Crossword Edited by Will Shortz
ACROSS
Part of a Tibetan
1
leader’s title
San Luis ___,
6
Calif.
Catch in the act
12
Official decree
15
Polishing aids
16
Park in
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Manhattan, e.g.: Abbr.
Disciple of
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Haile Selassie, informally
19 As part of a performing duo in 1991; as a solo artist in 2021
What might help
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someone get a leg up?
“Cool!”
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Take home
24
25 As part of a band in 1998; as a solo artist in
2019
Put on staff
27
Vessel that’s a
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homophone of 24-Across
Get ___ on (ace)
29
“Place” on a
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Monopoly board Lowest pitches in
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chords
One end of a
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battery
37 As part of a songwriting duo in 1990; as a solo artist in
2021
Really got to
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“Rule” stating
43
that the number of transistors per microchip doubles every two years
Brit who wrote
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“The Vanishing Half”
Meadow
50
Former Giants
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QB Manning Understanding of
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a situation
With 60-Across,
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institution in which 19-, 25and 37-Across are (thus far) the only three women ever to be inducted twice “Waterloo” group
57
Acronym that
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might be shouted before a rash act Heavens on earth
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See 53-Across
60
“So sad”
63
Serving from a
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tap
Laughed loudly
66
Janelle who
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sang 2010’s “Tightrope”
There are about
68
five of these in a tsp.
Way off base
69
Strict
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DOWN
German article
1
2019 sci-fi film
2
whose title means “to the stars”
Lends an ear
3
Penultimate part
4
of a Shakespeare play
Architectural
5
style started, strangely, in England
Canadian
6
Thanksgiving mo. Russian pancakes
7
Kind of chemical
8
bond
Shelving area in
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a library
PUZZLE BY JOSH GOODMAN
Part of a water
10
quality evaluation Buckeye State
11
sch.
Vancouver Island
12
city
Contended
13
___ mountain
14
dog (breed named for its origins near the Swiss capital) Installs again, as
20
a painting
Kind of sax
22
Hoagie
25
Grp. known as
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OTAN in France
Social worker
31
who was the first American woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize Skeleton that’s
33
no longer in the closet?
Stately tree
34
Concern
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for online advertisers, for short
Caffeinecontaining
38 nut Goddess of
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peace
Isaac’s father, in
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the Bible
Game with a bat
41
Gives permission*
42
Proud and regal
44
Like some casts
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or teams
Actor Wheaton
46
Strive to achieve
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Over the bounds
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Composer
54
Schumann Susan G. ___
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(breast cancer advocacy organization) Transfer, as a
56
tulip
It’s unrefined
61
Summer hrs. in
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Pittsburgh Japanese
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currency