ACROSS
1 Place to enjoy a mud mask
4 Electrically flexible
8 Ceiling
11 Lead-in to “Major” or “Minor”
13 Mild yellow cheese
15 The “C” of TLC
16 Op-ed piece, e.g. (note letter 15 in this clue’s answer)
19 Play matchmaker for
20 “… but I could be wrong”
21 One might take place in a conference room (letter 4)
26 “Rubaiyat” poet Khayyam
27 Relieved sounds
28 O-shaped earring
29 E or G, e.g.
30 Hamster’s home
32 Fanatics
34 Bothers incessantly (letter 1)
36 Says “I am what I am!”
40 Resistance units
41 CEO’s degree, sometimes
44 Hilarious person
45 Cavs, on a scoreboard
46 Word before “ring” or “lighting”
47 Very slim possibility (letter 3)
52 “Luther” star Elba
53 Home with a bird’s-eye view
54 Person in charge (letter 13)
59 Pretentiously cultured
60 Root beer-and-ice cream treat
61 Celeste of “All About Eve”
62 “For sure!”
63 Legendary Himalayan beast
64 Animated movie set in Brazil
DOWN
1 The world revolves around it
2 Suppose
3 “In a manner of speaking …”
4 Visibly surprised
5 “That’s a ___-out!”
6 Expected
7 Disk drive inserts
8 Word on yellow tape
9 Pitcher’s asset
10 Writing tool for some crossword solvers
12 Buzzing
14 A lot, for some?
15 Provide apparel for
17 “German sausage jokes are just the wurst,” e.g.
18 Final number in “A Chorus Line,” inaptly
21 ___ choy
22 It’s a long story
23 One helped raise Romulus and Remus
24 Agree silently
25 Apple Maps tech
30 Cinematic FX
31 Pantry pest
32 Relatives, for short
33 “___ not easy being green”
35 Moisturizing butter type
36 British singer Rita
37 Drag queen’s hairpiece
38 “Don’t give me any clues”
39 Boring
41 Keep an eye on
42 Tenor Andrea
43 Suffix for “Gator” or “Power”
45 Not at all cheap
46 Grassy wetland
48 Letters seen outside a hit Broadway show
49 Minor quarrel
50 Desert plants
51 “Isn’t ___ bit like you and me?” (“Nowhere Man” lyric)
54 Capital of Korea?
55 Fury
56 Groundbreaking tool?
57 Enjoy some samosas
58 Paramore genre
solution
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