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ACROSS
1 All but
9 Most Solomonic
15 Grilled cheese
16 Actresses Dunne and Worth
17 Cheeky reply to “How’d you do that?”
18 Not terrestrial, in a way
19 Exercise device with an infamously
suggestive 2009 infomercial
21 4-Down, zum Beispiel
25 ___ : Joseph L. Mankiewicz :: My
Mother : Pedro Almodóvar
26 “Cornflake Girl” singer Tori
27 One of the four humors
29 Like matte computer monitors
31 “De la Politique des ___” (1957 André
Bazin essay about film criticism)
33 Hush-hush document: Abbr.
34 Big name in frozen fish
35 Battle of competing soft launches?
40 Messenger ___
41 2021 Pulitzer Prize winner for “The
Night Watchman”
42 Steep drop
47 Handles
48 Hardly domestic, for short
49 Puzzle
50 Classic fruit-flavored sodas
51 Director of “Beau Travail” and “White
Material”
55 When Faust meets Mephistopheles, per
Goethe
56 Most eclectic
61 Rides into battle?
62 Into organizing?
63 Boston Red Sox anthem updated by the
Dropkick Murphys in 2004
64 Digressions
DOWN
1 Sashimi staple
2 Convened
3 ___ Cup (championship won by New
York City F.C. in 2021)
4 Albert Einstein’s birthplace
5 Its motto is “Semper paratus”
6 Grant of Hollywood
7 “The Right to Sex” philosopher
Srinivasan
8 Disgust
9 New German Cinema director who
advised, “Before you say ‘cut,’ wait five
more seconds”
10 “Dies ___”
11 First podcast to win a Peabody Award
(2015)
12 Head-scratcher
13 Mister, in Manaus
14 Nagana-carrying insect
20 ___ Goolagong Cawley (winner of seven
Grand Slam singles titles)
21 Unsolicited texts
22 Thanksgiving, for one: Abbr.
23 Secondary social-media accounts,
familiarly
24 Profound
28 Arnold Schwarzenegger, four times
30 Gastropod that’s a common pest
32 Worked tirelessly (over)
36 Available
37 Desire
38 Opening on Broadway?
39 Letters that sound like a flower
42 Like Miss Congeniality
43 Airing after midnight, say
44 Equilibria
45 The one per cent
46 Out of it?
52 Commercial prefix akin to “insta-”
53 “Wallflower at the Orgy” author Ephron
54 “Put ___ Me,” 2001 Ja Rule hit
57 Like Vivaldi’s “Spring”
58 Kafka’s “___ Hungerkünstler”
59 Bar fixture
60 Weigh-station wts.
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