 The Taj Mahal or Great Pyramid 22 It usually leaves crumbs
24 Baby buggy? 26 Very rich
30 Not level with 31 Biblical mount 32 Group that’s on the take?
34 Left, and then some 36 Reading, to Brits 39 Show dejection, in a way
42 Yawning, but not from boredom 43 Spot starter? 46 James who is more than a little forward? 48 “You got that right!”
49 Sun bloc? 50 Island off the Tuscan coast 54 Tenderer, maybe 55 What results from an ace on a deuce 56 Making rough 58 City near Sparks 59 Role for which LeVar Burton was nominated for an Emmy 60 Rowers’ workout machines, informally
61 Hoi polloi
DOWN
1 Noted film festival site since 2002 2 Suckerfish 3 Reacts to losing one’s hearing, perhaps
4 Performer in the first U.S. public radio broadcast, 1910
5 Actor Sutherland 6 Profs, often 7 Italian menu palindrome 8 First object made by humans to break the sound barrier
9 Flare way up? 10 What a representative represents 11 Have dinner at a friend’s
12 Contemporary 13 “That was uncalled for”
15 Kind of grant 23 Actress Christina 25 “I’m afraid …” 27 Barely perceptible 28 Something that might need polishing 29 Salsa legend Cruz 33 Blues venues? 34 TV Guide’s “Best Series of All Time,” with “The” 35 Froyo mix-in 36 Apple worms, say 37 Like some nonbinary people
38 Poking vigorously 39 Laceless footwear 40 Having a little chewiness 41 1960s-’70s French president Pompidou 44 Exuberant cry 45 Some Caribbean islanders 47 Make out
51 Lug
52 ___ mi (Vietnamese sandwich) 53 Uffizi Gallery holding 57 Houston, for one
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