NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
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1 Hit hard
5 Beats it
11 Org. with the Wizards and Warriors 14 Prefix meaning “wine”
15 Pub spigot
16 Path of a blooper
17 Rating for many a sitcom
18 Ahab’s inspiration?
19 Give a whuppin’
20 *Acts phony
22 Chopin piece
24 Sweat units
25 Beehive contents
26 Carl who wrote “Contact”
29 “WTF With Marc Maron,” for one 32 Industry kingpin
33 2002 animated film with a woolly mammoth
36 Warm, action-oriented sort, they say 37 Part of S O S, in popular usage 38 Each asterisked clue vis-à-vis its answer
39 Little trickster
40 Scepter’s go-with
41 Like an evangelical Christian 42 Phrase on a yard sale tag 43 Kitchen gadgets for mixing 45 Unable to sit still
46 Mother that might have a beard 47 Fast-food utensil
50 2000s teen drama set in California 52 *Hint: hotel 56 Sharpshooter’s asset
57 Kevin ___, investor on TV’s “Shark Tank”
59 As a result
60 Rx watchdog
61 Sweetums
62 Alaska, before 1959: Abbr.
63 Start of many CB radio codes 64 Stands in a studio
65 “So it may ___” DOWN
1 Ones always tossing things back? 2 Impose, as a tax
3 Potentially offensive, in brief
4 Relative of a discotheque
5 One of the Obama daughters
6 Implore
7 Slants
8 “Let’s leave ___ that”
9 Mai ___
10 Order from a police officer
11 *A trails nut
12 Thin fastener
13 Target of an astringent
21 “The tongue of the mind,” per Cervantes 23 Little jerk
25 Paul of “Crocodile Dundee”
26 Cartoon uncle of Scrappy-Doo, informally
27 Bright blue
28 *Bag manager
29 Catherine who married Henry VIII 30 Big rigs
31 Young slave girl in “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” 33 Like gases in the rightmost column of the periodic table
34 They measure miles in meters
35 “I” strain?
38 One of seven for New York City 42 Common wear for female tennis players 44 Besides
45 Shapiro of NPR
47 Social media button
48 Danger
49 “Absolutely!”
50 President who later served as chief justice
51 Cry to guests at a surprise party 52 Twinings products
53 One leaving in the spring? 54 Brutish sort
55 Average guy?
58 Pasture