Douglas Fink

ACROSS

1. Cut down

4. Tribal healer

10. Rani garb

14. Parisian pal

15. Make void

16. It's usually a claw or ball

17. Italian cheese

19. Muse's specialty

20. Cuts often grilled

21. Tongue getter?

22. You put the ox before it

23. Smattering

24. Palindromic hit by a palindromic band

25. Thick hairs

26. Holiday preceders

27. It uses 17A and 51A

29. What acid turns litmus

30. Jack Horner's find

31. Approached

32. Hobo's hop

33. Off yonder

34. Positive tick

37. Bill filler

38. Something to shoot for

41. It often uses 17A

43. Boat threatener

44. Tea dippers

45. Catch ya later

46. Heaves

47. Follow furtively

48. “ the ramparts …___”

49. If in trouble, you might be under it

50. Spots you might not want to air

51. Italian meat

53. Informal wear

54. Charlize, in Monster

55. Feather companion

56. Husking bee supply

57. Least ill

58. Before

DOWN

1. Pet amid wood shavings

2. Playing the ham

3. Showing one's age

4. Adder, for one

5. Towel word

6. Mature

7. X preceder

8. Finally!

9. Adjective at the bar

10. It's long on a keyboard

11. Fish tank bubbler

12. Step advice to the lost

13. Alternately

18. Turns sharply

24. First king of Israel

25. Agent's action verb

27. Arm or stone holder

28. Kind of red or structure

30. Where they always had, in Casablanca

32. Unlike a “Baby Got Back” honoree

33. Topnotch

34. Northern

35. Generic soother

36. Skill set teacher

37. CFO concern

38. Artist's aid

39. Among the elite

40. Fix furniture

42. European peninsula

43. Business equivalent of a 4A

46. Word processor key

48. Colorful fish

49. High or low cards

52. I told ya so!

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