NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
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1 Cruise seat
10 Fastener with a crosspiece
15 Winner of eight Winter Olympics medals in the 2000s 16 Corresponded with 17 Household item usually stored upside down
18 Rapper who was part of N.W.A 19 Class struggle?
20 Couple’s matching pair, informally 22 ___ end up
24 Pledge drive plea
25 Lady bird
26 Desperately in need of approval, in modern slang
28 Fair-hiring inits.
31 Animal with the longest gestation, at nearly two years
33 “Wouldn’t that be nice!” 35 Charming
36 Diner fixture
37 Warm place to chill
38 Supply for sautéing
39 Org. in “Inglourious Basterds” 40 Under the specified word, in a reference book
42 Shipping or handling
43 His number 33 is retired by the Lakers 44 Put in play?
45 Part-time newspaper employee 48 Fossey who studied gorillas
50 Stand too close to
51 Pocket of the Mideast
55 Back now after going out?
56 Net sales
57 “Oh, for heaven’s sake!” 58 Entrenched network inside a government
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1 Cousin of a crow 2 Prefix with -genetic 3 Topic of the mnemonic “Eat An Apple As A Nighttime Snack”
4 Paintings such as “Cat and Bird” and “The Goldfish”
5 Teeth
6 Otter’s den
7 “How clever!”
8 Words of summation 9 Anti-slippage substances
10 With 26-Down, the place of today’s puzzle among all New York Times crosswords
11 Kepler’s contemporary and assistant 12 Muck
13 Distance in astronomy: Abbr. 14 Shots are taken off of them
21 Like HBO’s “Last Week Tonight With John Oliver”
22 100+ million-selling band that once held a Guinness record for loudest concert 23 Sol’s counterpart
24 Sup
26 See 10-Down
27 German city on the Elbe 28 Historical transition point
29 Simple skate park tricks
30 Space for a lace
32 S.F. winter setting
34 Lit class reading
36 Stick (onto)
38 Not neat
41 Confirmed being locked, as a car 43 Birds on New Zealand dollar coins 44 “To the power of” symbol 45 Foretell the future
46 Diagram of possibilities 47 Capacity
48 Like unfinished laundry
49 Some early computers
52 One out of 10
53 A.C.A. part
54 “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia” woman