Crossword Edited by Will Shortz No. 0511
ACROSS
Drops the ball
1
big-time
Home to
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about 60% of the world’s population
One with a
12
whistle … who sometimes 1-Across?
Soccer superstar
15
Cristiano
Sporty car roof
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option
Genre of Death
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Cab for Cutie Tot’s mount
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Cold War jet
20
Cover, as tasks
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Connecticut Ivy
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Leaguer
Willy Wonka prop
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Practically
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forever
Jim Beam
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competitor
Gun
28
Auction action
29
Thinks the world
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of
Hard to swallow,
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in a way
Shake a leg, in
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Shakespeare Chinese poultry
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dish marinated in wine
___-fi
40
Torments
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Residents of
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ancient Minos PC key
47
Windy City rail
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system, in brief 1980 boxing film
49
for which De Niro won Best Actor Criticize harshly
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“Couldn’t agree
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more!”
Name, as a price
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___ bear
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Flat refusals
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They’re always
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ready for a good time … or a description of 18-, 25-, 35and 49-Across? Tree creature of
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Middle-earth Brothers Grimm
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villain
Legislative
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bodies
Marx’s “___
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Kapital”
Cherry or walnut
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Recliner feature
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DOWN
Remark from one
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having cold feet,
perhaps
Bit of unfinished
2
business
Cursory appraisal
3
Rouse
4
Pita pocket cuts,
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e.g.
Passport fig.
6
Dress (up),
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quaintly
Island like
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Kiritimati
Jazz piano style
9
played by Fats Waller and Mary Lou Williams
Siri’s platform
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Copy
11
Fresh take on a
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classic, perhaps Slim Shady, by
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another name Some old-timers
14
Eric ___, 1980
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Olympic speed skating gold medalist Streaming sites?
23
PUZZLE BY MICHAEL PALEOS
Cardinals’ home,
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in stats Illusionist’s skill
25
Part of a casual
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layered look College city in
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upstate New York Blues legend
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with a guitar named Lucille Hoffman who
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played Captain Hook
Early quinoa
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cultivator
Like chewable
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calcium, often
Place for a
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concert or lecture
Get really serious
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really quickly Pitching
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statistic?
Rode the bench
42
Stretched to get
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a better look, say ___ Quimby,
44
Beverly Cleary heroine Discharges
45
Pizzeria chain
46
Formal “you,” in
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Spanish
Sound of spring?
51
Former L.A.
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Laker Odom Banjo spot, in
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song
“Right in the
57
kisser!”
Fourth word in
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the “Star Wars” prologue Communication
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method in much of the 2021 film “CODA,” for short Bygone Mach 1
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breaker, in brief