NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

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1 Set a price of 4 Recede 7 Arrange in folds 12 They may hang out at pubs 15 Brendan of “Crash” 16 Plain as day 17 Way things look to the public, informally 18 Buffalo’s N.H.L. team 19 Puffed snack food 21 Give the go-ahead 22 Revered Muslim 23 Workers in puffy white hats 25 Start of many young rappers’ names 26 Intrinsically 30 2011 U.S. Open champ McIlroy 31 Hazard for takeoffs and landings 32 Astronomical streaker 33 Be behind, in a way 34 Warrior 36 One of two in Princess Leia’s hairstyle 37 Thornton ___, “Our Town” playwright 39 Tit for ___ 40 First lady Truman 41 Daniel who wrote “Robinson Crusoe”

42 “The StarSpangled Banner” contraction 43 Key worker at a restaurant? 44 Sources of saliva and sweat 46 Slip up 47 Game that requires bending 50 Rude rejection 53 Duds 54 Sticker on green products 56 Means of climbing over rural fences 57 They can’t lose 58 One-on-one pupil 59 Target of some football passes 60 Spike of interest in movies?

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1 Some kindergarten lessons 2 Ward of “CSI: NY” 3 Mascot on cookie boxes 4 Long-legged waders 5 Florida gridders, in headlines 6 A/C measure, for short 7 Forrest Gump’s favorite soft drink 8 Gradually increase, with “up”

9 Source of a big percentage of U.S. auto imports 10 Hunt-and-___ typing 11 Gaelic tongue 13 Make thinner, as air 14 Rulers, e.g. … or what the letters in 3-, 7-, 27- and 34-Down all have when written in all caps 15 Points of convergence 20 Ailing 22 Target of a plumber’s snake 23 Throng 24 Mandel of “America’s Got Talent” 27 David Bowie hit with the lyric “You’ve torn your dress, your face is a mess” 28 Boozehound

29 Physicist Mach of Mach number fame 31 Many a Christmas tree 32 Convened 34 “Be my guest!” 35 Blackens 38 Group on top of a loose football 40 Bill for a 28-Down 42 Yoko often seen in sunglasses 43 Like some brides or threats 45 Bellicose Greek god 47 Persist 48 Rebuke to Brutus 49 Going ___ (bickering) 50 Brought into the world 51 Ration, with “out” 52 Conditional word 55 Line that an actor waits to hear