N.Y. Times Crossword – Wednesday, September 13, 2017

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By: Daniel Mauer
Theme: The Little Things
Difficulty (0-10):  2
Time: 19:15

ACROSS DOWN
1 Hairdressers’ challenges 1 Otis’s feline pal
5 On-screen word in a “Batman” episode 2 Portly plus
8 Brilliance 3 Drink with a Wild Cherry variety
13 Cynical rejoinder 4 “The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas” author
14 Shades 5 Golden ratio symbol
16 Figurine on many a wedding cake 6 Unconscious
17 *Breakfast, in Burgundy 7 It provides more loft than a 9-iron
20 Davis of “Jungle Fever” 8 Name in “A Christmas Carol”
21 Fed 9 French vineyard
22 One throwing shade? 10 The Cha Cha Slide, for one
23 *With 52-Across, 1787 Mozart composition 11 “Skyfall” singer, 2012
26 ___ Plaines, Ill. 12 Robert Byrd served nearly nine of these in the Senate
27 Title for Gandhi 15 Prefix with final or formal
28 Book after II Chronicles 18 Pro shop purchases
30 Vivacity 19 TV’s “___ the Virgin”
34 Corrida cheers 24 McDonald’s founder Ray
37 Start of a selecting rhyme 25 State flower of New Hampshire
40 *Repeated lyric in “La Bamba” 29 Paper purchase
43 Less feral 30 Good-news-to-bad-news transition
44 Like cat videos, typically 31 Genetic stuff
45 Golda of Israel 32 “OMG, my parents are gonna ground me forever!”
46 Side dish at a barbecue 33 Volkswagen competitor
48 Dada pioneer 35 End of a freshman’s new email address
50 Affordable Care Act option, briefly 36 Assail
52 See 23-Across 38 XXX divided by X
58 21,728-pg. work that is constantly updated 39 Listen here!
59 Sticker component 41 Fizzy citrus beverage
60 Boating hazard 42 ___ warfare
62 They’re what really count, so it’s said … or a hint to the multilingual answers to the starred clues 47 Poet Whitman
66 Wine may leave one 49 Encourage
67 Blackthorn fruit 50 ___-totsy
68 Org. certifying albums as gold or platinum 51 Zubin formerly of the New York Philharmonic
69 When said three times, blah blah blah 53 Shares of profits
70 Massachusetts’ Cape ___ 54 Very, in slang
71 Philosopher Immanuel 55 Avoid, as work
56 Ancient region where the style of an architectural column originated
57 Justice who joined the bench in 2010
61 Aspiring D.A.’s exam
63 Hat, informally
64 Time it takes for paint to dry, seemingly
65 X

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