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1 Exercises with squat thrusts and jumps 8 Literally, “great soul” 15 Auto parts giant 16 Momentous 17 Certain sidekicks 18 Writing letters, it’s said 19 Short spiel 21 Part of a fancy table setting 22 Defer for now 23 Tee follower 24 Its highest score is 1520 25 The Baltics, once: Abbr. 26 “There you go!” 28 Light touch 29 Unnatural, in a way 30 Phone hotline? 31 Unpredictable 36 Start of some decision-making 37 “I Am ___,” onetime spinoff of “Keeping Up With the Kardashians” 38 Rugby equivalent of a touchdown 39 ___ Neuwirth (jeweler) 41 Related 42 Indicators of enlightenment 43 Study 44 Apt bingo call to lose on, by the sound of it? 45 Low notes 46 Program that a 2011 global commission officially declared a failure, 40 years after its launch 50 Synthetic material also called frozen smoke 51 Disneyland attraction with a racetrack 54 A comedy of errors? 55 Actor in the “Fast & Furious” franchise, familiarly 56 Trickery 57 Unpredictable

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1 Bit of Christmas morning detritus 2 Sch. in the Atlantic 10 Conference 3 What sunlight and wind provide 4 Oinkling? 5 “Patchwork elephant” of children’s literature 6 K2 fig. 7 They’ll help you pass on impulses 8 Noggins 9 Left at sea 10 Drip locale: Abbr. 11 It’s a start 12 “Ahhhh!” 13 Give waves to with a curling iron, once 14 ___ Gibson, first African American to win a Grand Slam title 20 Holiday dish with lots of stuffing? 21 “I saw ___, he saw me” (classic tongue twister line) 24 E-signature holder, maybe 25 Cable network with a rhyming name 26 Couleur du brocoli 27 Lead-in to Clean 29 Worker’s cry of triumph 30 Go around 32 Director Wiseman 33 Part of a contingency plan 34 Special times 35 GPS component: Abbr. 39 Common attachments to lanyards 40 Get better again 41 Key rings? 42 Kind of rabbit 44 2020 N.F.L. retiree who leads all QBs in career pass completions (7,142) 45 ___ space 47 Tired 48 Posthumous Pulitzer winner of 1958 49 Germany’s largest urban area 52 Opposite of là 53 Org. with a pedigree registry

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