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ACROSS
1 Much of a chess set
6 Laughs heartily
11 Merman of musicals
12 Improvised
13 “Keen!”
14 Mother of Harry and William
15 Contrived
16 Gardener, at times
18 Cigar bit
19 Was inactive
20 Parched
21 Book part
23 Lushes
25 Kilmer of “The Doors”
27 __ chi
28 lbis’s cousin
30 Office head
33 Pronoun for Miss Piggy
34 Oolong or pekoe
36 Humorist
37 Uncertain
39 Depression, e.g.
40 Planet circlers
41 Cake unit
43 Bert’s chum
44 Make amends
45 Particulars, in slang
46 Grinch-creating Dr.
DOWN
1 Long-distance writer
2 Not tense
3 Regretful cry
4 Hoop attachment
5 Feeds the pigs
6 Bickered
7 Valhalla bigwig
8 Buyer’s question
9 Antisocial sorts
10 Like horror movies
17 Judge’s concern
22 Remote
24 Catch
26 Water flowers
28 Writer Balzac
29 S. Dak. neighbor
31 Ambulance sounds
32 Icy looks
33 Acted out
35 One of the Titans
38 “Consider the matter handled”
42 Had a nosh
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