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1 Mexican snack 5 Jazzy style 8 Grade-school basics 12 — about (roughly) 13 Barn bird 14 Follow 15 Hose woe 16 Met Opera soprano Price 18 Deli meat 20 Briefly halted 21 Bright star 23 Tolkien creature 24 Immaculate 28 British noble 31 Paul Newman film 32 “I've —!” (“No more!”) 34 Sock part 35 Nile wader 37 Nearly a score 39 Bar bill 41 Noble Italian family 42 Czech, e.g. 45 Rip to shreds 49 Orange vegetable pigment 51 “The Godfather” author 52 Latin love 53 Floral ring 54 Kimono ties 55 Pills, in slang 56 Light brown 57 Try out

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1 Pitch 2 Author Quindlen 3 Furnace fuel 4 Church keyboards 5 La Paz native 6 Have bills 7 Fall into a chair 8 Harmonize 9 Massachusetts nickname 10 French movie 11 “Citizen Kane” prop 17 Scot's denial 19 Fluttery insect 22 MacDowell of “Green Card” 24 Greek consonant 25 Massage 26 Annual Alaskan race 27 Physicist Albert 29 Fish eggs 30 Actor Cariou 33 Head, to Henri 36 Relishes 38 Oolong brewer 40 Morsel 42 Con job 43 Hobbling 44 Ancient Brit 46 Hayseed 47 Submachine guns 48 Blog entry 50 PBS funder