About the Puzzle

This one ran in our paper back in the summer of 2015. It had an embarrassing typo in the numbering of a down clue, which sullied an otherwise fun puzzle.

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  • 1 Patriotic eagle
  • 5 Trolley
  • 9 Mischievous child
  • 12 Pierre's female friend
  • 13 Cloud at the edge of the Solar System
  • 14 Try to win over
  • 15 Declaration of Independence author
  • 17 Leslie's BFF on "Parks and Recreation"
  • 18 Broadcasting towers
  • 19 Hitch in a plan
  • 20 TV brand
  • 21 Radiate
  • 23 Bird that lays green eggs
  • 26 "____ to Joy"
  • 28 1989 James Cameron flick (with "The")
  • 31 Saturn compact
  • 32 Flowers for Valentines
  • 34 Three strikes, say
  • 35 Cranny
  • 37 "____ my shorts!"
  • 38 Someone Brad Ausmus argues with
  • 39 Tilt
  • 41 Dream sleep, briefly
  • 43 Voicemail sound
  • 45 Songs near the ends of musicals
  • 50 Possessive pronoun
  • 51 Star of 1996 blockbuster "Independence Day"
  • 52 Org. whose docs Snowden leaked
  • 53 Org. co-founded by Helen Keller
  • 54 Inventor Rubik
  • 55 Place to shoot hoops
  • 56 Surfboard fin
  • 57 Candidate's goal, perhaps
  • 1 Mexican peninsula, familiarly
  • 2 "You said it, brother!"
  • 3 Elevator, to Will and Kate
  • 4 Put off
  • 5 Phenomenon rated on Fujita scale
  • 6 Famous bus rider
  • 7 Got up
  • 8 Peak (abbr.)
  • 9 Famous patriotic phrase of 25-Down
  • 10 ____ Lisa
  • 11 Classic video game
  • 16 Crowd pleasers
  • 19 Sis or Bro
  • 22 Golf Tournament at Augusta
  • 23 How Germans start counting
  • 24 Miss Piggy, to Miss Piggy
  • 25 See 9-Down
  • 27 Direction from Sleeping Bear Dunes to Traverse City
  • 29 Total
  • 30 Oil brand that sponsored Richard Petty
  • 33 Rock concert accessory
  • 36 With it
  • 40 Hoodwink
  • 42 Plays charades
  • 43 Dark red cherry
  • 44 Online crafts market
  • 46 Fashion magazine
  • 47 Father a foal
  • 48 Italian volcano
  • 49 Beyond repair
  • 51 "And She ____" (Talking Heads tune)