NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

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1 Flies (along) 5 Clutter 8 What spies collect 13 Voyaging 14 Flaming Gorge locale 16 Who has scored more than 850

points in an official Scrabble game 17 Frolic 18 “Beloved” author Morrison 19 Bagpipe music, maybe 20 Delt neighbor 21 You might slip on it 22 Fragrant compound 23 Lucy ___, title character in Sir Walter Scott’s “The Bride of Lammermoor” 25 Security Council veto 27 Sure-___ 29 Shellacs 31 First name in folk 32 ___ factor 37 Drippings, maybe 38 City in southern California 40 Unloading point 41 Food processor? 43 Overseas 44 Like some numbers and beef 45 Bill producers, for short 48 You might slip on it 51 Extemporizes 54 Theater’s ___ Siddons Award 55 Assign stars to 57 Distillery sight 58 Prefix with type 59 Plaintiff 60 Agree 61 Western German city 62 Shade providers 63 Genesis locale 64 Big name in tractors 65 ___-square 66 Wallop

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1 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee with only one Top 40 hit 2 British ___ 3 Sign of puberty, maybe 4 For example 5 Certain horror film villain 6 Alma mater for David Cameron 7 Site of slippage … both geographically and in this puzzle 8 Thorough 9 “Make some ___!” 10 Calorie-heavy dessert 11 Richard ___, “War Zone Diary”

journalist 12 What womanizers do 15 Glistening, as Christmas ornaments 21 Haunted house sounds 24 Actor Maguire 26 Lead-in to plane 28 Site of a piercing 29 Forest female 30 ___ Burgundy, the anchorman in

“Anchorman” 33 Splenda competitor 34 Make pieces of pieces? 35 OPEC member: Abbr. 36 Barrett of Pink Floyd 38 ___ Israel Medical Center 39 Experiment site 42 The speed of sound 44 See 46-Down 46 With 44-Down, “key” invention of

the 1830s 47 500 people? 48 Carefully examine 49 Appeared 50 Something to pare, informally 52 Genesis locale 53 Blocked vessel opener 54 Tore 56 Agenda part 60 One of the Bushes