NEW YORK TIMES DAILY CROSSWORD
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1 Word said twice before “pants on fire” 5 Dressed (in) 9 Miso, for one 14 Guesstimate words 15 2021 Pixar film set on the Italian Riviera 16 Colorado ski resort 17 *Sincere intentions 19 Swiss green 20 How one might cower 21 Martial artist Bruce 23 What gives a doc inside info? 24 Artfully evasive 25 *One who’s “Hoppin’ and a-boppin’ and a-singin’ his song,” in a 1958 hit 29 Vicinity 31 Round of a track race
32 King or Donkey follower
33 What a dog’s tail wag and bark might mean 36 Slackens, as rain 38 *With 39-Across, flower named for its distinctive shape
39 *See 38-Across 40 Cake: Fr. 43 Slowly enter, as a crowd might 47 Possible score after deuce 48 Escape ___ (group activity)
50 Yoshi of Mario games is one, for short 51 *Considerable amount of money, in an idiom 55 Vietnamese dish containing 46-Down 56 Brewery barrel 57 Tolkien creature 58 Chucked forcefully, in modern lingo 60 Foolish
62 Kara Zor-El’s identity in DC Comics ... or a punny hint to the answers to the starred clues 65 Matt of “The Martian” 66 “Really, though?” 67 Garfield’s canine buddy
68 Some dog-powered transports 69 Badgers 70 Filming locations
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1 Like the left brain, in pop psychology 2 Smelter’s material 3 Heretofore 4 Went by horse or car
5 Mild cigar
6 Him, in Paris 7 Do one’s part? 8 Mexico’s national flower
9 Kind of fitness test for K-12 students 10 Output from an eruption 11 Sender of unsolicited emails 12 French loaf baked in a rectangular mold 13 They’re typically happy in fairy tales 18 A ways away 22 Involve
26 Burn slightly
27 It has all the answers
28 Gave the green light 30 Agree
34 Org. sponsoring a school fund-raiser, perhaps
35 Hill with the 1998 #1 hit “Doo Wop (That Thing)” 37 Sandwich named for its ingredients 39 Depict by drawing 40 Spinoff clothing store for children 41 Kind of gland that produces cortisol 42 Reason for overtime 43 Enemy 44 Hazardous current 45 Get using will power? 46 Slurpy strands of food 49 Decides to join 52 Most student drivers 53 Russian refusals 54 “Quit ___ bellyachin’!” 59 “Me” problems 61 Minimal gesture of acknowledgment 63 “Party in the ___” (Miley Cyrus hit) 64 Common shape for a toy bank