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Today’s Crossword

- Puzzle by Erik Agard 6/2/18

ACROSS

1 Pitch sign

5 Saturn, for one 13 Super-fancy

14 Slightly more than a one-man show

15 Most eligible for

service

16 Pluralis majestatis 17 Bee’s home

19 Te __: iconic

Chickasaw actress 20 Layer of very large eggs

21 Grilled, in Mexican fare

22 Jefferson, for one 24 Slangy

“Absolutely!”

26 Add

28 Pixy __: candy 29 Modern navigation

aid

30 Some Spitzes, for short 32 Rhetorical question to one who’s too good to be true 36 Scandinavi­an name

akin to Nicholas 37 “Code Switch”

airer

38 “No more!”

40 Fired at the

table?

42 Member of a Hindu

trinity

43 Ones with wide

spines

46 Young partner 48 Image quality word 49 Long Reach Dusting

System brand 50 Rainforest visitor 52 Act naturally

55 Chaps competitor 56 Powerful slitherer 57 Red Lobster has one

for kids

58 Wolverines rivals 59 Meeting of two

sides

DOWN

1 Secrecy metaphors 2 Green flitter

3 How it’s done

4 “The mind-killer,” in Frank Herbert’s “Dune”

5 1950 Pulitzer Prize winner for the poetry collection “Annie Allen” 6 Heart lines

7 Order to go

8 LGBTQ part 9 “Barefoot Contessa”

host Garten 10 Dwight’s opponent 11 Older efts

12 Minister to

14 __ arts

16 Symbols after many

brand names 18 Remote fillers 22 Christian on a runway 23 Interlace

25 Liz, to Richard, twice 27 Incite

29 Minor in astronomy? 31 Sent up 33 Shakespear­e title starter

34 Like some summer shoes

35 Many a Top-40 hit 39 Outstandin­g and then some

41 Certain Saudi 42 Stand-up comic Gilliam 43 Company that developed Bazooka Joe 44 Yellow perennial 45 Chief Tui’s daughter, in a Disney film 47 One day, in “The Martian”

50 Peak in Catania 51 Winter coat 53 Ending with law 54 “Was __ das?”

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