N.Y. Times Crossword – Thursday, September 28, 2017

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By: Joe Krozel
Theme: Pinata
Difficulty (0-10):  2
Time: 15:05

ACROSS DOWN
1 Fair 1 Defib user
10 Hale ___, House majority leader of the 1970s 2 Where: Lat.
15 Regal Entertainment Group facility 3 Widely played sport developed at Amherst College in the 1960s
16 “Get ___, you two!” 4 Cross-country route, informally
17 Hierarchical structure, metaphorically 5 Popular beige work boots, colloquially
18 “Fighting man from head to toe” 6 Silicon Valley product
19 Cave-___ (mining hazards) 7 Trashed
20 What naphthalene is distilled from 8 University founder ___ Stanford
21 Mild cheese 9 Wields
22 Where some bills originate, for short 10 Supermarket assistant
24 Letters on a cartoon stick 11 Brooks Robinson was one
25 First name in “wabbit” hunting 12 “Take a hike!”
26 Org. with millions of members HQ’d in Fairfax, Va. 13 “Johnny B. ___” (Chuck Berry hit)
27 Consumes too much, informally 14 Lipstick problem
28 Agent, for short 22 New Hampshire’s Saint ___ College
29 Historical ___ 23 Home version of “Jeopardy!” and others
31 Stock opportunity, in brief 30 Agreement
34 Well-planed 32 Law office worker
35 Likely contents of a 44-Down 33 Actor Wilson
36 Nibble (on) 36 “Move it!”
37 Connector of English stories 40 Software vendor’s recommendation
38 French 101 verb 41 In need of laundering
39 No Triple Crown winner ever 42 Marx collaborator
40 Exhaust 43 Israeli gun
45 Comparison word 44 Party item depicted in the middle of this puzzle’s grid
46 Enliven, with “up” 49 What dogs do in lieu of sweating
47 Kind of scheme 52 Middlin’
48 Shaver’s option 54 Old-time film studio
49 Word repeated in “What’s ___ is ___” 56 Royal wish, once
50 “Eat up!”
51 Bullring shouts
53 Light brown brew
55 Hard, pungent cheese
57 Melania Trump ___ Knauss
58 “Hooked on Classics” label
59 Some toy trucks
60 Lao-___
61 Library references, briefly
62 San ___, Tex.

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