THE NYT CROSSWORD

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1 “Summer’s joys are ___ by use”: Keats 7 Bugaboos 15 Play with an imaginary friend 16 Leader in a suit? 17 Elvira’s love, in opera 18 Sicilian Italian and others 19 Rub elbows with, say 21 More than staggers 22 Setting for many a political rally 23 Film set schlepper 24 Just 25 Extremely endomorphic 28 Three sheets to the wind 31 Ambassador sent by the Vatican 33 Crow 34 Gallery habitué 36 Comedian who voiced the lead in “The Secret Life of Pets” 40 Analogue of Lot’s wife in Greek mythology 42 Sri ___ 43 Runner-up to “Baby Got Back” on VH1’s “40 Greatest One-Hit Wonders of the ’90s” 47 “Go ahead, you got me” 48 “And a Voice to Sing With” memoirist 49 “JAG” spinoff 51 A.L. West team, on scoreboards 52 Masthead listing, for short 53 Certain choke in wrestling 57 Pay off gradually 59 Tour schlepper 60 Like Robinson Crusoe 61 Justice who wrote the unanimous decision in United States v. Nixon 62 Spies 63 Directs (to)

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1 Hall & Oates hit that asks “What went wrong?” 2 It rocks as it rolls 3 Holiday ball 4 The middle Karamazov brother 5 Impart 6 Getting even with 7 Sign of the cross? 8 Election night news 9 “So ___ happened” 10 U.S. city whose name looks like a form of poker 11 Prime minister who helped his country land the 2020 Summer Olympics 12 Crawl on CNBC 13 Automotive pioneer Bugatti 14 Got lippy with 20 Medevac destinations, informally 24 Apportioning 26 Beak 27 Trailer for farm animals? 29 Dissipate, as ardor 30 Island home to the Sleeping Giant mountain 32 Plains tribe 35 ___ Baptist Church, where M.L.K. Sr. and Jr. preached 37 Where you might warm up after a run 38 Supercilious 39 Workers making lots of dough? 41 Tops 43 Building supports 44 Gogol’s Aksenty Poprishchin, per the title 45 San Antoniobased refinery giant that acquired Arco in 2013 46 Little bark 50 Spenders of 100dinar notes depicting Nikola Tesla 53 Subway ___ 54 Subway ___ 55 Blowout 56 Fast runner 58 Baby boomer, in Aussie slang