NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
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1 Common sans-serif font 6 Citi Field predecessor 10 Stop up… or talk up 14 Unit for a lorry 15 News agency for a 57- Down 16 Make less difficult 17 Flying furry friend from Frostbite Falls, formally 20 Mayonnaise, for one 21 ___ choy 22 Entry in an equine family tree 23 New York sports fan’s purchase 28 Students may pass them 30 Six- legged creature, to an entomologist 31 Hazmat suit features 35 Wine casks 36 Rigoletto, for one 39 Detach gradually ( from) 41 Diminishes by degrees 42 Uhura portrayer Zoë 44 Something boring 49 1962 François Truffaut film classique 53 “Bite ___ tongue!” 54 British record giant 55 Trattoria shot 57 Spring into action… or an apt directive for 17-, 23-, 36- and 49- Across 61 Go round and round 62 Defaulter’s auto, often 63 Students may pass them 64 “Ant- Man” star Paul 65 “And I should care because …?” 66 Porterhouse cousin
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1 Not moving 2 One sharing a Wi- Fi password, maybe 3 Racks up, as debt 4 Jewelry worn by Barbara Stanwyck in “Double Indemnity” 5 Dregs 6 Pony Express’s Missouri terminus, informally 7 Lacks 8 Lawyer’s title: Abbr. 9 Sch. with a Phoenix campus 10 Give a long, grandiloquent speech 11 Buttercup family member with irregularly shaped blossoms 12 “What’s the ___?” 13 It secures locks 18 O’Brien who wrote “The Things They Carried,” 1990 19 Alpine goat 24 Wail on a 33- Down 25 “Full House” uncle 26 Forever, seemingly 27 QB rating factor: Abbr. 29 Div. in a “Law & Order” spinoff 32 Nobel Prizewinning daughter of the Curies 33 Fender model, familiarly 34 Eye, in Ávila 36 Phone screening service 37 Movie screening service 38 Bag- screening org. 39 Financial news inits. 40 French quencher 43 “___ sure you know…” 45 Colorist’s task 46 Took on, as a challenge 47 19th- century author who wrote “Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief” 48 Michigan’s ___ Pointe 50 Cherokees, for example 51 Playground comeback 52 Dashboard fig. 56 Tony- winning musical that begins and ends on Christmas Eve 57 Kazakhstan, once: Abbr. 58 Its speed is usually measured in GHz 59 “My man” 60 Albanian coin