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1 Mer d’Aral, e.g. 4 Centaurus A is one 15 Texter’s qualifier 16 Disappearing word? 17 Where the VC fought 18 Mold in the freezer? 19 Turnpike timesaver 21 Ring rouser 22 “Airplane!” actor 23 About a quarter of a calorie 24 Longtime record label for Elton John 25 Cluster in a marquise 26 Word that may precede itself 27 Tiny lengths 29 Foe of le diable 30 “Ice Road Truckers” locale 31 Book between Hebrews and I Peter: Abbr. 34 N.B.A. venue, with “the” 36 She taught Prometheus many arts 38 Quartet in “No, No, Nanette” 39 Boot feature 43 Like base runners? 44 Band with the 1988 7x platinum album “New Jersey” 45 Former competitor of Smirnoff Ice 46 End of some charity events? 48 Cy Young Award consideration 49 French film award 50 They competed with Franklins 51 Ones shooting the breeze, for short? 52 Bad way to make a decision 53 First nuclear-powered submarine 56 Financial adviser Edelman 57 When modern humans developed 58 Voting choice 59 Shortens a sentence, say 60 It goes head to head, for short
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1 Offside detector 2 Like piranhas and electric eels 3 Apple field 4 Good news from upstairs? 5 Simple studies 6 Founder of the record label Aftermath Entertainment, familiarly 7 Auto executive who developed the Mustang 8 Eyepieces 9 1998-2010 major-leaguer Kapler 10 Suffix on an AriZona can 11 Wood shop equipment 12 Norm of “This Old House” 13 Some 4-Across output 14 Reactions to good news 20 One way to wonder 24 Unit equal to 254,000 angstroms 25 Annoying sort 27 Title heroine of a Massenet opera 28 Striped animal in a zoo 31 Pastrami holder 32 They’re not what’s expected 33 Higher-up sports figure? 35 Captain Hook attended it 37 Puts through the gantlet, say 40 Firearm mechanism 41 One of the 27 regions of France 42 “Selma” director DuVernay 44 Banja Luka is its second-largest city 46 They charge a lot for their cars 47 North-of-the-border boor 49 Cold ones haven’t been cracked 50 Lexington’s ___ Arena 51 Card catalog abbr. 52 It may be written in stone 54 Hieroglyphics symbol 55 Issy-___Moulineaux, France