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New york times crossword

no. 0420

- PUZZlE by JoEl fagliano

ACROSS 1 Cruise seat 10 Fastener with a crosspiece 15 Winner of eight Winter Olympics medals in the 2000s 16 Correspond­ed with 17 Household item usually stored upside down 18 Rapper who was part of N.W.A 19 Class struggle? 20 Couple’s matching pair, informally 22 ___ end up 24 Pledge drive plea

25 Lady bird 26 Desperatel­y in need of approval, in modern slang 28 Fair-hiring inits. 31 Animal with the longest gestation, at nearly two years 33 “Wouldn’t that be nice!” 35 Charming 36 Diner fixture 37 Warm place to chill 38 Supply for sautéing 39 Org. in “Inglouriou­s Basterds” 40 Under the specified word, in a reference book 42 Shipping or handling 43 His number 33 is retired by the Lakers 44 Put in play? 45 Part-time newspaper employee 48 Fossey who studied gorillas 50 Stand too close to 51 Pocket of the Mideast 55 Back now after going out?

56 Net sales 57 “Oh, for heaven’s sake!” 58 Entrenched network inside a government

DOWN 1 Cousin of a crow 2 Prefix with -genetic 3 Topic of the mnemonic “Eat An Apple As A Nighttime Snack” 4 Paintings such as “Cat and Bird” and “The Goldfish” 5 Teeth 6 Otter’s den 7 “How clever!” 8 Words of summation 9 Anti-slippage substances 10 With 26-Down, the place of today’s puzzle among all New York Times crosswords 11 Kepler’s contempora­ry and assistant 12 Muck 13 Distance in astronomy: Abbr. 14 Shots are taken off of them 21 Like HBO’s “Last Week Tonight With John Oliver” 22 100+ millionsel­ling band that once held a Guinness record for loudest concert 23 Sol’s counterpar­t 24 Sup

26 See 10-Down 27 German city on the Elbe 28 Historical transition point 29 Simple skate park tricks 30 Space for a lace 32 S.F. winter setting

34 Lit class reading 36 Stick (onto) 38 Not neat 41 Confirmed being locked, as a car 43 Birds on New Zealand dollar coins

44 “To the power of” symbol 45 Foretell the future 46 Diagram of possibilit­ies 47 Capacity 48 Like unfinished laundry 49 Some early computers 52 One out of 10 53 A.C.A. part 54 “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelph­ia” woman

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