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1 Five-star, as a hotel
8 Arrangement following a union agreement, perhaps
15 Dig up
16 Title woman in a 1968 Turtles hit
17 Spread throughout
18 Genetic variants
19 Their bodies are worked on
20 “Hard pass”
22 Flighty sorts, in two senses
24 When doubled, gung-ho
25 Created an account?
26 Opening for a spell
27 Pastries popularized during the Hapsburg Empire
32 Keep the hits coming
34 Smallest country ever to win the FIFA World Cup
35 Cram in
36 Catchy song, slangily
37 Pitchers on a farm
38 Family connections, say
39 Small appetizer in Turkish cuisine
40 I.C.U. standbys
41 Kitchen concern with an oxymoronic name
48 When a school’s marching band typically performs
50 Coach’s first name on “Cheers”
51 Crunchy salad bit
52 In a coordinated fashion
54 Excavation site since the Bronze Age
55 Edible wrapper
56 One getting caught in a trap
57 Like some beaches and convertibles
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1 Imagoes-to-be
2 Top
3 Company originally founded as Sleeper, Inc.
4 What a bull in a china shop causes
5 Remove from memory
6 Yardstick: Abbr.
7 Popular news podcast since 2017
8 Hit in the head 9 Earmark
10 Britons and others
11 Was close to
12 Animal on Greenland’s coat of arms
13 Queen’s style
14 Polite casual assent
21 They can be Horatian
23 Exclamation in hospital dramas
26 Brand for which Garfield was once a “spokescat”
27 Takes off
28 When one might be on track to arrive?
29 Inscribed Viking monument
30 Some fur-lined slippers
31 Fair treatment
32 One side of a transaction
33 Global lending org.
35 Annual music event in the Big Easy
37 Bad guy
39 Not so nice
41 Rank
42 River passing through Lake Geneva
43 What neuroplasticity allows our brains to do
44 Throw down
45 “I wish I could ___ that”
46 Verb in a Hemingway title
47 Exigencies
49 Philosopher David who wrote “A Treatise of Human Nature”
53 Novel opening?