NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

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1 A ewe for you, say 6 Mideast’s Gulf of ___ 11 Swelling reducer 14 Popped up

15 Some bonds,

for short

16 Yule drink

17 Was barely victorious,

as in boxing 19 Brooklyn Brown or

Newcastle Brown 20 Storage unit 21 Diplomacy

22 Hershey coconut bar 24 Mavens

26 Cole Porter song from

“Kiss Me, Kate”

28 Not for kids, say 30 Acquires the film rights

to

31 Target numbers 34 Saturn S.U.V. 35 Baseball rarities nowadays … or a phonetic hint to the starts of 17-, 26-, 48- and 57-Across 39 ___-lacto-vegetarian 40 More blue

41 Ones who never listen

to oldies?

44 Big name in oil

48 As something different

to do 51 Mediterranean tourist attraction

52 Bo’s’n’s quarters

53 Oil or kerosene

55 Bit of work

56 Swear words? 57 Opposite of“consumed daintily”

60 Stephen of“V for Vendetta”

61 Tender spots

62 How many times the little hand goes around in a full day 63 Strongman player on “The A-Team”

64 Not quite a strike 65 Possessed

DOWN 1 Where to order oysters 2 Beethoven’s Third

3 Lift : elevator :: ___ : car

hood

4 Mil. morale booster 5 On its way

6 Gas brand with a torch

in its logo

7 World capital at 9,350

feet 8 “Commonwealth”nov

elist Patchett 9 Computer image file

format 10 Put into categories 11 60 minutes from now 12 Brewskis

13 Casts out

18 Do beat work 23 Everything, with“the” 25 Forest giants

27 Given medicine

29 Do some voice work 32 Actress Thompson 33 “Caught ya!” 35 Often-naive reformer 36 Garment left in a cloak

room

37 Magazine with an Agency of the Year award 38 “Zip-a-___-Doo-Dah” 41 Validate

42 High-end Mercedes

line

43 Lonely place, so they

say

45 Substitute (for)

46 How curry dishes are

often served 47 Pestered

49 A Lion, but not a Tiger,

informally

50 External appearance 54 Jared of“Dallas Buyers

Club”

58 ___ of Good Feelings 59 “So cute!”