Nelson Mandela, Malala Yousafzai, Linus Pauling, Martin Luther King Jr. and so on Crossword Clue

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PAULING (noun)
1. United States chemist who studied the nature of chemical bonding (1901-1994)
MANDELA (noun)
1. South African statesman who was released from prison to become the nation’s first democratically elected president in 1994 (born in 1918)

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17. Screen addiction, e.g.

19. Canyon call back

20. Word after B or D

21. Length x width, for a rectangle

22. What food is at dinner

23. Where boxers trade jabs

26. Cocktail with gin and lime juice

29. Word before cheese or uncle

30. Hedonistic sort

31. Medium-spicy chili peppers

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42. Now ___ seen everything!

43. Snail's tentacle or butterfly's antenna

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52. Uncle's wife

53. Long sandwich with cold cuts, maybe

56. Bouquet holder

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60. Similar to

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2. On the ocean

3. Impose, as a tax

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6. Spelunker

7. Thorny patch

8. Big inits. in pickup trucks and vans

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11. Saguaros, e.g.

12. Pale

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23. A quarter or more of one's life, typically

24. Majorca and Minorca

25. Indian bread

26. Rubbery part of a handlebar

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32. What wines and cheeses do over time

33. Wading bird

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45. Like the force of an armada

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58. Freudian "I"

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