Antelope Valley Press

NEW YORK TIMES DAILY CROSSWORD

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ACROSS

1 Musical measures 5 Stats for HS students 9 Positive quality 14 Corporate bigwig 15 Figure on a

Monopoly card 16 Guy of Food Network

fame

17 Additional­ly

18 Ye ___ Shoppe 19 Pup’s peeves

20 Topic of debate regarding online service providers 23 And so forth: Abbr. 24 Arab dignitary 25 Much of a Facebook

feed

28 “Ready, ___, go!” 31 “Now I get it!” 33 Evil-repelling trinket 35 Feign sleep 39 Jacques ___, “Mon

Oncle” filmmaker 40 Basic trick at a

skatepark

41 Eighth mo. 42 Personific­ation

of evil

43 Not spoil

44 Helpful feature for

tyops ... um, typos 46 Novelist Hemingway 48 “___ out!” (ump’s

shout)

49 P, to Plato

50 Its motto is “All the News That’s Fit to Print,” in brief 51 Stroke on a golf

green

54 Product that’s often

mint-flavored 56 Opposition party group in British politics 62 Created for a certain purpose, as a committee

64 Fish’s breathing organ 65 Nativity gift givers 66 Go “zzz”

67 Fruit with a cedilla

in its name 68 Worshipped figure 69 Pieces that are typically sacrificed in gambits

70 “This email is

finished” button 71 Action that can be done to the starts of 20-, 35-, 44- and 56-Across

DOWN

1 Noggin

2 Rod through two

wheels

3 Pause, on sheet

music

4 British biscuit 5 Mustachioe­d Marx

brother

6 Bombard, as with

snowballs 7 Comedian Eric

8 Hot shower

emanation

9 Declare confidentl­y 10 Riverbank deposit 11 “Hasta la vista!” 12 Distinctiv­e

period

13 “___ the season ...” 21 French word for a leg of the Tour de France

22 Actor Hemsworth of “The Hunger Games”

26 Unfasten

27 Drunk, in dated

slang

28 Like commands given to Siri and Alexa

29 ___ Queen, crime

novel pseudonym 30 “The X Factor” or

“The Voice” 32 Right away 34 Destinatio­n of the Mormon migration

36 Cry of pain

37 Take to court 38 Unattracti­ve 42 Wash with elbow

grease

44 Mate for a mare 45 Passport or driver’s

license 47 What_the_ underlines_in_ this_clue_show 52 Attire on many

Roman statues 53 How many times Bette Davis won Best Actress 55 Imitate

57 Common center of a steering wheel

58 Tight-knit tribe 59 Zilch, zip, zero 60 Senses of

self-worth

61 Be at an angle 62 Nile serpent 63 23andMe sample

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PUZZLE BY SIMON MAROTTE Edited by Will Shortz No. 0523

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