NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
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1 Big, in adspeak
5 Game show shout-out
10 “Miss ___ Regrets,” jazz standard performed by Ethel Waters and Ella Fitzgerald
14 Draft picks
15 Grammy category
16 Sport shooting variety
17 After the top half of a 7-Down,
sophisticated lady
19 Total War game company
20 His murder elicited the first wail of
mourning, in Islamic accounts 21 Lead-in to care
23 Icy remark?
24 When the Lyrid meteor shower typically
peaks
26 Bucolic call
27 Sport shooting variety
29 King of cubs
30 Before the bottom half of a 7-Down,
tipple and then some
32 That, en España
33 Carrie in “Sex and the City”
34 Flash point?
36 Savage
40 Stopped producing new leads, as an
investigation
44 Apt rhyme for “lumberjacks”
45 After the top half of a 42-Down, circles
around the block?
48 Leave out
49 Silly
50 “Live well” sloganeer
51 You can see right through it
52 MC ___ of N.W.A
53 Talk up
55 Where you might search for a lead? 56 Stained, in a way
58 Before the bottom half of a 42-Down, keeps arguing after something has been decided
62 Prerelease, in Silicon Valley
63 Japanese automaker
64 Isle known as “The Gathering Place”
65 Funk 66 Throat malady, for short 67 Graph component
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1 Portrait seen on renminbi bank notes 2 Pole worker
3 “Cool it, lovebirds”
4 Rubbish receptacle
5 Cry of pain … or laughter
6 Major talking point on CNBC, maybe
7 Hybrid creature of myth
8 City sieged by Joan of Arc 9 ANTI-D.U.I. org.
10 “Fourth periods” in hockey, for short
11 A host of answers?
12 “Seconded”
13 Rival of Athens
18 Sushi bar choice
22 Follower of Christmas or Easter 24 Son in “Tess of the D’urbervilles”
25 ___ Pizza (punny trattoria name) 26 It may be wireless
28 Green smoothie ingredient 30 Liquid-plumr alternative
31 Some tribal leaders on “Game of
Thrones”
33 Playwright Bertolt
35 Bucolic beasts
37 Certain protective parent,
colloquially
38 Graph component
39 “Sounds like a plan”
41 Late-night interviewee, e.g.
42 Hybrid creature of myth
43 “Lord of the Rings” baddie
45 Gummy candy brand
46 Kicked things off
47 Connect with
48 Hard one to teach, in a saying
51 Inits. in a.m. TV
54 They might be tied using a taiko
musubi (“drum knot”)
55 “Time ___!”
57 Maneuverable, in nautical lingo 59 Philosopher Mo-___
60 Sushi bar choice
61 Letdown at a fireworks show