Crossword No. 729: Off the Record

ACROSS

1 “___ run” (“See ya later”) 6 In favor of 9 H.S. students take them, casually 14 Hyphenated name on trucks 15 Not yet cooked 16 Adams behind the lens 17 On Jan. 16, Guinness World Records suspended the World’s Oldest Dog record set by Bobi, a Portuguese hound, after doubts surfaced about his age at death; it was claimed to be this many years 19 LaBelle or LuPone 20 Campbell or Osaka 21 President since 2017 22 Feel sulky 25 In 2020, Guinness reinstated Billy Mitchell’s record as the first player to reach 1,000,000 in this arcade game after claims of cheating proved unfounded 27 Maine national park 29 Sorrowful word 30 Others, in Oaxaca 31 Whittle (down) 33 Not Dead Yet network 36 Mountaineering legend controversially stripped by Guinness in 2023 of his record for climbing all 14 of the world’s 8,000meter peaks; GPS data showed he’d missed one summit by about 15 feet 40 Part of FWIW 41 Baby’s cry 42 Quick-growing vine 43 Full house, in poker slang 45 Maternity ward occupants 46 Parvaneh Moayedi, who is this type of athlete, had her Guinness record revoked in 2019 after doubts surfaced that she’d run 168 races in one year 51 Turn to water 52 First name in whodunits 53 Iron ___ (rust) 55 Indian social level 56 In 2015, Yangzhou, China, was denied a Guinness record for the largest preparation of this food, about 9,200 lbs., after it was discovered that some of it had gone uneaten, contravening record rules 60 Playful creature 61 Patient person? 62 Find common ground 63 Gets closer to 64 “What ___ I thinking?” 65 ___-no question

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1 Instinctive sense 2 “Now I get it!” 3 Mai ___ (cocktail) 4 Stabbed in the back 5 Utah ski resort 6 Piece of publicity 7 Escaped a rainstorm 8 Have to pay back 9 Tropical fruit 10 Stuff in a hiker’s pack 11 Texas pitcher, sometimes 12 Grand ___ National Park 13 Hurl 18 Movie character with wacky syntax 21 Free-for-all 22 Language spoken in Auckland 23 Four duos, if they combined 24 A Tale of Two Cities city 26 Just deserts 28 Kinda-sorta 31 Republic philosopher 32 USNA rank 33 MacDowell in 2019’s Ready or Not 34 Side of a cut gem 35 Pie part 37 City across the river from Council Bluffs, Iowa 38 Music heard in Kingston 39 Put underwater 43 Person who may leave home in a hurry 44 People besides us 45 Melty cheese 46 Georgia city 47 Quartz variety 48 Bob Marley fan, sometimes 49 “Candle in the Wind” name 50 Leaves the room 54 6/6/44 56 Not that many 57 They check deductions 58 Big boss 59 Suffix with ballad or chariot