NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
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1 Battery fluid 5 Wide keyboard key 10 Loch ___ monster 14 Variety of wrestling 15 Overcharge 16 Loads and loads 17 Extremely obstinate 20 Kathmandu’s land 21 Little League coach, often 22 Ushered 23 Rikki-tikki-___ (Kipling mongoose) 25 City in Spain or Ohio 26 Person who’s talented but not versatile 31 “To be, or not to be” speaker 32 Sleep like ___ 33 To the ___ (fully) 36 Charades player, essentially 37 Fortuneteller’s card 39 Road shoulder 40 Foxy 41 Negligible 42 Rest of the afternoon 44 Notable (and grammatically incorrect) declaration by Mr. Bumble in “Oliver Twist” 46 Top dogs 49 Curb, with “in” 50 Urban’s opposite 51 Staple of sci-fi filmmaking, for short 53 Web site? 57 Acting haughtily and pompously 60 Fell to the seabed 61 Figure made by a figure skater 62 Document with the line “I hereby bequeath …” 63 Work units, in physics 64 Chooses actors for 65 London’s ___ Coward Theater
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1 The first “A” of N.A.A.C.P.: Abbr.
2 Like puppies and kittens 3 “No need to wake me” 4 Fight (with) 5 “I” problem? 6 Light-skinned and blond, say 7 Fish that’s a sushi staple 8 “Holy mackerel!” 9 Hi-___ monitor
10 To wit 11 Escape capture by 12 Not liquid or gaseous 13 ___ pad (reporter’s notebook) 18 Trumpet 19 “Moving right ___ …” 24 Food, informally 25 1982 comedy for which Jessica Lange won Best Supporting Actress 26 Units of resistance 27 Execute perfectly, as a routine 28 TV award 29 Destiny 30 West Bank inits.
33 Big butte 34 ___ and crafts 35 Big workday for Saint Nick 38 Not feel 100% 39 Boston, informally 41 Oil-producing rock
43 ___ Thomas, N.B.A. Hall-of-Famer 44 “Appreciate it!” 45 Orville or Wilbur 46 Came up 47 Like some eclipses 48 Point on antlers 51 “Pet” that’s a plant 52 Play dates? 54 The Supremes, e.g.
55 ___ of Man 56 Prison compartment 58 Instant, for short 59 Elevations: Abbr.