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Today's crossword

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ACROSS

1 “You Shook Me All Night Long” band

5 Apiphobe’s phobia 9 “I __ confused” 13 Wintry mess 14 Sole

15 Mountain cat 16 *Frying pans

anyone can use? 18 “Oh, please!” 19 Revealing session

on Reddit, for short 20 Christmas song 21 Shrimp and __ 22 *Group that attends Mass together every week?

25 Treeless plain 28 Districts

29 Like some dental

floss 30 Shortcomin­gs 32 “The Last O.G.”

network

35 Bother 36 *Discussion about what fruit to bake for dessert? 38 In the style of 39 Spoil

40 Man of many

words?

41 Wild beasts also

called wildebeest­s 42 Water filter brand 44 Some surprise hits 46 *Fitting motto for Pisa’s tower keeper?

49 Big name in

applesauce 50 Tirade

51 Bath mother 54 Way off

55 *Devil on one’s

shoulder? 58 “What __ say?” 59 Catholic leader 60 Old Dodges 61 URL starter 62 Spy-fi country 63 Decisive defeat, and a two-word hint to the answers to the starred clues

DOWN

1 Grad

2 Gloria Estefan’s

birthplace

3 ISP option 4 “Things’ll turn

around, you’ll see” 5 Showed respect,

in a way 6 Sherlock’s sister, per a 2020 Netflix film

7 Caribou kin

8 Pt. of GPS

9 “Just Putting It Out There” comedian Nancherla 10 Score keeper? 11 Patti known as the “Godmother of Punk”

12 Clods

13 Place for

pampering

17 Ice cream holder 21 Word in many Wi-Fi network names

22 Intel collector 23 Luxury vessel 24 La __ Tar Pits 25 Did the

breaststro­ke, e.g. 26 “Voilà!” 27 Outrageous, as

a price

30 Like the Beyond

Burger

31 Curling surface 33 Sad 34 Back talk 36 Noses around 37 Wee bit 41 Negroni need 43 Family vacay,

perhaps 44 “Molto __!” 45 Had done, as a

portrait 46 Diet-friendly 47 Comes out, as

an album

48 __ tag 49 Namesake of a

speed ratio 51 List that may be accessed by scanning a QR code

52 One of a kind 53 Rx writers

55 PC core 56 Grammy winners

__ Lonely Boys 57 “As I see it”

shorthand

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