NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
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1 “Beg pardon …” 5 Help in a heist 9 Looked slack-jawed 14 Like an eat bed 15 King noted for saying “How sharper than a serpent’s tooth it is /To have a thankless child!” 16 Still in the running 17 “This won’t hurt ___!” 18 Setting for the highest-grossing movie of 1939 19 George whose name is a lead-in to “film” 20 Politician in charge of pasta? 23 Early anesthetic 24 ___-Drive, popular light-powered watch 25 Dice toss es 29 Hang in there 34 Comfy shoe 37 Me ans of transportation in “Cinderella” 39“Am I my brother’s keeper?” brother 40 Pasta, apparently? 44 Circus horn honker 45 Cotton candy, mostly 46 Original “King Kong” studio 47 Corrida combatant 50 Some used cars, informally 52 Hole maker 54 Orchard Field, today 58 Car d game with pasta for stakes? 64 Philip Morris brand 65 Word said with a handshake 66 Latvia’ s capital 67 In the same way 68 1996 Gwyneth Paltrow title role 69 H HH 70 Knight’ s mount 71 “Angels We Have Heard on High,” e.g. 72 Mentally together
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1 Wow 2 Something to kick or break 3 British poet/ critic Sitwell 4 Job at which one excels 5 Certain sax 6 L over boy 7 Yield, as interest 8 Tiny amount 9 Tank unit 10 Reunion attendee, briefly 11 12-point type 12 Hunter who wrote “The Blackboard Jungle” 13 ___ Moines 21 Spring blooms 22 Cap material? 26 So the by’s collection 27 There are three for motion 28 Search all over 30 Court figures, briefly 31 Foe of the taxi industry 32 Stink to high heaven 33 Muppet who speaks in a falsetto 34 Ending with second or upper 35 Dessert item that was clued as “Mountain: Comb. form” in old crosswords 36 White House policy chief 38 Donald Trump catchword 41 Bullring cheer 42 Cat’s seat, maybe 43 Show exhaustion 48 Went on a tirade 49 Be in hock 51 Beach resort locales 53 Filled with cargo 55 Muscular Japanese dog 56 Daughter of 15-Across 57 Expunge 58 Clobber with snowballs, say 59 The Gem City, so-called because of its sparkling lake 60 Gr eek figure on many a trophy 61 Jule s Verne captain 62 Broken, as a bronco 63 P resident Chaim Weizmann was on its first flight 64 Some postgrad degrees