NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS 1 Work like Dürer

5 Peter or Paul, but not

Mary

9 Bath fixture

14 Lilting melodies 15 Concerning, to a lawyer 16 Musical with the song “Don’t Cry for Me Argentina”

17 Trick football play 20 ___ bark beetle

21 One side of a debate 22 Dude, Jamaica-style 23 Office staple since the

1980s

30 Birth control method, for short

31 Peach or plum 32 Descartes’s “therefore” 33 Super Bowl-winning QB Bart

36 Bollywood soundtrack

instrument

38 “... man ___ mouse?” 39 High-ranking British

Parliament member 42 Doctors’ org. 43 Something one shouldn’t make in public

44 Lifesavers for cops and sailors 45 Disposable lighters and pens

47 The mark of Zorro 48 You, abroad 49 Floor warning

55 Good noise from an

engine

56 Sarcastic laugh sound 57 Green govt. group 58 Study at a college that doesn’t have applications?

64 Seize without legal

authority

65 Listening device

66 Ink stain

67 Pool contents? 68 Newspaper essay 69 Old one, in Oldenburg

DOWN

1 Alleviated

2 Duke or dame

3 Pulls an all-nighter, say 4 “The buck stops here”

prez

5 Bar on a car

6 Be a busybody 7 Pound sound

8 Family member: Abbr. 9 Genre for Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker

10 Way or means 11 Paul McCartney, for one

12 Onetime telecommunications conglomerate, for short 13 Opposing vote 18 Bullish trends

19 Bully’s boast

24 Dame ___ Te Kanawa 25 Entrance for Santa 26 Navel formation? 27 Moves briskly

28 White heron

29 Surf sounds

33 Signs of healing 34 Native of southern India or northern Sri Lanka

35 You can count on them 36 It’s no bull

37 Nice location

40 Itchy condition

41 Out in public 46 Baseball or basketball 48 Humiliated 50 Basketball inflaters 51 Invitation heading 52 “Mack the Knife” composer 53 Disney World theme park

54 It’s often unaccounted for … or a hint to this puzzle’s circled letters 58 Short-haired dog 59 Play for a patsy 60 7,485 performances, for Broadway’s original “Cats”

61 Noah count?

62 With it

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