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Across
| Clues | Answers |
|---|---|
| Wild party | BASH |
| With 5-Down, some emergency bulletins | AMBER … |
| Certain break-dancing move | SPIN |
| Piece by Puccini | ARIA |
| Lover of Giorgetta in Puccini’s “Il Tabarro” | LUIGI |
| Native language of 50 million citizens of India | URDU |
| Spill a shipment of bowling balls? | LET THE GOODS ROLL (from “Let the good times roll”) |
| Gets down cold | MASTERS |
| Kind of engine | DIESEL |
| Person not to be trusted | RAT |
| “I knew I was going ___ when it was taking longer and longer to wash my face”: Harry Hill | BALD |
| Works during a slow day at the restaurant? | WAITS FOR NO ONE (from “Time waits for no one”) |
| Hidden drawback | CATCH |
| “Paradise Lost” and others | EPICS |
| Certain deposit | ORE |
| “The Game of Strategic Conquest” | RISK |
| Word with rule or tackle | SLIDE … |
| Advantage | PLUS |
| Do drugs | USE |
| Piece of curling equipment | STONE |
| Poker slang for three of a kind | TRIPS |
| Go on a date with a honeybun? | TAKE ONE’S SWEET (from “Take one’s sweet time”) |
| Body part that’s also a woman’s name | IRIS |
| SOS response | AID |
| A bit of resistance | STATIC |
| Gets away | ESCAPES |
| Is unable to get away, say … or a hint to 17-, 24- and 40-Across? | CAN’T FIND THE TIME |
| One target of doxycycline | ACNE |
| French setting for Puccini’s “Il Tabarro” | SEINE |
| “This round’s ___” | ON ME |
| Sad sound | MOAN |
| Half of a 1960s folk/pop group | MAMAS |
| Run over | READ |
Down
| Clues | Answers |
|---|---|
| Lip ___ | BALM |
| Concentration | AREA |
| Plops down | SITS |
| Series of goals | HAT TRICK |
| See 5-Across | … ALERTS |
| Makes a duck face, say | MUGS |
| Part of an Instagram profile | BIO |
| Part of one’s mental life | EGO |
| “Good ___!” | RIDDANCE |
| “You got that right about me!” | SURE DO! |
| Advantages | PROS |
| Not going anywhere | IDLE |
| Zero | NULL |
| Tract of low-growing vegetation | HEATH |
| Separates, in a sense | SILOS |
| There are more of these in the U.S. in October than any other month, surprisingly | BRIDES |
| Pants measure | WAIST |
| Adrift | AT SEA |
| Cons | FELONS |
| Speak out | OPINE |
| “Honest!” | NO LIE! |
| Not hold back fury | ERUPT |
| High-quality French vineyard | CRU |
| Start of this clue | ESS |
| Endurance of hardship without complaint | STOICISM |
| Polar bear, to seals | PREDATOR |
| Font flourish | SERIF |
| How often Bette Davis won Best Actress | TWICE |
| Baby rabbit | KITTEN |
| Pageant identifiers | SASHES |
| Kind of artist | SCAM |
| Dish that might be seasoned with adobo sauce | TACO |
| Actress Kendrick of “Pitch Perfect” | ANNA |
| It destroyed the town of Mascali in 1928 | ETNA |
| What benchwarmers ride, with “the” | … PINE |
| 1815 novel made into films in 1996 and 2020 | EMMA |
| Provide initial funding for | SEED |
| Org. whose vision is “a great public school for every student” | NEA |
| Barely perceptible, say | DIM |