The New York Times Crossword

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1 ___ Garden, London district known for diamond trading 7 Bump fists 10 Form of jazz 13 Ventilate thoroughly 14 Sonic the Hedgehog company 15 Actress de Armas 16 Insect with powerful hind legs 18 Mormons, in brief 19 Something Santa makes (and checks twice) 20 Riddle-me-_ _ _ 21 ___ Park, Colo. 23 Grade downgrade 24 Hand: Sp. 26 Naughty’s opposite 27 Clouseau’s rank: Abbr. 28 Difficulties in life 30 Jeanette ___, billiards legend nicknamed the Black Widow 31 Objectivist Rand 32 Slow-cooked dish 33 The Wildcats of the N.C.A.A., informally 35 Rubes, in Canadian lingo 39 Princes, e.g. 41 Longing 42 Animator’s sheet 43 Film technique used in old California Raisins ads 47 Novelist Jaffe 48 Go steady with 49 Plant pouches 50 Wilma’s pal on “The Flintstones” 51 Responses of “the unheard,” per Martin Luther King Jr. 53 Japanese drama 54 Starting 55 Use a “+” 56 Playing area usually having one of the surfaces seen at the starts of 16-, 28- and 43-Across 60 Rechewed food 61 x or y, in plane geometry 62 News anchor Mitchell 63 Mil. mess personnel 64 1990s Fox dramedy with Charles S. Dutton 65 Abate

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1 Sea ___ (enemy of Popeye) 2 El Al et al. 3 Lionel collection 4 50-50 chance 5 Red-cards, in a soccer match 6 To the ___ degree 7 Ambivalent reply to “Can you do me a favor?” 8 It’s “just a number” 9 Trim 10 Second-least valuable avenue in Monopoly after Mediterranean 11 Batting next 12 Overtakes 14 Bit of asparagus 17 Financial expert Suze 22 Winter falls 23 Cereal go-with 25 “Um, all righty” 28 “Laughing” animals 29 _ _ _ Deion (onetime football nickname) 31 Tiny bit 34 Until now 36 Trips to support conservation 37 Not paying a cent, as a tenant 38 Leave rolling in the aisles 40 Containing tin 41 Dinosaur in Super Mario World 43 Once-popular place to store music 44 In bed after an injury, say 45 Quarreling 46 Trash cans on computer screens, e.g 47 Covers again, as a lawn 50 Skin problem portmanteau 52 Old TV’s “___ Search” 57 Prefix with skeleton 58 Pizzeria owner in “Do the Right Thing” 59 Amy who wrote “The Joy Luck Club”