N.Y. Times Crossword – Tuesday, August 29, 2017

By: Adam G. Perl
Theme: Equine
Difficulty (0-10):  2
Time: 12:52

ACROSS DOWN
1 Staple of Chinese cuisine 1 Drilling grp.
5 Submit tax forms the modern way 2 Texter’s qualifier
10 Jockey’s accessory 3 Third person
14 Actor Epps 4 Muff one
15 Charles or Ray after whom a chair is named 5 Pessimist in Pooh books
16 Onetime Ritz rival 6 Online help features, for short
17 Classic game needing no equipment 7 “___ in the Morning”
20 Event name suffix 8 Ang who directed “Brokeback Mountain”
21 One of the friends on “Friends” 9 Double curve
22 Doing a pirouette, say 10 Words of encouragement
23 Start of the Lord’s Prayer 11 Anarchy queller
24 Common baby ailment 12 “This could be bad!”
26 You might not want to touch something with this 13 One may be struck
33 Diarist Nin 18 Aligns
34 Edward James ___, star of “Stand and Deliver” 19 Sweetums
35 Word before coat or rat 23 “Miss” with regrets
36 Contents of Pandora’s box 24 “Saturday Night Live” specialty
37 High winds? 25 Down Under critters
38 El ___ (weather phenomenon) 26 Like the light from distant stars
39 “N.Y. State of Mind” rapper 27 Acquired relative
40 Briefly, after “in” 28 Lies
41 Brand of candy hearts 29 Hardly a celebrity
42 1965 Beatles hit 30 Fauna’s counterpart
45 Equine, in totspeak 31 Renaissance Faire weapon
46 Letters on exploding boxes in Angry Birds 32 Kindle download
47 Cause for a food recall 37 Is beholden to
49 Advance 38 Pond denizen
51 Yes, in Yokohama 40 Singer Lavigne
54 Overly inventive … or a hint to the answers to 17-, 26- and 42-Across 41 One “hat” for an au pair
58 Alan of “Bridge of Spies” 43 Many a feline Facebook posting
59 Music genre that’s sometimes “heavy” 44 Kind of income a lending officer likes to see
60 Maven 47 List shortcut
61 Like omega, in the Greek alphabet 48 RC, for one
62 It’s a wrap 49 Jared who won an Oscar for “Dallas Buyers Club”
63 Big name in oil? 50 Kind of history
51 Carry by semitrailer, say
52 ___ Romeo (Italian car)
53 Doubtful
55 Ambulance letters
56 Farm doc
57 Home for “Girls”

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