NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

NO. 0524

ACROSS

1 Hot gossip 5 Onetime big name in Filipino politics 11 Compete in a harness race 15 When Romeo first sees Juliet 16 King played in film by Sean Connery, Richard Harris and Clive Owen 17 “Take one” 18 Horse races? 20 “Happy Days” actress Moran 21 Base bosses, briefly 22 Unadon fish 23 Walnut, for one 24 Awards since 1956 25 Seinfeld’s stringed instrument? 28 “___ fair!” 29 Pics 31 Literary character with a powerful face 32 Stinkeroo 34 12th of 12: Abbr. 35 Security lapse 37 Particularly pale Ph.D. ceremony? 41 Amps (up) 42 Grp. with a firearms museum 43 ___ jokes 45 Bet 48 Articles 50 Doctor or engineer 52 Pony up for a certain online deal? 55 Rough 57 Multinational electronics company 58 Sch. with a Concord campus 59 Having spotted colors 60 Recommended amount 61 What 18-, 25-, 37- and 52-Across all are (whose circled letters name something used with the base phrases) 64 Catherine, to Jules et Jim 65 Watched 66 Tug or tub 67 Output of a spinning jenny 68 Pooh-pooh, with “at” 69 Hostlers’ workplaces

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1 ___ City, center of the 1890s Klondike Gold Rush 2 First name in a Washington Irving story 3 Provoke a fight, colloquially 4 Depend (on) 5 Parts of springs 6 Inlet 7 What a detour alters: Abbr. 8 Verbal tip of the hat 9 Peripheral 10 “Are you kidding me?,” in texts 11 R&B singer who had a 2015 #1 hit with “Can’t Feel My Face” 12 Mulligan in a dice game 13 Cousin of a meadowlark 14 Bodily connector 19 Loch ___ 25 Baby kangaroos 26 Write indelibly 27 Masala ___ (hot, spicy drink) 30 Best Buy buy 33 What Tropical Rain Forest is, in a Crayola box 35 Oscar winner Sophia 36 What queso de bola is another name for 38 One who knows what’s coming 39 More than suspicious of 40 Military post 44 Portable music player brand 45 Some “me” time 46 City on Puget Sound 47 Naval agreement 48 Droid rival 49 ___-pei (wrinkly dog) 51 Pack in Pac-Man 53 Boots 54 Let out of the corral 56 Out 59 Give up 62 Opposite of a poetry slam? 63 Pince-___