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Tea with tapioca pearls
5 Tear to bits
10 Syringe amts.
13 Anthony Hopkins’s
role in “Thor”
14 France’s longest
river
15 Something to
draw names out of
16 Flaw in an
argument
19 Inventor David Aguilar built a fully functional prosthetic one from Legos
20 “My treat!”
21 ___ Sea, body of water between Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan
22 “August: ___ County” (Pulitzerwinning play)
24 Walk quietly
26 Void
28 On the briny
29 Weightlifting item for a biceps routine
33 AOL competitor
34 Messy living area
37 French friend
38 “I love you,” in
Spanish
40 Toad’s kid-lit pal
41 Many a beverage
ending in “-ade”
45 Lose rigidity
48 Trophy or medal
49 Abbr. at the end of a list of authors Marbled loaves Queen’s pawn?
1 50 51
54 Spring-loaded office device ... or a collective hint to 16-, 26-, 34- and 41-Across
58 Cry that’s a homophone (and anagram) of 55Down
59 Meat skewer
60 Sign of past
stitches, perhaps
61 Simon & Garfunkel’s “___ Robinson”
62 Georgia school said to be one of the “Southern Ivies”
63 Fellow bringing a dozen roses, maybe
DOWN 1 Cattle-catching
weapon
2 Strong smell
3 Eagerly awaited
occasion
4 What “their” is spelled with, but not “there” or “they’re”
5 Like “b-boy” or
“my b”
6 “A Study in
Scarlet” detective
7 Widespread
8 Notable time
period
9 Director Guillermo
___ Toro
10 Reach the Billboard Hot 100, e.g.
11 Chocolate source
Edited by Will Shortz
12 Something that editors and clothing designers are concerned with
17 Cold weather
wear
18 Folded part of a
17-Down
23 Place for a wax
24 Like a tightrope,
ideally
25 Flo Rida hit with the lyric “Champagne buckets still got two tears in it”
26 Standard Oil
offshoot
27 Windows runners
28 Comedian Sedaris
30 Where to swing your partner ‘round and ‘round
31 Bad way to run
32 Equip for sailing
34 Eggplant ___ (Italian dish, familiarly)
35 “It’s my turn!”
36 “There but for the
grace of God ___”
39 Use Turbotax, e.g.
40 Silver ___ (tree of
the Alps)
42 Swift to fill a
concert hall?
43 Dorky
44 Scratchy voice
quality
45 “Don’t let those
people escape!”
46 Catchall survey
option
47 Birds that sing extravagant melodies
50 Prefix meaning
“automated”
52 Final Four org.
53 No ___ Traffic
55 Barely manage,
with “out”
56 Theatrical sort
57 Kind of port seen
at airport kiosks