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1D
Noted gift giver
SANTA
2D
Longtime Vermont senator
LEAHY
3D
Woman’s name that sounds like two French letters
ESTEE
4D
Gloomy
DOUR
5D
Like Jane Eyre or Harry Potter
ORPHANED
6D
What polemology is the study of
WAR
7D
Some canines
EYETEETH
8D
Put out
SORE
9D
Abrupt realignment of policy priorities
PIVOT
10D
Deplete
USE UP
11D
Egg containers
NESTS
13D
Cons
PRISONERS
15D
Fourth element on the periodic table
BERYLLIUM
17D
Not an original thought
ECHO
18D
Place to set a candle, maybe
SILL
23D
Something to go out in?
PJS
25D
Karaoke need
MIKE
26D
Days long past
YORE
27D
Mother figure
ABBESS
28D
Legislative oversights
LOOPHOLES
29D
Complete reversal
VOLTE-FACE
32D
Took to task
UPBRAIDED
33D
Ornamental columns
PILASTERS
34D
Online provider of study guides
ENOTES
36D
The Big Easy
NOLA
38D
Give ___ on the back
A PAT
43D
Ontario/Quebec border river
OTTAWA
44D
Small dam
WEIR
45D
Six-time Nascar champion Johnson
JIMMIE
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48D
Gave the wrong idea, say
LED ON
50D
Shipping unit
CRATE
52D
Noah of “Falling Skies”
WYLE
54D
Talk, talk, talk
BLAB
56D
Bub
MAC
57D
Auxiliary group
ARM
1C
Gift from 1-Down
SLED
5C
See red?
OWE
8C
Took a turn on “Wheel of Fortune”
SPUN
12C
The Hares and the Frogs writer
AESOP
14C
Death ___
RAY
15C
Place where you need an ID to get mail?
BOISE
16C
Wildlife refuges
NATURE PRESERVES
19C
Robin Hood’s target
THE RICH
20C
Fatigue
TIRE OUT
21C
Word that becomes its own synonym when its first letter is moved to the end
AYE
22C
Curvaceous
SHAPELY
24C
Pulls a certain prank on, informally
TPS
25C
Translucent sea creature that drifts with the current
MOON JELLY
27C
Partner of Simon and Theodore, in cartoons
ALVIN
30C
Dulce et Decorum ___ (Wilfred Owen poem)
EST
31C
Jeweler’s tool
LOUPE
35C
Go on either side of
BOOKEND
37C
Kind of turn
HAIRPIN
39C
Latin dance in 3/4 time
BOLERO
40C
Colorado county or its seat
PUEBLO
41C
Capable, jocularly
EPT
42C
R&B/soul ballad
SLOW JAM
46C
No-goodnik
RAT
47C
Author Silverstein
SHEL
49C
Crashed ignominiously
ATE IT
50C
Beer purchase
CASE
51C
Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why ___ engage in it: Henry Ford
SO FEW
53C
Miller who directed “Deadpool”
TIM
54C
Readers of the Daily Mirror or the Sun, mainly
BRITS
55C
1 hit of 1975 and 2001
LADY MARMALADE
58C
Prohibition of strip mining, e.g.
ECO-LAW
59C
More angry
IRATER
60C
Roman who originated the phrase “What fools these mortals be”
SENECA
61C
Firmly plants
EMBEDS