N.Y. TIMES CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Infomercial pioneer 6 Tough to grasp 10 Mid-16thcentury year 14 Add bling to 15 Cross initials 16 18 Louises 17 “Enough said!” 18 Apothecary container 19 Historic 2016 Obama destination 20 Scorpion, for one 22 Short and thick 24 Ball of yarn 25 Turns on, as notifications on a smartphone 26 In the past 28 Farmworker in a Millet painting 30 Suffix with ranch 31 Mickey Mouse’s dog 33 PC drive insert 35 Lacoste product 36 Spanish baths 38 Three or four 42 Jazz singer Carmen 44 ___ strike 45 Cousin of FWIW 48 Broadcast time 51 Like all primes except 2 52 Inflationadjusted econ. stat 54 “Gute ___” (German bedtime words) 56 Not in a knot, say 57 Accepts 60 Moscow news source 61 Object of admiration 63 Food Network host Brown 64 Rent-___ (security guard) 65 Clean, in product names 66 Attack on a walled city, maybe 67 Light beam bender 68 “I had no ___!” 69 First Canadian M.L.B. team
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1 Music often heard in Bollywood films 2 Concern regarding a litter box 3 Absolutely nobody 4 Codiscoverer of the contents of the circled letters 5 Constantly moving 6 What “to forgive” is 7 Children’s author Blyton 8 Baseball’s dead-ball ___ 9 Pale lagers 10 Ernie Banks, to fans 11 With 55-Down, form of the contents of the circled letters 12 Ad-___ 13 Close of a parental veto 21 Zilch 23 Poi base 25 Prefix with -morphic 26 Smartphone download 27 Mop & ___ 29 Spotted at the prom, perhaps? 32 Lead-in to boy or girl 34 Spray-paint, say 36 Port city at one terminus of the Appian Way 37 Org. whose magazine was once called Modern Maturity 39 Fitbit datum 40 One may be bitter 41 Enter an altared state? 43 Pet store purchase 44 Death 45 Like winters in Antarctica 46 Highish bridge combo 47 Codiscoverer of the contents of the circled letters 49 East ___ (Norfolk and Suffolk’s locale) 50 Cigarette stat 53 Talks like Sylvester 55 See 11-Down 57 Top-shelf 58 Deli option 59 ___ place 62 Junior’s senior