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The New York Times Crossword

- By Michael Lieberman Edited by Will Shortz No. 0413

ACROSS 1 Some downloads

5 Eating surface on an airplane

9 Like Roger Federer and Martina Hingis 14 Place where Farsi is spoken 15 Extremely

16 Mixer with gin or vodka

17 Cool, in slang 18 Coyote outfoxer, in cartoons

20 “Get Out” director Jordan

22 Mind, as a warning 23 Word that sounds like its middle letter

24 “Get Out,” for one 26 Raison d’_ _ _ 27 C.E.O.’s reading, maybe, in brief 28 Extremely

29 Sea between Turkey and Greece 31 Votes in favor

33 Kind of tide that lifts all boats 36 Beverage brand whose first mascot was Willy the Hillbilly 40 Facebook status 41 Frontiersm­an Crockett 44 Incendiary jelly used in the Vietnam War

47 CPR provider 50 Mauna _ _ _ (Hawaiian volcano)

51 Periods of time 52 Part of San Diego that’s home to its zoo

56 _ _ _ Lingus 57 Symbol of stubbornne­ss 58 North, south, east or west

59 Bumpy beginning … or a hint to

18-, 24-, 36- and 52-Across

62 Remove excess verbiage, e.g. 64 Cause fuzzy vision in

65 Cookie in the shape of its first and last letters 66 Pasta sauce brand 67 1945 meeting place for F.D.R., Churchill and Stalin

68 One of the Rice Krispies mascots 69 Condescend­ing sort DOWN 1 Assist

2 Pop the question 3 Printing predicamen­t 4 Contemptuo­us smile

5 Matador

6 Greek letter that looks like a “P” 7 Component of a sake bomb, often 8 Communicat­ion during peak times?

9 Macho sort

10 Took the checkered flag 11 From nature, not nurture

12 Letter after Romeo in the NATO alphabet 13 Basketball play 19 Brexit opponent’s vote

21 Word after odd or job

24 Route: Abbr. 25 Strength

26 Urged (on)

30 Wrap up

32 Places to nap 34 Fleming who created James Bond 35 Lesser-played part of a record, usually

37 Internet address, for short

38 Kind of cloud that may bring precipitat­ion

39 Like most characters in “Black Panther” 42 Hitchcock movie or U2 song

43 Talk one’s head off 44 Close at hand 45 Colored part of the iris

46 Part of UPS 48 Beatles-like hairdo 49 Chinese “path” 53 Choral section 54 Come to understand

55 Jetties

57 Gore Vidal’s “___ Breckinrid­ge”

60 Kit _ _ _ bar 61 Stephen of “The Crying Game”

63 Bath site

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