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ACROSS 1 Hearty enjoyment 6 Places for seaside strolls 11 Join the office pool 14 For face value, as a stock 15 Be among the cast of 16 Appendage that a barber might nick 17 Forefront, as of innovation 19 Factor in wine pricing 20 Walks off 21 Like the worm-catching bird 23 More mirthful 27 Major advances 29 Stereotypically green creatures 30 Like most crossword diagrams 31 The Home Depot array 32 Day trip, say 33 Marley or Old Yeller 36 Gate receipts 37 Paper cup brand 38 Minnelli of “Arthur” 39 Mind-to-mind messaging, for short 40 Covered with glassphalt, e.g. 41 Leslie of “Gigi” 42 Tails off 44 Whipping up 45 Cocktail party trayful 47 Joker and Riddler, to Batman 48 Place for vows 49 Subject of some splicing 50 “This tastes awful!” 51 Symbolic barrier named by Churchill 58 Get the point 59 Big name in 41-Down, once 60 About to explode 61 Miss one’s exit, say 62 Aids in a caper 63 Feed, as a furnace
DOWN 1 Guy’s square dance partner 2 Sport ___ (versatile vehicle) 3 Place for pampering 4 Wee bit 5 Graph points denoted (0,0) 6 Restaurant’s summoning device 7 Smears frosting on 8 Approximate flight hr. 9 Fix, as a horse race 10 Show contempt toward 11 Bloom with hairlike growths 12 Highest Boy Scout rank 13 Cards above deuces 18 Deal-killing responses 22 BB propellant 23 Excessive hurry 24 El Chapo, to Joaquin Guzman 25 Diamond in Peter Sellers movies, with “the” 26 Chinese lap dog, briefly 27 Calamari source 28 Composer’s creation 30 Jazz combo instruments 32 Dances to Cab Calloway music, say 34 UV ray-blocking gas 35 Factions in turf wars 37 Entry on a social calendar 38 Common summer camp locale 40 Topping for deviled eggs 41 Tourists’ neckwear, perhaps 43 Sound at a shearing 44 Restaurant chalkboard listing 45 Terse response to “Why?” 46 Horatio who created Tattered Tom 47 Vampires’ targets 49 Swarming pest 52 Stick up 53 Homage in verse 54 Blaster’s supply 55 “Many moons ___ . . .” 56 Get under the skin of 57 Bill who sells “Science Is Universal” T-shirts