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The New York Times Crossword

Edited by Will Shortz

ACROSS

1 Where Mongolia is

5 Scaredy-cat

9 Leafs (through)

14 Album for which Kendrick Lamar won a Pulitzer Prize

15 Berry at a smoothie shop

16 Company behind the game Pong

17 Mentally pooped

20 1960s service site, informally

21 Common injury site for a basketball player, informally

22 Thick, as plant growth

23 Deliberately give instruction in a way that targets an exam

28 Commercial that may come with a jingle

29 Took a chair

30 Eager

31 Hair parter

34 Continue a subscription

The New York Times Crossword

38 Barely passing grade

39 Decade of W.W. II ... or a homophonic hint to 17-, 23-, 50- and 57-Across

41 Around 18, typically, for a high school graduate

42 Sometimes-floral organic compound

44 Draped Indian garment

45 ___-X (computer command to cut text)

46 Crosses (out)

48 Conjures up, say

50 “If I’m being honest ...”

54 Cook, in a way, as ahi tuna

55 Opposite of ’neath

56 Fools’ mo.

57 “A fight requires more than one person”

63 “I’m available to help”

64 Modern note-taking aid

65 Plant in a marsh

66 Spanish babies

67 What a paper airplane icon may indicate

68 Thing in a grove

Cryptoquote

DOWN

1 Big letters in home security

2 ___ Paulo, Brazil

3 Comment that might follow “None for me, thanks”

4 Relief for an upset stomach

5 Simple two-player card game

6 Drink cooler

7 Angry with

8 Throw from a mound

9 Butter square

10 Any Olympian

11 First name of Julius Caesar

12 Artist Max

13 Worshiper in a turban

18 Texter’s qualifier

19 Cries in a fútbol stadium

23 Barter

24 Roof overhangs

25 It may have a hard or soft shell

Sudoku

26 Things indicated by squiggly lines in cartoons

27 Paves the way?

32 N.Y.C. subway letters

33 Hardwood whose bark is sometimes used as paper

35 Leader of an 1831 revolt against slavery

36 Spearfishing bird

37 People of SW Britain

39 Without charge

40 The Emerald Isle

43 Like skydiving or cliff-diving

45 Dashboard or bumper

47 Place to put a coin

49 Coup d’___

50 Joke with

51 Like some wine barrels

52 ___ and Clark

53 Familiar narrative device

54 Leave dumbfounded

58 French possessive

59 Catch some rays

Word Sleuth

60 Bizarre

61 “Golly!”

62 Poetic tribute

PUZZLE BY ALEXANDER LIEBESKIND

Friday’s answers

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SUDOKU

BY DEREK BOWMAN

RATING: Easy

How to play

Fill in the grid so that each row of nine squares, each column of nine and each section of nine (three squares by three) contains the numbers 1 through 9 in any order. There is only one solution to each puzzle.

Previous Answer

7 9 4 1 2 6 8 5 3 1 8 2 5 9 3 6 4 7 5 6 3 8 7 4 9 2 1 8 3 5 7 4 9 1 6 2 6 4 7 2 8 1 5 3 9 9 2 1 3 6 5 4 7 8 3 1 9 4 5 7 2 8 6 2 5 6 9 3 8 7 1 4 4 7 8 6 1 2 3 9 5