NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

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1 Add-on to the start or end of a word stem (as in 17-, 25-, 35-, 49and 57-Across) 6 Forward 11 Players who spend most of their time on the bench, briefly 14 ___ Club, 1930s-’60s

New York hot spot 15 Peer of Ellington 16 Fish of the genus

Moringua 17 Unnecessary words cluttering wise sayings? 19 Rai ___ (Italian TV

channel) 20 Google results 21 Dropper? 22 See 36-Down 24 ___ Shuffle (boxing

move) 25 Threat in

“Armageddon”? 28 Salad bar tidbit 30 Pile of glacial debris 31 When repeated, words before “burning bright” to start a William Blake poem 32 Bark 34 Nap finish? 35 Good place for a

picnic? 38 German interjections 41 Honor His Honor, say 42 Pushes for 46 Fly-catching birds 48 Out 49 Like a tenacious

sibling? 52 Nutritional fig. 53 Additions and

deletions, say 54 Soak 55 Old Dodge 56 Sharp-edged tool 57 “We’ve taken the city, but can we defend it?”? 61 Festa de ___ João 62 Native parka wearer 63 Sharp-crested ridge 64 Directional ending 65 Peter who directed

“The Dresser” 66 Like an unlucky

encierro participant

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1 Urban playground surface 2 Kansas mil. post built in 1853 3 Support 4 Sportscaster Cross and others 5 Classic Jaguar 6 Arafat successor 7 Israel’s third-largest city 8 That: Sp. 9 Insurance giant on the N.Y.S.E. 10 Further in 11 City named after the

French for “strait” 12 Princess Leia, e.g. 13 Not Rubens’s type 18 Agitate 23 They can be felt in a

classroom 25 Extreme 26 Belted, in the Bible 27 It’s sold in tubs 29 Least windy 32 Top of a bottom 33 Former intelligence

agcy. 36 Three-term title for

22-Across: Abbr. 37 Like some lips 38 Quiet, in a way 39 Cheeseburger cheese 40 A ship may appear on

it 43 More likely to make

you sick, say 44 Postscript 45 Like some glass or

wood 47 Europe’s Bay of ___ 48 L’eiger, e.g. 50 -like 51 Runaways 55 Spanish alternative? 58 Brazilian greeting 59 Take home 60 Not stay all the way up