But in this themeless puzzle, only one solver reigns victorious.  
By MATT JONES  |  March 18, 2009
 
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| Across 1 Like excessively small pupils
 7 Electricity
 12 Web competition
 15 Christian Bale thriller of 2000
 17 Unit used regarding celery, since it requires more energy to eat it than it contains
 19 Proofreader's marks meaning "take out"
 20 Edible mushrooms
 21 Muscles shown off by musclemen
 22 Gets oneself focused
 23 Go together like green and purple?
 25 Entre ___
 27 Like some pickings
 28 Capitol Hill figure, for short
 29 Combatants in a long-standing battle
 30 Title for Khan
 31 "I'm 100% with you," in Internet shorthand
 33 Pringles competitor
 34 ___ Roses (band that returned with a 2008 album)
 36 Drink with a bottle cap
 38 Candlestick alternative
 39 It helps govern disputes offshore
 40 Early South African prime minister Jan
 42 It's yellow and can get baked
 47 Get to the top, maybe?
 48 Computer time-waster for one
 49 Be a snitch
 50 "Jurassic Park" dinos
 | Down 1 Bellyacher's noise
 2 "She Believes ___" (Kenny Rogers song)
 3 Jackie O couturier Cassini
 4 Long-winded rants
 5 Company that eventually burned down in "Office Space"
 6 Fielder and Rhodes, for two
 7 Have a craving
 8 Like an insult comic's material, often
 9 Frustrated sigh before cleaning up
 10 Island that's now called Sri Lanka
 11 Contacts in the back of the paper
 13 Acquiesce
 14 Like many freeways, width-wise
 16 Drilling structures
 18 Susie of "Curb Your Enthusiasm"
 21 Former host Petros of Spike TV's "Pros vs. Joes"
 22 Items at some tables
 23 Doll of the 1960s-70s
 24 The heart, to Henri
 25 Tide type
 26 Cleanser brand
 29 Ambling pace for a horse
 32 Stink
 34 Weathered through
 35 Hog the spotlight, perhaps
 37 Queso ___ (Mexican cheese molded in baskets)
 38 Stewie's teddy bear, on "Family Guy"
 40 "The Baroness Redecorates" singer-songwriter Sarah
 41 Roman numeral that translates to a 4-digit palindrome
 43 "I'm ___ you!"
 44 Put ___ on (levy)
 45 Phone book-sized novel, e.g.
 46 Bonanza finds
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