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ACROSS
1 Terrible twos? 16 Much-viewed showdown of 1975 17 Classic Jonathan Swift satire 18 Certain movement supporters 19 Takes off, with “it” 20 “The 1619 Project” publisher, for short 21 Grocery list listing 22 What a helicopter might fly out of? 23 Mathematician Weierstrass dubbed the “father of modern analysis” 24 Happy exclamation 25 Home of Switzerland’s oldest university 26 Nation that moved east of the International Date Line in 1892 and west of it in 2011 27 Neutral pH 28 “Don’t worry about us!” 29 Quarreled 32 Remark while browsing an old photo album
… or “Guilty as charged!”
33 Author Susan whom Meryl Streep portrayed in “Adaptation” 34 Debt notes 35 Fertile mixtures 36 Silk ___ (hairstyling method) 37 Abbr. in a Car and Driver review 40 College-level course for H.S. coders
41 Bad sound from an engine 42 Mother of Cronus and Rhea 43 Mens ___ 44 Gradually eliminate, with “out”
45 Some salad veggies 46 Extremely hot peppers named for their scythelike tails
49 Hybrid video game genre 50 Cassette forerunners
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1 Voting rights activist Abrams 2 Amount of resistance
3 They go into outlets 4 Prepares for a surprise party 5 Cries after un gran gol de fútbol 6 Org. for the New England Revolution 7 Like some nondairy milks
8 Tear apart 9 Register 10 Participate in a joint session? 11 Toddlers’ 26-Down, sometimes 12 2018 inductee into the Toy Hall of Fame
13 Calls incorrectly 14 Recreation area
15 It allows a swimmer to float more easily 22 Buff 23 Vehicles in a Nintendo racing game 25 Nondominant personalities 26 See 11-Down 27 Things placed in vases
28 Beat in a bake-off? 29 One traveling by daylight?
30 Like much 1960s activism 31 Individually, in a way
32 “So rude!” 34 Intense movement 36 Two-dimensional
37 Highlighters and such
38 Karine Jean-___, White House media person beginning in 2022 39 Inflates the ego of, with “up” 41 Fabric whose name may derive from its country of origin
42 TV medical reporter Sanjay 44 Scheme
45 “___ hurt”
47 ___ stick (Jean-Michel Basquiat medium) 48 Jangeo, in Korean cuisine
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