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1. Item with clear face value? : RAZOR 6. One who may have connections : TRAVELER 14. Certain blues : AZURES 16. Cry of relief at an accident scene : HESALIVE 17. "Haw" : GOLEFT 18. Provoked : ELICITED 19. Roadside stand offering : ADE 20. NATO member since 2004 : LATVIA 22. Grp. with the debut single "10538 Overture" : ELO 23. Rectangular array that's identical when its rows and columns are transposed, as this puzzle's grid : SYMMETRICMATRIX 27. Stud alternative : EARCLIP 28. Fruity : INSANE 29. Fruit salad waste : STEMS 30. Where pizza originated : NAPLES 31. Some collectible Dutch prints : ESCHERS 34. Round-bottomed vessels : WOKS 35. Split and boned entree : SCROD 36. A choli is worn under it : SARI 37. Kind of paper : FAX 40. Pondering, informally : CHEWINGON 43. Many a goddaughter : NIECE 45. "Collage With Squares Arranged According to the Laws of Chance" artist : ARP 46. Revealed the end to? : MOONED 48. One involved in future deals? : SEER 49. Who wrote "I dwelt alone / In a world of moan, / And my soul was a stagnant tide" : POE 50. Some early "astronauts" : APES 51. Lecture, in a way : READTO 53. Magazine sales : ADPAGES 55. Courtside seats? : JURYBOX 56. Honey : DEAREST 57. Cockamamie : ASININE 58. Automaker Maserati : ERNESTO 59. Tots : WEEONES		1. Hindu musician's source material for improvisation : RAGAS 2. Methyl orange or Congo red : AZODYE 3. Woman's name meaning "peace" : ZULEMA 4. Elementary stuff : ORE 5. They may be seen on a lake's surface : REFLECTEDIMAGES 6. 1963 Elizabeth Taylor/Richard Burton drama : THEVIPS 7. Dinosaur, so to speak : RELIC 8. Turkey setting : ASIAMINOR 9. A little cleaner? : VAC 10. "Hostel" director Roth : ELI 11. Completely straightforward : LITERAL 12. Title woman of a story from James Joyce's "Dubliners" : EVELINE 13. Electron-transferring reactions, briefly : REDOXES 15. Country music's ___ Brothers : STATLER 21. Prunes : TRIMS 24. 1990s HBO sketch comedy series : MRSHOW 25. Obi-Wan's apprentice : ANAKIN 26. Some are heaping: Abbr. : TSPS 31. Dido : ESCAPADE 32. German chancellor, 1998-2005 : SCHRODER 33. Specialty cookware item : CREPEPAN 34. Drop off : WANE 36. End of many business names : SONS 37. Trough : FEEDBIN 38. Polish stripper : ACETONE 39. Some dupes : XEROXES 41. Brand of insecticide strips : NOPEST 42. Doesn't skip : GOESTO 44. Self-response to "Must we put up with this?" : ISAYNO 47. Believer in al-Hakim as the embodiment of God : DRUSE 52. Home of Presque Isle Downs racetrack : ERIE 54. Be a different way? : ARE 55. Wrench part : JAW