Underpinning Crossword Clue

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Underpinning Crossword Answer

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(noun)
1. the most important or necessary part of something
2. a relation that provides the foundation for something

Hint 2: Anagram

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Across

1. Deer sir?

5. Free trial version

9. Caspian or Mediterranean

12. Designer ___ Boss

13. Typographical embellishment

14. Go across

15. "Su-u-ure"

16. Something green in a greenhouse

17. Half ___ (when the minute hand points down)

18. Popular board game adapted from India [1]

20. They quickly spread online

21. "Soldier, stop!"

22. Page (through)

23. Challenge for student drivers [2]

30. Metals in mines

31. Actor Stonestreet of "Modern Family"

32. Apt zodiac sign for Bert Lahr, who played the Cowardly Lion

33. Vitality

34. Scoundrel's deeds

37. A pair

38. Card game whose name is something players cry

39. Assistant

40. Anthropologist Margaret

41. Never stop having fun [3]

46. '___ the night before Christmas . . .'

47. Word repeated in "___ ye, ___ ye!"

48. Cube maker Erno

50. Of the highest importance … or, when parsed differently, what each bracketed number in the clues indicates?

55. World's largest country with a four-letter name

57. Home of Columbus?

58. A single time

59. Up in the air

60. Zero

61. 'What a shame'

62. Test the weight of

63. Backyard storage space

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Down

1. Steamer or cruiser

2. "Oom-pah" instrument

3. Follower of New or teen

4. Hidden snags

5. Key to the right of "+" and "=" on a Mac keyboard

6. What Taylor Swift calls the stages of her career

7. 5x5-square crossword

8. Frequently in poetry

9. Email winnower

10. Effortlessness

11. Tiny hill builders

13. Characterize?

14. Orate

19. Nickname akin to Harry

20. Compassion

22. Den

23. Short-term kind of store

24. Sports locale

25. Give a debriefing (to)

26. Prime use for a crowbar

27. Opposite of "post"

28. Starting to learn

29. “Oh boy!”

34. Watercraft for an Inuit

35. Small bites

36. Accessibility law inits.

40. Leaves stranded

42. Strong string

43. What misers take to an extreme

44. Bread maker's supply

45. ___ Beesly, character who has the last line in the finale of "The Office"

48. Civil uprising

49. Caterer's containers

50. Whitish

51. Starting, timewise

52. This looks like trouble …

53. Number in a nonet

54. Follower of pointy or pigeon

56. Expression of contempt

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