N.Y. Times Crossword – Thursday, September 21, 2017

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By: Matt Ginsberg
Theme: U Turns
Difficulty (0-10):  3
Time: 24:07

ACROSS DOWN
1 *Adlai Stevenson as a presidential candidate, e.g. 1 Speaker in major-league baseball history
7 Sleazeball 2 Came’s partner
10 Fricassee, for example 3 Bone: It.
14 Fix, as a boot 4 “Rugs”
15 Singly 5 Injured party’s warning
17 Remark from Don Rickles 6 Crossed paths
18 It’s “knowing all the facts,” according to Woody Allen 7 Stand
19 Points along a bus route 8 Hypermeticulous
20 Connection provider, for short 9 German article
21 *Limits on team payrolls 10 Something involved in a firing
22 Ragtime legend Blake 11 “You missed your chance”
24 Airheaded 12 Vacuum tube innovation of 1946
25 Listen (to) 13 Beat
28 How cigars should be kept, say aficionados 16 Operatic villains, often
30 They praise in non-prose 20 Sleazeball
31 **Doesn’t go to either extreme 23 Makeup of many moon rocks
33 Head lines, briefly? 25 A whole bunch
36 Social gathering 26 Prefix with -logical
37 Shame 27 Quadrennial U.S. occurrence
38 “Perhaps ___” 28 Poker blunder
39 Tomorrow’s jr. 29 Michael of “The Great Santini”
41 Knight’s need 32 Managed
42 ___ Helmer of “A Doll’s House” 34 “Saw” stuff
43 George I or V? 35 Castor or Pollux
45 Blooming 40 Topping the Scoville scale
47 *Snitch 42 Was prying
49 Boxer’s concern, maybe 44 Elaborate, with “out”
50 Tickle 46 Punjab’s capital
51 Squid predator 47 Beats
52 Abductee of myth 48 Formula One racer Prost
56 Guarantee 49 Thinks but doesn’t know for a fact
58 1927 automotive debut 51 First name in mysteries
59 Dessert component often bought premade 53 ___ Strauss
60 *Individual telephone connections 54 Airline with a flag in its logo
61 Research org. 55 Statistician Silver
62 “Got that right!” 57 Often-illegal maneuver that is key to answering the asterisked clues
63 Mentally infirm 58 British V.I.P.s

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