new york times crossword

PUZZLE BY BYRON WALDEN

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1 Text ___ 6 No bull market? 15 Mr. or Mrs. Right? 16 Like some sodas 17 “Another Suitcase in Another Hall” musical 18 Little Orphan Annie feature 19 Concern of “three strikes” laws 21 Hollow 22 Home to Dyess Air Force base 23 Avian epithet for Napoleon II, with “the” 25 Certain flu vaccine medium 28 Echo preceder 29 Mob pieces 30 Cleaves 32 And many times in France? 33 Has a fit, maybe? 34 Queen ___ 37 Class for an English major, familiarly 38 Home of Triple-A baseball’s Aces 39 Only poisonous snake in Britain 42 Coffeegrowing region of Hawaii 44 Ones hanging around a haunted house? 46 Street sweep? 47 Golden rice and others, in brief 48 Sitcom mother portrayer of 1987-97 and (on a different show) 200205 51 Hides who one is 53 Ocho preceder 54 Achieved green efficiency? 55 Like some monologues 56 FedEx Office competitor 57 Places in brackets

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1 Toy package info 2 Old TV show set on the Pacific Princess, with “The” 3 Homer and others 4 Fixes, as a shower stall 5 Masonry and others 6 Know-it-all, in Britspeak 7 Powerful car engine 8 Sorts frequently given detention 9 Terse denial 10 “___ regrets?” 11 Haulers on runners 12 Mobile greeting 13 To fix this you need to get cracking! 14 Coin whose name means “small weight” 20 To some extent 24 City where, according to legend, Cain and Abel are buried 26 “Don’t be ___” (words of caution) 27 “Darn tootin’” 31 Pre-cell? 33 Begin to give out 34 Rhyming nickname for wrestling Hall-of-Famer Okerlund 35 Booted out 36 Paintbrushes for applying spots and blotches 37 Ferdinand de ___, developer of the Suez Canal 38 “Use it or lose it” sloganeer 39 Whites 40 D, on a cornerstone 41 Mulligan 43 Black currant liqueur 45 Relative of a stingray 49 ___ Oper (historic concert hall in Frankfurt, Germany) 50 Even 52 “How’s it hangin’?”