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Crossword clues, hints, and answers

Across

  1. 1. Something extra, redundantly — Answer: ADDEDBONUS
  2. 11. "M*A*S*H" actress Loretta — Answer: SWIT
  3. 15. Entry form? — Answer: TRAVELVISA
  4. 16. Bird whose name may be written with two diacritics called kahakos — Answer: NENE
  5. 17. Watches, say — Answer: TIMEPIECES
  6. 18. So-called "wolf of the sea" — Answer: ORCA
  7. 19. Cider mill fixture — Answer: APPLEPRESS
  8. 20. Join, in a way — Answer: WELD
  9. 21. Org. symbolized by an eagle holding a key — Answer: NSA
  10. 22. Private agreement? — Answer: YESSIR
  11. 24. Taking a hint? — Answer: CLUED
  12. 28. "Harrumph!" — Answer: BAH
  13. 31. Pit — Answer: STONE
  14. 32. Singer Dua ___ — Answer: LIPA
  15. 33. Visual classification systems — Answer: COLORCODES
  16. 35. Menaces in some adventure films — Answer: ASPS
  17. 36. "___ Control" (50 Cent hit) — Answer: OUTTA
  18. 37. Ports, typically — Answer: REDS
  19. 38. Common component of ranch dressing? — Answer: STETSONHAT
  20. 40. This might come after the check — Answer: MATE
  21. 41. Company founded as Sleeper, Inc. — Answer: SERTA
  22. 42. "Por qué no los ___?" — Answer: DOS
  23. 43. 1980s PC standard — Answer: MSDOS
  24. 44. Sheltered, in a way — Answer: INDOOR
  25. 46. Antonym of "iie" in Japanese — Answer: HAI
  26. 48. Ream (out) — Answer: CHEW
  27. 49. Not looking so good — Answer: INBADSHAPE
  28. 56. L.G.B.T.Q. activist McDonald — Answer: CECE
  29. 57. Certain Southerner, colloquially — Answer: GOODOLEBOY
  30. 58. Scrolls' homes — Answer: ARKS
  31. 59. Publication that once branded itself as "the best of the alternative press" — Answer: UTNEREADER
  32. 60. Unwind, so to speak — Answer: REST
  33. 61. Did a whole lot of nothing — Answer: PASSEDTIME

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  1. 1. Flour used to make a chapati — Answer: ATTA
  2. 2. Cause of insomnia, maybe — Answer: DRIP
  3. 3. Newly hung out to dry, say — Answer: DAMP
  4. 4. First name in thrill shows — Answer: EVEL
  5. 5. Hang (on) — Answer: DEPEND
  6. 6. Insignificant interruptions — Answer: BLIPS
  7. 7. More than teem — Answer: OVERABOUND
  8. 8. "Way to go!" — Answer: NICE
  9. 9. Listing on many a medication bottle — Answer: USES
  10. 10. Smart — Answer: SASSY
  11. 11. Big blanket makers — Answer: SNOWSTORMS
  12. 12. "Mom is gonna FLIP!" — Answer: WERESODEAD
  13. 13. Thinking that one might — Answer: INCLINEDTO
  14. 14. Garden party outfits often with floral patterns — Answer: TEADRESSES
  15. 23. Key to get out? — Answer: ESC
  16. 24. Thunderbird, e.g. — Answer: CLASSICCAR
  17. 25. "Oyez!" — Answer: LISTENHERE
  18. 26. Areas with nosebleed seats — Answer: UPPERDECKS
  19. 27. How the trade winds blow — Answer: EASTTOWEST
  20. 29. Howe'er — Answer: ALTHO
  21. 30. Scorching — Answer: HOTASHADES
  22. 33. "Who's the cutest li'l baby?," e.g. — Answer: COO
  23. 34. Animal fittingly used as a motif in "The Departed" — Answer: RAT
  24. 39. Title with a tilde — Answer: SAO
  25. 43. Took for a ride — Answer: MISLED
  26. 45. Put together haphazardly — Answer: RIGUP
  27. 47. Treasure — Answer: ADORE
  28. 50. What's added to one to make zero? — Answer: NOTA
  29. 51. ___ vivants (sociable sorts) — Answer: BONS
  30. 52. Flak — Answer: HEAT
  31. 53. Arabic man's name meaning "servant of God" — Answer: ABDI
  32. 54. Sweet inclusion in a greeting card, maybe — Answer: POEM
  33. 55. Orphan of Brit lit — Answer: EYRE

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