N.Y. TIMES CROSSWORD

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1 Cantina 4 Two-time Time magazine Person of the Year 9 Say maybe, maybe 13 “The Americans” K.G.B. officer ___ Burov 15 Robert Galbraith, to J. K. Rowling 16 Summer cooler 17 Awake during the wee hours, say 18 Gut feeling 19 “That was a close one!” 20 Journalism 23 Showed sudden interest 24 They close at 9 p.m. in New York 27 Smith of punk rock 31 “Excuse me!” 32 Nail site 35 Dismissive response to critics 37 Approximately, informally 38 French greeting 39 Nuke 40 Parking lot event 44 Nation’s borders? 45 Basketball Hall-of-Famer Dantley 46 “Sweet and healing medicine of troubles,” per Horace 48 Town that inspired “The House of the Seven Gables” 49 Goes (through) laboriously 53 Pirate plunder … or a hint to interpreting an appropriate number of squares in this puzzle 59 Adult 61 At dinner and then the cinema, say 62 What a volcano may leave 63 Opposite of drain 64 One may be held by candlelight 65 Hat worn by Charles de Gaulle 66 Go down 67 Chicago’s ___ Expressway 68 Taste

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1 Fits 2 ___ dog 3 Subleased 4 Where the Ko’olau Range is located 5 Busy day, in retrospect 6 “___ that somethin’?” 7 Speed measure 8 He beat Connors in the Wimbledon final in 1975 9 Oscarnominated actor with nearly synonymous first and last names 10 Spike Lee film set at a historically black college 11 Notch shape 12 Support for a religious group? 14 Flub 21 Hawaiian food fish 22 Cross 25 Actress Lindsay of “Mean Girls” 26 Is nosy 28 “We can’t joke about that yet?” 29 Golfer’s obstacle 30 Nation of ___ 31 Actress Annie of “Young Sheldon” 32 Pockets of the Middle East? 33 Grilled, at a taqueria 34 Eddies 36 Expert 41 Gather dust 42 Hearts or spades 43 Cry of surprise 47 Hit it off 50 People eaters 51 Oprah’s “The Color Purple” costar 52 Word after New York or Las Vegas 54 Spot to lay anchor 55 Blyton who wrote “The Enchanted Wood” 56 Stuffing ingredient 57 For whom Wednesday is named 58 Tricks 59 Sports org. with the New York Guardians and Seattle Dragons 60 Brazil’s ___ Roosevelt