N.Y. Times Crossword – Saturday, September 16, 2017

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By: Natan Last, Finn Vingeland and the J.A.S.A. Crossword Class
Theme: None
Difficulty (0-10):  4
Time: 12:15

ACROSS DOWN
1 Plucky words? 1 Blind followers
1 Flags 2 Gets better
1 “That’s some boyfriend you have” 3 Application requirement, maybe
16 “Star Trek: T.N.G.” role 4 Hunkered down
17 Low-stress address? 5 Checks off on
18 Like the middle of Australia 6 Check out
19 It holds the world record for most passengers on a commercial airliner [1,088] 7 “The noblest hateful love that ___ I heard of”: “Troilus and Cressida”
20 Fizzy vitamin supplement 8 Small suits
22 They try to get into your head 9 Grandmother, in dialect
25 Recipe amount 10 Many 1920s Harper’s Bazaar covers
26 Attraction in Bath, England 11 Animal form of Harry Potter’s Patronus
27 Roll around 12 “Officer, that’s the thief!”
29 Alternative to Chanel No. 5 13 Gentle farewell
31 Prefix with gender 14 1950s TV personality who appeared in “Grease”
34 Some signals from pitchers 21 Current regulator
35 Flaps 23 Door part often fitted with an alarm
36 Fireplace receptacles 24 Poor work habit
38 Shylock’s daughter in “The Merchant of Venice” 28 Relig. affiliation of more than six million Americans
39 Pressing need 30 Request for an island getaway?
40 Young stud? 31 Celebration after a run?
41 Sea as in Cannes? 32 “Do my eyes deceive me?”
42 Beat 33 Popular ABC reality show starting in 2009
43 Something to watch 35 Andrew Wyeth’s “The ___ Pictures”
45 Neighbor of Iran: Abbr. 37 One for the money?
46 Area worth the most bonus troops in the game Risk 38 “Morning ___”
48 Underground activity in the ’50s 40 Gourd also known as a vegetable pear
52 Guarantee of the Sixth Amendment 43 Attached, in a way
54 Hill of ___, site of Ireland’s Lia Fáil 44 Who’s depicted in Russia’s “Bronze Horseman” statue
55 “The O.C.” protagonist 47 Dig
56 “Run that by me again” 49 He “wept with all six eyes,” per Dante
60 A parent may tell a child to watch it 50 Flash
61 Fair competition 51 Slakes
62 Belly laughs 53 Kind of place for the summer?
63 Dangerous thing to cross 57 Subject of Noam Chomsky’s “American Power and the New Mandarins,” briefly
58 Communication device for the deaf: Abbr.
59 Cry at a Real Madrid game

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