Montreal Gazette

NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

- EDITED BY WILL SHORTZ

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1 Japanese chess 6 Name attached to a North Carolina “-ville” 10 1, 2, 3 or R 14 Hawkeye 15 Enjoy Wilde or Wilder, say 16 +/– 17 Hollows 18 Fond of hiking, camping, etc. 20 Transfer, as in a bucket brigade 22 Initiates badly? 23 Israeli resort city 27 One flying during the holiday season, informally 30 Book of the Bible after Amos 32 ___-Town 33 Grin broadly 36 Menace with four-inch teeth 38 Poker tournament fee 39 “Je t’___” 40 Confront one another head-on 43 Typical Scottish Brexit vote 44 Going south 45 Joins hands? 47 Place 48 Honeydew producer 50 Rendezvous 56 “That’s the way the cookie crumbles” 59 Olympic skater Slutskaya 60 Protected, at 58-Down 61 Symbol of silence 62 Palindromi­c tennis champ 63 Pre-Red head 64 “Frozen” princess 65 Irascible

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1 Heaved “ho”? 2 Spanish welcome 3 John Irving’s “A Prayer for ___ Meany” 4 Who said “The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others” 5 Where the Robinsons were lost on 1960s TV 6 Stopped lying 7 Doctor of letters? 8 Possesses, once 9 Ancient Norse work 10 “I like the way you think!” 11 Jump the gun, e.g. 12 Balaam’s talking beast 13 Mr. Rogers 19 Either co-star of “Paper Moon” 21 Prison guarded by Dementors 24 Some 1960s protests 25 TripTik, e.g. 26 N.B.A. long shots 27 “Feed your lawn” brand 28 Place for a frog 29 Christians’ ___ Creed 30 Cut 31 Juliette of “Chocolat” 34 What’ll give you a leg up? 35 Children’s author Hoff 37 Inquire about 41 Like some colossal bores 42 Snob 46 Like Consumer Reports 48 Out of order 49 Katniss’s partner in “The Hunger Games” 51 Nursing, say 52 Daredevil Knievel 53 Troubles 54 Popular tech review site 55 “Whoa, slow down there, partner!” 56 Hipster 57 Loop loopers 58 See 60-Across

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PUZZLE BY: RUTH B. MARGOLIN

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