THE NYT CROSSWORD
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1Fall apart in competition 5 Discards 10 Calculating sorts, in brief 14 Slews 15 Many-time film co-star of Shatner and Nimoy 16 2,800-mile river to the Laptev Sea 17 Hand on a hacienda 18 Chosen few 19 Given to pretension 20 Got plenty of healthful food 22 Some wind blowers 24 Model company? 25 Store with magazines 26 Tiny fey sort 27 Involuntary test subjects 31 Refusal in Inverness 32 Ocular affliction 34 Hero architect in “The Fountainhead” 35 Ones easily taken 36 Bad candidate for gymnastics 38 In history 39 It had more than 10 million subscribers in the 1990s 40 Knotty growth 41 Anniversary gift between pottery and steel 42 ___ Tzu (dog) 44 Get comfy on a sofa or bed, say 46 Like some avant-garde music 48 It’s wellrounded 49 Image in the night sky over Gotham 51 ___ Balls (snack items) 52 Second City train inits. 53 Very basic things 55 Wrapped up in court? 57 Pretended 58 Part of a flight 59 Grace’s last name on “Will & Grace” 60 Comment section disclaimer 61 Quite 62 Coffeehouse selection 63 Gather 64 Swamp dweller 65 Antiseptic brand since 1889 66 Diminutive Italian suffix
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1 “Hot” things 2 Slanted 3 “Butt out!” 4 Not anonymous 5 With 45-Down, effect used by astronomers to measure distance 6 Room in Clue 7 Barely make (out) 8 Contemporary of Modernism 9 With 46-Down, chill out 10 Insured’s filing 11 Everyone’s duty? 12 Defense against infestation 13 Agrees 21 Potential dragon roll ingredient 23 Extraction target 28 You may follow in its wake 29 Stable figures? 30 Unyielding 33 17th ___ of Oxford, author of Shakespeare’s plays, by some accounts 35 London area next to Mayfair 37 Goof 39 Regarding 40 With 43-Down, make peace … or what you must do to complete this puzzle? 43 See 40-Down 44 Chuck who was part of the Watergate Seven 45 See 5-Down 46 See 9-Down 47 Great Plains tribe 50 Order in a rush order 51 Take care of 54 Tricky situation 56 Nonkosher deli orders 57 Act out