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JONESIN’ “These Go To Eleven”--and five down. by Matt Jones

Across

1. Toning result 12. Celebrity gossip website 15. 1993 Mary J. Blige hit that reached #5 on the R&B Singles Chart 16. Elvis’s longtime label 17. Bitter almond, as seen in French desserts 18. Acne wash maker 19. It’s posed for passersby 21. Radcliffe’s group 22. Dear one? 23. Violinist Menuhin 27. Throws out 30. Eldest von Trapp child in “The Sound of Music” 35. Pet Shop Boys’ longtime label 36. Locates 37. Comparable 39. Tomei of Spider-Man movies 40. Where Will Shortz is the “Puzzlemaster” 43. Dish with grapes, walnuts, and mayo 50. Bookstore category that features the town’s authors 53. Squishee purveyor on “The Simpsons” 54. Record the meeting, in a way 55. Blues guitarist Mahal 56. Place where it’s hard to pass 57. “Hold On Tight” group 58. Words before “of smell,” “of self,” and “of right and wrong”

Down

1. Cat scratch sources 2. Friends, ‘90s-style 3. Russian infant emperor of 1740-41 (too young to be the “terrible” one) 4. E-mail writer 5. ___ a positive note 6. Chain that merged with AMC Theatres 7. Boy’s name that means “God is my nation” in Hebrew (A MILE anag.) 8. “San ___ High School football rules!” (shouted line near the end of “Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure”) 9. Pearl Jam bassist Jeff 10. Actors Reed and Meredith Baxter (when she took a husband’s surname) 11. Pilots 12. Apparel that gets “dropped,” facetiously 13. CI times XI 14. Former groupmate of Harry and Liam 20. Decoy vessel used as early as WWI 24. Actor Kier of “Dancer in the Dark” 25. Morse code component 26. Provisional terms 27. Old Prizm automaker 28. Australian coat of arms bird 29. Frank McCourt’s sequel to “Angela’s Ashes” 30. On the ___ (running) 31. Garten who had a 2022 moment responding to Reese Witherspoon 32. Canal zone? 33. Guardian Angel Curtis who was the Republican nominee for NYC mayor in 2021 34. Northern Silicon Valley city 38. “Highlights for Children” do-gooder 40. Vacuum hater? 41. Igneous rock that solidifies deep in the earth (like a god of the underworld) 42. ___ hen’s teeth 44. Scottish builder of stone walls (not Dutch, surprisingly) 45. Work alongside “El rey Lear,” “La tempestad,” and “Ricardo III” 46. Furnish a new crew 47. “Breaking Bad” businessman/drug lord Gus 48. Neurobiologist Joshua who developed the “brainbow” by mapping neurons with different colored proteins (and whose name uses letters from “synapse”) 49. “___ un Principio: From the Beginning” (1999 Marc Anthony greatest-hits album) 50. In the wee hours 51. Birthstone that shares a first letter with its month 52. “... a Saint Bernard in his prime, five years old, nearly two hundred pounds in weight ...” Last week's solution