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ACROSS

1 See the seasons pass quickly? 11 Celle-là, across the Pyrenees 14 Something that requires thinking inside the box? 15 What mustachet-wirling might suggest 16 Dangerous places 17 Dress style 18 They’re often high, but never dry 19 Zippo 20 Something Winniethe-Pooh lacks 21 Equal ___

22 Fire a second time 24 “I’m blushing!” 28 Sows and cows 29 Edited, as a film 30 ___ boom 31 Common middle name 33 Momentous 36 Labor of love? 37 Stones that diffract light

38 ___ nova

39 Those who practice energy medicine 41 Like many Egyptian pyramids 42 Upper part of a cruise ship 43 Help wanted sign 44 Pays (up) 45 About .4% of the weight of the human body 47 Z4 and i3

51 Lone Star State sch.

52 Give out cash freely

54 Store one inside another

55 “You can’t make me!” 56 Exhibits at an exhibition 57 Bottling up

DOWN

1 Twins, e.g. 2 “Gotcha” 3 Org. that holds many conferences 4 Prohibition-era guns

5 N.T. book after Galatians 6 Amenity in many a picnic box 7 Assemblage

8 Its scientific name is Bufo bufo 9 Separated couple with kids, say 10 Royal Navy letters 11 Proselytizer 12 Intuition 13 Group of stars 15 Field added to the I.R.S.’s Form 1040 in 2019 20 Controls, of a sort 21 Driving hazards 23 Discharge

24 It may get a good licking 25 Recruiter 26 Audition 27 When repeated, a reproof 28 Some farm births 30 2013 disaster film with a cult following 32 “Holy moly!” 34 On ___ (without a firm commitment) 35 Kanga’s kid 40 Crackerjack 41 1955 novel with the line “It was love at first sight, at last sight, at

ever and ever sight”

42 Part of a bathhouse 43 Pine, for one 46 One-named singer with the 2006 hit

“Smack That” 47 Bread enricher 48 Spa job, informally 49 “Because of ___Dixie” (2000 award-winning children’s book) 50 Slight problem 52 Karaoke need 53 Lead-in to light

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