NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
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1 Contented sort 12 Check a box (for) 15 Green land 16 Quick turnaround 17 Youngest French president before Macron 18 Onetime sister channel of CMT 19 Stadium ticket price factor
20 Cooper’s output 22 “Finest beer I ever tasted!” in old ads
26 Period for selfindulgence
27 Perrier and Évian 28 Source of a motel discount, in brief
30 Some prosecutors, for short 31 Bygone days, in days gone by 32 Many a Jules Verne protagonist 36 “Absolutely not” 38 N.B.A. stat 40 Regatta host 42 Cool 43 Article in Die
Welt 44 Leader of
ancient Troy? 45 ___ fide
46 ___ Olde
England 48 EBay ashtray, e.g. 52 Awards presentation first hosted by Shelley Winters 53 Artist colony in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains 54 Personal take, for
short
55 The world’s largest one straddles the border of France and Switzerland 62 Suffix in biology 63 Mnemonic device 64 Inexpensive beer, informally 65 Social hierarchy that rejects individualism
Down
1 2 Motherly “I ___ Camera” sort
(1950s play and film)
Life
3 4 Unlike libertarians, say
5 Crimson
opponent 6 Western actor Lee Van ___ 7 Just love 8 Two drinks at a comedy club, e.g.: Abbr. 9 Penultimate letter 10 Another name for a 5-Down 11 Continue to treat, as a sprain 12 Low-percentage chance to win 13 Cocktail with gin and grapefruit 14 Will might change them 21 Success story out of Sunnyvale, Calif. 22 Spotted 23 Double cheeseburger with extra bacon, e.g. 24 One end of the Erie Canal
25 Issa of HBO’s “Insecure” 26 ___ Islands, archipelago in the East China Sea
29 Highly persnickety 32 MSNBC host Melber
33 Al ___
34 Star in the Summer Triangle 35 Kind of charger 37 “If ___ you …” 39 Reach
41 Hold in one’s hands 43 Hybrid music genre 45 Players of Fiorello and Dr. Bartolo in “The Barber of Seville” 47 Singer of sewing machine fame 49 Caller ID? 50 Manipulates, in a way
51 Like a fertile plot of land
56 Su padre’s hermana 57 Some E.R. cases 58 Crossed 59 Chart topper 60 “___, little darlin’, don’t shed no tears” (lyric in Bob Marley’s “No Woman, No Cry”) 61 Kind of sleep