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Across Clues
- Barely keeping up with things, sayCRAZYBUSY
- Group featured on many “Sesame Street” episodesABCS
- Look down on something?AERIALVIEW
- Suckling siteTEAT
- Starter’s followerMAINCOURSE
- Home for a Hogarth or a Constable, with “the”TATE
- Word with twenty- or thirty-ODD
- RobustHALE
- Medium stateTRANCE
- Name that’s an anagram of both 16- and 18-AcrossETTA
- KeyCRUCIAL
- M.L.B.’s oldest continuously operating franchise, established as the Boston Red Stockings in 1871BRAVES
- One watching the kids?GOATHERD
- DrewLURED
- Causes of puckeringTANGS
- “My man!”BRO
- “___ Ordinary Man” (“My Fair Lady” tune)IMAN
- Binary code snippetsBYTES
- Scott of “See Dad Run”BAIO
- Aristocrat, in British slangNOB
- They’re broken at marathonsTAPES
- Unit of magnetic fluxWEBER
- Doesn’t travel, sayDRIBBLES
- Bacchanalian beastsSATYRS
- Congresswoman who once served in the U.S. cabinetSHALALA
- Item for a croupierRAKE
- Chain with a loaf of bread in its logoPANERA
- Starburst?NOVA
- Engine speed inits.RPM
- Mount near OlympusOSSA
- Means of devastation on “Game of Thrones”DRAGONFIRE
- LevelTIER
- FantabulousSUPERDUPER
- One week, for many beach house rentalsSTAY
- Just barely reactsBATSANEYE
Vertical Clues
- ___ pantsCAMO
- Text notification before a time stampREAD
- Like much of ArizonaARID
- Cab alternativeZIN
- Went cruising, sayYACHTED
- Puffs upBLOATS
- It’s down in the mouthUVULA
- “Your majesty”SIRE
- ConfirmationYES
- Online action symbolized by a paper clipATTACH
- Collectible from what’s been called the world’s first internet sensationBEANIEBABY
- Claw-proof crateCATCARRIER
- Hefty barriers to entrySTEELDOORS
- Spineless sorts, metaphoricallyWETRAGS
- Hazards for rural travelRUTS
- LevelEVEN
- Traffic directorsCONES
- ShortcomingsBLINDSPOTS
- “I heard …”RUMORHASIT
- It’s east of the Horn of AfricaARABIANSEA
- Flight board columnGATES
- Like go-gettersTYPEA
- Burns’s “The Soldier’s Return” and othersBALLADS
- “La Belle et la ___” (French fairy tale)BETE
- Bit of a liftTBAR
- Fictional land in the highest-grossing film of 2018WAKANDA
- Like one’s eyes after a poor night’s sleepBLEARY
- Doesn’t inhale, saySAVORS
- Substitute teacher?ROGET
- Where many stop and smell the rosésNAPA
- Completely readyRIPE
- They’re low on the food chainPREY
- No more thanMERE
- ChafeRUB
- Goal of a diversionFUN