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8 Dec 21, NY Times Crossword Solutions
Across
- 1 Sample collector : SWAB
- 5 Banjo sound : TWANG
- 10 Computer menu heading : EDIT
- 14 Hookup that may get kinky? : HOSE
- 15 Broadcaster : AIRER
- 16 Soprano who ends up trapped in a vault : AIDA
- 17 Leave out : OMIT
- 18 “My name is …,” e.g. : INTRO
- 19 Automaker that went bankrupt in 2011 : SAAB
- 20 What intellectual rivals engage in : A BATTLE OF WITS
- 23 Oktoberfest quaff : LAGER
- 24 Munch Museum locale : OSLO
- 25 Election-influencing grp. : PAC
- 28 Like the Tower of Babel, in two ways : STORIED
- 31 Arrogant : SNOOTY
- 33 What chess has that bridge doesn’t : BOARD
- 36 God of passion : EROS
- 37 “Theodore Roosevelt” or “Robert Louis Stevenson” : SARGENT PORTRAIT
- 43 Lot calculation : AREA
- 44 Classic gas brand : AMOCO
- 45 Fancy drinking glass : GOBLET
- 48 Percussion instrument that’s also the name of a popular ringtone : MARIMBA
- 53 End of a dean’s address : EDU
- 54 Sign of inactivity : RUST
- 57 Untrustworthy sort : SNEAK
- 58 Mid-19th-century Russian ruler described as “autocracy personified” : TSAR NICHOLAS I
- 62 Initial stake : ANTE
- 64 Get into some hot water? : BATHE
- 65 Work without ___ : A NET
- 66 See 68-Across : … WRAP
- 67 Edmonton athlete : OILER
- 68 With 66-Across, director’s cry … or hint to 20-, 37- and 58-Across : IT’S A …
- 69 Word after rock, sea or table : … SALT
- 70 Tons and tons : SLEWS
- 71 Pointillism features : DOTS
Down
- 1 Muscle ___, Ala. : SHOALS
- 2 Marsupial with distinctive cube-shaped droppings : WOMBAT
- 3 Italian alpine cheese : ASIAGO
- 4 “That’s more like it” : BETTER
- 5 Comet feature : TAIL
- 6 Rioja, for one : WINE
- 7 “Star Wars” droid, familiarly : ARTOO
- 8 Spongy balls : NERFS
- 9 Speaks brusquely : GROWLS
- 10 It’s right on the map : EAST
- 11 Population beyond the homeland : DIASPORA
- 12 Journalist Wells or Tarbell : IDA
- 13 Coke’s first diet soda : TAB
- 21 What many a U.S. state is named after : TRIBE
- 22 It comes with a charge : ION
- 26 Yours, in Arles : A TOI
- 27 Dermatological sac : CYST
- 29 Long time : EON
- 30 “The world’s most valuable resource,” per The Economist : DATA
- 32 ‘Neath’s opposite : O’ER
- 34 Record speed, for short : RPM
- 35 Send to oblivion : DOOM
- 37 “Scarborough Fair” herb : SAGE
- 38 J.Lo’s onetime beau : AROD
- 39 Counterargument : REBUTTAL
- 40 Actress Gadot : GAL
- 41 Record label for D’Angelo or Doja Cat : RCA
- 42 Midsection : TORSO
- 46 Long time : ERA
- 47 Engines with oomph : TURBOS
- 49 Like some decorative wooden floors : INLAID
- 50 Will, given a chance : MEAN TO
- 51 Most despicable : BASEST
- 52 Dogs that were once samurai companions : AKITAS
- 55 ___ mail : SNAIL
- 56 Line on a spine : TITLE
- 59 Last month in the U.S. government’s fiscal year: Abbr. : SEPT
- 60 Mull, with “on” : CHEW …
- 61 Gendered pronoun : HERS
- 62 Reactions to adorableness : AWS
- 63 Food industry lobby, in brief : NRA
