Naval blockade? 38-D) Lint

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ACROSS

1 Ballpark figure 7 Sentimentality 15 Wallet holder since

2015

16 Hit Netflix reboot

starring the Fab Five 17 Matured

18 There’s often a lot of

them for sale

19 Some office desk

clutter

20 Writers Roald and

Sophie

21 Bottom of an interrobang

22 Safari’s compass, e.g. 23 Feel for

24 Nested layers?

25 Mass

26 Breakneck & or something to break

27 Sticky snack made

with a stick

29 Eclipsed everyone else 32 One getting fired up

for competition? 35 Shower heads, perhaps

37 “The Wolf in Sheep’s

Clothing,” for one 39 Mindless

40 Iowa college

41 Game that can be played on bicycles or elephants

42 Change for some

sawbucks, maybe 43 Symbols of strength 44 Fantasy monster 45 Catches

47 XXXL

48 Complete loss of selfidentity

50 Hot streak?

51 Where one might hear

a call for action 52 Metaphorical incentive

53 Members of some

blended families 54 Goes quietly, perhaps

DOWN

1 Honchos

2 Fruits that are the basis of Marillenschnaps

3 Dance with jerky

movements

4 Actress Julie of “Modern Family”

5 Cross to bear

6 Casual agreement 7 Topic in property law,

colloquially

8 Like a good job, maybe

9 Prominent part of a

pump

10 Rx pickups

11 Story ___

12 Honcho

13 County in Northern

Ireland

14 Peels off?

20 Spilled the tea, so to

speak 23 Model Boyd who inspired the songs “Layla” and “Wonderful Tonight”

24 Kind of manual

26 Wild

27 Uses a manual, say 28 Israel’s Dayan 30 Ferrari alternative,

slangily

31 Percussion in some folk music that may be improvised 33 Captured, in a way 34 Fashion designer’s

portfolio

36 Employs as a backup

plan, with “to” 37 Blanked on

38 Recess

41 Frost accumulation 42 Written in the stars 43 Really weird 45 Number shown in

brackets?

46 “Hidden Figures” org. 47 ___ jacket

49 Baba ghanouj, e.g. 50 Hosts