NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
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1 Venomous African snake 6 Quandaries 10 Duchess of ___ (Goya subject) 14 “Ghosts” playwright 15 Cartoon dog 16 Trollish sort 17 1984 Schwarzenegger sequel
19 Go fast 20 Reeves of “The Matrix” 21 Kind of bar 22 ___ Ranch (onetime “Texas White House”) 25 Early form of airmail? 28 “Yay, me!” 30 It's measured in cups 31 Minor but essential part
32 “In this way” 34 Round floor cleaner 36 Many a bar mitzvah attendee 37 Chrysler model discontinued in 2010 39 Mother of the Virgin Mary 42 Butters up? 44 Opened one's mouth but didn't speak? 46 Fair-hiring inits. 48 Campaign freebie 49 Scary figure in Stephen King's “It” 50 Grinder 55 Org. whose symbol is an eagle atop a key 56 Run-of-themill 57 Language from which “kayak” comes 59 Pac-12 team 60 It's four units long in a popular board game (with the game's other pieces hinted at by the circled letters) 65 Red giant in the constellation Cetus
66 A penny is a small one 67 Express 68 Future C.P.A.'s study 69 “Gotta go,” in textspeak 70 Fragrant compound
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1 Word after hot or open 2 Blood letters 3 ___ Explorer (browser) 4 Schnozz 5 Wings 6 Pope before Leo VI
7 For two 8 Potpourri 9 Congress 10 Bella of 1970s politics 11 Unpredictable sort
12 “Oh, cry me a river!” 13 Giving heat? 18 Duty 21 Neighbor of India and China in Risk 22 Cheerful tune 23 Cocktail party spread 24 Foreigner song with the lyric “With that one guitar / He'll come alive” 26 Gaming debut of 2001 27 Agent 29 Actress Headey 33 Join voluntarily 34 Just what the doctor ordered, for short? 35 Turn on the waterworks 38 Watch over 40 Google heading 41 Novelist Ferber 43 Filter target 45 Pull off 46 Unearth 47 Pet store category 51 Lazy ___ 52 Good at repartee 53 Big name in microprocessors 54 ___-de-sac 58 Chinese menu possessive 60 Take some swings 61 Army ___ 62 Success in the game 60-Across … or a hint to interpreting the circled squares 63 Winter coat 64 Each