NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
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1 Cry of disgust
4 One cleansed by Jesus
9 Outlet, for one
14 Food fig.
15 President with the same first and last name as his father
16 Amount to give
17 Power increaser
18 First two characters entered in 39-Across
20 Place to find a cluster of stars?
22 Joe Namath and Vinny Testaverde, notably
23 “Watermark” singer, 1988
24 ___ Alpha Theta, first Greek-letter sorority in the U.S.
27 Affected
28 Co. with an image of Mercury in its logo 30 Argentina was named after it
32 Live
34 Assents at sea
35 Onetime competitor of RCA and Columbia
38 Shade of brown
39 Response to solving this puzzle, symbolically
40 Poison ___
42 Rhyming “Dr.”
43 “Hold your horses!”
45 Research institution in Atlanta 46 Shows derision, in a way
48 Expo, today
49 Dovetail (with)
52 Myrrh, for one
54 Rub the wrong way
57 Treasures
59 In the news
61 Last character entered in 39-Across 64 Palindromic brand in the kitchen 65 Something to lend
66 Longtime Susan Lucci role on “All My Children”
67 Con opener?
68 What the mnemonic “Every good boy does fine” represents 69 “Olympia” painter
70 Georgia, once: Abbr.
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1 End of every verse of “The StarSpangled Banner”
2 Online moderator, for short 3 Expression seen in 39-Across 4 Bananas
5 Offering on Amazon
6 Capital of the Canary Islands, after “Las”
7 Indie rock genre 8 Commanded
9 Home to a mythical ferry
10 Item sometimes next to a cash register
11 Survey option
12 Butler of renown 13 Minuscule, informally
19 It’s more than a fling
21 Pi or phi, in math
25 Perches for some musicians
26 ___ Rock
29 Like curtains and cartoons 31 Center of the Krupp family dynasty 32 Condition with tics, for short 33 Winter Olympics powerhouse: Abbr. 35 Images such as 39-Across
36 Sully
37 Unfriendly
39 Blot on a landscape
41 Rich, savory flavor
44 Raised block of the earth’s crust, to a geologist
46 Unruffled
47 Doesn’t officially enroll 49 Country with the second greatest number of McDonald’s restaurants after the U.S. [2,900+]
50 Home of the Sawtooth National Forest
51 Character who popularized the “mankini”
53 “Neat”
55 Some document transmissions 56 One of 163 in the Burj Khalifa 58 Extremities
60 Princeton Review subj. 62 Bottom line?
63 Alternative to Gain