The New York Times Crossword

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1Throw in 4Not fixable, as an error 9Group whose full name translates as “Bulletproof Boy Scouts”

12 Hit or miss, perhaps

14 It makes you “dance down the street with a cloud at your feet,” in a 1953 hit

15Red _ _ _ (serving at a Carolina barbecue)

16 People also known as the Cat Nation

17 Powered down, in a way

18“The pause that refreshes” sloganeer, once

19 Disturb, in a way

21 Bill supporting public television

22 Told where to go, say

23 Use X-ray vision on

25Graceful 27Make love?

28So-called “missing links”

29 Chignon, for one

31In the past

32Risky wager ... with a hint to the letters in this puzzle’s circled squares

41State in debate

42 Phenomenon nicknamed “Karl” in San Francisco

43Biblical site of a burning bush

44Soft rock

45Doctor for kids

47Cleans (up)

48 Olympic champion who said he threw his gold medal into the Ohio River

49 Garden party annoyance, colloquially 51Spider web, effectively

52 Part of a pen name?

53Philanthropy

55 Characteristic of video poker, lottos and casinos

59 Results of some dating app matches

63 Hoodwink

64 Fat substitute

65Second of five? 66Totally pumped

DOWN

1Disinclined

2 Response to “Merci”

3Sat on a clothesline, say

4This too shall pass

5Kind of acid

6_ _ _ gun 7Dizzy

8 Was up 9Flower

10“I want to go with you!”

11 Nation with a fourcentury “Viking Age”

13Controvert

15Italian apology

20Permit

22Hundos

24Approved on Politifact, say

26 Speaker of the line “I follow him to serve my turn upon him”

30Landlord-pays-broker, in rental lingo

31 Existential unease

32Word with bank or base

33 Not written

34Jamaican tangelo

35 N.F.C. South pro

36Degenerate

37 Meaning of the Italian “lui” or German “ihn”

38 Aware of

39 Part of yourself that you can’t see without two mirrors

40Essence

45 Careened across snow, maybe

46Sleek ocean swimmers

49 Broke one’s silence 50Life of _ _ _

52 Impressive showbiz quartet

54 CD component

55“Windowpane”

56 Plastic _ _ _ Band

57“I meant that sarcastically”

58Title of respect

59 Stylish dresser

60 Degree in math?

61 Test for a future PH.D. 62Blue