NEW YORK TIMES DAILY CROSSWORD 27 Make ___ of 28 Inits. before Queen Elizabeth 29 Bit of farm food 30 Suffix with press 31 Stand-up comedians, typically 33 Good thing to have on the record 34 Umami enhancer 35 WWII combat inits. 37 Verbally lose it, with
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1 One who’s left holding the bag? 7 Dessert with layers 14 Like roughly one-eighth of the U.S. population 17 The Haitian Revolution and the Aponte Conspiracy of 1812, e.g. 18 Took a hit 19 Where to make one’s voice heard, with “the” 20 Contemporary artist Carrie ___ Weems 21 Fleece “wearer” 22 Esther of “Good Times” 23 A word before we forget? 24 Detective story? 26 James Clavell bestseller “___-Pan” 28 Tabbies, e.g. 32 Post-op persona, perhaps 36 Sort who might be testing the waters 38 Place 39 Rock band with the 2023 album “This Stupid World” 40 Org. associated with interceptions 42 Butts (in) 43 Wordle and others 46 Basketball legend Thomas
48 French word in vineyards 51 Lug 52 Music score abbr. 53 Word on either side of “to” 55 Key to understanding ancient history? 58 What you might use to play music on a beach 59 Having down pat 60 Remittance recipients
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1 ___ system 2 Like water in a stream 3 Rapper Aubrey Graham, who’s known professionally by his middle name 4 Great fall 5 Like some drinks and injuries 6 Hammer home? 7 Be ripe 8 Bit of fish food 9 Things typically copied-and-pasted — rather than typed manually — in messages 10 Find ___ (Nintendo minigame) 11 Christmas carol title starter 12 Grams 13 Map of Hawaii, often 15 Modern coinage for someone turned successful through their celebrity parents 16 Republicans in the 1850s, typically 22 Hot bed? 23 Feudal superiors 24 Sherpas, e.g. 25 Gives, but not for good
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