The New York Times Crossword

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ACROSS

1 Snake charmer’s

snake

6 Pushy

11 Coquettishly playful 14 First zodiac sign 15 Highway

16 Network of medical

providers, in brief 17 Country bumpkin’s

counterpart 19 Oil-drilling apparatus 20 Weed-whacking tool 21 Assists

22 Prius maker 24 Following

26 From Shanghai or

Mumbai, say 27 Woman having literary interests

31 Hosts for roasts 34 Carried the day 35 Corporate head, for

short

36 Group choosing a

35-Across 37 Smucker’s product 38 Grew ashen

40 Hit on the head

41 Ad exhortation 42 Solitary sorts 43 Pompous person 47 Usually spicy Indian

dish

48 Disheveled

52 Lou on six winning

World Series teams 54 Soup can painter

Warhol 55 Motorists’ org. 56 “How ___ doing?” 57 Know-it-all

60 Smith & Wesson product

61 Swimming phenom

Ledecky

62 Fjord, e.g.

63 He hee-haws 64 Slammin’ Sammy of

golf

65 King on “CBS This

Morning”

DOWN

1 Hidden stash

2 Hunter in the night

sky

3 What fishermen want from fish but not from mosquitoes

4 Heroine of “Star Wars:

The Last Jedi” 5 Attacked vigorously 6 What you might come

across at a river? 7 Fierce fliers of myth 8 Diving bird of the

Arctic

9 High, wide-brimmed

hat

10 Brave

11 Historical account 12 Skip

13 Hindu-inspired exercise

18 “Peanuts” boy with a

security blanket 23 Shaggy Tibetan beast 25 Cab company competitor

26 Elemental bit 28 Persuades 29 ___-do-well

30 Mount Olympus residents

31 Subsides

32 No longer relevant 33 Monkeys named for

monks

37 Children’s writer

Blume

38 Looney Tunes character who says “Th-th-ththat’s all, folks!” 39 Card game stake 41 Ingmar who directed

“The Seventh Seal” 42 Lucky ___ (nickname for the Spirit of St. Louis pilot)

44 Taboo for PETA

45 Pats down, as a suspect

46 Pursued, as prey 49 Virile

50 Dev who starred in

2016’s “Lion”

51 One of the five senses 52 Infatuated

53 Birds on Australian

coins

54 Operatic solo 58 Cleaned one’s plate 59 Santa ___ winds