NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
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1 Result of a firing 4 English channel 7 It’s poorly written 13 Hannibal’s men 16 1962 Best Picture setting 17 Fault line? 18 Swimming 19 Shade of green 20 Bind with a belt 22 Certain finish 23 Chanel No. 5 competitor 25 Gridlock consequence 27 Many a Dallas cowboy 28 Comments that lead people to
repeat themselves 29 Ones carrying babies on their
backs 31 Middle Earth? 32 Dawdles 34 Source of feedback 36 Fictional spy who first appeared in
“Call for the Dead” 37 “___ joke” 38 Ranges 39 Go the right way? 42 Mystery in the fossil record 43 Writer with the given names Robert
Lawrence 44 Tick off 46 Jointly 48 Whine lover? 50 Undeceived by 51 Capital for King Zog 53 Hooter’s location 55 Setting for Sergei Eisenstein’s
“Battleship Potemkin” 56 Clear brandy 57 Brisk competitor 58 Fist pumper’s cry 59 Besides
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1 PIN money? 2 “Jeez Louise!” 3 Trick-taking card game 4 About 252 cals. 5 Like M. Poirot 6 Competitive, in a way 7 Title of politeness 8 Swimmer’s woe 9 Pro ___ 10 Slaughterhouse 11 Spent a season in the sun? 12 Rubbery compounds 14 Certain eruption 15 Famed Pop Art subject 21 It’s pretty obvious 24 Augmenting, old-style 26 Functional 30 Guinness adjective 31 Modeling medium 32 Long-lasting, in commercial names 33 Good earth 34 Table 35 Some fertilized eggs 36 Unit of explosive capacity 39 Palace of Nations locale 40 Has a home-cooked meal 41 Made a big scene? 43 Import 45 Step on a scale 47 Illustrator Thomas 49 Down 52 Strong, as a bond 54 New Left org.