NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD by Will Short z

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1 Roommate, informally 6 Parade honoree, perhaps 10 Brewer’s need 14 Big name in handbags 15 Withdrawn apple spray 16 James who won a posthumous Pulitzer 17 Gift to an outgoing member of Congress? 20 Hanukkah pancakes 21 Billing cycle, often 22 The University of the South, familiarly 25 Em, to Dorothy 26 Y sporter 27 Rancher’s land 30 Camera type, for short 31 Plant anew 33 Like some elephants 36 Dialect coach’s slogan? 41 Tot’s wheels 42 “The usual,” say 44 A Bush 47 Carl Sagan book 50 “Michael Collins” org. 51 Too firm, perhaps 54 Modern crime, briefly … or a hint to 17-, 36and 59-Across 56 Computer screen lineup 57 He “was here” 59 European gin mill? 64 Romain de Tirtoff’s alias 65 Hence 66 Hale who won three U.S. Opens 67 Nostradamus, e.g. 68 Small songster 69 Spoke sweet nothings

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1 Radar’s rank on “M*A*S*H”: Abbr. 2 “… Mac ___ PC?” 3 Cured fare 4 Miss Quested of “A Passage to India” 5 “You shouldn’t have said that!” 6 Cyber-nuisance 7 Sommer on screen 8 Speaks ill of 9 Notable #4 on the ice 10 Grand Lodge member 11 Most majorleaguers have them 12 Campbell’s variety 13 Restrain, in a way 18 Sun Bowl Stadium sch. 19 Grounded avian 22 Sun. talk 23 Zeno’s home 24 Cheesehead’s state: Abbr. 25 1998 Sarah Mclachlan hit 28 Moves carefully 29 Mountain ___ 32 Leaf-turning time: Abbr. 34 Pontifical 35 D.c.-based media giant 37 Riviera city 38 Bout ender, briefly 39 Pop singer Brickell 40 Soft ball material 43 Wharf pest 44 Breakfast offerings 45 Shout at a concert 46 Literary family name 48 Poet who wrote “They also serve who only stand and wait” 49 Wroclaw’s river, to Poles 52 The “I” of ICBM 53 Tire letters 55 Prefix with foil or phobia 57 Deborah of “Tea and Sympathy” 58 “Bus Stop” playwright 60 Just out 61 1945 battle site, briefly 62 Go head to head 63 What this is, fittingly