NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

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1 1999 rap hit featuring Snoop Dogg 9 “Sin City” actress 13 Classic TV

family 15 Represent 16 45°, for 1 18 Wild things? 19 Puts on eBay

again 20 Cuban province where Castro was born 22 Zoological

groups 23 Diamond deal 24 Software plug-in 25 Mode of transportation in a 1969 #1 hit 26 Filmdom family

name 27 Israel’s Sea of

___ 28 Silence fillers 29 Informal name

of the 45th state 30 Softball question 33 Clean, now 34 Songbird

Mitchell 35 Turkey ___, baseball Hall-ofFamer from the Negro leagues 37 Breaks 38 They get tested 39 ___ system, part of the brain that regulates emotion, behavior and long-term memory 40 2000s CBS

sitcom 41 Sextet at

Woodstock 42 “El Condor ___” (1970 Simon & Garfunkel hit) 43 Golda Meir and Yitzhak Rabin led it 45 Division d’une

carte 46 Place of outdoor

meditation 47 Mock words of

understanding 48 Price of an

opera?

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1 Gangster nickname 2 “Carmen” figure 3 Covers 4 Share a secret with 5 From the

Forbidden City 6 Bad impressions? 7 Poverty, metaphorically 8 Dutch city ESE of Amsterdam 9 Shape shifters? 10 Try to hear

better, maybe 11 Knock-down-drag-out 12 First name in

shooting 14 Winter set 17 Didn’t make it

home, say 21 Arm 23 E-mail

ancestors 25 “Wordplay”

vocalist, 2005 27 “In your

dreams!” 29 Mary ___

(doomed ship) 30 Italian region that’s home to Milan 31 Chances that a year ends with any particular digit 32 Florida’s Key

___ 33 Musician who arranged the theme for “2001” 34 Fruit-filled

pastry 35 Where to bury

the hatchet? 36 Olympic ice dancing gold medalist Virtue and others 37 ___ Alley 38 Hypercompetit

ive 39 About 40-60 beats per minute 41 Volume

measure 44 Volume

measure