THE NYT CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Secondhand
5 Native of Muscat
10 Drama units
14 Like photos that violate one of Instagram’s community guidelines
15 Betray by selling out
16 Unadorned
17 Legendary N.Y.C. punk rock club
18 Really vex
19 Common picnic side dish
20 Leave gobsmacked
21 W.W.E. head Vince ___
23 By way of
24 Verbally consented
26 Coming to
28 Tenor Ronan ___
29 Early hrs.
32 Something “common” that’s not really so common
33 Like bats, cats and rats
36 With 40Across, comment to someone who
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39 Amanda of Nickelodeon’s “The Amanda Show”
40 See 36-Across
44 “Great” primate
45 Church recesses
46 “Selma” director DuVernay
47 Courage
50 Antonym: Abbr.
51 Hit a fourbagger
53 To the point that
54 ___ of Good Feelings
55 Absolutely love
56 Network on the telly, with “the”
57 Cool, to a jive talker
58 Go a mile a minute
59 Pulitzer-winning playwright for “Both Your Houses”
63 “___ you serious?”
64 Eurasian animals with antlers
65 Before, to poets
66 Donkey
67 Foot bones
68 Wet blanket?
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1 Still to be filled, as a role
2 With 12-Down, places where a thoughtless person
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3 Enter by sidling
4 Ball belle, briefly
5 Hoover competitor
6 “Just the facts, ___”
7 Lead-in to girl or boy
8 Biblical patriarch-turnedsailor
9 Being pulled
10 Muscles in sit-ups, informally
11 Comics boy who says “Reality continues to ruin my life”
12 See 2-Down
13 Underground waste
21 “___ Lisa”
22 Org. prominent at Cape Canaveral
25 Title for Judi Dench
27 Casino game
29 “Parks and Recreation” star
30 Crowds one’s seatmates, in a way … or a hint to the circled letters
31 Nighttime breathing disorder
34 Deg. for a C.E.O.
35 Magazine no.
36 Four-time N.B.A. champ Ginobili
37 Free drink locales
38 Corners in geometry
41 Skedaddled
42 Always, quaintly
43 Like a steak that’s “still mooing”
48 Panorama, e.g.
49 Mount ___, highest peak in the Rockies
51 Abusive sorts in a fraternity
52 Scent
59 Goat’s call
60 Hawaii’s Mauna ___
61 Joe Biden’s state: Abbr.
62 Never-beforeseen