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THE NEW YORK TIMES
ACROSS
1 Rivera of the original "Chicago"
6 "Dragnet" force, in brief
10 Org. for which a D.V.M. might work
14 Southwestern sheepherders
15 Mythical king of the Huns
16 Press
17 Unending pain
18 Ayatollah’s land
19 N.Y. neighbor
20 With 59-Across, hint to this puzzle’s secret
23 Grp. that conducts many tests
24 Honeymoon suite feature
27 Souvenir from a bad trip?
29 Le Figaro article
30 Epigram
32 See 65-Down
33 "Come here often?," e.g.
35 Chewy candy
38 River to the Rhone
41 What to do after completing this puzzle, with four straight lines
44 Children’s author Blyton and others
45 Chief White horse, e.g.
46 Subject of illicit trade
47 Japanese leader of the 1960’s
49 "The Gift of the Magi" gift
51 Ample shoe width
52 Promoted
56 Gwen of the original "Chicago"
58 Berlin cry
59 See 20-Across
61 "Yikes!"
63 Like some hands
64 ___ Gay (W.W. II plane)
68 Some votes
69 Cain of "Lois & Clark"
70 China company
71 Secy.
72 Dry
73 Jim-dandy
DOWN
1 Half a dance
2 Keep all to oneself
3 New issue on Wall St.
4 Color faintly
5 Sanctuary
6 Dragon’s ___ (early video game)
7 Central courts
8 Alternative if things go wrong
9 Bread for burritos?
10 Order to attack, with "on"
11 Made a killing, say
12 Individually owned apartment
13 Former U.N. chief Kofi
21 Multiple-choice choices
22 Kind of approval
24 Actor Tom of "Amadeus"
25 Bialy flavorer
26 Some court attire
28 Violinist Schneider, informally
31 Curtain puller of film
34 Wrap up by
36 50 degs., maybe
37 Former Swedish P.M. Palme
39 Beau
40 City north of Cologne
42 Any acetate, chemically
43 Pope after John X
48 ___ Foods, Inc.
50 Instruments for drawing angles
52 Animals
53 Spanish skating figures
54 Cain vis-à-vis Abel
55 ___ Lama
57 Freshen
60 Be inclined
62 Post W.W. II pres.
65 With 32-Across, a ball game
66 Response to a joke in an I.M.
67 Rocker ___ Rose
by Patrick Blindauer
ACROSS
1 Vacation rental
4 ___ Lama
9 Paintball sound
14 Boo follower
15 "You know . . . it’s . . . um . . . like this . . ."
16 Watchmaker since 1848
17 Extension
18 Blindly
20 Possible cause of a swelling
22 Filmmaker Gus Van ___
23 Have as a focus of one’s studies
26 Place for steamers
31 Feeling
32 Weekly founded by Walter Annenberg
33 Cool guys
35 "Would ___ to You?" (1985 Eurythmics hit)
36 Club choice
43 Neighbor on the 1980’s sitcom "Mama’s Family"
44 Footprint or loose thread, perhaps
45 People of Burundi
49 All accounted for
54 Customized
55 Import with a "cavallino rampante" logo
56 "Phooey!"
