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1 Break offView answer 5 French musician/composer ___ TiersenView answer 9 Come toView answer 14 Kind of survivorView answer 15 Name hidden in "disobedience"View answer 16 Zhou of Chinese historyView answer 17 Yard, e.g.View answer 18 Some stain preventersView answer 20 Challenges for managementView answer 21 Oil smugglers?View answer 22 Eerie phenomenon when a robot seems too lifelikeView answer 24 Newspaper in Boston or MiamiView answer 25 Bone, in BolognaView answer 26 Neutralize bad karma, sayView answer 27 Bad guysView answer 29 Michigan's ___ Marquette River (waterway named for a missionary)View answer 33 It's nothingView answer 34 *, to a typistView answer 37 Babe, for oneView answer 38 Muscle named for its shape, for shortView answer 40 "What's the big ___?"View answer 41 Getting in one guess, as WordleView answer 43 Fencing optionView answer 45 Like Brutalist architectureView answer 46 Subject of the books "Jonathan Loved David" and "Take Back the Word"View answer 50 Alley oopsView answer 51 Noble titleView answer 53 Rigid sort of interpreterView answer 54 Gal(lic) palView answer 55 Glass productionView answer 56 Brendon of Panic! at the DiscoView answer 57 "99 Luftballons" singerView answer 58 Blow outView answer 59 Got a load ofView answer 60 Somewhat audible disparagementsView answerDown
1 Careen wildlyView answer 2 Leave lost for wordsView answer 3 Jewish bakery specialtyView answer 4 3-D diagnostic testView answer 5 One of the pillars of improvView answer 6 BedeckView answer 7 SwellView answer 8 It's a straight shotView answer 9 Keeps greasing that squeaky wheel?View answer 10 BlanketView answer 11 Pain relief brandView answer 12 Drew on a TVView answer 13 Somewhat audible disparagementView answer 19 Dance move that slid into English as "sashay"View answer 23 They're not as sweet as portersView answer 24 What may be raised at a meetingView answer 27 Uniform shadeView answer 28 Could be certain?View answer 30 Fortnite developerView answer 31 Small-timeView answer 32 Like flans and frittatasView answer 35 Earth : sun :: ___ : solView answer 36 Colloquial collectiveView answer 39 Is on the brink, sayView answer 42 Radiator fluidView answer 44 Squint to seeView answer 45 Very secure, in a wayView answer 46 Record-keeping device made of strings and knotsView answer 47 CompleteView answer 48 Like a perilous situationView answer 49 Woman's name that becomes another woman's name if you reverse the third and fourth lettersView answer 50 Liquidy lumpView answer 52 Votes forView answerYour puzzle stays a surprise. Answers appear only on the individual clue pages.
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