Certain rule enforcer Crossword Clue

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Certain rule enforcer Crossword Answer

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(noun)
1. an official at a baseball game
2. someone chosen to judge and decide a disputed issue
(verb)
1. be a referee or umpire in a sports competition

Hint 2: Clue Definitions

ENFORCER (noun)
1. one whose job it is to execute unpleasant tasks for a superior
CERTAIN (adjective)
1. having or feeling no doubt or uncertainty; confident and assured
2. certain to occur; destined or inevitable

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22. Hamburger shack?

26. Eponymous sandwich made with peanut butter, bananas, and bacon

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31. Provocative posts

32. Signature role for Leontyne Price

33. Disciple

34. Shot blocker?

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38. Hereditary groups

39. Roofer’s rock

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42. Those: Sp

43. Features of 2-Down

44. One-sided and pseudo-intimate, like a listener’s relationship to a podcast host

49. 1950 film with unreliable narrators

53. Some ballroom dances

55. Work in concert

56. Accompany

57. Comic con?

58. Put on, in a way

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Down

1. Film franchise that “has come to be less a creative or commercial undertaking than an immutable fact of life,” per A. O. Scott

2. Butters on a farm?

3. Lecherous cartoon animal

4. “The doctor ___”

5. Title character of a Melville short story

6. Filmmaker Catherine whom J. Hoberman called “France’s foremost provocatrice”

7. Can’t get enough

8. Some tour stops

9. Go different ways

10. National park in Namibia with a vast salt pan visible from space

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12. Faux-outraged response to an accusation

13. Magazine with a “5000” list

14. Farm-share program, for short

20. Paramount concern?

23. Longtime rival of Sampras

24. Intergovernmental org. with an annual trick-or-treating donation-collection campaign

25. Calm

26. Jejune

27. Ancient marketplaces

28. Share with, as a story

30. Depletes

31. Threadbare garments

34. “The ___” (2017 film adapted from a Shakespeare tragedy)

35. There are three hundred and eighty-eight of them in “Infinite Jest”

36. Program with lots of updates?

38. Terrible joke

40. Ferdinand to Isabella, por ejemplo

41. Seat of power

45. Frenziedly

46. Empire that inspired “The Emperor’s New Groove”

47. Awestruck

48. Body of traditions

49. Snitch

50. “Oy,” in Oberhausen

51. ___-Mère-Église (first town liberated on D Day)

52. One of Islam's Five Pillars

54. Avg.

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