NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
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1 Haberdashery accessory 8 Round measures 14 Homer with one R.B.I., in baseball lingo 16 Certain spuds 17 Clearheaded 18 Swear at 19 That’s so irritating! 20 Speed up 22 Demesne 25 Actress Fisher 27 The night before on the day after, maybe 28 Whom basilicas are often named after: Abbr. 31 Carried the day
32 Dine quickly 36 Tree that’s among the oldest known life forms on earth (4,800+ years) 37 They have little respect for brand names 38 Reuters competitor 39 “Better ___ …” 40 What a person in trouble — or performing on stage — wants 41 Boll weevil, for one 43 Unwanted crowd sounds 46 Kind of hickory
49 Hebrew for “father” 53 Island governed by three different countries 54 Center of a maze 57 Apothegms 58 Thou, for one 59 Things that are declared 60 Pippi Longstocking types
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1 Crimean War leader 2 Joe Hardy’s girlfriend in the Hardy Boys books 3 Wings
4 How die-hard defenders may hold out 5 Volcanic ___ 6 Castro comrade 7 Locale of the 2018 Winter Olympics 8 Mock 9 Pointed out, in a way 10 Sides of PacMan’s mouth, essentially 11 “Huh!” 12 Things of interest to house buyers? 13 1040 fig. 15 Actual wording 21 Some trattoria preparations
23 Without hitting someone over the head, say 24 Historic destination in County Kerry, Ireland 26 Relative of a blind, in poker 27 Colonial rule in India
29 ___ place (part of a decimal) 30 Inscribed pillars 32 Fanta product 33 Name that’s an anagram of THE BAR 34 Place with drips, for short 35 Prepares for the bar?
36 Certain bra spec
42 One of the letters of NATO, in the NATO alphabet 44 Destructive 2017 hurricane 45 Go around 47 Actor Will of “The Waltons” 48 Head honcho 50 Actor Scott of “Happy Days” 51 Packed 52 Assets for QBs 53 “Pow!” 55 Sarge, for one 56 Unit in a calculation of power