NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
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1 Say “Yeah, I can make it,” say
5 [Ask me what’s wrong]
9 Pitt of “The Big Short” 13 Scannable symbols on store items, for short
14 2017 Best Play winner
15 Mark’s replacement
16 Will Smith’s co-star in 1995’s “Bad Boys” 19 Some airport times: Abbr.
20 Like most clown wigs
21 Last word of a fairy tale
22 Hon, modern-style
23 Part of a phone plan 24 Two-legged stands
25 Tantrum
26 Madrid’s country, on Olympic scoreboards
27 ___ fides
28 Like the Nikkei and Hang Seng indexes 30 It uses clicks in lieu of paddles 32 Decorates with some rolls, for short 35 There are two, as the expression goes, in each of 16- and 55-Across
36 Part of a golf cup
37 There’s one, as the expression goes, in 5- and 27-Down
39 “The Matrix” hero
40 ___ Xtra (soda)
41 Traffic cone
42 Sports category prefix
44 “Help me, ___-Wan Kenobi. You’re my only hope”
46 Source of Manchego cheese
47 Cafe
50 Band whose name sounds like a vegetable
51 Fish ladder site
52 Remove ID from, as a Facebook picture 53 Look stunned
54 Lots of
55 Physicist who won a 2009 Presidential Medal of Freedom
58 Nursery item
59 One way to stand 60 First word of a fairy tale
61 Stripe
62 Half of a two-volume directory 63 Collection of highlights or bloopers
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1 Popular ice cream flavor
2 Little extra poundage 3 Betamaxes, e.g.
4 S.F. winter clock setting
5 Line of Japanese smartphones 6 Where one might be marooned 7 Content
8 Question asked in befuddlement 9 Part of a Whopper
10 Approach quickly
11 Like a rainbow
12 Movers and shakers
17 13th, maybe
18 It often occurs following a car wash, seemingly
19 Classic Britcom
23 Hamiltons
24 “Whew!”
27 Tropical houseplant
29 Animal lovers’ program
31 Chest protector 33 Performance that requires a lot of upper body strength
34 Figure whose wings melt in the sun 37 Prepare to pin the tail on the donkey, say
38 Decepticons, in the Transformers universe
40 Golf ___
43 Frustrated exclamation
45 Be in development 47 Unsuccessful draft picks, in sports lingo 48 Opening
49 Have the tiller
50 “The Two Fridas” artist
53 Little annoyance
54 “You can’t have that!”
56 Second letter before iota 57 Two-nation peninsula: Abbr.