The New York Times crossword puzzle
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1 Perspective 5 Police alert, for short 8 Candy often used in science fair volcanoes 14 Proactiv target 15 Sound that might be heard in a 16- Across 16 It’s for the birds 17 “Sanford and Son” star of 1970s TV 19 High- end shampoo brand 20 General reply? 21 Put one’s foot down 23 Subject of some “management” courses 25 Warning letters next to a link 29 Had in mind 33 Rowed 36 Equal 37 Brand in the pet food aisle 38 Shot blocker? 40 Zealot 42 Grenache, for one 43 BP rival 45 ___ Domini 46 Coastal indentation 47 “The Times They Are a- Changin’” songwriter 48 Big name in vacuum cleaners 49 Branches 51 Hostility, in British slang 53 Collar attachment 56 Cuneiform discovery site 61 Sister chain of Marshalls 64 Beer brand whose logo hints at the answers to 17-, 19-, 38-, 43- and 61- Across 66 Dormmate, e. g. 67 Artist Jean who pioneered in Dadaism 68 Relative of a tangelo 69 Brewers’ fermenting agents 70 Like some humor or spells 71 On the briny
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1 “Your mileage may ___” 2 Drink brand with a polar bear symbol 3 Objectives 4 Unites 5 ___ squash 6 Curse 7 Prime theater location 8 Oodles of 9 Still 10 U. S. president who becomes the president of future Earth on “Futurama” 11 Burden 12 Sch. in Tulsa 13 Part of GPS: Abbr. 18 Decree 22 Making it big 24 Tourist transports in Venice 26 Fifth- century invaders of England 27 California city whose name is Spanish for “ash tree” 28 “It’s a date!” 29 City 20 miles NW of 27- Down 30 Quack medicine offering 31 Culmination of a challenging H. S. course 32 Manhattan neighborhood next to the East Village 34 Black- hearted 35 Degree of expertise in martial arts 38 West Point team 39 Discovery of Wilhelm Roentgen, which earned him the first Nobel Prize in Physics in 1901 41 “So what?” 44 Second- largest Arabicspeaking city after Cairo 48 Taj Mahal feature 50 Poetry competitions 52 Hoarse 54 Way out 55 Lines of a plane 57 Light blue 58 Bearskins, maybe 59 River along which 56- Across is located 60 It’s on one side of the Urals 61 Take a shot 62 Average guy 63 Extinct relative of the kiwi 65 Hockey legend Bobby