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Apologies for my recent absences. I am travelling in Europe, somewhat unexpectedly. I will be doing my best to keep up with puzzles and posts, but might “go missing” occasionally until I get back home to California.
In the meantime, I will be trying to at least write these abbreviated posts.
Again, apologies, and thank you for your understanding.
Bill
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Across
1A Source of great power? : MASTER SWITCH
13A Common component of a digital watch, for short : LCD
16A It snaps with a tap : IPHONE CAMERA
17A Symbol for electric flux, in physics : PHI
18A One way to grin : FROM EAR TO EAR
19A What might be smelt? : ROE
20A Be just right for : FIT
21A Fortune : LOT
22A Go to the other side : DEFECT
24A Ambitious tactic in bridge : SLAM BID
27A Deck deception : FALSE CUT
29A “My ___!” : STARS!
30A Food sticker? : TINE
31A “___ Deo gloria” (Latin doctrine) : SOLI
32A What a camper or criminal hopes to leave : NO TRACE
34A Curved plumbing piece : P-TRAP
35A Car touted for its dual efficiency : DIESEL HYBRID
37A Serialized and melodramatic, as a show : SOAPY
39A Black Death-era Iberian king dubbed “the Ceremonious” : PETER IV
40A Initial cost of a sort : ANTE
41A Speechwriter’s consideration : TONE
42A Put on ___ : AN ACT
45A Meet face to face? : HEADBUTT
47A Spending quantities : OUTLAYS
49A Like some protective sunglasses, in brief : ANTI-UV
50A Relaxed sigh : AHH!
51A “Longest ___ chain,” 2019 Guinness feat set by a cancer awareness cause (196,000+ items, 120+ miles) : BRA
52A Beam : RAY
53A Youngest-ever QB to win multiple N.F.L. M.V.P. awards (by age 27) : LAMAR JACKSON
58A Music box? : AMP
59A What magicians strive to do : BLOW YOUR MIND
60A Past participle of the French “naître” : NEE
61A Under lines? : SUBWAY SYSTEM
Down
1D Ticks off : MIFFS
2D Taxing times : APRILS
3D Targeted, as a target : SHOT AT
4D East Egg resident in “The Great Gatsby” : TOM
5D Buffalo-to-Rochester dir. : ENE
6D They see things for what they are : REALISTS
7D Seafood staple of New England : SCROD
8D Engineer who supposedly found inspiration while tending to a boiling kettle : WATT
9D Shorthand for a stance : IMO
10D Top choice? : TEE
11D Birthplace, as of civilization : CRADLE
12D Big hoppers : HARES
13D “Wax” collectible, informally : LP RECORD
14D Count out for breakfast? : CHOCULA
15D Nutritionist’s offering : DIET TIP
23D Lollapalooza, for instance : FESTIVAL
25D Job done on one’s hands and feet? : MANI-PEDI
26D Like typical frat boys, informally : BROEY
27D Johann ___, philosopher who influenced Hegel : FICHTE
28D Words on either side of “for” : AN EYE
30D “Everyone has ___. What’s rare is the courage to follow [it] to the dark places where it leads”: Erica Jong : TALENT
33D Move, as a plant : REPOT
34D Forensic unit’s discovery : PRINT
35D String or integer, in computer science : DATA TYPE
36D Spot to order a witbier or hefeweizen : BRAUHAUS
37D Very hot and dry : SAHARAN
38D What the singer Prince Rogers Nelson famously went by : ONE NAME
41D With fewer than 11,000 people, the world’s second-least-populous country, after Vatican City : TUVALU
43D Chooses traffic over train, perhaps : CABS IT
44D Lt. ___ Slothrop, main character in Pynchon’s “Gravity’s Rainbow” : TYRONE
46D Some spring nursery purchases : BULBS
47D Sarcastic “That’s just great” : OH, JOY!
48D Dominatrix’s practice, for short : S AND M
50D TV sister of Sansa Stark : ARYA
54D ___ rule : MOB
55D Reaction to something sweet, maybe : AWW
56D React to something moving, maybe : CRY
57D Formula 1 divisions: Abbr. : KMS
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