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1. Choirs' neighbors : APSES 6. Lung covering : PLEURA 12. Publicized : BILLED 14. Phrase of interest : PERANNUM 16. Producer of fine threads : SPIDER 17. Source of more pay or more play : OVERTIME 18. Baseball Hall-of-Famer Orlando ___ : CEPEDA 19. Grapevine exhortation : PASSITON 20. Liveliness : ESPRIT 21. Veterinarian, at times : ALTERER 22. Stagnant conditions : STASES 23. Banes : RUINERS 24. Liliaceous plants : SEGOS 25. Solo, in a way : STAG 26. Bananas : MENTAL 28. Webers per square meter : TESLAS 33. "The Daughters of Joshua ___" (1972 Buddy Ebsen film) : CABE 35. Southern loaves : PONES 37. Pull off : ACHIEVE 41. He declined a Nobel Prize in Literature : SARTRE 42. One who's getting on : MOUNTER 43. Pull in : ARRIVE 44. Winner's pride : TOPSCORE 45. John Deere product : REAPER 46. Where much info can be found these days : ONTHENET 47. Melodious : ARIOSE 48. Producers of wall flowers? : CREEPERS 49. Most Indians : HINDUS 50. Limestone regions with deep fissures and sinkholes : KARSTS 51. Call-waiting alerts : BEEPS		1. Sore spot : ABSCESS 2. Something for Santa Claus to bite : PIPESTEM 3. Gear teeth trouble : SLIPPAGE 4. Prince William, e.g. : ELDERSON 5. Maximally mangy : SEEDIEST 6. Cachet : PRESTIGE 7. Wolf ___, captain in Jack London's "The Sea-Wolf" : LARSEN 8. Livelong : ENTIRE 9. Merger : UNITER 10. Products of some "mills" : RUMORS 11. Comment of concurrence : AMEN 13. Comments of annoyance : DRATS 14. Works with everyday objects : POPART 15. Gauge : EVALUATE 25. Fawning type : SLAVERER 27. Cigarette smoke byproducts : ACETONES 29. Cookout item usually eaten with two hands : SPARERIB 30. Nancy's home : LORRAINE 31. Direct opposite : ANTIPODE 32. Dishes out : SERVESUP 34. Military wear : BERETS 36. "The Prophecy of the ___" (Eddic poem) : SEERESS 37. Dualistic deity : AMONRA 38. Skyhook dropper, briefly : COPTER 39. Stills : HUSHES 40. Receive : INCEPT 41. ___ Gamp, nurse in "Martin Chuzzlewit" : SARAH 44. Clock sound : TOCK