NEW YORK TIMES DAILY CROSSWORD

No. 1205

ACROSS

1 “Stat!” 5 Like most Italian nouns ending in -o: Abbr. 9 Volcanic residue 12 1/26.2 of a marathon 13 SiriusXM medium 14 Cheek swab material 15 *Number of copies requested by a publisher 17 Howard who narrates “Arrested Development” 18 *Barriers that slide in and out of a wall 20 Shriveled 23 Temporary relief 24 Ship’s backbone 25 Roast beef au ___ 27 Texter’s signoff 28 Actor McKellen who played Gandalf 29 “Mayday!” 30 Org. with a Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list 32 *Stereotypical literary persona 38 Hardwood tree 39 One side in checkers 40 Longoria of “Desperate Housewives” 41 “Dancing Queen” group 44 “Golly!” 45 “Right away, boss!” 46 Skin spot 49 Tight undergarment 51 *Designer’s collection 53 Picnic pest 54 Irritable ... or how you might describe all the words in the answers to the starred clues? 58 Wedding words 59 Pie-in-the-face sound 60 Diamond Head’s island 61 Heed the coxswain 62 Sharp and shrewd 63 Staircase part

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1 Bit of concert equipment 2 What the Portuguese “senhor” means 3 Actor Mahershala of “Moonlight” 4 Snail mail correspondent 5 Swindler’s victim 6 Some venomous snakes 7 Dos + cinco 8 Bungee cables, for example 9 Skillful 10 Like high-strung horses 11 Fairy tale brother 13 Mountaineering enthusiast, in slang 16 Boatload 19 Fiber-___ cable 20 Hits the slopes 21 Track meet event 22 City mentioned at the start of the Grateful Dead’s “Friend of the Devil” 26 Show people to their seats, informally 29 Genre for the 1990s band Sublime 30 Something you don’t have to pay for, redundantly 31 Rotten 33 Ted Lasso, for one 34 “___ we there yet?” 35 Maintain, as a bar 36 Rotten 37 Give stars, say 41 Common plot point on a soap opera 42 “The Godfather” Oscar winner 43 Present, as a prize 44 Having a light touch 45 Cookie-flavored breakfast cereal 47 Merchant’s booth 48 Jeweler’s lens 50 Helpful connections 52 Student ___ forgiveness 55 Smallest of the Chinese zodiac animals 56 Fill-in-___-blank 57 “How’s it goin’?”