NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

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1 What a slob makes Start of a play House, in Havana 13 Poker pot starter 14 Animal used for Davy Crockett’s cap 15 Ancient doctor known for his work on anatomy 16 *Big gamble 18 Daytime host

DeGeneres 19 Good-looker 20 Impressive

accomplishment 22 Scarfed down 23 Commencement 24 *Election Day

receptacle 26 Blabs 28 Former Chevy

subcompact 29 Doofus 32 Poses (for) 34 Pass, as a law 37 *Result of a

financial panic 40 *Tight braid 42 Hogs 43 Desserts good

for a hot day 45 “CSI” evidence,

often 46 D.C.-based

agents 48 Adams who photographed Yosemite 51 *Series of changes from birth to death 54 Criticize in good

fun 58 Low-ranking

U.S.N. officer 59 Petrol brand 60 Visitor to a

confessional 61 Lagoon encircler 63 *Precipitous

drop in cost 65 Like Cinderella’s

stepsisters 66 Verdi’s opera

slave girl 67 Sign of things to

come 68 Loathe 69 Gas in a DINER

sign 70 Uncool sort

DOWN

Like he-men Energy giant that went bankrupt in 2001 3 Rebounds per game and others 4 Two trios plus

one 5 Pine (for) 6 Murmur lovingly 7 Over the speed limit Big maker of microchips Baseball’s record-setting Ripken 10 Train conduc

tor’s shout 11 Take care of 12 Building wing 15 Recover from 17 Web locale 21 Pie ___ mode 1 2

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9 24 Russian

pancakes 25 It’s south of Ky. 27 Baton Rouge

sch. 29 Belly muscles 30 Tool a magician uses in a woman-in-acrate act 31 Detects like a

bloodhound 33 Movie snippet 35 Pro’s opposite 36 Old “We’re up to something good” carrier 38 Leg joint 39 Blood component that contains hemoglobin 41 W.W. II spy org. 44 ___ counter

(dieter) 47 Part of CBS:

Abbr. 49 Lake between Ohio and Ontario 50 2012 Olympics locale, with a hint to the ends of the answers to the six starred clues 51 Dissolve and wash away, as minerals 52 The “I” of IM,

sportswise 53 Network for

political junkies 55 Genre of the “Pokémon” TV series 56 Break off 57 General way things are going 60 Read carefully 62 General at

Appomattox 64 Words that have a certain ring to them?