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1 [Chef’s kiss]: MWAH 5 Tablet that’s impossible to swallow?: IPAD 9 Some ballpark figures: RBIS 13 Burgundy specialty: PINOTNOIR 15 Fair sight: BOOTH 16 Place to conceal oneself: HIDEYHOLE 17 Onetime home of the world’s largest pineapple plantation: LANAI 18 Lock horns (with): SPAR 19 Customarily: ASARULE 21 Part of a speaker’s introduction: BIO 24 Inscrutable sorts: ENIGMAS 26 Word said with a salute: SIR 27 Email status: UNREAD 29 Initialism that precedes “+”: LGBTQIA 31 Pluses and minuses, e.g.: SIGNS 32 Common suspect in a murder mystery: HEIR 3 It has an alumni magazine called Shipmate, in brief: USNA 35 Pennsylvanie, e.g.: ETAT 36 Frequent Missy Elliott collaborator: CIARA 37 “Citizen ___” (2021 documentary about a tennis icon): ASHE 3 Take in a spread: DINE 39 Code inits.: HTML 40 Down state?: BLUES 41 Landing site for Raptors and Eagles: AIRBASE 43 Once, for one: NUMERO 44 Business name abbr.: LLC 45 Many: LOADSOF 47 Make soaking wet: SOP 48 “This is heaven!”: AHBLISS 50 Acrobat displays: PDFS 52 Prepare to swing, say: TEEUP 53 Read more on digitaltrends.com

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