The New York Times Crossword
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1 “All Things Considered” airer 4 Sloth, e.g. 7 Wasn’t a smooth talker? 13 Singer Grande, to fans 14 “___ soon?” 15 Vanquish 16 Price of a horror film? 18 Expand to 800% 19 Big online site for uploading photos and memes 20 Antique 22 Word accompanying a lightning bolt 23 Spanish direction 24 Spanish royal 25 Balance 28 King in the “Jungle Book” films 30 Be quietly angry 32 “The Good ___” 35 Soap opera, e.g. 37 Where It. is found 38 Leave on the cutting room floor 40 This puzzle’s theme 42 Word with science or chocolate 43 Like Antarctica among all the continents 45 Historic enemy of the Iroquois 46 Poorly made 48 YouTube statistics 50 Put an edge on 51 Had the reins 52 On 55 Rearward 57 “Take ___” 58 Separates into groups that don’t communicate 60 “Turandot” composer 63 Shakespeare character who says “I kiss’d thee ere I kill’d thee” 65 They may come with bows and whistles 66 Handle 67 Indisposed 68 Like the word “truthiness,” by Stephen Colbert 69 Besmirch 70 Follower of red, pink or black
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1 Blue-skinned race in “Avatar” 2 Like the two 40-Across in the grid for this answer 3 Telephones 4 Binaural 5 Accelerator bit 6 Infamy 7 Bird of myth 8 DreamWorks’s first animated film 9 Like the two 40-Across in the grid for this answer 10 Person pulling the strings? 11 Fish with tiny scales 12 “Dr.” who cofounded Death Row Records 15 Wyoming town named for a frontiersman 17 Tonkatsu, in Japanese cuisine 21 Bad look superhero 27 Cut short 29 Loan-sharking 30 Fry in a shallow pan 31 Common street name in the Northeast 32 Language in which “Thank you very much” is “Diolch yn fawr iawn” 33 Where I-15 meets I-86 34 Like the two 40-Across in the grid for this answer 36 Inverted 39 Like the two 40-Across in the grid for this answer 41 Closest pal 44 Like the two 40-Across in the grid for this answer 47 Military alert system 49 Tiny purchase for a plumber 51 ___ Lane 53 Skateboarding maneuver 54 Classic name for a parrot 56 Tucker out 59 Only 60 Chest muscle, for short 61 57-Across, en español 62 Homer’s neighbor 64 Big airport inits.