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1 Assume
6 Title in Tyrol10 Site that acquired Depop in 2021 for
$1.6 billion
14 Comic going after big bucks?
16 El Pollo ___ (restaurant chain)
17 Charges for parties
18 Self-appointed tastemaker
19 Crew cutter?
20 Social circles
21 See 3-Down
23 Cookout staple
24 Like some marches, tonally
25 What makes a grasshopper green
28 Judge in the Book of Judges
29 Succumbs
30 Morning ___
31 Stage name of the rapper Tracy Marrow
32 Like 26-Down’s demeanor
33 Flew
34 “Found you!”
35 Studio 54, once
36 Secures a weave, say
37 “Do I look like I have time for
this nonsense?”
40 Fútbol icon Messi
41 Stinks
42 Mimicked a hot dog
43 Minderbinder of “Catch-22”
44 Sweeping shot
47 “Quantum of Solace” actress Kurylenko
48 Lack of finesse
51 One bowed in a Renaissance ensemble
52 “Meh,” for one
53 Comic ___
54 Symbol used to represent the reduced
Planck constant
55 Forwards, say
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1 Film with the tagline “The movie was
fake. The mission was real”
2 Onscreen explorer3 With 21-Across, brand that sells
Stink Stoppers spray
4 Bit of French?
5 No. 1
6 Hard no
7 Breaks down
8 Cowed feeling
9 Improper
10 Howard who became the Yankees’ first
Black player, in 1955
11 “You’re doing way too much right now”
12 Dog days
13 Brixton hooligans
15 “America’s Only Rock ’n’ Roll Magazine,”
per a 2019 documentary
22 Mars, to some
23 Art ___ (French term for so-called
outsider works)
24 “Well, ahoy there”
25 Betraying, in a way
26 Character whose first name, Fitzwilliam,
is used only twice in the classic novel in
which he appears
27 Language spoken by millions of
Ghanaians
28 Resounding phenomenon?
31 Nepomniachtchi who squared off against
Magnus Carlsen at the 2021 World
Chess Championship
32 Course companion?
33 “High” occasions
35 Finito36 “I Wanna Be Your Dog” rockers,
with “the”
38 Wrecks
39 Irene played by Lara Pulver on
“Sherlock”
42 GoPro perspectives, for short
43 Flat earth?
44 Novel for which Nabokov nabbed
his first of seven National Book
Award nominations
45 Served well
46 Tab on Twitter’s Explore page
49 Head, slangily
50 Manhattan’s Fifth, e.g.PUZZLES & GAMES DEPT.
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