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Across

1 They get picked up at clubs 5 Engages in a bit of back-and-forth 10 Bread and drink 14 First name in court fiction 15 Goddesses guarding the gates of Olympus 16 Mediterran­ean pizza topping 17 V feature 19 Charlie Bucket’s creator 20 Double-dipping, eg 21 One on the Lee-ward side? 22 Not working 24 Political writer/ blogger Klein 25 Hits with a big charge 26 Name-dropper’s word 27 Volunteer’s place: Abbr 28 Lib. arts major 30 Start to drift, say 32 Wacky morning radio team 36 Refuse 37 Like many roasted potatoes 39 Pollen ___ 40 Secluded spot 41 Up until, in poetry 42 “Dona ___ Pacem” (Latin hymn) 46 Man-to-man alternativ­e 47 Kind 50 Blow away 51 Buddy from the block 52 Homologous 54 Singer with the 1954 album Frontier Ballads 55 Nascar Hall-of-Famer Jarrett and others 56 Lack life 57 Means of inheritanc­e 58 Waxed 59 Hopper full of dirt? 60 Latin word on Missouri’s state seal

Down

1 Something to get a spot out of? 2 Secrets 3 Utters unthinking­ly 4 Give background informatio­n 5 Refuse 6 Key to the city, eg 7 Courtroom activity 8 Oversize hip-hop tops 9 Witness 10 Old letters in the mail 11 Starting time? 12 Alternativ­e to Wi-Fi 13 Four-time All-Star third baseman of the 1960s-’70s 18 Dump, eg 23 Some sorority women 24 Historic institutio­n on the Jubilee River 29 One of Us? 31 Slightly 32 Chess situation in which any move is a bad move 33 Witness 34 Directive that has some teeth to it? 35 Visitors’ announceme­nt 38 Signaled 43 Light shades 44 Motivate 45 Not one-sided, in a way 48 Free from faults 49 Second-largest asteroid 53 Neighbor of Victoria: Abbr 54 “Poppycock!”

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