THE NYT CROSSWORD
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1 Terra ___ (old name for Newfoundland)
5 Symbol for torque
8 Malfunction
13 1977 Lucas film
15 Jewish organization known for its outreach work
17 Dish featuring corn chips as a main ingredient
18 Regarding this matter
19 Took top honors
20 1871 Eliot novel
22 Stamp collector’s unit
23 Immigrant’s course, for short
24 Syllable in oldies songs
25 Off-axis
28 Dial, e.g.
30 1924 Gershwin composition
35 Self-referential
36 Bush denizen, for short
37 Lead-in to boy
39 2010 Bush autobiography
44 Coupling device
45 Heavily involved
46 Actor Robert of 1970s-’80s TV’s “Quincy, M.E.”
49 Early platform for The Legend of Zelda, for short
50 Colony members
51 1970 Harrison song
54 Wifey, with “the”
57 Looking skyward
58 Easy way to get information on something nowadays
60 Raising of spirits?
61 Exclamation that describes 13-, 20-, 30-, 39- and 51-Across
62 Fire
63 ___ chi ch’uan
64 Gymnastics event, informally
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2 Other, in Oaxaca
3 Pointless
4 “___ does not surpass nature, but only brings it to perfection”: Cervantes
5 Access
6 Bum ___
7 Amazon category
8 Secretary of state during the Korean War
9 Place to find solutions in school
10 Plantation of book and film
11 Some paid rides
12 Aid in quitting smoking
14 Word before Day or World on magazine racks
16 Capital of Qatar
21 Scrape or cut
22 Office of the Vatican
25 Place for a
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26 Sloughed off
27 Like the baby in a 91/2-month pregnancy
29 Highland patterns
31 Like the Atacama Desert among all places on earth
32 “___-hoo!” 33 Magazine founder Eric
34 Suffix with major
38 “Poor venomous fool,” in Shakespeare
40 Playwright Eugène
41 Flying pest, slangily
42 Polish dumpling
43 Nervous
46 Shock jock Don
47 Sort with a high-energy personality
48 “And the ___ goes to …”
50 Celebratory cry
52 T.S.A. tool
53 Letters associated with a rainbow flag
54 Just
55 Baltic capital
56 Modern education acronym
59 High throw