THE NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Succulent lobster piece 5 Still- indevelopment apps 10 Take ___ view of 14 City known as the Navel of Sicily 15 “Are we ___?” 16 Eat by candlelight 17 Jim Beam and others 18 Airport feature 19 Some airplane cargo 20 “Mamma Mia!” number 21 Vandyke locale 22 ___- free ( lowcal, maybe) 24 Preserves on a farm 26 Sharpie feature 28 Witherspoon of “Walk the Line” 29 Grand display 31 Boat turner 32 Collar 34 Fifth- century sacker 35 Word before a sale price 36 Local convenience … or a hint to the words in the shaded squares 39 Blind as ___ 41 “Call ’ em”/” see ’ em” connection 42 “Alphabet series” author Grafton 43 Preposition in many Grafton titles 44 Risking a D. U. I., say 46 Neighbor of Fiji 50 Easily passes 52 “Last Kiss” or “Tell Laura I Love Her” 54 More guileful 55 Facetious “I see” 56 Former chess champion Mikhail 57 Charlie who said “Waiting for tomorrow waste of today” 58 Minuscule amounts 60 Part of a guitarist’s pedalboard 61 Daughter of Hägar the Horrible 62 Figurative use of a word 63 “Believe ___ Not!” 64 25- Down, nonstandardly 65 Start of a toast 66 Pool item?
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1 More to the point 2 “Who wants to volunteer?” 3 Actually existing 4 ___ Palmas 5 Come clean? 6 Plaza girl of fiction 7 Ending with George or James 8 Hydrocarbon suffix 9 March V. I. P.’ s? 10 Fess up ( to) 11 Landline sound 12 Handkerchief embroidery 13 Sitcom cook who said “Stow it!” 21 Like crystal 23 Final: Abbr. 25 “This ___ a drill!” 26 Winter bugs 27 Apply leverage to 30 Rock in Hollywood 33 Group with two apostrophes in its name 35 Cookies that flavor some ice cream 36 British poet laureate Duffy 37 Spot 38 Go one better than 39 B- 52’ s home: Abbr. 40 Moscow ballet company 44 J. Alfred Prufrock creator’s monogram 45 What a slingshot or wishbone has 47 Jot down 48 Chew, as a steak bone 49 Shining brightly 51 Take home the top prize 53 Ninnies 55 Suffix with origin or comment 57 When doubled, a dance 59 Stuff to dig up 60 Part of many a Halloween costume