NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

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1 Something sticking out of Frankenstein’s neck 5 Voting coalition 9 Belittle 14 Classic Langston

Hughes poem 15 “___ Land” ( 2016 Best Picture nominee) 16 French author who said “An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself” 17 Alabama senator

Jones 18 Home to Zion

National Park 19 Walk with heavy

steps 20 adj. under the influence of a drug 23 Long, boring

task 24 ___- blogging 25 adv. across a barrier or intervening space 30 Singer DiFranco 31 Smoked salmon 32 Bonus 34 “Can I get a

hand here?!” 36 LikeWilliam Henry Harrison, among U. S. presidents 39 Crowd favorite not getting nominated for an Oscar, e. g. 40 Cough drop

brand 42 Apply carelessly,

as paint 44 Fresh ___ daisy 45 n. spirit,

animation 49 Heading with check boxes below it 50 Main part of a

selfie 51 Ones who produced the clues for 20-, 25and 45- Across 57 Sports center 58 Big name in

in- flight internet 59 “About ___”

( 2002 movie) 61 Enliven 62 Midmonth date 63 Target of splicing 64 Emails that tell you you’ve won the lottery, e. g. 65 Fit one inside

the other 66 Energy units

Down

1 Creation of an Olympic city hopeful 2 “Then again …,”

in texts 3 Birthplace of

Muhammad Ali 4 Switch between

windows, e. g. 5 Beat badly 6 Behind schedule 7 “Frozen”

snowman 8 U. S. marshal role

for JohnWayne 9 Brand of

probiotic yogurt 10 Makes the

rounds? 11 Mine: Fr. 12 Battle of the

bulges? 13 FS1 competitor 21 Sound that signifies the end of a basketball game 22 Actress Vardalos 25 When “S. N. L.” ends on the East Coast 26 Louis ___, French king who was guillotined 27 Consumer giant that makes Bounty, for short 28 “Cimarron”

novelist 29 Extinguish 30 “That hits the

spot!” 33 LeBron James’s

org. 35 Credit card

designation 37 Confucian path 38 Popular leftleaning news site 41 Nestlé candy popular at movie houses 43 Humdrum 46 Veiled oath? 47 Bean 48 Mammoth time

period 51 Delays 52 Viking explorer 53 “Hercules”

spinoff 54 Went by

motorcycle, say 55 Census data 56 iTunes

download 60 “Suh- weet!”