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NEW YORK TIMES DAILY CROSSWORD

- Edited by Will Shortz

ACROSS

1 Yard, nautically 5 Desire for a ski jumper

13 ___ blue dot (Earth, in a famous photograph) 14 “Knock it off!,” in question form 15 Since 16 Classic airplane snack 17 General term in a series 18 Number in a count 19 Change, as a lock 20 One in a million, so to speak 22 Journalism inits. since 1851 23 One way to travel the world 24 Lines from a rapper, in slang 26 Milk option 29 Earth-based pigment 30 Likely hyperbole from a texter 32 Equipment in hockey, lacrosse and pickleball 34 What one might look at the night sky with

38 ___ Lingus 39 Badge holder 40 Spanish geographic­al word that is an anagram of its English translatio­n 41 “Woo-hoo!,” in online shorthand 43 Pronoun functionin­g as an object (not a subject!) 45 “Give me five!”

46 Half full?

48 “Dig in, everyone” 50 Tropical vine 53 Work from, as a desk

54 Purple ___, Hawaiian crop 56 Bookie?

58 ___ bottles (popular gummy candy)

59 Bad press, say 60 Event at high noon 61 Occasion to recite the Pledge of Allegiance 62 Button usually held down by a pinkie

DOWN

1 Word after life or C 2 One whose work might be a piece of cake?

3 Bit of attire seldom worn with a jacket 4 One you might beseech to get glasses

5 Term for an overly commercial­ized celebratio­n

6 At any one time, roughly 10,000 trillion of them roam the earth 7 Bill concerned with science communicat­ion 8 Become barren 9 Synchroniz­e with 10 Arctic native 11 Speck 12 Handmade goods site

14 One on the Israelites’ journey to the Promised Land

16 Lose tautness 18 What stubbles may become 21 Lurch

22 Warning letters with a Reddit link 23 ___ Juniors, soccer team for which Diego Maradona once played 25 Canapé topper 27 “Don’t even think of coming back!” 28 Nephalist

31 Part of a biblical plague

33 Trick question, e.g. 35 Housework? 36 There or thereabout­s 37 2022 Jordan Peele film

42 Actress Malick 44 Hands (out) 47 West Coast NFL’er 49 Damage the reputation of 50 Tibetan title 51 Experiment­al composer Charles 52 Supports

53 Set ___ 55 Common place to see Santa 57 Fade away 58 Public health org.

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