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across

6

Conniption

FIT
9

Cuban poet/philosopher José

MARTI
14

2000 hit song with the lyric “But to lose all my senses / That is just so typically me”

OOPS I DID IT AGAIN
17

Mail-centric fiction?

EPISTOLARY NOVEL
18

Virginia is in it, in brief

ACC
19

“Hah!”

SO THERE!
20

“___ had it!”

I
21

Former home of Mr. and Mrs. Met

SHEA
23

“The Mary Tyler Moore Show” spinoff

RHODA
24

Riot

HOOT
25

Spiller of tea

YENTA
27

Smelling things?

SALTS
28

Date night viewing, often

FEEL-GOOD MOVIE
34

High concept?

CLOUD NINE
35

They explain what’s in the cards

TAROT READINGS
39

Comic strip sound of impact

KAPOW!
40

Infant discomfort

COLIC
42

Battery-powered string instrument player

E-BOW
43

Predicated

BASED
48

It has its highs and lows

TIDE
49

Rocky openings?

YOS
50

Burrowing animal whose name is made up of two other animals

MOLE RAT
52

It may begin with a +1

A
53

Idolizes

PUTS ON A PEDESTAL
56

Indiana Jones or Rocky Balboa, e.g.

ALL-AMERICAN HERO
57

Losing causes?

DIETS
58

Yoga ___

MAT
59

The 22nd Amendment limits them

TERMS

down

1

“Piece of cake!”

SO EASY!
2

Reality show whose contestants report to the Judge’s Table

TOP CHEF
3

Not gendered

EPICENE
4

Dope

ASS
5

Some emergency resources

KITS
6

Serious dirt

FILTH
7

State whose official fruit is the huckleberry

IDAHO
8

Done to death

TIRED
9

Flow down the neck

MANE
10

Past word

AGO
11

Hot pockets?

RAVIOLI
12

20-20, e.g.

TIE VOTE
13

Small sounds

INLETS
15

One of 412 in the White House

DOOR
16

Supermodel Banks

TYRA
22

Took back one’s words

ATE CROW
24

One struggling to make ends meet

HAVE-NOT
26

Grant

ALLOW
27

Foe of Dr. Eggman, in video games

SONIC
29

Procured

GOT
30

“___ Share of Night” (acclaimed 2019 Mariana Enríquez book)

OUR
31

Complimentary lines

ODE
32

Tool for tracing family trees

DNA
33

Prefix with the name of any month

MID-
35

Mideast salad, in one spelling

TABOULI
36

Simon the Zealot, e.g.

APOSTLE
37

Sparkly bits in a school art project

GLITTER
38

Like some deliveries

SIDEARM
39

Holder of all the digits, from 1 to 0

KEYPAD
41

Stage-left orchestra section

CELLOS
43

Coccyx or phalange, e.g.

BONE
44

Unwelcome sound during a dream

ALARM
45

Brown tint

SEPIA
46

Construct

ERECT
47

Art movement proclaimed in a 1916 manifesto

DADA
50

May honorees

MOMS
51

Outdoor item with flaps

TENT
54

Took a load off

SAT
55

2011 platinum single by Tyler, the Creator

SHE

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