THE NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

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1 Gaping opening 4 Tees off 10 Salon service 13 Hoo-has 15 “Easy Rider” ride 16 Beginning to mature? 17 Christian symbol used during the Crusades 19 Coastal feature 20 Expert 21 Bit of electric guitar play 23 Epoxy, e.g. 24 Trading insider Boesky 26 Ages ago 27 Results of refrigerator raids 29 Fathered 30 Prime or crime follower 33 Small amount of liquor 34 Many an informative tweet 35 Wordsworth’s “___: Intimations of Immortality” 36 New England architectural style 38 Best effort 39 Early Stephen King thriller 41 Charles, for one 42 Ball opener? 43 Gulf of Aqaba resort city 44 “… And God Created Woman” actress 46 Its highest possible score is 240, for short 47 Jam 48 Space blanket material 52 St. Francis of Assisi, for one 54 Chain owned by Wyndham Worldwide 55 Hit animated film of 2011 56 Time of annual madness … or a hint to four squares in this puzzle 59 Colorful carp 60 One way to study 61 Falsetto-voiced Muppet 62 It has many famous alums 63 Some NASA designs 64 Big Sur institute

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1 Epic 2 Singer who was awarded an M.B.E. in 2013 3 An argument 4 Ordinary guy: Var. 5 XXX part 6 Misidentify, e.g. 7 Warm greetings? 8 Unstable physics particle 9 Alphabetizing, e.g.: Abbr. 10 Cracks, as piping 11 “The Very Hungry Caterpillar” author 12 It whistles while it works 14 Flat on one’s back 18 Italian port on the Tyrrhenian Sea 22 Theater magnate Marcus 24 “Come hungry. Leave happy” sloganeer 25 Expert 28 Assists, e.g. 29 Sack 30 Mother of the Freedom Movement, to friends 31 What a ticket is good for

32 Electrical transformer 34 Reason to be barred from a bar

36 Simple 29-Down

37 Part of a tennis net 40 One way to be running or working 42 Stonewall, say 44 Tummy soother 45 Baseball All-Star Infante 47 Tolkien protagonist 49 Big dipper 50 Water 51 So-called “laboratory’s first gift to the loom” 53 Way up? 54 Country addresses, for short 57 Baby’s sound 58 “2 Broke Girls” actress Dennings