Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

The New York Times Crossword

No. 0406

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ACROSS

1 *Leave briefly

6 Follow

10 Colorful freshwater fish 15 Midwest hub

16 Mystical character

17 Celeb with a good friend

named Gayle

18 World leader born Vladimir

Ilyich Ulyanov

19 Hankering

20 Subdued hue

21 Seriously vex

22 *Final say

24 Aromathera­py provider,

perhaps

25 How best to determine

consent

27 Coral-based ecosystems 28 Went the distance

31 Pioneer in color TV

32 Start of all Washington, D.C.,

ZIP codes

35 Contingent of like-minded

voters

37 Nation on the Gulf of Oman 39 Like some Quad Cities

residents

41 *All for one

45 Louvre Pyramid architect 46 Witty Mort

47 Mulligan

48 ___ Wee Reese 49 Fund-raising group for the

G.O.P.

52 Didn’t fail

54 Subs

56 Bit of body ink

57 TV screen type, for short 60 *Flies frequently

64 She released “30” in ’21 66 Broadcast again 67 Farming prefix

68 Word with wave and pool 69 “___ luck!”

70 Political commentato­r Joy 71 Arctic people

72 Get-go

73 Monopoly holding 74 Punctuatio­n mark missing in “Let’s eat people!” (at least one would hope!) … as well as from the starred clues

DOWN

1 Animals that become different animals when their first letter is changed to an “M”

2 Oodles

3 Fruit often served in ball form 4 “Brava!” elicitor

5 Busybodies

6 Underhande­d tactics

7 Not manually operated 8 Bring on

9 Longtime news anchor Jim 10 “Seeing the other side of the

matter …”

11 Blunted blades

12 Cereal “for kids”

13 Musical form heard in some

Bollywood films 14 [Don’t forget about me!] 23 Fleeting moment

26 Move about

29 Doxycyclin­e target

30 Some playground attendants 32 Wonderland twin

33 Pixie stick?

34 Not conned by

35 Minor anomaly

36 Shiny fabric

38 Spring’s opposite

40 Brutish sort

42 No-good, backstabbi­ng

scoundrel

43 “How bizarre”

44 Disney’s Queen of Arendelle 50 Pedagogic org.

51 Unfounded rumor 53 Unchanging

54 State capital in the so-called

“Treasure Valley”

55 “Me and Bobby ___” (posthumous #1 hit for Janis Joplin)

58 Something staked 59 Difference symbol, in math 60 Singer/songwriter Guthrie 61 Blindingly bright

62 D.C. nine

63 Buffalo’s county

65 Pet in the town of Bedrock

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