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Author: Trenton Charlson
Editor: Will Shortz
Across
| Corresponds | AGREES |
| Very much | ALOT |
| Hot temper | IRE |
| Something often held underwater | BREATH |
| Flummox | BEWILDER |
| Flummox | BEMUSE |
| Shakespeare, notably | SONNETEER |
| Call of support | YEA |
| Grazer with a bushy beard | GNU |
| Joined forces (with) | SIDED |
| South American arboreal snake | TREEBOA |
| Laser tag equipment | GUNS |
| Depictions of lands' ups and downs | RELIEFMAPS |
| Seriously shortchange | ROB |
| Focal points of a debate | MAINISSUES |
| Offensive line | BARB |
| Mind | OBEY |
| Brambles with edible purple fruit | DEWBERRIES |
| Resting place | BED |
| Uncompromising sorts | HARDLINERS |
| Small bouquet | POSY |
| Setting for Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night" | ILLYRIA |
| Casts off | SHEDS |
| Weekly 90-min. TV show | SNL |
| Cowboys' grp. | NFC |
| Word with room or system | OPERATING |
| Flummox … or a classic word game represented by the central grid of shaded squares, in which 15-, 17- and 55-Across can be found | BOGGLE |
| Flummox | BEFUDDLE |
| Nonchalant | CASUAL |
| No. after a no. | EXT |
| Drink sometimes served in a masu cup | SAKE |
| Hits the roof | ERUPTS |
Down
| "Sesame Street" Muppet with magical powers | ABBY |
| Hug or kiss, maybe | GREET |
| Took a second? | REMARRIED |
| Three-vowel French word that sounds like a fourth vowel | EAU |
| French connections | ETS |
| ___-wolf | SHE |
| "___ Ben Adhem" (Leigh Hunt poem) | ABOU |
| "Dancing With the Stars" judge Goodman | LEN |
| Comes clean | OWNSUP |
| Certain marketing gimmicks | TIEINS |
| Pensée | IDEE |
| Liberal arts college in Portland, Ore. | REED |
| Transgress | ERR |
| Former Fords | LTDS |
| In a real mess | SNAFUED |
| Runs out of water | GOESDRY |
| Start of a count-off | EENY |
| Name that drops "-jah" | ELI |
| Dumbbell curls build them, for short | BIS |
| Monthly utility statement | GASBILL |
| Sound from a crib | MEWLING |
| Giving a boost | RAISINGUP |
| Unrefined material | ORE |
| Dangerous pellets | BBS |
| Rabble | MOB |
| Figure on a fiver | ABE |
| Winter exclamation | BRRR |
| Photo lab request: Abbr. | ENL |
| Singer Lana del ___ | REY |
| Surfer wannabes | HODADS |
| Subordinate in the prosecutor's office: Abbr. | ASSTDA |
| Its flag has vertical stripes of red-white-red | PERU |
| Key just above G | AFLAT |
| Glasses, informally | SPEX |
| Weight | HEFT |
| Old dagger | SNEE |
| Collectible cartoon frames | CELS |
| Award turned down by Alan Rickman: Abbr. | OBE |
| Variety | ILK |
| Pre-A.D. | BCE |
| Piece of equipment for certain summer Olympians | OAR |
| Atlanta sch. | GSU |