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The New York Times Crossword Puzzle

- ADAM AARONSON

ACROSS

1 Maker of the Karma quadcopter drone

6 East Timor’s capital

10 Call to a mate

14 Like white-eyes and wheatears

15 River that’s a letter off from 20-Across

16 Default result, maybe

17 Chilling

18 Capital whose name means “smoky bay,” referencin­g the steam from its hot springs

20 Sea that’s a letter off from

15-Across

21 Hockey star Patrick

22 ___-friendly (ecolabel)

23 Netflix series that caused a 2017 surge in Eggo sales

26 Stadium refrain

27 Palme d’Or field

28 Groups with lots of issues to talk through

31 Not-so-big shot

34 Needing to be charged

35 Donnie ___, title role for Jake Gyllenhaal

36 “Slick”

37 Monitor of a tap

38 Activity with a drawing of names

40 Car music player button

41 Epitome

42 Something good eaters “join” 47 Passages in a long story?

48 ___ Parker (handbag retailer)

49 Suddenly show (up)

51 “Ah, yes, of course …”

53 Director Sam

54 Lead-in to medicine

55 Savory sauce made with chocolate

56 Most likely, in a text 57 Home of the Sultan Qaboos Grand Mosque

58 Got rid of 59 Collection of brains

DOWN

1 Mother (and wife!) of Uranus

2 Stay out for too long?

3 Notorious online hub for illegal file sharing, with “The”

4 Reading, for instance

5 With 39-Down, “Wait!”

6 “Anyone who has ever worn a ___ spells it ‘___,’” per a 2018 New York Times article 7 Nobel-winning daughter of Marie and Pierre Curie 8 What bakers might do their level best to make?

9 Sort

10 “Prego”

preceder

11 County that’s home to Plymouth, England

12 Mocking, maybe

13 Joins

19 Heads 21 Heavily engaged (in)

24 ___-country

25 Chalamet of

2021’s “Dune”

26 9-to-5, e.g.

29 You might take the bait from one

30 Foul up

31 Eponym of Israel’s largest airport

32 Scented products that cause underwater “explosions”

33 “Don’t wait!”

36 You might have a file for this

38 Word with talking or horse

39 See 5-Down

40 Shade of pink

42 Casual pants material

43 2019 Super Bowl loser, for short

44 Lead role in “The Vampire Diaries”

45 First person to appear simultaneo­usly on the American and British covers of Vogue (Oct. 2021)

46 Played out

50 Site of a famous tilt in European history

52 Sport with a big pay-per-view audience, in brief

53 Spinning inits.

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NO. 1113 12/18/21

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