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1. It has 33 letters : RUSSIANLANGUAGE 16. All-Star Game, e.g. : INTERLEAGUEPLAY 17. Optionally : ASANALTERNATIVE 18. High seats : THRONES 19. "Lucia di Lammermoor" lord and namesakes : ENRICOS 20. Oscar nominee for "My Man Godfrey" : AUER 21. Storms : RAGES 23. Field with bases : MATH 24. Wandered from the direct course : STRAGGLED 26. Actress Berger : SENTA 27. Skid's cause, maybe : SLEET 28. Protected by law : VESTED 29. Four-year sch. of higher learning in Providence : RIC 32. Condomless vis-à-vis protected : UNSAFER 34. Tacoma-to-Walla Walla dir. : ESE 35. Shows one's feelings : EMOTES 37. Rio ___, multinational coal-mining giant : TINTO 39. ___ Verdes Estates, Calif. : PALOS 40. Chaotic place : MARESNEST 44. Classic 1974 role for Marty Feldman : IGOR 45. Middle: Prefix : CENTR 46. Inner opening? : ENTO 47. Gun, to Guillermo : PISTOLA 49. Ham, e.g. : RADIOER 51. Pro at protection : INSURANCEBROKER 53. Health form field : NEARESTRELATIVE 54. "An Inconvenient Truth" topic : GREENHOUSEGASES		1. Neck ties? : RIATAS 2. Open : UNSHUT 3. Burlesque-goer, typically : STARER 4. Mantilla wearers : SENORAS 5. Setting of the 2007 animated film "Persepolis" : IRAN 6. They might make you tear up : ALLERGENS 7. Store figure : NETSALES 8. New Guinea port : LAE 9. "You're absolutely right" : AGREED 10. Ex-senator Sam of Georgia and others : NUNNS 11. Duds : GEAR 12. When computers are working : UPTIMES 13. Spanish city and province on the Mediterranean : ALICANTE 14. Baroque dances : GAVOTTES 15. Freebie on some airplane flights : EYESHADE 22. Lie in the sun : GETATAN 25. Sticks : GLUES 26. Some Rockefeller Center murals : SERTS 28. Time-honored : VENERABLE 29. Plumber's job, maybe : REPIPING 30. Idea person : IMAGINER 31. Ancient city to which Paul wrote an Epistle : COLOSSAE 33. Angels are sometimes seen over them : FIRTREES 36. "Love is reciprocal ___": Marcel Proust : TORTURE 38. At all : ONEIOTA 40. Treating badly : MEANTO 41. Japanese mushrooms : ENOKIS 42. Pack in a ship's hold : STEEVE 43. Baseball's Joe and others : TORRES 45. Battle : CLASH 48. ___ Ishii, character in "Kill Bill" : OREN 50. Men might dress in this : DRAG 52. High-quality vineyard : CRU