NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
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1 “Stat!” 5 Long, loose dress
11 “___ NewsHour” 14 Lady ___, anthem singer at Biden’s inauguration 15 Like the first “d” in “Wednesday” 16 Ad ___ 17 Leader of an oil-rich land, maybe 18 *Seat for the ruler of the Seven Kingdoms of Westeros
20 T, in a sorority 22 Poem of tribute 23 “Movin’ ___” (“The Jeffersons” theme) 24 *Devotee of Jerry Garcia’s band 28 Pants measurement 29 Craftsperson 30 Bride-to-be 32 Honey bunch? 33 Makes plenty angry 35 Map abbr. until 1991 36 *“Can You Feel the Love Tonight” singer/ composer 39 Home of the N.B.A.’s Thunder, for short 42 Submit 43 Delays no more 47 Canadian city whose name consists of two consecutive boys’ names 49 “Hot” place for a cat in theater 51 Attribute 52 *Decisive defeat 53 Word after wild or rolled
54 I
56 Key near Caps Lock
57 One using crude language … or one saying the last parts of the answers to the starred clues?
61 Life is a long one 64 Lanai strings 65 “The ___ Show” (bestselling album of 2002) 66 County name in New York, Ohio and Pennsylvania 67 To be, in Spanish 68 Like some truck trailers 69 Stash
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1 What a tot might indicate by holding up fingers
2 Dr. Seuss’ ___-I-am 3 Stir up 4 Heaven 5 CBS forensic series 6 Space shuttle supply 7 Inundate 8 Be in charge of, as a bar 9 Kick in seed money 10 Last in a mathematical series 11 Subject that teaches the varying “ch” sounds of “cheap,” “chaos” and “charade” 12 Add-ons 13 King’s rod 19 Speckled horse 21 Speech fillers 24 Little bit, as of cream 25 Before, in poetry 26 Day for an egg hunt 27 Lover of Cleopatra 28 Laundry 30 Tex-Mex dish served in a soft tortilla 31 “Just leave the job to me” 34 Last part 37 Exam for a future D.A. 38 Does voice work for a documentary, say 39 Creature that might squirt ink and use tools 40 Activity done while reading a screen 41 Apt anagram of RATTLE + C 44 Late-night rival of Kimmel and Fallon 45 Exceedingly 46 Hub NW of LAX 48 Heart 50 Court divider 52 Concern for a medic 54 Actress Watson of the “Harry Potter” films 55 Enter 58 Although 59 Shirt named for its shape 60 “I dunno …” 62 ___ Grande 63 Kitten’s sound