Losing causes? Crossword Clue

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Across

1. Word with strip or skirt

6. Conniption

9. Cuban poet/philosopher José

14. 2000 hit song with the lyric "But to lose all my senses / That is just so typically me"

17. Mail-centric fiction?

18. Virginia is in it, in brief

19. "Hah!"

20. "___ had it!"

21. Former home of Mr. and Mrs. Met

23. "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" spinoff

24. Riot

25. Spiller of tea

27. Smelling things?

28. Date night viewing, often

34. High concept?

35. They explain what's in the cards

39. Comic strip sound of impact

40. Infant discomfort

42. Battery-powered string instrument player

43. Predicated

48. It has its highs and lows

49. Rocky openings?

50. Burrowing animal whose name is made up of two other animals

52. It may begin with a +1: Abbr.

53. Idolizes

56. Indiana Jones or Rocky Balboa, e.g.

58. Yoga ___

59. The 22nd Amendment limits them

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Down

1. "Piece of cake!"

2. Reality show whose contestants report to the Judge's Table

3. Not gendered

4. Dope

5. Some emergency resources

6. Serious dirt

7. State whose official fruit is the huckleberry

8. Done to death

9. Flow down the neck

10. Past word

11. Hot pockets?

12. 20-20, e.g.

13. Small sounds

15. One of 412 in the White House

16. Supermodel Banks

22. Took back one's words

24. One struggling to make ends meet

26. Grant

27. Foe of Dr. Eggman, in video games

29. Procured

30. "___ Share of Night" (acclaimed 2019 Mariana Enríquez book)

31. Complimentary lines

32. Tool for tracing family trees

33. Prefix with the name of any month

35. Mideast salad, in one spelling

36. Simon the Zealot, e.g.

37. Sparkly bits in a school art project

38. Like some deliveries

39. Holder of all the digits, from 1 to 0

41. Stage-left orchestra section

43. Coccyx or phalange, e.g.

44. Unwelcome sound during a dream

45. Brown tint

46. Construct

47. Art movement proclaimed in a 1916 manifesto

50. May honorees

51. Outdoor item with flaps

54. Took a load off

55. 2011 platinum single by Tyler, the Creator

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