Crossword Edited by Will Shortz
ACROSS
Remark made
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after catching someone by surprise
Alt-rock band
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with the 2001 hit album “Yankee Hotel Foxtrot” Indoor swimming
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pools
What might roll
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in the leaves
Pet dogs
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and cats, affectionately Surge protector?
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Great work
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Embroiled (in)
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Stage that you
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might enter at night
Broadband
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letters
Gangs
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With 39-Across,
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answer to the question “Who’s the solver of this puzzle?”
Bird: Prefix
28
Pro with
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extensions, in brief
Big ticket item?
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Leading disability
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rights activist in the 2020 documentary “Crip Camp” Valuable
36
collection
Black ___
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“Get out of
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here!”
See 27-Across
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“Get me?,”
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informally Guileful
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“Love Island”
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airer
Item in Yo-Yo
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Ma’s right hand Sound of
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suffering … or pleasure
Whiff
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Where the cattle drive in the western epic “Lonesome Dove” begins Consideration
55
when doubling a recipe, perhaps “Don’t worry
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about me”
Like Alaska on a
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U.S. map, often Quite a sight
52
58
DOWN
Going to get
1
Khaki alternative
2
Use a pick,
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perhaps
Punches
4
___ Pippig,
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three-time winner of the Boston Marathon Word with sister
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or story
Ride with a third
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wheel
Outward attitude
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Bed of roses, so
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to speak Character who’s
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striped and spotted?
Causes of some
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brain freezes
Hot take?
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Breakfast skillet
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What a pointer
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finger can represent
Labor relief,
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perhaps
Port ___, capital
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of Mauritius
John of “The Big
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Lebowski”
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Squelched, with
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“on”
His dying words
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were “There is another … Skywalker …” Ghostlike, in a
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way
___ Thanh
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Nguyen, Pulitzer-winning author of “The Sympathizer” Aids for stage
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crews
Via, informally
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University in
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Georgia
Hold on to
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Arcade game
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character with a propeller beanie Word with store
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or Story
___ Greenwich,
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co-writer of
“Do Wah Diddy Diddy” and “Da Doo Ron Ron” Dispense
42
Muscly, in
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modern lingo
No. 0106
Popular talk
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show of the 2010s Achievement
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indicator
Show of
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contempt Eponymous
48
region of northern France Slick
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Thick locks
50
Title for a guru
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Inits. on some
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food cans
Knock
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