THE NYT CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Happening after doors open on Black Friday
8 Draw
15 Colorful circles
16 Ronan of “Lady Bird”
17 1982 movie starring Julie Andrews 19 Elicited with difficulty
20 Some mortgage adjustments, in brief
23 Run, old-style
24 Skeletons in the closet, so to speak 28 To be, overseas
29 Tighten (up)
31 Money holder
32 Swimmer Ian who won three gold medals in the 2000 Olympics 34 Japanese floor mat
36 Helpful people to know
37 Warning sign
41 Triple ___
42 Collegiate basketball competition, for short
43 Like Natalie Portman, by birth
44 It ended during the Napoleonic Wars: Abbr.
45 Kind of switch
47 Label owned by Sony Music 48 Good earth
50 Formerly
51 Its second ed. contains about 59 million words
52 Miss the mark
53 1% alternative
55 Like many radios
57 A long way off
60 Common sign-off
61 Source of the word “kiwi” 62 River draining 11 countries 63 8:00-9:00 p.m. in prime time, e.g. 64 Deduce
65 Down in the dumps
66 Go down, in a way
67 Like many A.T.M.s
68 Primetime ___
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1 Western Conference player, informally
2 Shapiro of public radio
3 World AIDS Day mo.
4 More eccentric
5 Soothing succulents
6 1986 #1 Starship hit with the lyric “I’ll never find another girl like you” 7 Third-person pronoun 8 Parenthesized comments
9 Food truck offering, maybe 10 Figure, as a sum
11 It may be read to the rowdy 12 Sheet music abbr.
13 Hit CBS series with three spinoffs
14 Spill the ___ (dish out gossip) 18 Line on a leaf
20 Holder of many cones
21 Like some cuisines
22 2008 movie starring Michael Sheen and Frank Langella
25 Movie with graphic violence … or what 17-Across, 22-Down or 39-Down each is?
26 Some board game equipment 27 Jazzes (up)
29 Souvenir shop purchases
30 List shortcut
33 Information on a ticket
35 Light on one’s feet
38 “ER” role for Paul McCrane
39 1997 movie starring John Travolta and Nicolas Cage
40 Like many pipes nowadays 46 Knock down
49 Like butterscotch
53 Annual Austin festival, for short 54 ___ nut
55 Dictator deposed in 1979 56 Swampland, e.g. 58 Many a university donor, informally 59 “Ratatouille” rat