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<ACROSS PUZZLE V2>
<TITLE>
LA Times, Mon, Nov 25, 2019
<AUTHOR>
Ed Sessa / Ed. Rich Norris
<COPYRIGHT>
© 2019 Tribune Content Agency, LLC
<SIZE>
15x15
<GRID>
MAST.INFER.APRS
ACAI.TERRE.CHAT
YELLOWCARD.OOZY
OLE.CAKY.CORTEX
RAMSES..BRUNO..
...MAILSLOT.BAM
ROMAN.OTIS.ROXY
URAL.BRANS.OMEN
NEIL.RENT.KUBLA
TON.DEADZONE...
..FINAL..PENCAP
FORBAD.THEE.AXL
ALAS.BEHINDTIME
CAME.ORIEL.ARAB
EVEN.XANDY.GONE
<ACROSS>
Pole on the Pequod
Conclude from evidence
Auto loan figs.
Smoothie berry
Land, in France
Talk over tea
*Soccer ref's formal warning
Like wet mud pies
Bullring bravo
Like dried-out mud pies
Cerebral __: brain layer
Name of many pharaohs
Singer Mars
*Letter box access
Emeril catchword
Like XLII, numeral-wise
Elevator innovator
Classic theater name
Eurasian border range
Fiber sources
Four-leaf clover, to some
Astronaut Armstrong
Apartment payment
"In Xanadu did __ Khan ... ": Coleridge
Weigh station unit
*Area where cellphones don't work
Weighty exam
Montblanc topper
Prohibited
Biblical "you"
Rose of rock music
"Sorry to say ... "
Later than expected ... and where the ends of the answers to starred clues may be found
Opposite of went
Bay window
Many an Omani
Like two, not one
Simultaneous equation variables
No longer here
<DOWN>
Big city big shot
Amtrak express train
Witch trial town
Shop __ you drop
Formal words of confession
Hickey spot
Start to unravel
Slip up
Disaster relief organization
Seed that grows squirrels?
*Sneak into the shot
Level with a wrecking ball
River of Hades
Neptune's realm
Part of KO
Petite
Cheesy pancake, perhaps
Cosmetics giant
Lamp support
Ice skating feat
Mimicking bird
Littlest of the litter
Snack sometimes eaten from the inside out
*iPad's giant ancestor
City where Joan of Arc died
Loaf holder
Weak- or knock- follower
Crime scene sample
In full view
"Peer Gynt" dramatist
Egypt's capital
Guy felling trees
Annapolis frosh
Clock front
Norse king
Girl Scouts' __ Mints
Hurried, old-style
Historical period
Kids' game with a safe area
