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1 Gray with the 3x platinum album “On How Life Is” 5 Sandwich shop purchases 10 Out to lunch 14 Fit for a sweater 15 Wellventilated 16 Golfer Aoki 17 “Hey, can I talk to you briefly?” 19 Pass up 20 Overprotective type 21 Mark of a swordsman? 22 Shakespearean production 23 Appreciates 24 Fast learner 26 One of four on Pluto 27 Small cardinal 28 Himalayan native 29 Declaration upon walking in the door 33 It might go over some students’ heads 34 Like many a password 35 Individual, for one: Abbr. 36 Source of Roquefort cheese
37 Legal, after “of” 38 Highest point 40 Blowout 42 Chemical suffix 45 Back 46 Seafood in shells 48 End notes 49 Ones set for a wild party? 50 Techfocused website 51 Support structure 52 Nobelist Wiesel 53 Lots and lots (of) 54 Gem 55 Vixen
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1 Source of igneous rock 2 Do ___ deed 3 Direction in a film script 4 “Right on!” 5 Query following an interruption 6 Company that makes Valium 7 Some decorative plants 8 Brown alternative 9 Cartoonist Hoff 10 What the Copacabana becomes at the end of “Copacabana”
11 “Everybody says so” 12 OK to target 13 One-up 18 Bit on a bun 21 Calls attention to 24 Like some flotsam 25 Squeeze (out) 26 One of seven in 14th-century Avignon 27 Actress Polo 29 Is lost 30 Sound 31 Neighbor of Ill. 32 Give birth to 33 Obsolescent means of communication
34 Civil War inits. 39 Summer ananoyances 40 Character who steals from the dragon Smaug 41 Literary lion 42 Recurrent health scare 43 Passé, say 44 New Jersey county whose seat is Newark 46 Typical stocking stuffers 47 “Hello … I’m right here” 48 Hospital amts. 49 What Joe Biden and Al Gore are: Abbr.