The New York Times

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1 Nonmagical sort, in the Harry Potter universe

7 What’s found in cafés but not coffee shops?

13 Spanish loves

14 St. Bernard or

mastiff, often

15 Hoity-toity types

16 Goofus

17 Wireless speaker

brand

18 Place

19 Fencing equipment

20 Shade akin to

fuchsia

23 Part of Q.E.D.

24 _ _ _ blind

27 Dispenser of drafts

28 “Black gold” or

“Texas tea”

30 Out of the office

32 Nine-digit ID

34 One leaving its pad

quickly

39 Astronomical objects represented by the circled letters in this puzzle

42 One righting

writing

43 “The lowest form of humor — when you don’t think of it first,” per Oscar Levant

44 “The Song of the ___” (Willa Cather novel)

First Chinese dynasty

45

1 13 μ 000 47 Broadcaster of “The Price Is Right” for more than four decades

49 Letters requesting

help

50 Back talk

54 Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque, for two

57 Offering in church

59 Noche’s

counterpart

60 Nevada senator

Jacky

64 Low-calorie cookie

spinoff

66 Adverb in a

contract

67 Eccentrics

68 Produce oxidation

in

69 Author Hemingway

70 Tablet tool

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1 Service that might

be in Latin

2 “Yeah, that won’t

work for me”

3 “I’m listening ...”

4 Many a wedding

cake topper

5 Unleashes on

6 Intro to sociology?

7 “Evita” setting:

Abbr.

8 Word with tax or

cheat

9 Type of car whose name comes from the French word for “cut”

10 Toon hunting for a

“scwewy wabbit”

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11 Site of a mythical

lion slaying

12 Romantic

rendezvous

14 “Me, too!”

16 Patty’s place

18 ___ Challenge (famous taste test)

21 Gut-related

22 Some short-term

rentals

24 Hightail it

25 Was behind

26 Island between

Java and Lombok

29 W.C.

31 As of now

33 Bit of shut-eye

35 450, in ancient

Rome

36 Sorento and

Telluride

37 Amazon-owned

home Wi-Fi brand

38 Scolding sounds

40 Part of some “Red” or “White” uniforms

41 St. ___ (Caribbean

isle)

46 Some German cars

48 Word on the ___

50 “Uncle Tom’s

Cabin” author

51 Broadcaster

52 Oktoberfest vessel

53 Place to wash up?

55 Son of, in Arabic

surnames

56 “___, not ___!”

58 Approx. when

planes take off

61 Circus barker?

62 “Not you, too!?”

63 Disappointing

R.S.V.P.s

65 Over 100, say

66 Gives birth to