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Editor: Will Shortz
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| Retreated | DREWBACK |
| Drop | OMIT |
| Artificial intelligence system modeled on the human brain | NEURALNET |
| Something that gets passed around a lot | MEME |
| Golfers Ernie Els and Retief Goosen, for two | AFRIKANERS |
| So much | ATON |
| All the king's men? | LIEGES |
| Simple and glib | PAT |
| School with the slogan "Ex scientia tridens," familiarly | NAVY |
| Ancient symbols of life | ANKHS |
| Velcro alternative | LACES |
| Democratic leader? | DEE |
| Recipe direction | BEAT |
| Strong, dark quaff | BOCK |
| The British royal family has one called the Cambridge Lover's Knot | TIARA |
| Some abbey attire | COWLS |
| Up | ASTIR |
| "I wasn't going to say anything, but since you brought it up …" | YEAHABOUTTHAT |
| Crew | POSSE |
| Many a confession on a theater stage | ASIDE |
| Throws, informally | HUCKS |
| "I'm game" | LETS |
| Last ___ | GASP |
| ___ Miguel Island, largest of the Azores | SAO |
| Currency units in Peru | SOLES |
| Puccini opera … or the first five letters of the maestro who conducted its La Scala premiere | TOSCA |
| What Twix bars are sold in | TWOS |
| Companion of the droid BB-8, in the "Star Wars" universe | REY |
| Ear hair? | TASSEL |
| Calculus calculation | RATE |
| Gained some courage | GREWASPINE |
| What Shøp on "The Simpsons" is a parody of | IKEA |
| Agronomic analyses | SOILTESTS |
| A cold wave can produce one | PERM |
| Yule log? | NICELIST |
Down
| Sequencing locale | DNALAB |
| Polish | REFINE |
| Triumphant shout | EUREKA |
| "Black Boy" memoirist Richard | WRIGHT |
| Gets the batter out, say | BAKES |
| "___ poor Romeo!": Shak. | ALAS |
| Wolf's home | CNN |
| Monitor | KEEPACLOSEEYEON |
| Besides Brunei, the only current sovereign sultanate | OMAN |
| Creation date, file size and location, for an iPhone photo | METADATA |
| "That doesn't bother me anymore" | IMOVERIT |
| Like an F.B.I. director's term | TENYEAR |
| Fast fashion? | TRACKSUITS |
| Office address abbr. | STE |
| Ones making insulting offers | LOWBALLERS |
| Part of many university names | STATE |
| Flamboyant prop | BOA |
| "Black" follower | ISH |
| "The gymnasium of the mind," per Blaise Pascal | CHESS |
| Question that cannot be answered if its answer is "no" | YOUAWAKE |
| Two-wheeler at a charging station | ESCOOTER |
| "___ away!" | ASK |
| Cardinal points?: Abbr. | TDS |
| Alternative to litmus paper | PHSTRIP |
| It's the truth! | GOSPEL |
| Noted basilica town | ASSISI |
| Things picked up on a trail | SCENTS |
| Most likely to burn, maybe | PALEST |
| Kind of chart, informally | ORG |
| Decorum | TASTE |
| Underground band | SEAM |
| One end of the Mohs scale | TALC |
| GameCube successor | WII |