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Across
  1. 1A
    Product of oppo research
  2. 5A
    Climb
  3. 10A
    Sect
  4. 13A
    Sanction
  5. 15A
    Take ____ (risk it)
  6. 16A
    Selling forged paintings, e.g.
  7. 18A
    Seminal novel about the effects of colonization in Nigeria, written by 11 Down with a title taken from 47 Across
  8. 20A
    She/___
  9. 21A
    Poss. diagnosis for one engaging in excessive hand-washing
  10. 22A
    Disk in a '90s fad
  11. 23A
    Grab ___ (step up to the plate)
  12. 25A
    Flew like a home run
  13. 27A
    Smelling salts (Fr.)
  14. 28A
    =
  15. 30A
    Went on tour again?
  16. 32A
    "[18 Across]; ___ cannot hold" (line from 47 Across)
  17. 34A
    Curse out
  18. 36A
    Ex-Secretary of State Rice, to friends
  19. 39A
    Broccoli ___
  20. 40A
    Early '90s German tennis star Michael ____ (the surname originated as an occupational metonym for a tailor)
  21. 42A
    Fades
  22. 44A
    "Gangnam Style" artist
  23. 45A
    Spade relative
  24. 46A
    "___ ever!" ("You bet!")
  25. 47A
    Influential poem by 35 Down that begins "Turning and turning in the widening gyre/the falcon cannot hear the falconer"
  26. 54A
    Bimodal, as transport
  27. 55A
    Report to base, maybe
  28. 56A
    Plinth topper
  29. 57A
    Sets off, in a way
  30. 58A
    Eliminates a fly
  31. 59A
    Mama ___ (pop/folk icon)
Down
  1. 1D
    Get ___ (lie on the beach, e.g.)
  2. 2D
    Long-ruling Chinese dynasty
  3. 3D
    Comfy shoes
  4. 4D
    "Well, it's ___ the money" (first line of "Blue Suede Shoes")
  5. 5D
    Ball used in stickball and stoopball (its Brooklynese for the manufacturer's name)
  6. 6D
    Bicep exercise
  7. 7D
    Chinese company that's the world's largest sports equipment manufacturer by revenue
  8. 8D
    Common speech impediment
  9. 9D
    Runaway
  10. 10D
    Jazz piano great Earl Hines, familiarly
  11. 11D
    Chinua ____, author of 18 Across
  12. 12D
    Spike Lee film based on "Lysistrata" (women withhold sex in an effort to force an end to war)
  13. 14D
    ____ Bloom, influenctial critic who called 47 Across "one of the most univerally admired poems of our [20th] century"
  14. 17D
    Seshes
  15. 19D
    Build-up
  16. 24D
    Student
  17. 25D
    Some ballplayers from New York and Chicago
  18. 26D
    Hailing from Holland
  19. 27D
    Devote, as time
  20. 29D
    "Take on Me" band
  21. 31D
    ___ Bowl (NFL All-Star game)
  22. 33D
    Some battery terminals
  23. 34D
    Dressy accessories
  24. 35D
    Author of 47 Across
  25. 37D
    Essayist Joan who wrote "Slouching Toward Bethelehem," the title of which comes from the last line of 47 Across
  26. 38D
    Words from an eager beaver
  27. 39D
    Short reports?
  28. 41D
    ___ the Entertainer
  29. 43D
    Portents
  30. 48D
    Cabbage creation
  31. 49D
    "___ Peach" (classic Allman Brothers album)
  32. 50D
    Early English king who supposedly commanded the tide to stop (it didn't)
  33. 51D
    Site of a biblical wedding
  34. 52D
    Roulette bet
  35. 53D
    Architect ___ van der Rohe
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