NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

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1 Number of countries between los Estados Unidos y Colombia 5 Cantina snacks

10 First name in 1950s comedy

14 State bird of Minnesota 15 Olympic champion Ohno

16 Watt or knot

17 Civil defense measure, concisely?

19 ___ good example 20 Taken off

21 Ghostly

23 Recollection of something that just happened, concisely?

26 Revs up

28 Not fooled by

29 Place to wear a tuxedo 30 Make an evasive maneuver 32 Illuminated eerily, perhaps

36 “The Raven” monogram

37 Pair in a salsa band 40 Figure skater Midori 41 With an ___ the future 43 Campaign-supporting

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44 Some

45 A long stretch 48 Department store staffers 50 Make a polite visit, concisely?

54 Christina on Rolling Stone’s list of “100 Greatest Singers of All Time”

55 “Great job!”

58 Fifth Avenue concern 59 “That. Was. A. Blast!,” concisely?

62 Dry cleaner’s challenge 63 Squaresville

64 Dinar spender

65 Dark periods, in poetry 66 Defense alliance from 1954 to ’77

67 Sp. titles

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1 Count in Lemony Snicket books

Tesla ___ Astrological creation

Just because

Tiny amount

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Aplomb

Sports standout Grave

Aid in tidying up the house

Calendario commencer

Musical instrument whose name means “three strings” 13 Four-time World Cup champion

18 How a tie may be broken, in brief

22 Whale constellation

24 ___ Shah Pahlavi, former leader of Iran

25 Title based on the name “Caesar” 26 Relative of a foil

27 Cavity revealer

31 Breach

33 Godsend

34 Old Roman course 35 Garage services

37 Bump in a ski run 38 Cartoonist who created Fearless Fosdick 39 Part of a spread 42 Lao-tzu and others 44 Somers or Winters 46 Southernmost active volcano on earth

47 Tranquil

49 Silo filler, in brief 50 No longer either hot or cool?

51 Showing amazement

52 River to the Bering Sea 53 One of the Obamas 56 Aloe ___

57 Planets and moons 60 Small songbird

61 Wall St. news

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