The New York Times crossword puzzle

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1 Singer Del Rey 5 Giant walking combat vehicle in “Star Wars” films 9 Stuffs 14 Not just occasionally 15 Blue shade 16 Without backup 17 Poppycock 18 Release, as a song, in modern lingo 19 “OK, you win” 20 Something directly following a penultimate position — that is to say, diametrically opposed to a primary one 23 Gracefully send away 24 Passing comment? 25 Girl group with the 1999 #1 album “FanMail” 26 90s, say 31 Lie in the sun 34 Like an oven 36 Demographic figure 37 “Bullet” in a food fight 38 Female kangaroo 39 Golden blades that may be tenderly chew’d by equine or bovine beings 44 None of it is good, as the saying goes 45 One committing insurance fraud, maybe 46 Prospector’s find 48 ___ Halles (central food market in Paris, once) 49 It may end with a reality check 53 The cat’s meow, baby. Dig? 57 Follower of pigs or cows 58 Be plentiful 59 In perpetuity 60 Country sound 61 Black-andwhite swimmer 62 Name meaning “born again” 63 Shipment 64 Actor Damon 65 Till section

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1 Drink from a machine 2 Colorful kind of shirt 3 Common congestion points 4 Figure skater, for one 5 With more of the same sort 6 Donna ___, 2014 Pulitzer winner for “The Goldfinch” 7 Confess openly 8 Mistakke, of a sort? 9 Agreed to tie the knot 10 North African capital 11 Work 12 “That most odious and antisocial of all passions”: John Stuart Mill 13 Date 21 Pioneering I.S.P. 22 Four-star 26 Wiped out 27 Human rights lawyer Clooney 28 Number two 29 What crystal jellies do when disturbed 30 Views 31 ___ Men (one-hit wonder group of 2000) 32 Food thickener 33 Janitor’s janglers 35 Decides 40 Not doing a darn thing 41 Cry toward the end of a list 42 Source of some omega-3s 43 It may be rolled out for exercise 44 Competitor of 21-Down 47 Cartoonist Chast 49 Tape recorder button 50 Torn asunder 51 TV producer Chaiken 52 Funerary burners 53 Classic name in audio equipment 54 Shakespeare character who says “How sharper than a serpent’s tooth it is / To have a thankless child!” 55 Model in a science classroom 56 Computing prefix 57 Alternative to an ellipsis

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