The New York Times Crossword

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ACROSS

1 Word with cake or

shop

7 Ones with something

to prove?

15 “Baba ___” (“CSI: NY”

theme)

16 Greek

17 Time release?

18 Shot in the back 19 Pichelsteiner, pozole

and pot-au-feu

20 It can show you the

way

21 Rush

22 Nickname for Eric Cartwright on “Bonanza”

23 Starbucks 12-ouncers 25 Go a few rounds 26 Material in doblones 27 Speaker of the words “Ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil,” in Genesis 29 Wanders around LAX

or JFK?

30 Deterrent to squatting 33 Rather impressionable?

34 Sam who won at the

Battle of San Jacinto 38 Metaphorical source of the next generation of coders and researchers

40 Hoedown lass 43 Played from the tipoff,

say 44 Largest labor union in

the U.S.: Abbr.

45 The Miners of Conference USA, informally 47 “The ___ the theft, the sweeter the honey”: Edmund Clarence Stedman

48 Company originally

called Zimride

49 With 6-Down, acute

power of discernment 51 ___ Palmas, capital of

Gran Canaria

52 Back at the track 53 Coming after

55 “Cut it out!”

56 Big 12 college town 57 Flourishes

58 Like 4x4 sudoku, typically

59 City in Fitzgerald’s

“Tender Is the Night”

DOWN

1 Series of crimes? 2 Stravinsky’s “Oedipus

Rex,” for one

3 Sends in a huff 4 Moves from the head

to the mouth

5 Fish in the order Anguilliformes

6 See 49-Across

7 Home to Blofeld’s lair in “On Her Majesty’s Secret Service” 8 Classic chairs with

shield-shaped backs 9 Part of REO 10 Part of REO

11 Avoids a service

break?

12 Hanging on every

word

13 Sporty Mazdas 14 Cornea neighbor 20 Pac-Man and the ghosts, in Pac-Man cereal

23 Collections dating back to the Han dynasty

24 Nosy Parker

27 Hot rods?

28 Set straight

31 “___ all a blur” 32 Broadband letters 35 Any student at Acme

Looniversity 36 Self-serving comment?

37 What ataxophobes

crave

39 Extricate with leverage

40 Name shared by the composers Holst and Mahler

41 In

42 Certain autumn tourist, slangily

46 Far from crisp, as text 48 Clunker car

50 Barre bend

52 Weapon on a cord 54 Mauna ___

55 Home of “The Monkees” on 1960s TV