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1 Some free spots, for shortView answer 5 GroundsView answer 10 Doesn't just talkView answer 14 "You're telling me!"View answer 16 Word with wet or sweatView answer 17 Conspiracy theorist's accessoryView answer 18 "Don't leave me!," e.g.View answer 19 16 in a Sweet SixteenView answer 20 Main component of a "gutbucket," a jug band instrumentView answer 22 Personal recordsView answer 25 Padlocked fastenersView answer 26 Variety of orange named for a European cityView answer 29 What blue crabs do roughly 20 times in their lifetimesView answer 30 Jobs announcement of 2010View answer 31 News feed, perhapsView answer 35 [Waaaaah!]View answer 36 Thick confection used for cake icingView answer 37 Part of a golf clubView answer 38 See 5-DownView answer 40 BinaryView answer 41 SuccorsView answer 42 Photo session workersView answer 44 Ace, e.g.View answer 46 Skater's braking method with the back foot positioned horizontallyView answer 47 Relative of a craft fairView answer 50 "Duino Elegies" poetView answer 53 Saves, as a digital locationView answer 54 Clichéd line from the side of a product packageView answer 58 It's cool to drinkView answer 59 "I haven't told you the best part ..."View answer 60 Impressively accurate pass, in football slangView answer 61 FloatsView answer 62 Give a bad hand?View answerDown
1 StoneView answer 2 Vaudeville highlightView answer 3 Pulitzer-winning journalist ApplebaumView answer 4 You might pull one out for a guestView answer 5 With 38-Across, one way to sitView answer 6 Feel grossView answer 7 "Gross"View answer 8 Playwright who wrote "You see things; and you say 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?'"View answer 9 "Tell Mama" singer JamesView answer 10 Rocky road ingredient?View answer 11 Distinction for a classic underground workView answer 12 BindView answer 13 Sticks a fork inView answer 15 Part of NOWView answer 21 "Fiddlesticks!"View answer 23 Disney princess in New OrleansView answer 24 Workshop debrisView answer 26 Possible need for entryView answer 27 EachView answer 28 Colleague who might be solutions-oriented?View answer 29 Tropical plants said to bring good fortuneView answer 32 "That's the truth"View answer 33 Kid's parentView answer 34 Hagfish lookalikesView answer 36 Company whose logo has a hidden arrow between its fourth and fifth lettersView answer 39 Performance that isn't prerecordedView answer 40 Word from the Greek for "folded paper"View answer 43 Butcher shop buysView answer 44 Pleasing to the palateView answer 45 "Buss It" rapper ___ BanksView answer 48 WayView answer 49 Arm of the Dept. of LaborView answer 51 Part of a cabinetView answer 52 French 101 verbView answer 55 Whitehouse in D.C., e.g.: Abbr.View answer 56 Physics unit equivalent to roughly 624 gigaelectronvoltsView answer 57 Thoroughly evaluateView answerYour puzzle stays a surprise. Answers appear only on the individual clue pages.
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