Level 453 Solution

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Solution Grid

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2 H
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3 I
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4 C
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5 A
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6 A
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7 H
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Across

1. ITALY
  • Boot-shaped country
  • Rome's home
  • Po land
  • Milan's land
  • Europe's "boot"
4. CARRIER
  • Verizon or AT&T
  • Aircraft ___
  • Backbone of a task force.
  • Ship of a sort.
  • Airline, for instance
6. AFTERSHOCK
  • Earthquake follow-up
  • Earthquake echo, or where the last words of the answers to starred clues might go
  • Seismic phenomenon, and where you might find the starts of 16-, 23-, 37- and 49-Across
  • Sweet wine gets more trembling?
  • Dessert wine getting another little shake?
7. HOUR
  • Time of day
  • 60 minutes
  • Day division
  • Cuckoo's announcement
  • 3,600 seconds

Down

1. INCREASE
  • Go up, as prices
  • Up
  • Augment
  • Grow
  • Ramp up
2. HYPOTENUSE
  • Long side of right-angled triangle
  • Longest side of a right-angled triangle
3. IRUKANDJI
  • Extremely venomous box jellyfish
5. AUCTION
  • Public sale
  • "Storage Wars" sales event
  • Bidding event
  • Caution butcher for selling lots
  • Bidding sale

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