The New York Times
1 Completely enthralled
5 Cry at the end of the workweek
9 Police dept. alerts
13 Purple smoothie fruit
14 Used a loom
15 “Don’t ___ the small stuff”
16 *Amorous cartoon skunk
18 Towel material
19 Pioneering journalist ___ B. Wells
20 Cupid’s Greek counterpart
21 Central position
22 Home project inits.
23 Boxing ruling, for short
24 [I’m cracking up as I type this!]
25 Historic period
27 Secret supply
29 *Impartial court proceeding guaranteed by the Constitution
32 Rocket launch site
34 Family guy
35 Ice cream brand
36 What the answers to the starred clues all are when their first and last letters are removed
39 Poetic tributes
41 Phillipa of “Hamilton”
42 “Gnarly!”
43 *”Just a sec!”
46 Their are too in this clue
50 Source of hardwood
51 Bud
52 Musical set in Oz, with “The”
54 Regret
55 Relating to the bottom layer
57 Numbers game
58 And so on: Abbr.
59 Zsa Zsa or Eva of old Hollywood
60 *Short-lived store event
62 Two-way, as doors
63 Hockey feint
64 Something people trip on
65 Hershey toffee bar
66 Take five
67 “What fun!”
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1 Dangerous (and thrilling!) part of a river, to canoeists
2 Nailed the exam
3 Orange smoothie fruit 4 50-50, e.g.
5 Bounce one’s booty on the dance floor
6 Disappear like magic
7 St. ___ (skin care brand)
8 Hardly any
9 Wonderstruck
10 Summer meteor shower
11 *Platter used to carry glassware
12 Pig’s place
15 It helps a clown stand tall
17 “___ Weapon” (buddy cop film)
21 Sauron’s realm in “The Lord of the Rings”
24 “A ___ ought to have a good memory”: Quintilian
26 Gore and Green, for two
28 Involuntary muscle contraction
30 Bonus
31 Thin, as a voice
33 Dreary
36 Game that involves covering one’s eyes
37 Christmas 38 Bread at a seder
39 Winning tic-tac-toe line
40 *Repository of genetic material
44 Images that give the illusion of movement
45 Fine-tunes
47 What ministers do
48 Extend beyond
49 Withdraw formally
53 Map enlargement
56 ___ Patch Kids (gummy candy)
57 Bauhaus artist Paul
59 Dog tag wearers, in brief
60 First president to appear on television, familiarly
61 Lumberjack’s tool