0913-19 NY Times Crossword 13 Sep 19, Friday

Constructed by: Anne & Daniel Larsen
Edited by: Will Shortz

Today’s Theme: None

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Bill’s time: 11m 01s

Bill’s errors: 0

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My brother just flew in from Ireland, and I only have time to solve and write up an abbreviated post before picking him up at the airport. I’ll get to the rest of the post just as soon as I can.

Apologies for any inconvenience.

Bill

Complete List of Clues/Answers

Across

1 Part of many an amusement park : ARCADE
7 “Curious …” : THAT’S ODD …
15 B.Y.U. athlete : COUGAR
16 Title for Judge Judy : HER HONOR
17 Tweetstorm, e.g. : TIRADE
18 With finesse : EXPERTLY
19 ___ of Solomon (part of the Apocrypha) : ODES
20 Playbill section, informally : BIOS
22 Norman Vincent ___, best-selling author of “The Power of Positive Thinking” : PEALE
23 Hybrid Starbucks product : FRAPPUCCINO
26 Course number : PAR
27 Actress Gadot : GAL
28 “If you have to ___ …” : ASK
29 Chuckleheads : GOOBERS
31 Behaved creepily, in a way : OGLED
33 Auto industry pioneer Michelin : ANDRE
34 News ___ : DESK
35 It’s not good if it’s purple : PROSE
37 Dict., gaz. and others : REFS
41 Volume not bought at a mall : E-BOOK
43 Perspective : ANGLE
44 Tony with an Emmy : RANDALL
47 Substance whose primary use earned its discoverer the 1948 Nobel Prize in Physiology – but is now banned : DDT
49 Heat on the street : GAT
50 Kind of rock : EMO
51 French protesters beginning in 2018 : YELLOW VESTS
54 Caterpillar, for one : LARVA
56 Like koalas and pandas : CUTE
57 Wood strip : LATH
58 Major second, e.g. : INTERVAL
60 Fashion designer Pucci : EMILIO
62 Al Bundy portrayer on “Married … With Children” : ED O’NEILL
63 Kitsch, e.g. : BAD ART
64 Birds with showy rear plumage : FANTAILS
65 Many early settlers of the U.S. frontier : SWEDES

Down

1 Natural disaster, legally : ACT OF GOD
2 Doping hazard : ROID RAGE
3 Magic bullets : CURE-ALLS
4 Breathless : AGASP
5 #1 ___ (mug inscription) : DAD
6 Darkness personified : EREBUS
7 Teen drama set in SoCal : THE OC
8 Symbols meant to ward off evil : HEX SIGNS
9 Artist who created “chance collages” : ARP
10 Target demographic of many social programs : THE POOR
11 Cross : SORE
12 Recorded, in a way : ON TAPE
13 Word with store or sign : DOLLAR
14 Laundromat equipment : DRYERS
21 “Ugh!” : ICK!
24 Digs : PAD
25 Part of a network : NODE
30 European capital : BERN
32 Scraped (out) : EKED
33 Copacetic : A-OK
35 Trolley car feature : POLE
36 Hear “here!” here : ROLL CALL
38 Picnic dish : EGG SALAD
39 What a fork in the road might lead to? : FLAT TIRE
40 What are still attempts to score? : SET SHOTS
42 Where Gap and Google are headquartered : BAY AREA
43 4×4, e.g. : ATV
44 “Phew!” elicitor : RELIEF
45 Spock’s mother : AMANDA
46 Big name in virus fighting : NORTON
47 Equivalent of “x” : DOT
48 Nerds : DWEEBS
52 Puts to sleep : LULLS
53 Slur over : ELIDE
55 Part of a volcano : VENT
59 Edward of the Edwardian Era : VII
61 Big mouth : MAW