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ACROSS

1 Best-selling Apple app 11 “The Kudlow

Report” airer 15 It burns quickly 16 Currency whose name can become its country’s name by changing its last letter to an N and scrambling 17 Outlaws 18 Prefix with

phobia 19 Like some

pliers 20 Fashion inits. 21 O.A.S. member 22 Symbols of

innocence 24 Some

Southerners 28 Supporter to keep a watchful eye on 30 Cup, maybe 31 Shade of red 32 They’re not

definite 34 Wistful plaint 35 Lock that’s

hard to open? 36 Not

procrastinating 37 Point of writing 38 ___ Club 39 Rub 40 Naturalist who coined the term “invertebrate” 42 Powerful

engine 43 Music style of

La Mafia 44 ___-de-Marne (department near Paris) 45 Go up against 46 Children’s

book ending 53 It may be

pasteurisé 54 Complete 55 Colosseum cry 56 Its highest rank

is Wonsu 57 Big TV announcement, informally 58 Like Barack Obama’s early schoolmates

DOWN

1 “How’s it ___?” 2 Rice on shelves 3 Bundle of nerves 4 Blasted through 5 Anadem 6 Some council members 7 Comics sound 8 Western gas brand 9 What the picky pick 10 Uncheck, say 11 One may be a

rocker 12 Singer with the platinum album “Pink Friday” 13 Five-time Emmy-winning role 14 Sugar sometimes does it 23 Shade of black 24 “Thief” star,

1981 25 Not recently 26 Californiabased smoothie chain 27 Suffix with

press 28 Open 29 “The Battle With the Slum” writer 31 Eastern ___ 33 Reinstate, in a

way 35 Small meat

stuffed pastries 36 Bit of

resistance 38 Certain computer grouping, for short 39 Trattoria

selection 41 Ready to be

framed, say 42 Banging noise 43 Much lore 44 A clip may

come from it 47 Part of the

earth’s history 48 Reddish-brown

quartz 49 H’s 50 Adriatic

seaport 51 Italian verse

form 52 Kirk ___, first actor to play Superman on the big screen