NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

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1 Cruise seat 10 Fastener with a

crosspiece 15 Winner of eight Winter Olympics medals in the 2000s 16 Corresponded

with 17 Household item usually stored upside down 18 Rapper who was

part of N. W. A 19 Class struggle? 20 Couple’s matching pair, informally 22 ___ end up 24 Pledge drive plea 25 Lady bird 26 Desperately in need of approval, in modern slang 28 Fair- hiring inits. 31 Animal with the longest gestation, at nearly two years 33 “Wouldn’t that

be nice!” 35 Charming 36 Diner fixture 37 Warm place to

chill 38 Supply for

sautéing 39 Org. in “Inglourious Basterds” 40 Under the specified word, in a reference book 42 Shipping or

handling 43 His number 33 is retired by the Lakers 44 Put in play? 45 Part- time newspaper employee 48 Fossey who

studied gorillas 50 Stand too close

to 51 Pocket of the

Mideast 55 Back now after

going out? 56 Net sales 57 “Oh, for heaven’s

sake!” 58 Entrenched network inside a government

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1 Cousin of a crow 2 Prefix with

- genetic 3 Topic of the mnemonic “Eat An Apple As A Nighttime Snack” 4 Paintings such as “Cat and Bird” and “The Goldfish” 5 Teeth 6 Otter’s den 7 “How clever!” 8 Words of

summation 9 Anti- slippage

substances 10 With 26- Down, the place of today’s puzzle among all New York Times crosswords 11 Kepler’s contemporary and assistant 12 Muck 13 Distance in

astronomy: Abbr. 14 Shots are taken

off of them 21 Like HBO’s “Last Week Tonight With John Oliver” 22 100+ millionselling band that once held a Guinness record for loudest concert 23 Sol’s counterpart 24 Sup 26 See 10- Down 27 German city on

the Elbe 28 Historical

transition point 29 Simple skate

park tricks 30 Space for a lace 32 S. F. winter

setting 34 Lit class reading 36 Stick ( onto) 38 Not neat 41 Confirmed being

locked, as a car 43 Birds on New Zealand dollar coins 44 “To the power of ”

symbol 45 Foretell the

future 46 Diagram of

possibilities 47 Capacity 48 Like unfinished

laundry 49 Some early

computers 52 One out of 10 53 A. C. A. part 54 “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia” woman