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ACROSS

1 Alternatives to strollers

11 Stumpers?

15 Repetitive farewell from “The Sound of

Music”

16 Place

17 Show around the area?

18 Word from the Latin for “seaweed” 19 Swam with the fishes, say

20 Prominent instrument in raga music 21 Put on ___

22 Creek relative

24 It was launched on the same day as

Windows 95

25 Proud, passionate type, supposedly 28 Downturn

29 Rapper ___ Khalifa

30 Blarney stone?

33 Problems resulting from a poor paternal

relationship

34 Simple business, frankly speaking? 35 Trick

36 It comes before long

37 Main antagonist in “Toy Story”

38 Bit

41 Causing change

44 Former Spice Girl Halliwell

45 ___ Falls, N.Y.

46 Auction figures

50 Emmy-winning newsman Roger

51 Seller of shooting equipment 52 Saucony competitor

53 Spitball, e.g.

54 Tammany Hall cartoonist

55 Elite operative, for short

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1 Aromatic resin 2 Studmuffin 3 Two-pointed hat worn by Napoleon

4 All these ___ …

5 Show signs of a sore loser 6 Spike

7 Subject of devotion 8 Frasier’s brother on “Frasier” 9 Scientists who measure the exact shape and size of Earth

10 Big ___

11 Everyday

12 Houston and Dallas, historically 13 Passport or driver’s license 14 International soccer star Luis ___ 20 First name in psychoanalysis 23 People of southern Kenya 25 Equipment found in warehouse

stores

26 Author Welty

27 Places to go out and have a gas? 30 Excess

31 Trash-talk

32 Massive resource: Abbr.

33 What Hawaii has that Alaska

lacks?

34 Extremely, informally 35 Comedian

38 Expert on bugs

39 Shaded ring

40 Drive away

42 Stop by

43 Titular misanthrope in a

Shakespeare play

44 Hearts

47 Already: Fr.

48 “Go back” button abbr. on some

remotes

49 Off-color

51 Computer hardware inits.