N.Y. TIMES CROSSWORD
Across
1 Growing group 12 Extremely, in modern lingo 15 Hollywood star whose grandfather was the Cuban patriot José Martí 16 Home of the city and county of Waterford: Abbr. 17 1980s electronic innovation from Detroit 18 Sprint Cup Series sponsor 19 Steamed 20 Many an attendance fig. 21 Basketball Hall-of-Famer Dan 23 Opera genre for “Tosca” and “Pagliacci” 25 Green curtains? 27 Cartoon crony of Fancy-Fancy and ChooChoo 29 Mine entrance 30 Hooked projection on a bird feather 34 Drizzling clouds 36 New York city near the Pennsylvania border 37 ___ Season Tip-Off (annual hoops event) 39 “Hurray!” 40 Thwart 42 Like seven of the 12 presidents between 1869 and 1923 44 Part of E.M.S.: Abbr. 45 Conditional construct in computer programming 47 Clark Gable film that was a remake of his “Red Dust” 49 Personal info such as education and work history 54 Like Homer Simpson or Herman Munster 55 Big D campus 57 Novarro who played Ben-Hur 58 E.M.S. offering 59 Hydrophilic 62 Prefix with -lithic 63 Ones using slides 64 Doubly hyphenated ID 65 Half-volley in tennis, e.g.
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1 When “Double, double toil and trouble” is chanted in “Macbeth” 2 Largest employer in the Midwest’s Quad Cities, for short 3 NATO alphabet letter 4 Actress Christine 5 Lily Tomlin character with a headset 6 Show sign 7 Burst, in a way 8 Birds whose eggs are incubated by males 9 AriZona competitor 10 Half of hex11 Prefix with linguistics 12 Pride of Moscow? 13 One making People look good? 14 Ozone layer issue 22 Seal of office for some pharaohs 24 Bit of footwear, for short 26 Price abbr. 28 Awards that have had a Healthcare category since 2009 30 Unconventional sorts 31 Tender towards one’s exes? 32 Failed to honor 33 Defendant’s complaint 35 Good deal 38 Area with lawns and picket fences, informally 41 Follower of 50-Down 43 Super Bowl whose pregame show honored the Apollo astronauts 46 Unappreciated by 48 Series often seen with S’s on the ends 50 ’60s president 51 Some drivers with “slowmoving vehicle” reflectors 52 Sidekick of film and TV 53 Common Allen wrench? 56 Ice Bucket Challenge, e.g. 60 N.L. West team, on scoreboards 61 Start of many California place names