CROSSWORD
NEW YORK TIMES
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1 “Save your excuses” 8 Part of the Constitution
15 Grant access
16 Half of the digits have this
17 Edible kernel
18 Built up
19 Cross-shaped mil. award
20 Not so lenient
22 You, overseas
23 Death or destruction
25 “___ the Agent” (old comic strip)
26 Naval Academy students, informally
27 Auntie ___ (pretzel chain)
29 Target of a heist
32 Not let go of something
34 In advance of
35 A to Z
36 Platform for chatting
44 Filmmaker whose directorial debut was “This Is Spinal Tap”
45 “You’re making me blush!”
46 Forever and a day
47 Suffragist Carrie Chapman ___
49 Word after who, what, where, when, why or how
50 Utterance made while shaking
51 Hit 2014 musical based on a 1992 film
54 Abbr. in a financial report
55 White whales
57 English headwear with a short visor
59 Time off
60 Target, as an audience
61 The Muses and others
62 Like many of the Minions in “Despicable Me”
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1 Pacific flatfish
2 With a guest, on a guest list
3 Penn State campus site
4 DVD attachment?
5 Much of a flock
6 Car whose name means “reward”
7 Ugandan city on Lake Victoria
8 Finished
9 Setting for Broadway’s “The Light in the Piazza”
10 Common sports injury
11 They can help you get jobs 12 Senator who was one of the assassins of Julius Caesar
13 Go unused
14 Destined to inherit the throne
21 Gold-certifying org.
24 Things seen in a shower
26 “Hero and Leander” poet
28 Platoon V.I.P.
30 Sadiq ___, London mayor elected in 2016
31 Gorky Reservoir river
33 Grocery section
36 Stop wasting energy, say
37 Ohio school 38 Boxes
39 Source of a river
40 Style symbolizing luxury and glamour
41 Intense sobbing with a contorted face, in modern lingo
42 Willful?
43 Green bean, e.g.
44 Hoi polloi sorts
48 God father?
51 Tequila chaser
52 It’s used in preparing tamales
53 “See here …”
56 “It’s no ___” 58 Previously