NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Word with straw or exit
5 Kept in the loop, in a way
9 Org. originally founded to protect carriage horses
13 Oregon-based shoe company
14 Ring light?
15 Broken up
16 Atingle, maybe
17 Gaelic language
18 The hate in hate mail
19 Name in price lists?
20 Larson who won Best Actress for 2015’s “Room”
21 ___ Heights
22 Instruct for a new job, say
24 Unfashionable unisex hairstyle
26 Burros
27 Black-tie affairs
29 Projection from the fashionably late
30 Short life?
32 Groove
33 Fresh talk
34 Fortunate circumstances … or a punny hint to the shaded letters
37 Some tap offerings, in brief
39 Susan of “L.A. Law”
40 Cousin of a cassowary
41 Like some of the mil.
42 Actress Thompson of “Sorry to Bother You”
44 Super-super
48 John who wrote “The Pelican Brief”
50 More up-anddown, as a relationship
52 Up
53 Guitarist’s accessory
54 Surveillance org.
55 Really hate
56 Short meeting?
57 French breakfast item that sounds like a response to a gut punch
58 A little of this, a little of that
59 One who may need credentials
60 Avatar of Vishnu
61 Give up
62 A moose has a big one
63 “Less Than Zero” writer ___ Easton Ellis
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1 Big bakery/cafe chain
2 Seeds-to-be
3 Caps
4 Place to conduct forensics
5 French beloved
6 What sharing is, per a rhyming expression
7 Otherwise
8 Mommie deerest?
9 Something you need to do to solve crosswords
10 Universal solutions
11 Pastries with a portmanteau name
12 Where bills get passed, for short
15 Swears
20 Meat-and-potatoes
21 Colonel Sanders feature
23 “U R A Q-T!,” e.g.
24 “It was all a ___”
25 Some PH.D. students
28 Fast-food chain with a cowboy hat in its logo
31 “Whatever you say, hon”
33 Move furtively
34 Showered, as with gifts
35 Quaint response of agreement
36 “Duck ___” (classic Warner Bros. cartoon short)
37 Gerund suffix
38 Bit of preachy prose
42 Left base?
43 Emerges
45 Lack of musical skill
46 Take up again
47 Oslo Accords figure
49 Gem
51 Earthy hue
53 Philippine currency
55 Start of a kindergarten ditty
56 Good picnic forecast
57 56-Down, e.g.