NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Rounds out, as an event

5 Sound of a cake hitting the floor, frosting first 10 Gush (over), as to gain favor 14 Plant watcher, for short 15 Reluctant 16 Designer Saab 17 Wins the Hunger Games, e.g.

19 Young newts

20 Annual pageant

winner

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22 Maker of

Z-cars, once 23 Hoover rival 25 Online handle 28 Like the “5” of “5 & 10”

33 Maine university town 34 Repellent spray 37 Coleridge’s

“The ___ Harp” 39 One requested by disgruntled customers: Abbr.

40 Bard’s “before” 41 See 30-Down 42 Common street name in suburbia

43 Fish with a long snout

44 Mexico has 31 of these 45 “The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters” artist 46 Go haywire 48 Have as a tenant

50 One of the Eternals, in Marvel comics 52 Insurance giant acquired by CVS in 2018 56 Followers of the largest denomination of Islam

57 Labor group for athletes

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63 Top-shelf 64 Supersharp 66 Actress Kunis of “Family Guy” 67 “Thumbs up from me!”

68 Sea eagle

69 Rustic verse

70 Steady looks

71 Wine category

Down

1 Classic pink cocktail

2 Up and about 3 Terrible twos, e.g.

4 Surrenders 5 Ukrainian, for one

6 Neighbor of a Ukrainian 7 Hideout 8 Off-roaders, for short

9 Grp. established by 1992’s Maastricht Treaty

10 Bottom ___

11 Car whose logo features a coiled green serpent

12 With full knowledge 13 Puccini aria popularized by Pavarotti

18 “Only joking!,” to a texter

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26 Acoustic measure

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29 Result of a rift 30 With 41-Across, a celestial event … or a hint to four squares in this puzzle

31 Top-shelf

32 What avocados don’t do until they’re picked

34 Catastrophic weather event potentially caused by a meteor crash 35 Spiderlike

36 “Yes, of course” 38 Brief second? 41 Bruins legend, to fans 45 Receives an anesthetic, perhaps

47 Open, as a tomb

49 Button on a scale

51 Herb unit

53 Un gato grande 54 Incessantly

55 Much of Chile 58 ___ land

59 Ansari of “Master of None”

60 Harness

61 You are, in Spanish

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