The New York Times Crossword
No. 0210
ACROSS
Sharp bend
1
Tipping point?
7
Intro course?
10
“Fa-a-ancy!”
13
Heap praise on
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Home of
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the Boston Mountains
Polite Spanish
17
assent
Online fad
18
Pricing word
19
Just the worst, in
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slang
“The time for
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diplomacy has passed”
Women’s soccer
24
and gymnastics powerhouse
“___ Blues”
25
(song on the Beatles’ “White Album”) Treatment
26
plants?
Letters of
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qualification
Sweet sign-off
31
Trees sacred to
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Hecate
Prey for a heron
33
___ Poovie
34
(“Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.” character) Sounds from a
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pond at night French
38
agreements Stone with “fire”
39
and “water” varieties
“Ish”
43
Unspecified
44
ordinal Travelocity
45
spokescreature Make a pick
46
Bird found in the
47
mud?
Pea, e.g.
49
“Death of a
51
Salesman” surname
It may turn
53
slowly in a horror movie
Denny’s
54
competitor “What a pity”
58
Liken
60
Attend to details
62
… or a hint to entering six Down answers in this puzzle Applies, as
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lotion
[Some of us
64
are trying to watch the movie here!] “Success!”
65
Trickled
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DOWN
Destine for
1
failure
Trickle
2
Rock genre for
3
Roxy Music Southern border
4
city in a Larry McMurtry title Game
5
measured by its number of points
Elements No. 7,
6
8, 9 and 10, e.g.
Certain martial
7
arts takedown Word after bad
8
or hard
___ monkey
9
Trendy brunch
10
order
Benefit
11
Really hope
12
Proportionate
14
size for some model trains
PUZZLE BY AUGUST MILLER
It’s a lot to carry
15
Online status
20
1982 film set in
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a mainframe
“It’s not hard to
25
guess how this will end”
Key to a quick
27
exit?
Shark species
29
with the largest brain-to-body ratio
Some E.R.
30
cases
Strike
31
Underwater
33
weaponlaunching apparatus
Horror star
34
Chaney
Stop start?
35
2003 cult film
37
known as the “‘Citizen Kane’ of bad movies,” with “The”
Spotty pattern
40
Modifies
41
Kind of block
42
Afraid to commit,
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say
Actor Bomer of
48
“Magic Mike” Gets a ride, in a
50
way
’65 Ford debuts
51
“Me! Pick me!”
52
Locking
55
mechanism
Great Plains tribe
56
Await a ruling
57
“Isn’t that
59
obvious?”
“___ es eso?”
61
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