THE STARK SPLITTER
ACROSS
1 Superlatively imaginative
11 Eager swallow
12 Hoppy beer?
13 Employers and insurers need a driver’s written consent to receive this info
14 Erzya for soul—or a music band representing the cultures of the Finno-Ugric
15 Waistcoat
17 Per NASDAQ, Invesco High Yield Equity Dividend Achievers ETF
18 They help keep your pistols in your pants
21 Belonging to Christie’s Jane
22 The Mont Blanc with which you can’t write
23 Swishes at twenty-four feet
25 Dublin native who played Creasy on Hostages
28 What Margery Meanwell’s nicknamesakes might be considered?
29 Table scrap
31 Poetic before
32 Winfrey’s possible response to Sheryl Crowe’s comments on doping?
39 OK charter sch., grades 6-12, who’d like to become lit teachers or scientists
41 Exchanges omens?
43 Signal of urgent need of help
44 Jungle king frolics?
47 Response to “The Hairy Ape was written by Eudora”?
48 Short medical term for health issue involving alcohol
49 Caching name for Tomulus, had he played on his last name (Grapes)?
50 One of the companies which became WorldAware in 2018
52 After “Fresh Food” at Sheetz, for short
53 What Cold War, Progressive, or The Great Depression might modify
54 One member of one of the five plagues of Egypt, according to the Quran
55 Gwendolyn Brooks, Eugene O’Neill, and Natalie Diaz have won them
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1 Very flat, in Oaxaca
2 Stand and Deliver’s Escalante
3 Glasses, casually
4 Description of many plays
5 What Christopher has, in a way, thanks to Kanga?
6 Dermatologist at times?
7 _____ number of ping-pong balls in the ten-gallon bottle (carnival game)
8 Number 3 of Wigan Athletic F. C. and his offspring (if he ever has any)
9 Coquitlam, British Columbia, development by Cressey
10 If they last too long, farmers’ banes
11 Try, as in “I’ll give it a try”
16 In the direction away from the wind
19 Short for a dire expression of frustration—or a metric measure of distance
20 For fear that
24 Possibly your Grammy loved his Java
25 Letterbox essential that could honor your most basic hiking gear?
26 How Gustavus II might be honored in a town founded in 1632 on the Viskan
27 Dad of Maddox, Pax, Zahara, Shiloh, Vivienne, and Knox
30 What The Eagles told us to take it to, one more time
33 What Tutsis most certainly were not in 1994?
34 Grissom, Willows, Brown, Stokes, Brass, and Sidle
35 Language-less adults in Ursula LeGuin’s “The Silence of the _____”
36 Persuade
37 Floor protection during Easter dyeing operations?
38 Genome damage over time?
40 Theoretically, a unanimous vote half the time?
42 Technical or scientific guru, in short
45 With The, Brits’ description of Nazi aerial bombardment, 9-7-40 to 5-11-41
46 Jake and Rach’s kid, as opposed to Heli’s?
51 One part of the mind that the ego mediates
You can validate your puzzle solution with certitude.