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ACROSS
1 Fire remnants
6 Coffee additive
11 Tea cake
12 Banded rock
13 The Nina and the Pinta, e.g.
15 Toward the stern
16 __Moines
17 Maiden name label
18 Renege, perhaps
20 Summer cooler
21 Was a pioneer
22 Ventilation conduit
23 Fancy tie
26 Hay bundles
27 Campus area
28 Knight’s address
29 Ornate vase
30 Parvenu
34 “I__Rock”
35 Take to court
36 Tell tales
37 James Hilton title character
40 Famed fur tycoon
41 Himalayan land
42 Draws close to
43 Like cacti
DOWN
1 Region of northern India
2 Verne specialty
3 Party VIPs
4 Tolkien tree herder
5 Tiny start
6 Pert
7 “Gross!”
8 Lucrative
9 Content
10 Bristles at
14 Enjoy a novel
19 Proceed slowly
22 Pub missile
23 Superhero from Atlantis
24 Conjecture
25 Two-deck game
26 Cuts in two
28 Goad on
30 Manual readers
31 Suspect’s story
32 Turn red, maybe
33 Irritable
38 Craggy hill
39 Femur’s upper end
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