Crossword

No. 0206

ACROSS

1 Loud commotion 4 Yeshiva leader 9 Films on a grand scale 14 Year, in Spain 15 Ifa>band b>c,thena >c, e.g. 16 Kind of lily 17 Winter solstice mo. 18 Lowest point for Americans? 20 Crow 22 Like nylon stockings 23 Audi rival 24 Like the architecture of many cathedrals 27 Visibly blushing 29 American-made sports car with a V-10 engine 32 Plains Indian 33 Posted announcement at a theater entrance 34 Andean capital 35 Southernmost of the Ivies 36 Bass, e.g. 40 Storage tower 43 Mount that has an insurance company named after it 44 Commotion 47 Solvers’ cries 48 Film character who says “Give yourself to the dark side” 51 Poll worker’s request 53 From the beginning: Lat. 54 Prefix with center 55 Nosy sort 58 ___ room (postdebate area) 59 Prototype, maybe 63 Item in Santa’s bag 64 Exhaust 65 Dim with tears 66 Closemouthed 67 Blog entries 68 More or less, informally 69 Letter before tee

DOWN

1 Some schlumpy male physiques 2 Mistakenly 3 “Sorry, Charlie!” 4 Wicked cool 5 Dismiss abruptly 6 Favoritism 7 Not just one or the other 8 Arriver’s cry 9 Online greeting 10 Bud 11 “O.K., tell me more” 12 The Tigers of the A.C.C. 13 Pourer’s instruction 19 Zig or zag 21 [This tastes awful!] 25 Prefix with commute 26 ___ Wilcox, daughter in E. M. Forster’s “Howards End” 28 Amazing, in slang 30 Rapscallion 31 Road worker 36 Rx detail 37 Mel who was the first N.L.’er to hit 500 home runs 38 How many TV shows are shown nowadays 39 Give in 40 Put some money away 41 “Fingers crossed!” 42 SoCal daily 44 Sign on a real or virtual pet 45 Tricky … or a tricky description of 18-, 29-, 36-, 48- and 59-Across 46 Words and phrases that sound approximately alike, like “ice scream” and “I scream” 48 Eat stylishly 49 Cute, in modern slang 50 Reply to a ques. 52 Replies to an invitation 56 ___ Accords (1990s peace agreements) 57 Common fishing spot 60 Openly gay 61 ___ bran 62 Org. that sticks to its guns?

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