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1 Plays with matches? 11 Rip-off? 15 Providential 16 Not right
17 Just a phone call away, say
18 & 19 CottonEyed Joe, e.g. 20 Batteries 22 Grp. organizing trips abroad 24 Balm with an oxymoronic name 25 Comment like “And now here’s Pam with sports. Pam?” 29 Ocean motion 32 Cinephile 33 Ingredient in an oldfashioned 34 “That may not have been entirely accurate …” 35 Master’s follower 37 “Cum on Feel the Noize” band, 1973 39 Features of some taxis 40 Firm 42 Home of the Big Bear ski resort, informally 45 ___ Chandler, four-term U.S. senator who helped found the Republican Party 46 Over the moon
48 End of a nonprofit, maybe 49 Court 51 Acmes
55 It’s not fair 56 Like a novel with a roguish, adventuring hero 58 Cloud name prefix 59 Fashion portmanteau exemplified by wearing yoga pants all day 60 Hidden valley 61 Nosebleed section, e.g.
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1 Like show horses 2 Enrique ___ Nieto, former president of Mexico
3 Not luck into 4 Journalist whose mother, father, sister and husband all won Nobel Prizes 5 Infamous 6 Passed-down code 7 Home of yaks and zebus 8 It’s caused by, and contributes to, stress 9 “Romanian Rhapsodies” composer 10 Potential rescue 11 Not looking well 12 Influential social media users
13 Some catering equipment 14 “Later” 21 Verbal stumbles 23 “Wow, that’s bad!” 25 Cuts 26 Parent company of Mack Trucks 27 Remove the contents of
28 Talk too much 30 ___ Ko, youngest player to be ranked #1 in professional golf 31 Sponge 36 Rap’s Run-___ 37 They’re known for their wrinkles
38 Generosity 41 Soup whose name rhymes with “duh,” not “dough” 43 Pulitzerwinning novelist ___ Lurie 44 “Frankenstein” setting 45 Acme 47 First name in 1990s rap 49 Break ground
50 ___ land 52 Shade at the beach 53 Former U.N. secretary general Waldheim 54 Goes with 55 Capture 57 Cred