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ACROSS 1 ___ alphabet 5 Dream big 11 ___-Signal 14 Mystery writer? 15 Place to hide in hide-and-seek 16 Donkey Kong, for one
17 Classic song that starts “I was working in the lab late one night” [2003, 1970] 19 Hwy.
20 Viking beverage 21 Popular New Orleans dessert 23 Start of the Depression [1987, 2004]
27 ___ vera 28 Bequeaths 29 Works of Picasso y Goya 30 Gotham inits. 31 Small wind instrument 32 Gamblers’ calculations 33 Line at the top or bottom of a website [1997, 2019]
36 Help up a slope 38 Popular depilatory 39 Busy body?
42 It was cool in the ’90s
43 Search blindly 45 Strives (to) 46 Commuter’s headache [1998, 2000]
49 1986 #1 hit for Patti LaBelle and Michael McDonald 50 Throne material on “Game of Thrones” 51 Lovelace of early computing 52 Editing device suggested by 17-, 23-, 33- and 46-Across? 57 Crossed 58 Michelle Obama or Jill Biden, informally 59 Request accompanying puppy dog eyes, maybe
60 ___ Lankan 61 Mac-versus-PC and others 62 Lead-in to sax
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1 “Full Metal Jacket” setting, in brief 2 Surprise for a statistician 3 “Funky Cold Medina” rapper 4 In the bargain bin, say
5 Tennis feat 6 Nikon D3500, e.g. 7 Certain lap dog, informally 8 Allende who wrote “City of the Beasts”
9 Goes back to square one 10 Moral code 11 Alma mater for Martha Stewart and Joan Rivers 12 Hurdles for many honor students, in brief 13 Something most babies do at around six months 18 The Rams scored none of these in the ’19 Super
Bowl, and the Chiefs none in ’21 22 Ex-seniors 23 Sickly-looking 24 Mattress size 25 Big break 26 58-Across between Lou and Bess 31 Supporting
32 ___ Lady of Guadalupe 33 Often-frazzled comics character 34 Rank below adm. 35 Seating section 36 What the N.B.A.’s SuperSonics became in 2008 37 Type of rice 39 Like some glasses 40 Highly respected
41 Help button 42 Some celebrity sporting events 43 Rampage 44 Dwindle 45 Birthplace of Homo sapiens 47 So-called “Godfather of the Teamsters” 48 Be bedridden, say 53 Big Apple subway inits. 54 Opposite of norte 55 Email addenda, for short
56 Vegas hotel and casino that is the longtime host of the World Series of Poker