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1. Taste test subject : SODAPOP 8. Bit of moisture : DROPLET 15. Staff resembling a shepherd's crook : CROSIER 16. TV Guide information : AIRDATE 17. Temple offering : HIGHEREDUCATION 19. Frenchman noted for his machine art : LEGER 20. Mountain air : YODEL 21. Air Force One passenger: Abbr. : CIC 22. "___ off?" : ONOR 23. Cut : HEWED 24. Digestion aid : BILE 25. UPS delivery: Abbr. : CTN 26. "___ We" (1969 Richard Harris song) : DIDNT 27. Deceive : COZEN 28. Not let have : KEEPFROM 30. Most angry : SOREST 31. Tony winner for "Enter Laughing," 1963 : ALANARKIN 33. Laugh riot : SCREAM 36. Returns to a seat : REELECTS 40. "Give it ___!" : AREST 41. Meteorologists' study : SKIES 42. Kind of gun : RAY 43. Arrow site : VANE 44. All gone : SPENT 45. Beef buy : LOIN 46. Word often accompanying 54-Across : AYE 47. Fifth in a series of connected works : PARTV 48. Writer Zora ___ Hurston : NEALE 49. x, y or z : LOWERCASELETTER 52. Quite ill, in Lille : ALAMORT 53. Picking up : NABBING 54. General reception? : SALUTES 55. Lacking fullness, as a voice : THREADY		1. Junk : SCHLOCK 2. Region of Cuba or Ecuador : ORIENTE 3. Darn : DOGGONE 4. Son of Jacob : ASHER 5. Marina sight : PIER 6. Anthem contraction : OER 7. Victimized : PREYEDON 8. French writer Alphonse or Léon : DAUDET 9. Made grain-sized : RICED 10. Kind of history : ORAL 11. LAX clock setting : PDT 12. Remove the clerical nature of : LAICIZE 13. L'Opéra performers : ETOILES 14. Like old paperback novels : TENCENT 18. Where bears fare well : DOWNMARKETS 23. Grant name : HIRAM 24. Carried : BORNE 26. Key of Prokofiev's first piano concerto : DFLAT 27. Winds : COILS 29. Bel ___ : PAESE 30. Activity that can wreck a hard disk : SKEET 32. Be original, but not first : REINVENT 33. Emmy winner for a 1970's police drama : SAVALAS 34. Classic Binney & Smith trademark : CRAYOLA 35. Playboy's request : RENEWAL 37. Modern-day locale of ancient Dalmatia : CROATIA 38. Rear : TAILEND 39. Hoped-for result of a merger : SYNERGY 41. Duo of a children's rhyme : SPRATS 44. Start of an oath : SACRE 45. Not bother : LETBE 47. Bapt. or Meth. : PROT 48. 1867 admission to the Union: Abbr. : NEBR 50. Tall runner : EMU 51. "Well, ___-di-dah!" : LAH