Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

The New York Times Crossword

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ACROSS

1 Sharp bend

7 Tipping point?

10 Intro course?

13 “Fa-a-ancy!”

14 Heap praise on

16 Home of the Boston Mountains

17 Polite Spanish assent

18 Online fad

19 Pricing word

21 Just the worst, in slang

22 “The time for diplomacy has passed”

24 Women’s soccer and gymnastics powerhouse

25 “___ Blues” (song on the Beatles’ “White Album”)

26 Treatment plants?

28 Letters of qualificat­ion

31 Sweet sign-off

32 Trees sacred to Hecate

33 Prey for a heron

34 ___ Poovie (“Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.” character)

36 Sounds from a pond at night

38 French agreements

39 Stone with “fire” and “water” varieties

43 “Ish”

44 Unspecifie­d ordinal

45 Travelocit­y spokes creature

46 Make a pick

47 Bird found in the mud?

49 Pea, e.g.

51 “Death of a Salesman” surname

53 It may turn slowly in a horror movie

54 Denny’s competitor

58 “What a pity”

60 Liken

62 Attend to details … or a hint to entering six Down answers in this puzzle

63 Applies, as lotion

64 [Some of us are trying to watch the movie here!]

65 “Success!”

66 Trickled

DOWN

1 Destine for failure

2 Trickle

3 Rock genre for Roxy Music

4 Southern border city in a Larry McMurtry title

5 Game measured by its number of points

6 Elements No. 7, 8, 9 and 10, e.g.

7 Certain martial arts takedown 8 Word after bad or hard

9 ___ monkey

10 Trendy brunch order

11 Benefit

12 Really hope

14 Proportion­ate size for some model trains

15 It’s a lot to carry

20 Online status

23 1982 film set in a mainframe

25 “It’s not hard to guess how this will end”

27 Key to a quick exit?

29 Shark species with the largest brain-to-body ratio

30 Some E.R. cases

31 Strike

33 Underwater weapon launching apparatus

34 Horror star Chaney

35 Stop start?

37 2003 cult film known as the “‘Citizen Kane’ of bad movies,” with “The”

40 Spotty pattern

41 Modifies

42 Kind of block

45 Afraid to commit, say

48 Actor Bomer of “Magic Mike”

50 Gets a ride, in a way

51 ’65 Ford debuts

52 “Me! Pick me!”

55 Locking mechanism

56 Great Plains tribe

57 Await a ruling

59 “Isn’t that obvious?”

61 “___ es eso?”

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