NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
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1 Midday 7 The Emerald Isle 11 Bring home 14 Superficial appearance 15 Not occurring naturally 16 Tulsa sch. 17 DAM 19 Car coat 20 Most-wanted group 21 Tony winner Neuwirth 22 Zap, in a way 23 Prefix with -phyte 24 FIRED 26 Reds, blacks, evens or odds, in roulette 29 Perform better than 30 Bird that can hardly get off the ground 31 Encomium 36 PARBOIL 42 Place for taps 43 Praise-filled poem 44 Result of tears on makeup 47 Device for spraying paint 50 STREAM 55 Ryan who co-starred in 1995’s “French Kiss” 56 Machu Picchu builder 57 Headlight? 58 One putting money on the table 61 Something thrown to see who goes first 62 LYDIA 64 Red state grp. 65 Upscale hotel chain 66 Opposite of keyed up 67 Suffix with differ 68 Spritzes, e.g. 69 Tightly fixed
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1 “Orange Is the New Black” rating 2 Prosperity 3 Turning out 4 Tenant 5 Airplane course 6 Bungle 7 ___ Brickowski, protagonist of “The Lego Movie” 8 One of three people walking into a bar, in a joke 9 Do-nothing 10 Laura Bush ___ Welch 11 “Hold on, don’t go yet!” 12 Removed from memory 13 Dressy rental 18 Muscles used in a Russian twist, for short 22 “___ words have never been spoken” 25 Pic 26 Kind of developer 27 “Where ___?” 28 Luminary 32 Basics of school learning, in brief 33 When sung five times, an Abba hit 34 High school science class, informally 35 Institute signed into existence by Thos. Jefferson 37 2009 Peace Nobelist 38 Doctor Zhivago’s love39 Request at the end of a meal, maybe 40 URL ender for 35-Down 41 Stimpy’s TV pal 44 Iota 45 Underling 46 Apart from 48 Attribute 49 Didn’t just criticize 51 Guilty feeling 52 Corrupt 53 New York Bay’s ___ Island 54 Mr. Rogers 59 “What ___ is there?” 60 Bassoon part 62 Chemical company that merged with DuPont 63 Giant part of a T. rex skeleton