NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
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1 Little man 5 Less likely to be caught 15 Dueler’s option 16 Washington city famous for its sweet onions 17 Virginia and Truckee Railroad terminus 18 Gr ave words 19 Keeps from backing up 21 Dis appointed outburst 22 Spring’ s opposite 23 Number of letters 27 Women who might share the same surname 30 Net game? 31 P et sound 34 A dministrative title 35 Man in black, perhaps 36 Novelist Jaffe 37 Dim wit 38 Rule of order? 40 Lincoln signed it into law in 1862 41 Lik e some deliveries 43 “I forbid,” to Caesar 44 ___ Sea (the “Sea of Islands”) 45 Collections of episodes 48 Cab supplier 53 Part of a pod 54 Chlorofluoro-carbons damage it 55 V assal’s reward 56 Shot blockers 57 L ose vividness
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1 Major quinoa exporter 2 Boot hills? 3 Car ol king 4 Taxonomic terms, for instance 5 Big gulp 6T ropical acquisitions, maybe 7 Clas sic vineyard tree 8 Cask beverage 9 Fly the coop 10 Smalle st prime 11 School attended by Churchill 12 Old war story 13 Give a lift to 14 Merlin Olsen’s team 20 P ro-am tourney, often 23 “D er Judenstaat” movement 24 Las er alternative 25 What parents might prompt kids to say 26 E xec’s perk 27 T om Collins ingredient 28 Handle again? 29 Eight -footer? 31 Suspensions of activity 32 Nestled 33 Steam engine pioneer James 36 Leaves, as in a western 38 Multiplicity 39 Br oad bean 40 Mount St. ___ 41 W on thing 42 Talked ad nauseam 44 Not on base? 45 F uture reporter 46 Needs to make a retraction 47 On base 49 Dry, on Champagne bottles 50 “Rockaria!” band, briefly 51 Place to go, for short 52 Str ong base