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1 “Concentrate!” 6 Biblical paradise 10 Place to live 14 Pueblo building

brick 15 “The ___” (animated film with the song “Everything Is Awesome”) 17 With a rounded

roof 18 The ___ Inn (gay

rights landmark) 19 ___ Lanka 20 The “U” in UX

engineer 22 Sari fabrics 23 Tennis star Gauff 25 Sworn vows 28 Big parties 30 Wrathful emotion

31 Person you admire 35 “They’re ___ me!” 36 Time and again 38 Keyboard mess-up 26 Stuffed cornmeal 39 Whoopee cushion cake

filler 27 First two-digit 40 Electric guitar number

hookup 28 Toot your own horn 41 Still in shrink-wrap 29 “Dreamgirls” actress 42 Pass over ___ Noni Rose

44 Thorny shrub DOWN 32 Pair of people who 46 Rapper ___ 1 Temporary crazes work well together

Sweatshirt 2 Stinky smell 33 Sung-through 47 Patatas bravas, 3 “Calvin and performance

e.g. Hobbes,” e.g. 34 Humble 48 Red remote button, 4 Flavor of some 37 Metro payments

often purple ice cream 43 Collecting 49 Polite interjection 5 Entice rodent

51 Butt heads 6 “What ___ could it 44 Nubian Skin 53 Treatment with be?” purchase foot soaking, for 7 Motown’s home 45 Tears short 8 Inflated self-image 46 Holiday also 54 No longer asleep 9 The “N” in NGO known as 57 “The Photograph” 10 “Does the food Small Sallah

actress Rae taste good?” 50 46-Down 59 Greek letter X 11 Watermelon dinners 62 Tangy bread shape 52 Headed up 65 Country where 12 Liquid poured on 54 Pakistan’s Alsarah & the cereal continent Nubatones are 13 Snakelike fish 55 Sweater from 16 Netlike material material 67 Smidge 21 Just OK 56 “American ___” 68 “omg too funny” 24 “Well, well, well!” (NBC comedy)

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69 Storage space in a car

70 Tons

71 Person from Copenhagen

72 Toils s 4/21

58 Item removed before entering a Hindu temple

60 Put up, like art

61 Calligrapher’s

supplies

63 Opposite of

41-Across

64 Thurman who

played Poison Ivy 66 www.blackgirls

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