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NEW YORK TIMES DAILY CROSSWORD

No. 0823

- Edited by Will Shortz Read about and comment on each puzzle: nytimes.com/wordplay. Online subscripti­ons: Today’s puzzle and more than 7,000 past puzzles, nytimes.com/crosswords ($39.95 a year).

ACROSS

1 Ballpark quartet 6 Reacts to

something gross 10 Greek god that

sounds like 66-Across 14 Roll with the punches 15 Chess piece with the secondhigh­est value 16 Mardi Gras follower 17 Salad dressing

with chopped liver 20 CPR pro

21 M&M’s color

replaced by blue 22 New kid on the

block

23 “You betcha!” 27 They might be pitched

by the Rockies 28 Sandwich with

wild rice

31 “Why, what an ___

am I!”: Hamlet 32 Logicians’

creations 33 Actress De La

Garza of “FBI” 35 Vessel for violets 36 “The Bare Necessitie­s” bear

38 Stud alternativ­e 42 “Get Out” director

Jordan

44 Find a new

purpose for

45 End of a twoplayer Harlem Globetrott­ers play 48 Desserts with split

peas

51 “Top Chef” airer 53 Underlings forced to

do unpleasant work 54 Word before job or

track 56 One channel that airs “NCAA March Madness,” with “TV”

57 Sort of

60 Egg dish with a

lemon turnover 64 ___ code 65 Timbuktu’s home 66 Zodiac sign that sounds like 10-Across 67 Where one needs GPS to find The Gap?

68 Opposite of sans 69 Some overly long

Facebook posts

DOWN

1 ___ Didrikson Zaha- rias, Olympic track and field gold medalist who went on to win 10 LPGA major championsh­ips

2 First lady’s husband 3 Square snack items 4 Binge-watching

units, for short 5 Ones with chiseled

jawlines, often 6 WNBA star Brittney 7 D.C. “Squad” member 8 End of a White

House address 9 Injure, as a knee 10 Naproxen brand 11 Saskatchew­an’s

capital

12 Puts on the books 13 Changing it converts “convert” from a verb to a noun 18 Jacobs of fashion 19 Off one’s game 24 Get into hot water? 25 Shanghaine­se, e.g. 26 Capital that was once part of Denmark 28 “The Challenge” network

29 60 minuti 30 Chinese path 34 “Hello” singer 36 Source of some wax 37 “Ah, so it goes” 39 Adds insult to injury 40 Drunk-skunk

connector 41 Governor Moore of

Maryland

43 Lyric poem 44 Alternativ­e to

high-octane 45 Mentor of Anakin

and Luke 46 Cantankero­us 47 Makes the grade 49 Source of a scandalous comment 50 “But wait —

there’s ___!” 52 The “V” in C.V. 55 Bombeck who said “Onion rings in the car cushions do not improve with time” 58 Editor’s “my bad,”

maybe

59 Gas company with

toy trucks

61 Sat ___ (GPS in

the U.K.) 62 Bullfight cheer 63 Important stretch

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PUZZLE BY MICHAEL LIEBERMAN

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