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ACROSS 1 Mic rockers 4 Amy of “Hillbilly Elegy” 9 Meat on a stick 14 Computer key 15 Magician DelGaudio 16 Totally foolish 17 Negating word 18 “Watermelon Sugar” singer with a face for music? 20 Dispatch boat 22 Turnover, e.g. 23 Invoice no. 24 Backstreet Boy with a face for music? 28 Hyperjudgmental sort 29 ___-masker 30 It’s not bad 31 Flare-up that’s behind you? 32 Bring about 34 American literary regionalist author Sarah Orne ___ 35 “Bad Guy” singer with a face for music? 38 One who’s seriously loaded 39 Questlove’s group, with “the” 40 Can’t-do 41 See 50-Across 42 Crummy writer 46 How fast things are going 47 “You Raise Me Up” singer with a face for music? 49 Eisenhower did his thing there: Abbr. 50 With 41-Across, “any” place? 51 Up on the latest 52 “Barely Breathing” singer with a face for music? 57 Pull to the chop shop 58 Moog’s ancestor 59 Rather ... strange 60 Samuel’s teacher in the Bible 61 Big jamborees 62 Symbols for love and fidelity 63 Ready to go DOWN 1 Viernes, to jueves 2 ___-hoofed 3 Like a hard ass 4 Like some committees 5 They’re on meth: Abbr. 6 D’backs, on scoreboards 7 French Riviera waters 8 Didn’t Zoom through work, maybe? 9 Classic beach toy 10 “If it’s ___ consolation ...” 11 Numbers on a bank app 12 Rent payment period 13 Dark horse’s opposite 19 Polite address 21 It’s all downhill from here 25 “From the top!” 26 T. ___ Price 27 Composer’s 12-note sequence 28 Enjoyed what Broadway had to offer, in the Before Times 31 Boxer’s pride 33 Spoiler alert content, at times 34 “The Masked Singer” judge Ken 35 Intrinsically 36 Cold catchers? 37 Cries of pain 38 Bored to tears with 41 Dabs, maybe 43 Eases up 44 ___ Baskin (“Tiger King” nemesis) 45 “You couldn’t fool me!” 47 Press secretary Psaki 48 Zen garden props 50 Shades by the pool 53 “One ___ just leads to another” (Hemingway) 54 Cut forests 55 A nasty Pirate might have a low one 56 A, as in Ulm
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