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1. Wi-Fi provider 8. New York state prison 14. Pig’s location, idiomatically 15. Athlete with stones 16. 1970 hit with the lyric “I’m begging you please to come home” 17. Some government securities 18. “I wake up to THIS mess? I mean ... couldn’t he have used the plate I gave him?!” 20. Like goals not achieved 21. Beer with a high ABV 22. It’s sometimes bent or lent 25. Green sphere in a curry 26. Biblical Elysium 29. Caroline Biden, to Joe 31. Heavy hitter 33. Covered up the gray, say 34. “Is it too much to ask him to bring dishes back to the kitchen?” 38. Women’s college basketball coach VanDerveer 39. Name on a controversial dossier 40. Outfit for some lady drivers 42. See 35-Down 43. “That feels very nice” 46. “I approve!” 47. Owl and Rabbit’s friend 49. Iraq’s main port city 51. “It’s going to take hours getting this grit out of the living room carpet!” 55. Relative of the frug or the twist 57. He played “the Ugly” in “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly” 58. Burning 59. Simmons who was the United States’ first Black female immunologist 60. Command under the File menu 61. Guile DOWN
1. Minor setback 2. Common soccer draw score 3. City on Puget Sound 4. Volleyball slam 5. In a refined manner 6. Dust Bowl drifter 7. Japanese turntable manufacturer 8. Throw a scene 9. Underground Railroad conductor 10. Chicago broadsheet, for short, with “the” 11. “Until next time!” 12. Scar picture, e.g. 13. Pair in a razor? 19. Corkscrew-shaped lock 23. Big diamonds 24. Some wines 27. Blue crew, for short 28. Post production? 30. Running but not moving 31. Take center stage 32. Squeezes (by) 34. Site with a “Craft Supplies” section 35. With 42-Across, Picard’s catchphrase 36. Big name in acne medicine 37. Including the whole world 41. Country legend Yearwood 43. “Sucks, for sure” 44. Betel nut trees 45. Chops into pieces 48. Leaves off 50. Lion from Narnia 52. “___ if true” 53. Cote females 54. Everybody, in the sticks 55. Used to be 56. Copying, in the kitchen
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