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ACROSS
1 Shade of red 5 Food drive donation 8 Highly skilled sorts 14 Like most job interviews 16 Heartily enjoy, as a joke
17 End of a plug, often 18 Greatly respect 19 Record executive’s stack
21 ___ Daily, popular podcast for armchair athletes 22 Packaged ration, for short 23 Number six in a group of five 24 Lux. locale 27 “___ true”
28 Ice cream thickeners 30 Makeup of some waste lines 33 Place for a bead 34 Dobermans and mastiffs, traditionally 35 Recreational sports association for adults
37 Tool used on a padlock
38 Couple’s enthusiastic R.S.V.P. 39 “Jiminy Christmas!” 43 Beverage option at early McDonald’s restaurants 44 Acrobat’s platform 45 Literally, “peace” 46 Info next to alumni names, maybe: Abbr. 47 ___-Mex (cuisine) 49 “This tastes delicious!,” maybe
50 Cut deeply 52 Nominee for the first two Nobel Prizes in Literature (190102), but never won
55 Treat commonly eaten with a wooden utensil 58 Foodies
59 Key of Beethoven’s Seventh 60 V formation? 61 Bee activity 62 ___ tax 63 Conference foes of the Buffaloes
DOWN
1 It shows the way 2 Experience 3 Dirty, in a way 4 Rationale for a dumb stunt, in modern slang 5 The emperor’s old clothes? 6 Smartphone payment that unlocks premium content 7 Double birdie? 8 In time?: Abbr. 9 Sow : pig :: ___ : koala 10 Projecting edge 11 Grand standing 12 Atlantic game fish
13 Pro with a pad 15 So and so? 20 Things that might be kept covered in a kitchen 25 Reason for a restart
26 Top of a chain, maybe
29 Like an evangelical Christian 31 Dear
32 Came down hard (on) 34 Attention ___ 36 John Milton’s “Lycidas” is one 37 Finger food at a pastry shop?
38 Pen pal’s request
40 “Be my guest” 41 Eisenhower’s boyhood home 42 Adulterates 43 Series finales 44 Smart ___ 48 “Still ___” (2014 drama that earned a Best Actress Oscar) 51 Mecca trekker 53 List of choices 54 Origin of some lyrics sung in “The Lion King” 56 Host
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