The new york times crossword

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Runs recreationally Some hotel room amenities

The “Toreador Song,” for one From the top Fulfill mundane but necessary responsibilities, in modern lingo Sift (through) Software prototype Vessels with large containers

Does pranks with rolls, informally 22 Connecticut Ivy

Leaguer

23 Nail polish

brand

25 Pursue

romantically 28 Actor/comedian Lil ___

Howery 29 Talking item in Dora the Explorer’s backpack 32 Oceanfront district of Los Angeles 35 Manhattan

neighborhood 37 Front-page mergers and acquisitions, e.g.

39 Grayish 40 Skateboarding

jump 41 Neckwear that

smells nice 42 Photographer

Adams 43 Difficult, unfun

chore 44 Investment guide calculation 46 Props for

presentations 49 Most reptilian,

in a way 50 “Spring forward” or “fall back” letters Electrical unit with a Greek letter symbol 1 5 10

14 15 16 17

18 20 51 53 Look at 54 Beings not

(yet) proven to exist 55 Thundering 57 Trinity

member 59 Exclamation point inside a yellow triangle, for one

64 “Only Murders in the Building” airer

67 Nobel laureate

Wiesel 68 Longtime Jay Silverheels role 69 Ankh-carrying

goddess 7071&72

Commits perjury … or what can be found four times in this puzzle

DOWN

Sharp punch

“!” keymate Scramming Exchange

___ fly

Org. promoting canine care 7 Spleen 8 “Enigma Variations” composer 9 Lifted

10 Be sore

11 Pépin le Bref,

par exemple 12 Troublesome

sort

13 Muscles tightened by planking, in brief

19 Stprage tower 21 Greta Garbo, by

birth 23 Diffused

gradually 24 Saffronflavored dishes 26 Horatian

creation

27 Big name in

brushes 29 Beauty pageant founded in 1959 as a mail-in photo contest

1 2 3 4 5 6

By Victor Barocas

30 One who doesn’t have a prayer? 31 Alternatives to

street parking 33 Negro leagues

great Satchel 34 Butterlike

spreads 36 Hawaiian island shaped like an apostrophe 38 Considering the

fact that 42 Setting for many van Gogh works

45 It’ll dawn on

you

47 Folk stories 48 Up-start? 52 Worker with a

trowel

55 A long, long

time

56 Food part that’s usually not eaten 58 Home of Denison University 59 Tierra ___

Fuego

60 Sports Illustrated’s Sportsman of the Year in 1974 (10 years after he first became world champion) 61 German

“never”

62 Bell Atlantic merger partner of 2000 63 Repeated word in the U.S. postal creed 65 Buzzing … or, in a different sense, buzzed 66 Do a wedding task, informally

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