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Across

1 Quarterback

spikes? 7 Opening 12 Grammywinning 2018 hit for Childish Gambino 14 “Huh!”

15 Part of the plan 16 Lacking any

preparation 17 Try (for)

18 The 700s, in the Dewey Decimal System

19 Its flag features a pine and the North Star 20 Booker in

Washington 21 Traditional

masked drama 22 What antifeminism is a direct expression of, per Andrea Dworkin 24 Challenge,

symbolically 26 Sharp quality 28 “Happy ___!” 29 Kind of shower 31 Its pods are poisonous to eat

32 Quick getaways, maybe

34 Star clusters? 36 Classic muscle

car 37 Close ones,

informally 40 Fits (inside) 41 “___ bien” 42 Suffix with

concert

43 ___ II, eponymous gymnastics move featuring two backflips and a triple twist

44 Venus, to Cupid 45 Background for someone who’s good with numbers 48 Marvel

producer

49 Is super into, in modern parlance 50 Indulge

Down

1 Game of

checkers? 2 Cuba libre

ingredient

3 Por ___

(therefore: Sp.) 4 Carriers are

mobile ones 5 Poet who wrote “I grow old … I grow old … / I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled” 6 Saw

7 Family matter,

maybe

8 Get to 9 Lead singer of “Yellow Submarine” 10 Really clean 11 Caramel

relative

12 “Ow!”

13 Fabled sources

of fortune 14 Place for a frog 15 Gut reaction,

say

19 Member of the

Y?

20 Pop star Lauper 22 Sacred peak in the “Iliad” and “Aeneid,” for short

23 Catches 25 Gullible sorts 27 Family member 29 A+ effort 30 Word with

block or chain 32 Binary 33 Touch the sky 35 Flared, as

sleeves

37 New York Giants legend Phil

38 The Greenlandic language is a form of it 39 Economic

capital of Iraq 41 Packed in? 43 Hidden inclusions, for short 44 One-named Japanese-born actor with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame 46 Janis with the 1975 hit “At Seventeen” 47 Lead-in to now