THE NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
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1 Title matchmaker of early 19thcentury literature 5 Drifting type 9 Some help 14 With 21- Across, ship out? 15 Britain’s Douglas- Home 16 Need for a 17Across 17 Special delivery of a sort 20 Fluoride, e. g. 21 See 14- Across 22 Spots for rubs and scrubs 23 Is homesick, say 25 “Oedipe” opera composer, 1936 27 Response to being tickled 29 They often have quiet eyes 32 Moo ___ 34 Santa’s checking things 36 N. F. L. QB Kyle 37 Revolutionary Tribunal casualty 40 Verdugo of “Marcus Welby, M. D.” 41 Oxford attachment? 42 Automne follows it 43 Fort’s steep slope 45 Click beetle 47 Go at 49 98.6°, say 52 Korean War outbreak year 54 Starchy 56 African antelope 57 Discovery of Vitus Bering before his shipwreck 60 Paavo ___, track’s Flying Finn 61 “Live at Red Rocks” pianist 62 Under tension 63 Some tides 64 City in Padua province 65 Shakespeare title contraction
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1 Steele work 2 Where “ayuh” is an affirmative 3 What 007 might shoot with 4 He declared “The planet has a fever” 5 Largest ethnic group in China 6 Pasternak mistress Ivinskaya 7 Implicatively 8 Large quantity 9 GPS screen abbr. 10 Curling rink line seven yards from the tee 11 Destination after a touchdown 12 Scholarship offering org. 13 4- Down’s grp. 18 Semicircular canals’ locales 19 Burning solutions 24 2008 demolition target 26 Eolith or neolith 28 Fifth of fünf 30 Glam rock’s ___ the Hoople 31 Old dagger 32 Hook helper 33 Dutch Golden Age painter 35 Dirty 38 Experiencing down time 39 Home of Sistan and Baluchestan 44 Spanish term of endearment 46 Printed slips 48 Really put out 50 “The X Factor” panelist 51 Things Santa checks 52 “novelist Doctor Faustus” 53 Footprint or fingerprint, say 55 Tears can create one 58 “Indeedy” 59 “___ Cried” ( 1962 hit song)