The New York Times Crossword

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1 Crooked, as a painting on the wall 6 Nine-digit ID 9 How revenge (or pizza for breakfast) is best served 13 Steeple 14 Noshed 15 Corporate rule or regulation 16 Concept that can’t be criticized or questioned, metaphorically 18 Tennis’s Agassi 19 Torah holders 20 Bigeye or yellowfin tuna, at a sushi bar 21 Feel great sorrow 22 Shout made with a fist pump 23 Seafood often served with picks 25 Dab, as with a paper towel 27 Chicago trains 28 Not showy 30 Language spoken in Bangkok 32 Ballet dancer’s knee bend 36 Pre-employment investigation 39 “A guy walks into a bar …” may start one 40 Caesar’s words to Brutus 41 Music Mann? 42 Shoofly ___ 43 Norway’s biggest city 44 Cocktail named for two iconic beverage brands 50 Catch forty winks 53 Changes, as a hemline 54 22-Across, in French 55 Regarding 56 Latin for “in itself” 57 Behaved in a laidback way 59 Connections for car wheels 60 Author Edgar Allan ___ 61 In an unusual way 62 Army’s football rival 63 Mr. Potato Head piece 64 Sell illegally, as tickets

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1 Test for purity 2 What a diagonal line represents on a bowling scoresheet 3 Relaxes 4 Commits a fumble 5 Small, to a Scot 6 Borat creator ___ Baron Cohen 7 Showing no emotion 8 Either “N” in NY, NY 9 Jaded doubter 10 More ancient 11 Stage in a butterfly’s development 12 Socially inept sort 15 Poets of yore 17 It’s tossed toward a bull’s-eye 21 Frozen 23 Viet ___ (armed force of the 1960s-’70s) 24 Reeves of the “Matrix” films 26 Thumbs-up on Facebook 28 Gooey lunchbox sandwich, informally 29 Language spoken in Vientiane 30 Schlepped 31 Primitive dwelling 32 TV’S Dr. ___ 33 San Pellegrino offering 34 “Rocks” that clink in a drink 35 _ _ _ out a living 37 Rider’s handful 38 Assignment for a lawyer 42 Removes skin from 43 “The Grapes of Wrath” figure 44 Mount Fuji’s locale 45 Amazon “assistant” 46 PC command to paste 47 Ken who wrote “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” 48 Hot drink with marshmallows 49 Word before space or limits 51 Coral islet chain 52 Coral reef producer 55 “Highway to Hell” rock group … or a hint to electrical switches found in 16-, 23-, 36-, 44and 57-Across 57 Gorilla, e.g. 58 Uno + uno