Crossword Edited by Will Shortz

ACROSS

Large seashell

1

“Uncle ___

6

Wants You” Social influence

9

Director

14

Kurosawa

Uncle: Sp.

15

Reddish-brown

16

dye

“This is my final

17

offer”

What may have

20

the solution to your vision problems?

Sign up

21

Attire for Caesar

22

Next-___

24

technology

Like something

25

that’s polarizing Licoricelike

32

flavoring Mentions by

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name, in a tweet Word after

34

“That’s my” or “right on”

Opening of

36

an article, in journalism lingo Put off until later,

37

as a motion

Lip service?

39

King Kong or

40

Donkey Kong Forbidden action

41

Official language

42

of Iran

“Get out of the

43

way!”

Bird in a barn

47

Tip (over)

48

D.C. mayor

49

Muriel Not-quite-inshape

52 male physiques

Having no middle

57

ground between success and failure

Country singer

59

Steve

Try to win over

60

romantically

German river to

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the North Sea Material for

62

Cinderella’s slipper

“On the Basis of

63

___” (film about Ruth Bader Ginsburg)

Like some hills

64

and prices

DOWN

Actress Blanchett

1

“Sure, why not”

2

Brand with a

3

swoosh logo

Good reputation,

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in slang

Ponytail

5

necessity

Halting, as rushhour

6 traffic

Put on TV

7

Small mammal

8

that lives mostly underground

Homes in the

9

Alps

Adam ___,

10

longtime panelist on “The Voice” Half of the digits

11

in binary code

Cubit or karat

12

Pic that might

13

use 16-Across Play a trumpet,

18

e.g.

Command to the

19

helmsman from Jean-Luc Picard Purchase at the

23

Met museum, maybe

In ___ land

25

Time in New York

26 W.C. Titular

37 46 when it’s noon in Shakespearean Chicago Tiny builder of king

38

tunnels and hills

Feature Biblical false god

27 49 introduced to the Some college

39 Vegetable used

50 iPhone in 2009 grads, for short to thicken stews Opposite of WNW

28

Hit 2012 musical Counterpart of

41 51

Rogue computer about paperboys columns

29 in “2001: A Thai currency

53

Space Odyssey” Documents,

42

Downloads, 1930s migrant

54

“You have my Desktop, etc.

30 sympathy” Have a nice meal

55

Former Hawaii A,E,I,O,U… Any rung on a

31 44 56 representative and sometimes Y ladder

Gabbard

Big name in DVD Actress Ryan

45 57

Send off, as rays rental kiosks ___ v. Wade

35 58

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