Santa Fe New Mexican

The New York Times

No. 1208

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ACROSS

1 Boatloads or truckloads 10 Question suggesting “What odd behavior!” 12 Gains ground 14 Worker’s end-ofyear wish 15 Pitiful

16 Figure whose name derives from the Hebrew for “adversary” 18 Areas to practice driving skills 20 Middle of Middlesex 21 Taproom offering, in brief 22 Output of the world’s largest manufactur­er of musical instrument­s 26 Canadian N.H.L. team, on scoreboard­s 27 1977 best-selling novel set in a hospital 29 Broke

30 Artist of “La Maja Desnuda” and “La Maja Vestida” 31 Five-time N.B.A. All-Star Thompson

32 Words that guide 33 Uber ___

34 Join so as to work together 35 Third most-spoken language in the world

36 Slips

37 “___ does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from ___”: Jeanne Moreau 38 Stockpiles

40 Get even with 41 Famous bridge site

43 Not allowing for variation 45 Payment option 46 What a nod might indicate 49 Investor’s considerat­ions 50 What old memories often cause

53 Made ’em look 54 Preservers of crop biodiversi­ty

DOWN

1 [So what?] 2 Kiddie ride? 3 Utterance with one’s hand on a Bible, maybe

4 Comics sound effects

5 City east of

Tempe

6 Abbr. below the name of some businesses 7 Highest degree attainable? 8 Defenses are prepared for them 9 Pioneer in the field of exobiology 10 “You sure about that?” 11 Drawers on chests, maybe

12 “Stop complainin­g. I didn’t do anything wrong”

13 Bouncing a penny into a cup, fancily shuffling cards, etc. 14 Indianapol­is 500 venue, informally, with “the” 17 Balance sheet quantity

19 Jazz sobriquet 20 Ones helping players get a round?

23 Song title in both “The Sound of Music” and “West Side Story” 24 Certain verbal agreements 25 Regards 28 Certain verbal agreement

30 “How about that!” 38 What’s going on? 39 Barely run 42 Cartoon character often seen sucking his thumb

44 They contain fruit

46 Gave rise to 47 Entertainm­ent reference that began as a Usenet group

48 ___ Amendment (2010s extension of the Kyoto Protocol)

51 Tip jar item

52 All House speakers until 2007

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