Crossword Edited by Will Shortz
ACROSS
Skunk’s defense
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High school
5
exam, for short Reddish-purple
9
salad ingredient Apple TV+
13
alternative Shakespeare
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villain who says “I am not what I am”
Literature
15
Nobelist Alice They’re long for
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an underdog Steffi with seven
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Wimbledon titles Church choir
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accompaniment Temp job?
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___/her
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pronouns Prevailed
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Necklace that
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can be made
with kukui nuts
Prefix with liberal
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or conservative
Union job?
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Ones potentially
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contacted in
“first contact” Vowel sound at
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the end of 15and 26-Across “La Vie en Rose”
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singer Edith
End of a hairy
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limb
Watery or papery
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Yiddish “Yikes!”
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Have ambitions
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(to)
Flex job?
44
It sells, it’s said
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MSNBC
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competitor Chaired
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Like the opening
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of Mahler’s Symphony No. 9 Dream job?
51
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
63
Nobelist
Morrison
Some lab liquids
64
Like Scotch
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DOWN
“Well, well, well!”
1
Fizzling firework
2
Encyclopedia
3
volumes vis-à-vis Wikipedia, e.g.
Deceptive trick
4
Old-fashioned
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message carriers South Asian
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wrap
Petri dish filler
7
Coming up next
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Small town
9
Driving force?
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One might take
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off a few marks Spanish for
12
“foolish”
What may be
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heard in a herd Exact lookalike
20
Slim and trim
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Give this for that
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Lead-in to pad
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Clear up, as ski
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goggles
Works in a
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theater
Likely to offend,
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in brief
George Eliot and
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George Orwell, for two
Really prosper
36
___ Man, one of
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the Avengers Wonkish sort
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America’s Cup
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vessels
Bottleful in un
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ristorante
It was once the
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world’s fourthlargest lake Sch. system
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with campuses in Buffalo and Binghamton Affirmative
44
reply to “Understand?” Earth’s most
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abundant element
Bullet with a trail
Bad break in
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bowling
Spiced tea
52
Scruff of the
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neck
Many a cocktail
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mixer
“Rocks” in a
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cocktail
Big name in
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online talks
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