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1 Breakfast bar itemView answer 12 Summer picnic side dishView answer 14 Homo sapiens, e.g.View answer 16 Curio shop treasureView answer 17 Singer with the 2016 Grammy-winning soul ballad "Cranes in the Sky"View answer 18 Losing propositions?View answer 19 Keep-on-keeping-on qualityView answer 21 Cause for getting stuckView answer 22 Not, colloquiallyView answer 23 MisdirectView answer 24 Airbnb inclusion, usuallyView answer 25 Some control buttonsView answer 26 Like hand-to-hand fightingView answer 28 On the starting lineView answer 29 Over/under and point spreadView answer 31 Small squeeze from a tubeView answer 34 Dome-shaped Buddhist shrineView answer 35 Fancy-schmancyView answer 36 Pronoun in TexasView answer 37 Instrument depicted in paintings by Hals and CaravaggioView answer 38 "OMG"-evoking deedView answer 39 Use for a yewView answer 40 As good as it getsView answer 42 Isle of SapphoView answer 43 They make low digits smallerView answer 46 What a pitcher tries to doView answer 47 Former e-book devices, until 2014View answerDown
1 Can't keep on topicView answer 2 Sharpshooter's assetView answer 3 Preps for surgery, perhapsView answer 4 Wear out around the edgesView answer 5 First name in Universal horrorView answer 6 Seldom-used PC keyView answer 7 Long shot practiceView answer 8 "Save me ___!"View answer 9 Pauline ___, former New Yorker film criticView answer 10 Classic Chevy modelView answer 11 Not fair, in a wayView answer 12 Strip down the InterstateView answer 13 Student's goalView answer 14 "That can't possibly be right!"View answer 15 Enjoying recognitionView answer 19 One of many in a bee, typicallyView answer 20 Reptile with a colorful nameView answer 23 Having lost all its fizzView answer 24 Isn't keeping upView answer 26 Michael who plays Allan in "Barbie"View answer 27 "Divergent" author VeronicaView answer 28 Ensnare for, as some undertakingsView answer 29 A heavy drinker may be found in oneView answer 30 Woolen leggings, as worn by W.W. I soldiersView answer 31 Physiques that have gone a little softView answer 32 Former veep with a Nobel PrizeView answer 33 "___ This Mess"View answer 34 Opening for a mail carrierView answer 36 Private replyView answer 38 One of Oberon's subjectsView answer 39 Author of "Steppenwolf"View answer 41 Street ending at Disneyland's Sleeping Beauty CastleView answer 42 Wrote fiction?View answer 44 Many a professional office: Abbr.View answer 45 The Hornets, on scoreboardsView answerYour puzzle stays a surprise. Answers appear only on the individual clue pages.
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