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1 DawdlerView answer 9 Cuts shortView answer 15 Typical sight in a bank robbery cartoonView answer 16 KitschView answer 17 Doing some theater workView answer 18 Cracked wheat used in tabboulehView answer 19 One whose beauty is on the insideView answer 20 Whole kit and caboodleView answer 22 ___-Latin (like some modern coinages)View answer 23 Plant that's toxic to catsView answer 24 Some babysittersView answer 25 A cold one is unexpected (and usually unappreciated)View answer 26 Since Jan. 1, on a pay stubView answer 27 Tuesday, in FrenchView answer 28 Song commonly performed outdoorsView answer 29 Food that can be prepared de canastaView answer 30 ___ Tuesday (end of the pre-Lenten season)View answer 31 One toeing the line?View answer 35 IndividuallyView answer 36 EditorializeView answer 37 Overly self-assertiveView answer 38 Like a good sponge cakeView answer 39 Down Under bird that scientists are working to "de-extinct"View answer 42 Singular, with or without its first letterView answer 43 Origin story family in DC ComicsView answer 44 FacilityView answer 45 Certain care provider, for shortView answer 46 Re-fresh?View answer 47 It might be marked with an XView answer 48 Linked (with)View answer 50 DriveView answer 52 Harden and become resistant to changeView answer 53 Life partner, perhaps?View answer 54 Old coin with a picture of Generalissimo FrancoView answer 55 Treated with respectView answerDown
1 How a supervillain might bragView answer 2 FlipView answer 3 Waiting for support, maybeView answer 4 Like untended plotsView answer 5 Funeral ___View answer 6 Broad band?View answer 7 Royal Australian Air Force insigniaView answer 8 Competition that combines speed with balanceView answer 9 Professor DumbledoreView answer 10 ContestView answer 11 Bevy : quail :: parliament : ___View answer 12 The world's end, in Norse mythologyView answer 13 Mr. or Ms. RightView answer 14 Baby sitter?View answer 21 Half of a classic rum cocktail's nameView answer 24 Component of a nautilus shellView answer 25 Eric who wrote and illustrated "Papa, Please Get the Moon for Me"View answer 27 Stick by a fireplaceView answer 28 MantraView answer 29 Nearby thingsView answer 30 Like the pope's guardsView answer 31 Area on which to eat or play cardsView answer 32 "You can absolutely count on me"View answer 33 Figure in sci-fi's "Attack of the 50 Foot Woman," e.g.View answer 34 Great illustrationsView answer 38 ConnectedView answer 39 Sister of MosesView answer 40 Worth consideringView answer 41 Made upView answer 43 Nation dubbed the "cradle of mankind"View answer 44 "Understood?"View answer 46 Big breakView answer 47 Stack (up)View answer 49 Casting needView answer 51 Short diner orderView answerYour puzzle stays a surprise. Answers appear only on the individual clue pages.
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