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ACROSS
1 Diet restrictions
5 First person
9 Copy
10 Career soldier
12 Heartburn
13 In itself
14 One of Santa’s team
16 Follower’s suffix
17 Form 1040 org.
18 One of Santa’s team
20 Sofa type
22 Effortless
23 Extreme
25 Mix up
28 There are six in a million
32 Treats for Santa
34 Egg: Prefix
35 Free (of)
36 One of Santa’s team
38 Rap sheet info
40 Dodge, as duty
41 Pound parts
42 Scout shelters
43 Freshman, usually
44 Hangs low
DOWN
1 Calculate
2 In the thick of
3 Music’s Puente
4 Surgeon’s tool
5 First letter
6 Game cube
7 Serengeti setting
8 Neatnik’s no-nos
9 Slugger Roger
11 Hear again
15 Twisted snack
19 Close
21 Ankara native
24 Stands up to
25 Tussle
26 Bowl with a lid
27 Thyroid need
29 Seeping
30 Turns outward
31 Goes under
33 “Ghosts” playwright
37 “Take — Train”
39 Deck topper
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