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1."Everything OK?"10 letters 11.4,840 square yards4 letters 15.Event with no major speakers?10 letters 16.Place to mind your own business4 letters 17.Not artificial in the slightest10 letters 18.Shell competitor4 letters 19.Split ___ soup3 letters 20.Aniston from "Friends," to friends3 letters 21.___ Tar Pits6 letters 23.Form's first section5 letters 25.Speaks hoarsely5 letters 27.Mechanical tooth3 letters 28.Pastrami, for one8 letters 31.___ Schwarz (toy brand)3 letters 32.Grotesque creature6 letters 34.Shed tears3 letters 35.Shining example of a baked good?15 letters 38.Circle segment3 letters 39.Iams alternative6 letters 40.Gasless cars, for short3 letters 41."Mm-hmm, sure it is"8 letters 43."Forgot About ___" (2000 rap hit)3 letters 44.Jordanian city that was once named Philadelphia5 letters 45.Animal that inspired the British term for a crosswalk5 letters 48.Hurdle for some HS seniors6 letters 51.Could3 letters 52.End of Wikipedia's URL3 letters 55.Annoying sound from a faucet4 letters 56.Splashy art forms?10 letters 59.What Tarzan swings from4 letters 60."Not right now"10 letters 61.Snoop ___4 letters 62.Head games?10 letters

Down

1."NOW!"4 letters 2.Vex4 letters 3."___ Enchanted" (2004 film)4 letters 4.Longing3 letters 5.Completely unrestrained6 letters 6.State5 letters 7.Nonverbal approval5 letters 8.Rowing implement3 letters 9.Squished circle4 letters 10.Boxing great Oscar ___ Hoya4 letters 11.Guru's retreat6 letters 12.Grotto for gouda, perhaps10 letters 13."The only tired I was, was tired of giving in" speaker9 letters 14.Mini-albums3 letters 22.Food preservation liquid5 letters 23.Deserving one star4 letters 24.Commercial battery?7 letters 26.Bump treated with a warm compress4 letters 27.Vacationing in the Outback, say?10 letters 29.Flair4 letters 30.Actress Minnelli4 letters 31.Powered-up Nintendo character who shoots flaming balls (even in underwater levels)9 letters 32.Food, informally4 letters 33.Shrek or Fiona4 letters 35.Poet Angelou4 letters 36.Provide your two cents5 letters 37."Juno" actor Michael4 letters 42.Panama's location?6 letters 43.Floor duster6 letters 46.Fix up, as a manuscript5 letters 47.Structures with haylofts5 letters 49.Take a dip4 letters 50.Novelist Hoag4 letters 52.Stench4 letters 53.___ grrrl ('90s feminist punk movement)4 letters 54.___ about (travels aimlessly)4 letters 55.Box set unit3 letters 57.Sn on the periodic table3 letters 58.Brooding music genre3 letters

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