THE NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
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1 Put one’s shoes on? 5 Popular Mexican resort, for short 9 Convenient return option 14 Bunker implement 15 Like neatniks and clean freaks 16 Neither stood out nor bombed out 17 Refreshment on a scorching hot day 20 “… and that’s no joke!” 21 Custom finish? 22 Portuguese explorer Bartolomeu who found a sailing route around Africa 23 Maltese, e.g. 27 Some dropped tabs 28 Athletic unit 30 “Singin’ in the Rain” role 31 Alley with a time machine 33 It runs to the right 35 Aaron ___, “Thank-You for Smoking” star 39 Graham ___ (old Kellogg’s cereal) 40 Their 1982 album “Combat Rock” went double-platinum 42 Rod and Todd’s dad, in TV cartoondom 43 Quick move? 44 Classic 1950 book with the line “It’s your fiction that interests me. Your studies of the interplay of human motives and emotion” 47 Entrées 50 Linguistic root 52 Put on 53 Foreign state with the capital Panaji 54 Beatles song in which no Beatle plays an instrument 57 “Yes, let’s!” 60 Emperor crowned in 962 61 “A touch more” sloganeer 62 Actress Ward 63 “Gigi” composer 64 ___ Martin 65 Alternative to Beauvais-Tillé
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1 Kind of council 2 Meet people 3 All right, to 42-Across 4 Liter lead-in 5 “Institutes of the Christian Religion” writer 6 Like the spectacled bear 7 It’s easy to do for an angel 8 Some pats 9 Horticultural problem 10 With 12-Down, poker target 11 Massachusetts’ Mount ___ College 12 See 10-Down 13 Squeeze 18 Like some unhealthy attachments 19 Base 24 “Boogie Nights” persona played by Mark Wahlberg 25 Able to see through 26 The out crowd? 29 Big Japanese chip maker 32 “Puh-lease!” 34 Metal band with the 1994 #1 album “Far Beyond Driven” 35 Being abroad 36 1980s baseball star Lemon 37 “Phantom Lady” co-star, 1944 38 Original D&D co. 41 “Isn’t that special!” 45 “Hawaii Five-O” imperative 46 Model in a science class 48 Cricket infraction 49 Pass on a proposal 51 Checker piece, e.g. 55 Subject of a 1989 E.P.A. ban 56 ___ jure 57 Step on a scale 58 Great Plains native 59 Great Basin native