N.Y. Times Crossword – Thursday, August 17, 2017

By: Peter A. Collins
Theme: Spin
Difficulty (0-10):  5
Time: 24:00

ACROSS DOWN
1 Somewhat 1 Starters
5 Scottish delicacy 2 Russian wolfhound
11 Arabian stimulant 3 “The Complete ___ Guide to …” (popular book series)
14 ___ list 4 Shipping unit
15 Still 5 Golfer Walter with 11 major championships
16 Colorful card game 6 Smithereens
17 One side of St. George’s Channel 7 Searching blindly
18 First set of circled letters 8 Subj. of a Kaplan prep course
20 Like some synthetic colorants 9 astern Med. land
21 Stand-in, maybe 10 Commercial interest
22 Instrument anyone can play 11 Quest for knowledge?
23 Second set of circled letters 12 A.D. part
27 Game often played on car rides 13 Like some orders
28 Vardalos of “My Big Fat Greek Wedding” 19 Tibia connectors
29 Like a racehorse 21 Tharp of dance
32 Bonds, e.g. 24 Black ___
35 Its motto is “Our liberties we prize and our rights we will maintain” 25 Nobelist Bohr
36 Like Tylenol PM, for short 26 “Grand Hotel” actress
39 “___ you not entertained?” 30 Be in the red
40 About 1,400 of them is the record for a human: Abbr. 31 Dollop
42 Attic construction 33 Range located along the 60th meridian
43 Barrymore and Liu’s “Charlie’s Angels” co-star 34 Things in pools
45 Yadda yadda yadda 36 Like the number of games in a “best of” series
48 Impetus for a bungee jump, maybe 37 One in la familia
49 ESPN broadcaster Bob 38 Mesh for securing items in a truck bed
50 Parlays 41 Lacking sauce?
53 Third set of circled letters 44 1983 Woody Allen film
58 Verb for a dieter 46 What knitters need to match, often
60 Home in the woods 47 Govt. org. whose funding is perennially debated
61 Crack 51 Commit a court violation
62 Faction in China’s Cultural Revolution … or a hint to each set of circled letters 52 Baseball position, informally
65 River through Bath, England 54 Take in
66 “Rogue ___” 55 Pan-fry
67 River paralleled by I-80 through a long stretch of the Plains 56 Hyper
68 Mannerly man 57 Lets
69 Pick up 58 All atwitter
70 In the trash 59 Pointer for a meteorologist?
71 Delta 88, e.g., informally 63 Rapper ___ Rida
64 Scale notes
65 Past

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