The New York Times Crossword
ACROSS
1 Some trivia venues
5 Airport queue
9 Bookend letters of “Google Maps,” appropriately
12 Oscar ___, star of “Inside Llewyn Davis”
14 Unit of courage?
15 Face card in a French deck
16 Principle of the type of activism practiced by
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18 Zoom, for one
19 Congressional district represented by
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21 Live (together)
23 Outlaw
24 Starter course?
25 Heartless
27 Popular cryptocurrency
29 Do something
30 The “O” of A.O.C. 34 Years abroad
35 Civil rights icon who led a historic march from Selma to Montgomery on 3/7/1965
37 Japan’s largest lake, located NE of Kyoto
40 Like much avantgarde music
41 ___ Tomé and Príncipe
44 Flower that shares its name with a sea creature
46 Natural ability
48 Trickster
49 Sharp or flat, say
52 Those in favor
53 Group including
35-Across that protested the segregation of public buses
57 ___ card 58 Oxymoronic coinage of
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61 Impossible N.B.A. game outcome
62 Some succulents
63 Seat at a counter, maybe
64 Took a load off
65 Teri of “Tootsie” 66 “My mistake!”
DOWN
1 Balloon popper, perhaps
2 Grp. that brought Stephen Colbert to Baghdad
3 Do quickly, as an assignment
4 “Help!”
5 Signal as a conductor might 6 Actress ___ Deavere Smith
7 Secretly includes on an email
8 Deem appropriate 9 Sue who wrote the so-called “alphabet series”
10 Destiny’s Child or the Supremes
11 Sucks up, in a way
13 A.F.L.-_ _ _
14 One of the sisters in Chekhov’s “Three Sisters”
17 Mercury or Venus, e.g.
20 Ancient Andeans
21 Classic TV brand
22 Elf’s foe in “The Lord of the Rings”
26 Can, in Canterbury
27 Common reply to “Cómo estás?”
28 Only state with a two-vowel postal code
31 Jackie of “Rush Hour”
32 Starting stake
33 ___-mo replay 35 Foxx of “Soul”
36 Sort
37 Butter and margarine, nutritionally speaking
38 Sluggishness
39 “No need to introduce us”
41 Utters a sound, informally
42 Nail, as a test
43 Green-lights
45 Pie in the face, e.g.
47 Popular Japanese manga series
49 #1 at McDonalds, maybe
50 Suits
51 First sitting prez to fly in an airplane
54 “Return of the
Jedi” dancer 55 Secure, as a ship
56 Dawn goddess
59 Chop or crop 60 Chicago trains