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Wayback Wednesday
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1A
Breakfast-all-day chain
IHOP
5A
Indy 500 vehicle
CAR
8A
Crush, as potatoes
MASH
12A
Dwight Eisenhower’s First Lady
MAMIE
14A
Tuscaloosa’s state: Abbr.
ALA
15A
Voice higher than tenor
ALTO
16A
Play for time
STALL
17A
“___ bygones be bygones!”
LET
18A
Reason to roll a tarp onto a ballfield
RAIN
19A
Singer of the 1991 hit “The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia”: 2 wds.
REBAMCENTIRE
22A
___ Salvador (Central American capital)
SAN
23A
“___ amuse you?” (“GoodFellas” line): 2 wds.
DOI
24A
ISP that once owned Moviefone
AOL
27A
Number of players in a game of chess
TWO
30A
Lacking the skill
UNFIT
34A
Singer of the 1979 hit “The Devil Went Down to Georgia”: 2 wds.
CHARLIEDANIELS
38A
Cosmetics pioneer Lauder
ESTEE
39A
The twelfth month: Abbr.
DEC
40A
Antlered beast in Yellowstone
ELK
41A
Classic Hollywood actress Gardner
AVA
43A
Initials of a progressive representative from New York
AOC
46A
Singer of the 1973 hit “Midnight Train to Georgia”: 2 wds.
GLADYSKNIGHT
52A
Road ___ (driver’s fury)
RAGE
53A
Australian singer who voiced Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle in the movie “Peter Rabbit”
SIA
54A
The path of ___ resistance
LEAST
One Clue Crossword
WordBrain
WordBubbles!
Word Whizzle
Words Crush
57A
___-the-counter drugs
OVER
58A
Pro golfer Ernie
ELS
59A
Dropped fly ball, for example
ERROR
60A
Globs of gum
WADS
61A
“One ___ customer”: 2 wds.
TOA
62A
___-bitsy (very small)
ITSY
1D
Sends an online text, for short
IMS
2D
Fedora or fez, for example
HAT
3D
Actor Epps of the Starz series “Raising Kanan”
OMAR
4D
Heaps, as of laundry
PILES
5D
Peace and quiet
CALM
6D
Third baseman Bohm of the Phillies
ALEC
7D
X-___ (pornographic)
RATED
8D
Gin-and-vermouth drink
MARTINI
9D
Jai ___ (Basque game)
ALAI
10D
___ the pot (cause unrest)
STIR
11D
Sharpen, like a knife
HONE
13D
Idris who played Stringer Bell on “The Wire”
ELBA
20D
Opposed to: Prefix
ANTI
21D
Sentence’s subject, typically
NOUN
24D
“___ Ventura: Pet Detective” (1994 movie)
ACE
25D
Post Honey ___! (cereal)
OHS
26D
Opposite of longitude: Abbr.
LAT
28D
Get hitched
WED
29D
“___ to a Nightingale” (John Keats poem)
ODE
31D
Attorney’s charge
FEE
32D
Not healthy
ILL
33D
“Shame on you!” sound
TSK
35D
Book club members
READERS
36D
Assess, as a tax
LEVY
37D
___ bowl (berry-filled snack)
ACAI
42D
Debit’s opposite
ASSET
44D
Stare at creepily
OGLE
45D
Former “Saturday Night Live” comedian Oteri
CHERI
46D
“Money doesn’t ___ on trees!”
GROW
47D
It might be ejected from Mount Etna
LAVA
48D
Ripened, like cheese
AGED
49D
Drug smuggler’s unit
KILO
50D
Kennedy Space Center’s organization: Abbr.
NASA
51D
Mini-pie
TART
55D
Distress call at sea
SOS
56D
Make an attempt
TRY