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Across

1 Pattern of five shapes arranged like this puzzle’s central black squares 9 Highlands

memorials

15 Like Davy Jones’s

locker

16 Request before a

deal

17 Type face? 18 Treaty signed by Carter and Brezhnev 19 Some last a

lifetime

20 Grind

22 Hunger (for) 23 Summer Mass.

hrs.

24 ___ Yonath, 2009 Chemistry co-Nobelist 25 No-goodnik 26 Roman’s foe in

the GallicWars 28 Building

supports

30 “Veep” actress

Chlumsky 31 About to

explode, maybe 33 Do some supermarket work

35 More repulsive 37 Chemistry student’s expense

38 With 61-Across, two-time N.C.A.A. football champs of the 2010s 40 Inexperienced

with

41 Puts away 42 Alternatives to

Nikes

44 God with a chariot pulled by goats

47 Overseer of millions at work, perhaps

48 Govt. research

grant org. 49 Ending with

xylyl

50 Goblins, old-style 52 Follow 54 Changed one’s

tune, in brief? 55 One side of the

Ural Mountains 57 Who definitely isn’t the real McCoy? 59 Setting for “The

Great Escape” 60 Present person 61 See 38-Across 62 One of five depicted in this puzzle

Down

1 NATO alphabet letter before Romeo 2 Needing to be

tucked in, say? 3 Disclaimer hinting at false humility 4 Brings home 5 Shout, in

Chamonix 6 SOS responder,

for short 7 Newborn 8 Siteof Coleridge’s “stately pleasure-dome” 9 Paper alternative

to plastic 10 Political commentator Navarro

11 “___ never work” 12 Whence a memorable emperor’s fall 13 Gadfly 14 Reaction to an

unexpected joke 21 ___ City (Baghdad district) 27 Ornaments 28 Sharpen, as a

razor 29 Palindromic tennis champ of the 1990s 30 Hitting

32 Bronze: Lat. 34 Old ___ 35 Tailgate party

sight

36 French dessert of fruit encased in sweet batter 39 Theater director Trevor with three Tonys 40 Language from which “peyote” comes 43 Unfortunate

event 45 Flamingo’s

support, often 46 Blush

51 Flounder relative 52 Brain wave

readers, for short 53 “Really? Is nobody on my side now?” 54 Rackets 56 Something to

shoot for 58 Morocco’s nextlargest city after Casablanca