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The New York Times Crossword
ACROSS
1 Commercial prefix with Turf
6 Inspiring lust
10 Like about half the games on a team’s schedule
14 First little pig’s building material
15 Rouse
16 Snitched
17 Representatives Sessions (R-TX) and Aguilar (D-CA), for instance?
19 “Famous” cookie name
20 A pop
21 “Bali ___” (Rodgers and Hammerstein show tune)
22 Nauru’s capital
24 Sault ___ Marie
25 Why many people visit Napa?
28 Key on the left side of a keyboard
29 “Handy” thing to know, for short?
30 RR stop
31 Nurseries?
36 Bud in baseball’s Hall of Fame
38 A thou
39 Outlet from the left ventricle
41 “Je t’___” (“I love you”: Fr.)
42 Fairy tale baddies
44 What ice trays typically do?
46 Its symbol is Sn
47 Western tribe
49 Overrule
50 President Herbert’s wife and mother, e.g.?
54 Company with a mascot named Leo
57 ___ di Pietro, artist better known as Fra Angelico
58 “___ Majesty” (what to call a king)
59 De ___ (by law)
60 Singer Guthrie
61 Play “Name That Tune”?
64 Where Cinderella lost her slipper
65 Swarming pest
66 Biblical queendom
67 French buddies
68 They may cover a lot of ground
69 Mountain chain about 5,000 miles long … or a hint to 17-, 25-, 31-, 44-, 50- and 61-Across
DOWN
1 Fire remnants
2 Relative of a mink
3 Query after a knock-downdrag-out fight
4 Reckless, as a decision
5 Fall behind
6 Say on a stack of Bibles
7 Weird Al Yankovic’s first hit
8 Classic Jaguar model
9 “Oh, absolutely!”
10 Game company that introduced Breakout
11 Movement that Ms. magazine developed out of
12 Period enjoyed by an introvert
13 Football stats: Abbr.
18 Irrational fear
23 Hole punches
25 Followers of mis
26 “___ mañana!”
27 Wise ones
28 Rug rat
31 Alternative to the counter at a diner
32 Cardiologist’s X-ray
33 Mathematician Daniel after whom a principle is named
34 Words repeated by Lady Macbeth in Act V, Scene 1
35 Word following “Able was I …”
37 French waters
40 “Gunsmoke” star James
43 Went after, in a way
45 Modern prefix with gender
48 Band with the 1966 #1 hit “Wild Thing,” with “the”
51 Baroque stringed instruments
52 In the lead
53 Vapors
54 Less bright, as colors
55 Diving bird
56 Monument Valley sights
59 Lav
60 Bygone court org. — or current court org.
62 Half of due
63 Org. based in Fort Meade, Md.
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