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1. "The loneliest guy in town" : MAYTAGREPAIRMAN 16. "Hold on" : ONEMOMENTPLEASE 17. Handles things evenhandedly : STRIKESABALANCE 18. Important part for a jig : TOE 19. Cracker shapes : ANIMALS 20. Substitute acquired by about half a million people a year: Abbr. : GED 21. Representative : ENVOY 23. Scale start : DORE 24. ___ Fein : SINN 25. "The Bridge on the River Kwai" setting : SIAM 26. City where Einstein developed his special theory of relativity : BERN 27. Vinegar: Prefix : ACETO 28. More fashionable : TONIER 30. Sudden light seen through the clouds : SUNBURST 32. Catch-22 : TRAP 34. 1970s-'80s sitcom setting : MELS 35. Using high-flown language : POETICAL 39. "Mother of the believers" : AYESHA 43. "Bonne ___!" (French cry on January 1) : ANNEE 44. Undershirt, in Britain : VEST 46. "You're putting ___!" : MEON 47. Office stamp : RECD 48. "Say ___" (1940 Glenn Miller hit) : SISI 49. Ones in control of their faculties? : DEANS 50. "___ Girl Like You Loved a Boy Like Me" : IFA 51. Mount from which people can see far away : PALOMAR 53. Company that makes Styrofoam : DOW 54. Viking stories, e.g. : NORSELITERATURE 57. Took flak for something one said, say : GOTINTOHOTWATER 58. Bedazzlement : STARSINONESEYES		1. Maximum, slangily : MOSTEST 2. For whose benefit "the quality of mercy is not strain'd" in Shakespeare : ANTONIO 3. Capital of Armenia : YEREVAN 4. 1979 nuclear accident site: Abbr. : TMI 5. Hunky-dory : AOKAY 6. Some raiders, informally : GMEN 7. Lodge : RESIDE 8. Charms : ENAMORS 9. Businessman/entertainer who was once mayor of Bridgeport, Conn. : PTBARNUM 10. "Behold ___ Horse" (William Cooper book) : APALE 11. Targets of remedies : ILLS 12. Stephen of "Stuck," 2007 : REA 13. More itchy, maybe : MANGIER 14. Balloonists' doings : ASCENTS 15. Is unobliged to : NEEDNOT 22. Missing : OMITTED 24. "Beg pardon," in casual talk : SCUSEME 26. Bric-a-___ : BRAC 27. Well : ABLY 29. Iroquoian language : ERIE 31. All lined up : NEAT 33. Fair place : PAVILION 35. Cut rinds, e.g. : PARINGS 36. 30.48 centimeters : ONEFOOT 37. Something once bundled with Microsoft products : ENCARTA 38. Basutoland, today : LESOTHO 40. Navy service : SEADUTY 41. Center of a roast : HONOREE 42. "Jeopardy!" fodder : ANSWERS 45. Dinah's avenger in the Bible : SIMEON 48. 1972 U.S./U.S.S.R. pact : SALTI 49. Ties : DRAWS 51. Bank chains hold them : PENS 52. Museo contents : ARTE 55. Quaint letter start : SIR 56. ___ kwon do : TAE