The New York Times Crossword

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ACROSS

1 Dress in Delhi

5 Tree for a partridge, in

a Christmas song 9 Pale

14 Used Facebook Messenger, for short 15 Prefix with -vore 16 Major purveyor of

mattresses 17 “Everything ___ go!” 18 Big corporate news 20 Word repeated before

“Me” in a Beatles hit 22 Worrier’s words 23 Canned

24 Tribal unit

25 Yours, to Yves 28 Visitors from another

planet, in brief

29 It helps make you you 31 L.L. Bean competitor 33 “That’s all ___ got” 34 Left unexpectedly, in

slang

36 Titled

38 Holiday purchase & or a hint to the circled letters

41 Deceive

42 Slangy frat house

request

43 Number of lanterns “if

by land”

44 Big water filtration

brand

46 Australian critter 47 Little troublemaker 50 007

52 Fill to capacity 54 Award for which 8Down, surprisingly, has never been nominated

56 Like a small room with

a roaring fire

58 Stick (to)

59 1956 Mideast imbroglio

62 Redding who sang “(Sittin’ On) The Dock of the Bay”

63 One using Monster.com, maybe 64 Cozy spot

65 Sunset direction 66 Like some binary

questions

67 Horned African beasts 68 Grp. founded to resist

Communism

DOWN

1 Easy as pie

2 It works like a charm! 3 Puts back to zero, say 4 Aid for returning a lost

pet

5 Get ready for the

camera

6 CPR expert

7 Wise as ___

8 “Pretty Woman”

co-star

9 Part of P.D.A.: Abbr. 10 Tone of some old

photos

11 Occasion for a locker

room pep talk 12 One of the Manning

brothers

13 Its slogan is “All the News That’s Fit to Print”: Abbr.

19 “Citizen ___”

21 Pepsi or Sprite, quaintly

24 Marking, as a gauge 26 On top of

27 Iraq War danger, for

short

30 It may be in the autumn air

32 Feeling unhappy or

angry

34 Cricket implement 35 New Mexico-to-Missouri dir.

37 Boorish sort

38 Certain drunkard 39 Joins again, as a race 40 Expert

41 Easy ball to smash 45 Red state, once, for

short

47 Component of an

Arnold Palmer

48 ___ College (school in

Poughkeepsie, N.Y.) 49 Magician’s cry 51 “Dirty” number 53 1980s-’90s heavyweight champ Mike 55 Demonstrated 57 Height: Prefix 58 Inquires

59 Not comfortable with

the limelight 60 One-eighty

61 Debtor’s note