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ACROSS
1 Veiled satire on Joseph Stalin 11 Capital of Azerbaijan 15 First Korean to win the Best Director Oscar 16 Father of Eros 17 “We are not getting back together” 18 Compost ingredient 19 Toe preceder 20 Show of amor 21 Glazer of “Broad City” 22 Puts in stitches 24 One who is so close (and yet so far) 27 Part of a promotion negotiation
29 Will who voices BoJack Horseman on “BoJack Horseman” 30 Even a smidgen 31 Old Testament figure who has a child while in her early 90s
32 Long way around town?
35 Lists on eBay, say 37 He or I, but not you? 39 Senator Klobuchar 40 Smears
42 Group of zombies 43 Style
44 Poet who said “If you aren’t in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?”
45 Like the “fact” that humans use only 10% of their brains 48 Adverb in both French and Spanish
49 Thrill 50 “Gotcha!,” once 52 Fig. that always includes a decimal 55 Demographic of many TikTok users 56 Oktoberfest garb 59 Entr’___ 60 Rhyming term for a dessert
61 What might be on the tip of your tongue? 62 Killer look
DOWN
1 Slightly 2 Observation from an observatory
3 Super-happy 4 Grand opening for a casino?
5 A+ work
6 Start of a three-word alliterative name of a Shakespeare play 7 Rivals
8 Where Catalan is the official language 9 Letter seen in a Christogram 10 Many a fed. holiday 11 It may keep you on your toes 12 Like a cheering crowd
13 Actor Reeves 14 Hanging on a classroom wall, maybe 21 Tony-winning musical written by Lin-Manuel Miranda during his second year of college 23 ___ Woods, lead character in “Legally Blonde” 25 Turbulence 26 Cassady who inspired Kerouac
27 Figure skater Lipinski 28 Romantic couple 29 Take on
32 What Bristol Bay is an arm of 33 Ctrl+Z 34 Proofer’s 33-Down 36 Joy ride, for example 38 Mexican sauce made from chili peppers and chocolate
41 “I’d think twice about that” 43 Messed (with) 45 Painter and devotee of 11-Down 46 About to be in office 47 African language family 48 Special delivery 51 Bug spray ingredient
53 Lute shape
54 Kick in 56 Colorless, odorless drug
57 First mammal to be cloned 58 Food scrap
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