NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

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1 Furrier John ___ Astor 6 Musical closing 10 Rum-soaked

cake 14 Bouquet 15 Request under

deadline 16 Not many 17 It’s all about location, location, location 19 Kansas City

daily 20 Sustenance for

aphids 21 Farm cry 22 Reverent quality 23 Narrow wood

strip 24 Willow tree 26 Glowing coal 29 Admit 31 White House

advisory grp. 34 Philosopher who wrote “It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere” 36 “Angela’s

Ashes,” for one 38 West of

“Batman” 39 1955 hit for the

Platters 41 Tops 42 Trickery 44 Pretends to be

singing 46 Rocky Mountain

___ 47 Insignia 49 Causes of

glowers 50 Expunge 52 Wacko 54 Lobby 56 Inner circle 58 Pool tool 61 Neck and neck 62 Environs for

Blackbeard 64 Hwy. safety org. 65 “Come ___!” 66 Have because

of 67 Home of the

Brenner Pass 68 Kind of party 69 Arc lamp gas

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1 Sprees 2 Vicinity 3 Chicken’s place 4 “Horrors!,” in texts 5 Newswoman Walters 6 Southern tip of South America 7 Factory-inspecting org. 8 City near WrightPatterson Air Force Base 9 Manhunt letters 10 Count of music 11 Occasion for sandwiches and scones 12 Shellac 13 Off-balance 18 Cover girl Carol 22 Hookah, e.g. 23 “Step aside, I

can handle this” 25 Recap 26 Circumvent 27 Poser 28 Soul food

ingredient 30 “Hmm, imagine

that!” 32 Inasmuch as 33 Salad green 35 Bits 37 Like some ancient pyramids 40 Soft to the touch 43 Building unit

with flanges 45 Line of greeting cards billed as “a tiny little division of Hallmark” 48 Pour, as wine 51 Rips apart 53 Sphere 54 Org. that prepares flood maps 55 Elliptical 57 Andrea Bocelli

offering 58 Battle of Normandy locale 59 Golden rule

preposition 60 One of the social sciences, for short 62 N.Y.S.E.

listings 63 21-Across

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