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1 British cartoon whose logo features a curly tail

9 Company offering Viewliner Bedrooms

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devotion 17 Nearest the back 18 Private __

19 Tool akin to a

staple gun 20 Shelter named for

a senator

21 Bean sprout? 22 Printer color

$UW VWXGHQW·V VXEM 25 Orthodox leader? 26 Hedgehog

relative

28 Clog buster 29 1993 Jack

Lemmon comedy 32 Rentals used on

rugs

35 Top 40 hit on the soundtrack for “A Charlie Brown Christmas” 37 Studio bed 40 Stock reducers 41 “My __”: Usher/

Alicia Keys duet 42 Tofu nutrient 43 Darlings

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pride

47 Tick by

49 Do some

warehouse work 50 Nick name in

Paris?

52 Venetian

marketplace 53 One MCU

character 54 Frostbite

preventer 55 Stood firm

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1 Occasion to say

3-Down 2 Literary devices 3 “See ya”

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wear 5 Culmination 6 Barely passable 7 Docs with DOBs,

often

8 Appreciate 9 Actor Mount who plays Captain Pike in recent “Star Trek” series

10 Name on some

magnums 11 Remote

possibility? 12 Cone holder $UFWLF KXQWHU·V wear

14 Summer Olympics debut of 2021 20 Reasons for

grievances 22 Sources of

saffron

23 Chews out 7HQHULIH·V country

27 Mass

performance 28 Fires off 30 Summer salad

morsel

31 Locks in a barn? 33 Fortified red wine 34 Filmmaker who helped launch the African Film +HULWDJH 3URMHFW 36 Was in peak

form, vocally? 37 Sculpture, often 38 Muse on the

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39 A little buggy,

perhaps 43 Before going

under, say 44 Curses 46 Hound of

whodunits 47 Judgment of

Paris instigator 48 “The Periodic Table” author Primo

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