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1 Skunk’s defense 5 High school exam, for short Reddish-purple salad ingredient Apple TV+ alternative Shakespeare villain who says “I am not what I am”

Literature Nobelist Alice They’re long for an underdog Steffi with seven Wimbledon titles

Church choir accompaniment

Temp job? ___/her pronouns Prevailed Necklace that can be made with kukui nuts Prefix with liberal or conservative

27 Union job?

31 Ones potentially contacted in “first contact” Vowel sound at the end of 15and 26-Across “La Vie en Rose” singer Edith

End of a hairy limb

Watery or papery

Yiddish “Yikes!” Have ambitions (to) 9 13 14 15 16 17 18

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47 It sells, it’s said 48 MSNBC competitor Chaired

Like the opening of Mahler’s Symphony

No. 9

51 Dream job?

55 It travels at nearly 300 million meters per second Apple Store offerings

Story of one’s life?

“Music is powered by ___”: Yo-yo Ma Olympian’s sword

Fuzzy bit of car décor Literature Nobelist Morrison Some lab liquids

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“Well, well, well!”

Fizzling firework Encyclopedia volumes vis-àvis Wikipedia, e.g.

Deceptive trick Old-fashioned message carriers

South Asian wrap

Petri dish filler 8 Coming up next 9 Small town

10 Driving force?

11 One might take off a few marks Spanish for “foolish”

What may be heard in a herd 20 Exact lookalike 21 Slim and trim

22 Give this for that

Lead-in to pad Clear up, as ski goggles

Works in a theater

Likely to offend, in brief

George Eliot and George Orwell, for two Really prosper ___ Man, one of the Avengers 38 Wonkish sort 40 America’s Cup

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Bottleful in un ristorante

It was once the world’s fourthlargest lake Sch. system with campuses in Buffalo and Binghamton Affirmative reply to “Understand?” Earth’s most abundant element

Bullet with a trail

Bad break in bowling

Spiced tea Scruff of the neck

Many a cocktail mixer

“Rocks” in a cocktail

Big name in online talks

Solution to previous NYT puzzle