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CROSSWORD TITLE ROLLS

- EDITED Fred Piscop BY Patrick Jordan

ACROSS

1 Lessens one’s pace

6 Places for mud baths 10 Rascally tots 14 Sprinkler of magic dust 15 Instrument on a Guinness label

16 Ward with two Emmys

17 Area for fervent worshipper­s 19 Unanticipa­ted hang-up

20 An honor card in bridge

21 Causes for overtime

22 Lizard of the tropics

24 Apt to cause a brain freeze

25 Places to wallow

26 Longest human bones

29 Improvisin­g twosome’s tune

32 Creepy glances

33 Vindictive Tyler Perry character

34 Try for a 4-Down

35 Many an OPEC minister

36 Stamps and sends

37 Rebellious art genre

38 Nieces, nephews et al.

39 In a kittenish way

40 Medical breakthrou­ghs

41 They’re cast by pros

43 Mockumenta­ry, e.g.

44 Piglike forest dweller

45 Far from lethargic

46 Opera great Enrico

48 Shirts at boardwalk shops

49 “That feels good!”

52 Unguarded, as a receiver 53 “Clay” to “Ali,” e.g., and a hint to

17-Across and 11and 28-Down

56 Much of a paleo diet 57 Gave the once-over to 58 MLB honcho 59 Poses one of the five W’s

60 Declare as “fake news” 61 Growth in an abandoned lot

DOWN

1 Petty quarrel

2 Flavor of much green candy

3 Cart-pulling team

4 Take the laurels

5 Parts of military positions

6 Reduce to ribbons

7 Fry cooks’ utensils

8 “Odds ___ . . .”

9 Perfume applicatio­ns 10 Released, as a stamp 11 “American Reunion” actress 12 Builder’s design 13 Era-spanning tale 18 Peanut and coconut products

23 Great Sphinx locale

24 Parking meter’s place

25 “To my dismay . . .”

26 Like buttery pie crust

27 Causing chills

28 Malicious tendency

29 Puts in the pokey

30 Pillow filling, perhaps

31 Provoke playfully

33 Oscar ___ (Wienermobi­le company)

36 Used hand signals

37 Civic obligation

39 Cruiser drivers

40 Event for motorheads

42 Speaks boastfully of

43 12-Down detail, for short

45 Like a fleabag

46 Medically induced state, perhaps

47 Uncouth sorts

48 Counterfei­ters’ foes, for short

49 Rice who writes of vampires

50 Like much good steak

51 Towel pronoun

54 Assent to the captain

55 Leave slack-jawed

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