N.Y. Times Crossword – Thursday, October 12, 2017

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By: Alex Eaton-Salners
Theme: Homophones
Difficulty (0-10):  1
Time: 24:14

ACROSS DOWN
1 Mined 1 Heisman winner Newton
5 Cents 2 On
9 Male 3 Broccoli ___
13 Sum 4 English poet Sitwell
14 Ceded 5 Introspective query
15 Peeks 6 Not pay attention during a lecture, say
16 Mustard 7 She’s sheared
18 Whit 8 ___ the Giant, first inductee in the W.W.E. Hall of Fame
19 We 9 It starts “On my honor, I will do my best …”
20 Writes 10 Watson or Thompson of 2017’s “Beauty and the Beast”
22 Meet 11 Diamond with 21 platinum albums
23 Bass 12 Army awards just below Medals of Honor: Abbr.
24 Handsome 15 One for whom work is play?
27 Tale 17 Ones spinning webs?
29 Knows 21 Comment during bidding
32 Missal 23 Troubles with timber
34 Lickers 24 Bills that one doesn’t mind piling up
36 Sites 25 Believed with no questions asked
38 Clothes 26 Megaphone noise
39 Rolls 28 ___ Sea, body greatly diminished by Russian irrigation projects
40 Bate 30 Some works at MoMA and the Art Institute of Chicago
41 Throe 31 Big name in household appliances
42 Lodes 33 160 acres per farmer, in the Homestead Act of 1862
43 Wring 35 Classical rebuke
44 Flour 37 Fast-forwarded, with “up”
46 Hoes 39 Max ___, popular video game series of the 2000s
48 Blew 43 Vice president after Biden
49 Hews 45 Declaration on a Chinese menu
51 Sine 47 Grayish to yellowish brown
53 Re 50 One who may order an operation, informally
56 Flea 52 Designer Donna
59 Rhodes 53 Pleased
60 Slight 54 Priest from on high?
63 Inn 55 “Are you ___ out?”
64 Dun 56 Kramer and Kramer, in “Kramer vs. Kramer”
65 Steak 57 Material for a mountain cabin
66 Chute 58 ___ James, 2008 Beyoncé role
67 Instants 61 One of the Gabors of old Hollywood
68 Bye 62 Suffix with saw

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