The new york times crossword

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1 Like the

Galactic Empire and Rebel Alliance, in science fiction 6 D tch Golden

Age painter 10 Big ___ 14 Statement of admiration after someone’s impressive feat 16 Fr it whose name is threeq arters vowels 17 Ann al New Year’s Day event

18 “Freak on a

Leash” band 19 “Mm-hmm”

20 A whole b nch 21 It’s there by

defa lt

23 Lo dly

lachrymates 24 Calm

25 What to do? 28 Statement that is, in fact, not part of the Hippocratic oath 30 High-protein

paste

31 Plain and bl nt 33 Pace

34 Covert

infl encer

37 Air poll tion

portmantea 38 Still a contender 39 It may be raised

at a table 40 What’s spread all over so thern France?

42 Wing

alternatives 44 Hands off (to) 45 Reason to r n in

circles?

46 Still

47 Less than

hardly

48 ___ p nk (genre

for No Do bt) 51 Life sentences? 52 Constantly posting pict res and news abo t one’s kids on social media 55 Beyond reg lation, for short

56 “Hold yo r

horses”

57 Rice and C rry 58 ___ ginger,

a.k.a. galangal 59 Takes orders

DOWN

1 Sideways 2 Grand

3 The fairyfly (the smallest known insect in the world) is one 4 Took something with a grain of salt, maybe 5 Boastf l Eminem title with the G inness world record for

“most words in a hit single” (1,560) 6 Ingredients prono nced differently in American and British English 7 Thin cell types 8 St ff in

microdots

9 Sq ash or

smoosh, maybe 10 Fall for a trick,

say

11 Critici ing a ref sal to recycle, e.g. 12 Work in

progress? 13 When do bled, comment made with a wink 15 “The Little

Prince” trees 22 They get down

and dirty 23 Bores 24 “Likewise” 25 Something

critical to have 26 Two-ingredient cocktail s ally served with an olive or lemon twist

27 Breako t site 28 Tackling gro p,

for short 29 Second-most freq ently mentioned individ al in the Q ran, after Jes s 32 One side of a

chemistry scale 35 Spanish little

ones

36 Said

41 Kit for creative

types

43 “Whoa, calm

down!”

45 Da ghter of Catherine of Aragon

46 “Ish”

47 La nch party? 48 “Ciertamente!” 49 Close-___ 50 Some Hollywood workers: Abbr. 53 Ta nting cry 54 It’s typically taken in the afternoon

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