58 Sen. Hatch
59 Expose, with "on"
65 Totaled
66 Intrigue
67 From Cork, e.g.
68 Pittsburgh-to-Boston dir.
69 Wry faces
70 Boston five
71 What each set of circled letters spells
DOWN
1 Challenges for daredevil motorcyclists
2 Blood lines
3 Actress Rebecca of "Ugly Betty"
4 Ignominy
5 Friend of François
6 Part of a relay
7 Relief reactions
8 Unbroken
9 "In America" novelist Susan
10 Blair, Brown and others, in brief
11 Winner at the Second Battle of Bull Run
12 Bronze ___
13 Bronze
19 Runnin’ Rebels of the N.C.A.A.
21 Squares and cubes, e.g.: Abbr.
24 "___ a Putty Tat" (Friz Freleng short)
25 One of the Low Countries: Abbr.
27 Naturalist who appears on the California quarter
28 Vitriol
29 1998 Sarah McLachlan hit
30 Bit for a basket weaver
34 Half a mo
36 Skater Katarina
37 Jolly laugh
38 Sub in a tub
39 Bert who sang "If I Only Had the Nerve"
40 A first for Arabia?
41 Some people have trouble carry ing one
42 Gets engaged to, old-style
46 Milk dispensers
47 Trillion: Prefix
48 Language family that includes Finnish and Hungarian
50 Hockey’s Bobby
51 Blackened
52 Sister of Albus Dumbledore, in the Harry Potter books
53 Actress Laura
57 Part of a makeshift swing
59 Softhead
60 Med. insurance choice
61 Slip in a pot
62 Loon
63 Baseball’s Hodges
64 1940’s presidential inits.
by John Farmer
ACROSS
1 Gets one’s feet wet?
6 Frizzy do
10 Pop group whose music was the basis of a hit 2001 Broadway musical
14 Hut material
15 A lot of pizzazz?
16 Some socials
17 Rid of vermin
18 French chalk mineral
19 Corporal punishment unit
20 1999 Russell Crowe movie
23 Something to shoot for
25 N.R.C. forerunner
26 Scorecard listing
27 Fielder’s cry
29 Potter’s need
31 "The racer’s edge"
32 Parent’s handful
35 ___ Club (retail chain)
36 Cyclotron particle
37 Deplaned, e.g.
41 Nickname for the National Security Agency
46 The Monkees’ "___ Believer"
49 Scholarship consideration
50 Popped up
51 "Groovy!"
53 Orch. section
54 QB stats
55 W. W. I I encryption device
59 Fretted fiddle
60 Whittle
61 In a pique
64 Last word in an ultimatum
65 Getz of jazz
66 Dispatch boat
67 Black Flag alternative
68 Manhattan, e.g.
69 Reveal one’s feelings
DOWN
1 Tobacco buy
2 Suffix with cannon
3 Campus quarters
4 24/7 auction site
5 Shove off
6 San Diego State player
7 Goose bumps cause
8 Depend (on)
9 Last king of the united Sweden and Norway
10 Travel aid
11 Coarse sorts
12 Two-or three-pointer
13 Black key
21 French noodle?
22 Lounge
23 Domino features
24 Red Fort city
28 Cookbook amt.
29 Dress down
30 "Die Frau ___ Schatten" (Strauss opera)
33 Baseball’s Johnny, known as the
Big Cat
34 Mustachioed Surrealist
38 End of the road, possibly
39 Like some coffee
40 Gymnastics coups
42 E pluribus ___
43 Fraternity founded in 1847 at New York University
44 Walkway
45 Stork’s bundle
46 Assuming, hypothetically
47 1975 "Thrilla" city
48 Melodic passages
52 Looked libidinously
53 Public to-do
56 Dojo accessories
57 Asia’s ___ Sea
58 Campbell of "Three to Tango"
62 "___ Beso"
63 Mafia figure
by Barry C. Silk
ACROSS
1 "And ___ bed"
5 Personification of desire
9 Some Spanish Surrealist paintings
14 Like some traffic, for short
15 Delete
16 Call off, as in an emergency
17 Not an orig.
18 Field unit
19 Perilous
20 "She’s Like the Wind" singer, 1988
23 Understanding
24 C’s in shop class?
27 Something detested
30 Ginger ___
31 ___ and Span
34 Square
35 Soul singer Corinne Bailey ___
36 Aster
41 Raiser of Tarzan
42 Half-oz.
43 Part of the Dept. of Homeland Security since 2003
44 Agent, for short
45 Tabby
49 Hadrian’s predecessor
51 Musical based on a T. H. White Novel
55 Like some days of summer, in song
58 She said "Don’t get mad, get everything!"
60 Attention getter
61 Any minute now
62 To say in