THE NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
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1 Period just before dark 5 Sprint 9 Barnyard brayers 14 “Do ___ others as …” 15 ___- bitty 16 Goes like a racecar 17 Item accompanying a pencil in miniature golf 19 Em and Jemima 20 Judging component at a beauty pageant 21 Face- to- face exams 23 Hurled weapon 24 Money available for nonessentials 28 Poet Ogden 30 Hawaiian medicine man 31 C. I. O.’ s partner 34 Lifeguard areas 37 When flights are due in, for short 38 Food, warmth or a cozy bed 42 See 33- Down 43 Hotel robe material 44 Cloud’s place 45 Samantha’s mother on “Bewitched” 48 ___ of Sandwich 50 Stuffed figure in a cornfield 53 Make sport of 57 Native of 58- Across 58 The Last Frontier state 59 Beginning of a Flintstones cry 62 Gym locale … or feature of 17-, 24-, 38- and 50- Across 64 Premature 65 Elvis’s middle name 66 Many a new driver 67 High heels, e. g. 68 It’s often long at Disneyland 69 Dinner scraps
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1 Does some light housework 2 Take the lid off 3 Embezzled, e. g. 4 Like Hyundais or Kias 5 Place to find wds. 6 One thing ___ time 7 Barber’s sharpener 8 Nine- headed serpent of myth 9 Red or pink bloom 10 Second- incommand in a kitchen 11 Junior, to Senior 12 CPR expert 13 Leaky tire sound 18 Mesmerized 22 Noah’s construction 24 Position between second and third, informally 25 Hyundai and Kia 26 Cattiness 27 Quickly made, as a decision 29 Not worth a ___ 31 Symptoms of rheumatism 32 Swiss currency 33 With 42- Across, help out 35 “To Kill a Mockingbird” author Harper EDITED BY WILL SHORTZ 36 Item in the hardware department with a “+” or “–” on its head 39 So darned cute 40 ___ pro nobis 41 ___ Beach, S. C. 46 Pass- the- baton events 47 Fortunate card to have with a queen or king in blackjack 49 Makeshift shelter 51 Out of town? 52 Cheri formerly of “S. N. L.” 54 Fall bloomer 55 Sport with clay pigeons 56 Makes, as wages 58 Proactiv target 59 “You betcha!” 60 Response to a massage 61 Preppy, party- loving, egotistical male, in modern lingo 63 Swindle