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ACROSS

1 Menlo Park middle name 5 Musical with the song “Bui Doi” 15 Receives, as a visitor 16 What cosmologists

wonder 17 Word for quitters 18 Got through 19 Heat 21 Gorge 22 Aquí, across the

Pyrénées 23 Dovetail part 24 Be feeble-minded 25 Like some mus. notes 26 Judge in 1990s news 27 Neverland resident 29 Maker of a special

delivery flight 30 What shows its ribs? 32 Things that are shot or

fought 33 One way to resign 35 St. ___ (English boys’

school founded in 948) 38 Stadium ear piercer 42 Chicken’s yellow part? 43 Swing a thurible

around 44 Texas hoopster 45 Phishing lure? 46 Arabian parent 47 Eclipse alternative 49 Like chestnuts 50 It may follow a cut 51 Milk curdler 52 Classic Robert Burns

poem, with “A” 55 Certain something 56 Be disengaging? 57 Grow tiresome 58 People person 59 Some brackets

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1 Mahatma Gandhi, for one 2 Provide for tenancy 3 Atlantic follower, in Monopoly 4 Turf leader? 5 Hikers’ helpers 6 Madness 7 Potential downside of the information age 8 Hyperhidrotic 9 Otto goes after it 10 Swiss banks may be

affiliated with it 11 Pier grp. 12 Began brawling 13 Draw for an inside

straight, say 14 Old fast-food chain whose mascot’s head was an orange 20 Bombing at a comedy

club 24 ___ Homme (perfume

brand) 25 Blackhawk carmaker 28 MoMA’s “Two Heads” and “Birds in an Aquarium” 29 “Yeah, I did it … oh

well!” 31 Directive for murder? 32 Quick spins? 34 Whistler’s production 35 Rivets 36 Tank named after a

French W.W. II general 37 Inflatable lining 39 Daley’s successor as

mayor of Chicago 40 Pass out on the field? 41 Some self-images 43 John who wrote the textbook “How Does a Poem Mean?” 46 Many a cab 48 Knocked out 50 Fool on the ice 51 Cousin of a jig 53 Singer Carly ___

Jepsen 54 Pou ___ (basis of

operations)