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1 Pinnacle

5 Zither kin

9 Is profitable 13 Like a clown car’s passengers 15 __ palak: dish of potatoes and spinach 16 Brilliant artist beset by personal demons, say 18 Condition that may be treated with CBT 19 Hand (out) 20 Coding

shortcut 21 Activities Rudolph was kept from joining

24 Dudes

25 2020 and 2022 WNBA MVP Wilson

26 Sagan who hosted the original “Cosmos” 28 Little red Corvette or little deuce coupe 30 “The French Dispatch” director Anderson 33 Southern part of the Mariana Trench

37 Certain sib 38 Engrave

39 With

competence 40 “Don’t __ me

started”

41 20s dispensers 43 Leafy side 49 Unsettling, in a

way

50 Word on Irish

coins

51 Issa of “The

Lovebirds” 52 Not conforming to traditiona­l male/female norms, and a hint to this puzzle’s circles 55 Burn balm 56 Prison drama that was Jonathan Demme’s directoria­l debut 57 Multitude in a pointillis­t painting 58 Copied 59 Norway’s most

populous city

DOWN

1 Person in

a cast

2 Jim who sang “I

Got a Name” 3 Time to celebrate with one’s krewe mates

4 First responder:

Abbr.

5 First responders,

e.g.

6 “Easy on Me”

singer

7 Rodeo

contestant

8 GIF alternativ­e 9 Land on an

isthmus 10 Painter Neel known for nudes

11 “What’s mine

is __”

12 Meh

14 In need of a doggy bath, maybe

17 Key with four

sharps

22 No longer valid 23 Garden

entrance

26 Hypo units 27 Fish at a sushi

bar 28 Anti-apartheid

org.

29 “Gross” 30 Episodes on

YouTube, say 31 Fish at a sushi

bar

32 Hidden asset? 34 Actress-turnedarti­st Sobieski 35 “__ Jones Sings Lady Day”: 2001 album

36 Title for Judi

Dench

40 Moves smoothly 3/1/23 41 “Deal!” 42 Traction aid 43 Gnarls Barkley singersong­writer

Green

44 “... unless you’d rather do something else”

45 Summary at the start of a new season, e.g.

46 Mournful

tune

47 __ blockade 48 Take care of 49 Quaint oath

53 TV pioneer 54 However briefly?

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