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1 Breed seen on bags of Cesar dog food,
for short
7 Squeeze into a ball12 Widely inclusive
13 “___ Iguana” (Bobby McFerrin song)
14 First African American to win the
Scripps National Spelling Bee
16 Active stratovolcano situated mere miles
from Peru’s second most populous city,
Arequipa
17 Jethro Tull front man Anderson
18 Rio maker
19 Trudge through ankle-deep water, say
20 Situation Room grp.
22 Johnson Sirleaf who won a Nobel Peace
Prize during her time as the President of
Liberia
24 Lug
25 Brunch order
27 ___ for peace
28 Fits together nicely
29 2021 film starring Billy Crystal and
Tiffany Haddish
30 Guys on the take?
31 “Miracle Workers” network
34 Piece of climbing equipment
35 Like everything one guard says, in a
classic riddle
36 Smiley smile, for short
37 Kim ___-hyung, a.k.a. V of the K-pop
group BTS
38 Captain von Trapp’s given name
39 Transgress
40 El Nuevo ___ (Puerto Rican newspaper)
42 Bakin’ strip?
44 Film character whose midi-chlorian
count is more than twenty thousand
47 Eager
48 Snaps
49 Lit, for fun
50 They might get whacked
DOWN
1 Gaming device with an accelerometer
2 French church
3 Drug-sniffing dog’s discovery
4 Nipple
5 Buzz saw?
6 Text to a friend who’s late, perhaps
7 Like the classic Bugs Bunny cartoon
“What’s Opera, Doc?”
8 De Armas who is slated to play Marilyn
Monroe in the forthcoming film
“Blonde”
9 “It ___, (tinct, tint) all this our
funnaminal world”: “Finnegans Wake”
10 Briefs, in brief
11 Joyful hymn
12 Cat played by Jane Fonda
13 L.I.R.R. overseer
14 Mulled-wine ingredients
15 It’s said while shaking
21 “Má Vlast” composer
23 Plant that’s toxic to cats
25 Mountain in Deuteronomy
26 Soundboard component
28 No walk in the park
29 Fabled also-ran
30 Tuscan city famed for its marble
31 Triumvirates32 Insulted
33 “Old Time Rock & Roll” rocker
34 Lustful
35 “Spill the tea!”
36 “Three ___” (Paul Cézanne still-life)
38 Grind
41 Dutch financial giant
43 Floors
45 Blood
46 Grp. in Call of Duty: Black Ops
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