Adama Baba’s CROSSWORDZ 420

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Across 1. Nightclub units 7. Former Senate minority leader 14. Measure of insulating ability 15. Clam 16. Change actors in 17. Scientific series 18. Expunge 19. Twaddle 20. __ Arc, Arkansas 21. Truth-in-lending nos. 22. Once bitten, so to speak 23. Provoke 24. Official language in Vientiane 25. Big name in whiskey 26. “No man is an island” penner 27. Bookkeeping entry 29. Whopper junior? 30. Spreads rumors 34. Crew member 35. No fluff piece 37. Sacred song 40. Condemn openly 41. Dedicatory title words 42. Main course? 43. Uneven 44. Kisser 45. Ending with law or saw 46. “The Count of Monte Cristo” author 47. University of Western Australia site 48. Adjust, as a recipe 50. Iris covering 51. Unpredictable 52. Like haunted houses 53. Litter components, maybe 54. Alcove Down 1. Quack’s offering 2. Like some resented employees 3. Elbows on the table? 4. Fort Wayne-born designer 5. York’s river 6. 6-4 or 6-2, e.g. 7. Deprive of heaters? 8. Accord 9. Vague amount 10. Year in the reign of St. Pius I 11. Confrontational 12. Spaghetti relative 13. Maroon 15. Controversial neurosis treatment 19. 1990s Israeli prime minister 22. Carafe, often 23. Dick Grayson’s alter ego 25. Drummer’s cymbal 26. Rapper P. __ 28. Name on a bottle of Spellbound perfume 29. Ride with cars, perhaps 31. Maligned writers 32. One no longer overseas 33. Ballroom dances 36. Walks confidently 37. International labor celebration 38. Bullfight cheer 39. Old Toyota 40. Voices an objection 43. One charged by a judge 44. “Life: A User’s Manual” author Georges 46. Spoil, with “on” 47. Sweater unit? 49. Start to use 50. “Suzie Q” band, for short