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“FEELING DIZZY”

By Brendan Emmett Quigley

ACROSS 1. Take out of plastic, maybe 6. “You don’t know the ___ of it” 10. Website with a “Got a tip?” action button at the top 13. Home sweet home 14. Tightly wound up 15. Melancholic misery 16. One who drops a tab and then listens to John Coltrane’s “Ascension”? 18. Apple Pay platform 19. Cincuenta y dos semanas 20. ACLU concern 21. “Look over here” 22. Time it takes for an ocean to form 23. British bro 24. Sign seen on the moon on July 20, 1969? 30. Circa 31. Captured on a Memorex 32. Chain in a lab 35. Tease from afar 36. Turkic language 37. Old Pontiac sports cars 38. Artifact Indiana Jones threatened to blow up with a missile launcher 39. Not as common 40. Coffee shop that sells a (checks notes) Chicken & Waffl es Sandwich ... excuse me while I go to my local one 41. Ruthlessly tease somebody’s intellect? 44. African nation with a star on its fl ag 46. Paper purchase 47. Historian who wrote “Ab Urbe Condita” 48. Surrealist painter Freud 51. Event when the Spanish Flu spread, briefl y 54. Prefi x with vision 55. Friends on the force? 57. Summer time on Nantucket: Abbr. 58. St. Vincent for Annie Clark 59. Drink served with mint 60. “Sound of Metal” actor Ahmed 61. ___ City (Cairo suburb) 62. Like freshly laid lawn DOWN 1. Turbaned VIP 2. Israeli diplomat and scholar Abba 3. Nincompoop 4. Tool that does detail work in wood 5. Doctor’s orders for the garden variety illness 6. Like Sleater-Kinney or Man Or Astro-Man?, in short 7. Gig on the books: Abbr. 8. Winebottle leftovers 9. A couple day’s drive away 10. Alcoholic beverage that comes in Half & Half, Peach, and Raspberry fl avors 11. Animal that is a national symbol of Canada 12. Full of fl avor 14. “Happy To Be Here” comic 17. Chaos 21. Something to shoot for 22. Like the water off the coast of Ibiza 23. Thing in a scrip 24. ___ California 25. App with a “Where to?” section 26. Lisa Bonet’s acting daughter 27. Plate in church 28. Barbecue selection 29. “Can’t say I’ve heard of ___” 33. “Wrong person” 34. The “A” of “HOA”: Abbr. 36. Spinning toon 37. Sanitizer’s victim 39. Rap producer who redid the ice cream truck jingle in 2020 40. Lunchbox classics 42. “They all look great, pick one” 43. Junior of the NFL 1990s All-Decade Team 44. One using Elmers 45. Language that gave us “jungle” and “bandana” 48. “Be-Bop-A-___” 49. Weapons with cartridges 50. Bigwig with a Russian-infl uenced title 51. “Mind. Blown.” 52. Dispensary selection 53. Classic children’s game 55. Prop for some bridesmaids 56. Mobb Deep or Insane Clown Posse

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