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1 Qt. and gal. 5 Letting in a little

light, perhaps 9 Org. at the center of modern “name, image and likeness” legislation 13 Surname on a 2010 “True Grit” poster

14 Home of a

massive flock 17 “Oh, our sides are

hurting!”

18 In great demand 19 Makeup kit for a

summer look

21 No neophyte 22 Left with nothing 23 Subject of the 2018 bestselling account “On Desperate Ground” 26 ___ fly

27 2010 Atlantic hurricane that was the largest up to that time

28 Close one

29 Poetic contraction 30 What a ganzfeld experiment tests for 31 Homoerotic viewing 33 “That’s quite

enough!” 36 Actress Claire of

“The Crown”

37 “Ni ___” (Mandarin greeting) 38 Metaphor for a

100-degree day 39 “___, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere”: G.K. Chesterton 40 Upgrade for a train

passenger 42 Deadlock 45 Have a drink,

old-style 46 Really

risked it

49 Start of many

a party

50 Join (up) 52 Common dorm

accommodation 53 Post hoc, ___ propter hoc (logical fallacy) 54 Cause of lightheadedness? 55 Sister brand of Guess? and Calvin Klein 56 File type

DOWN

1 Patella neighbor,

in brief

2 Some parenting

websites

3 Tragic downfall? 4 Buttinsky 5 E-commerce alternative to Square or Stripe 6 Grand ___

7 Bio lab supply 8 Beat poet?

9 Genre popularized by Limp Bizkit and Korn

10 Star journalist? 11 Not quite right 12 Riz ___, Emmy winner for 2016’s “The Night Of” 15 Squeeze

16 Holds the door

for, say 20 150-year-old org. that filed for bankruptcy in 2021

21 Merle Haggard tune “___ From Muskogee” 24 Custom

25 Leading character 29 Force behind many disinformation campaigns 31 Started fuming 32 Stroke, perhaps 33 What might be

next to cue cards 34 Humans, in sci-fi

slang

35 About 36 Stereotypical kegger attendee 38 Traveler around

the world

39 Like some sleeping problems

40 Aid in breaching

castle walls 41 Kind of change 42 “Wouldn’t that

be nice”

43 Anime genre featuring giant robots

44 Made the case

against?

47 “All right, we

get it!”

48 Strip lighting 51 Mess of hair