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Softball glovesAcross
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Softball gloves
6
30
Mideast sultanate on the Gulf of ___
10
Long, skinny mushroom used in Japanese cuisine
11
Skye of "Say Anything"
12
"You're so close!"
14
22
Old instrument similar to a mandolin
15
Word before snack or time
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Gave a heads-up
18
Ordeals for high school jrs. and srs.
20
"I got this!"
21
Ability to find lucky clovers? (coined by FS)
24
"Best in Show" actor Willard
25
Fit ... or something checked for fit
27
Gomez who co-stars with Steve Martin and Martin Short in the Hulu series "Only Murders in the Building"
29
Charitable grp. in Angola?
30
6
Native of 6-Across, e.g.
31
Chuck ___, pilot played by Sam Shepard in "The Right Stuff"
34
Tiny arachnid
35
Obvious ... or, with a "c" in front, not at all obvious
36
Laze in the hay, say
37
Like the goddesses Frigg and Freyja
Down
1
Salami and pastrami, for two
2
Green with foliage
3
Shallow wooden trays, in Garden lingo
4
Boxing ref's decision
5
Maria, to Matthew, casually
6
Structures for offshore drilling
7
Peak of desire?
8
Payment before a deal
9
The National's "I ___ My Girl"
13
Memorable date of the last Gould Farm contradance, jocularly
17
Boy with a midi-chlorian count even higher than Yoda's, in "The Phantom Menace"
19
It's 100% going to happen
22
14
___ fair (occasion to dress up as Elizabethan royalty or strum on a 14-Across, informally)
23
Big cats represented as evil sorcerers in much Indian folklore
26
Multilayered, calorie-rich dessert
27
Professor Flowers, by another name
28
Weirdest-sounding of the Great Lakes?
32
H_ll _f a lo_g time
33
Fruit with buttery green flesh, for short
Gould Farm Xword #38 - "Count Me In!" (Themeless)