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It Was 50 Years Ago Today by NYTimes

Across

  1. 1. Cellphones, in Britain
  2. 8. Alone
  3. 13. 13-Down, in Dresden
  4. 20. A debater takes it
  5. 21. Jazz count?
  6. 22. In that direction
  7. 23. One favoring a strong central government
  8. 24. ___ Vista
  9. 25. Turns in
  10. 26. Film terrier
  11. 27. Bar order, with "the"
  12. 29. Sadness
  13. 31. Narrow cut
  14. 32. Move in an ungainly way
  15. 34. Mine, in Madrid
  16. 36. Cherished by
  17. 38. Literary inits.
  18. 40. It's below the humerus
  19. 41. Trig. function
  20. 42. "Let ___"
  21. 43. ___ deferens
  22. 46. Dweller on the Red Sea
  23. 48. Less than right
  24. 50. Crème de la crème
  25. 52. 1996-2001 show featuring home videos
  26. 53. Actress Gardner
  27. 54. The People's Champion
  28. 56. "The Battleship Potemkin" locale
  29. 57. An O'Neill
  30. 58. More appropriate
  31. 60. Houston sch.
  32. 62. Followers of exes
  33. 63. Detour, e.g.
  34. 65. Coal distillate
  35. 67. Announcer's aid
  36. 69. Plural French word that spells its singular English form in reverse
  37. 70. Much of the audience for 6-Down's show on 2/9/64
  38. 73. Trounces
  39. 74. "When ___ younger, so much younger ..." ("Help!" lyric)
  40. 76. More modern, in Munich
  41. 77. Relative of a convertible
  42. 79. Part of a train from a refinery
  43. 82. ENTER CLUE
  44. 83. ENTER CLUE
  45. 85. Servant, e.g.
  46. 89. "Why ___ so shy when ...?" ("It's Only Love" lyric)
  47. 90. Snack chip
  48. 92. Nest on a cliff
  49. 94. Author Umberto
  50. 95. Dave Clark ___
  51. 97. "___ the time ..."
  52. 99. Playwright Fugard
  53. 100. General ___ chicken
  54. 101. Attractive legs, in slang
  55. 103. "Yuck!"
  56. 104. Actor Hemsworth of "The Hunger Games"
  57. 105. Bold
  58. 106. Stuck, after "in"
  59. 107. Queen who fell for Zeus' swan song?
  60. 108. It may be a plot
  61. 109. Lone Star State sch.
  62. 110. 500 letters?
  63. 111. Cause of the witch's demise in "Hansel and Gretel"
  64. 113. '60s war zone
  65. 115. Rice-A-___
  66. 117. Fraternity chapter
  67. 119. Big to-do
  68. 121. ENTER CLUE
  69. 124. They're played at un conservatoire
  70. 126. Undermines, as support
  71. 127. Living in a swing state?
  72. 128. Kind of jacket with pockets on the chest
  73. 129. Tilted
  74. 130. Oxford's St. ___ College
  75. 131. City on the Seine upstream from Paris

Down

  1. 1. A majority
  2. 2. Aware of
  3. 3. Craze caused by this puzzle's subjects
  4. 4. Schoolyard rejoinder
  5. 5. Card count in Caesar's Palace?
  6. 6. Host for this puzzle's subjects on 2/9/64
  7. 7. Places atop
  8. 8. Eban of Israel
  9. 9. With 11-Down, subjects of this puzzle
  10. 10. Enzyme suffix
  11. 11. See 9-Down
  12. 12. Rampage
  13. 13. Way to go
  14. 14. Nickname for this puzzle's subjects
  15. 15. Free
  16. 16. Bikini blast, informally
  17. 17. Song sung by this puzzle's subjects on 6-Down's show on 2/9/64
  18. 18. Big rig
  19. 19. Lead-in to while
  20. 28. ___ creek
  21. 30. Dictator Amin
  22. 33. Broadway's ___-Fontanne Theater
  23. 35. Promise of payment
  24. 37. Frist's successor as Senate majority leader
  25. 38. One of the six counties of Northern Ireland
  26. 39. Escort to the door
  27. 44. Yes
  28. 45. Balanced conditions
  29. 47. Band material
  30. 48. Park, e.g., in N.Y.C.
  31. 49. Wallach of "The Misfits"
  32. 51. Subtitle for "Star Wars Episode IV," with "A"
  33. 53. Just so, after "to"
  34. 55. Bakeshop worker
  35. 59. Free throw avgs., e.g.
  36. 61. One team in the N.B.A. All-Star Game, with "the"
  37. 64. City on the Nile
  38. 66. Junior Olympics org.
  39. 68. Certain NASA launch
  40. 71. Had a ball at
  41. 72. Unpredictable
  42. 75. Composer Khachaturian
  43. 78. Slave
  44. 79. Apes
  45. 80. Apes
  46. 81. Where this puzzle's subjects got their start
  47. 82. ENTER CLUE
  48. 84. ENTER CLUE
  49. 86. Song sung by this puzzle's subjects on 6-Down's show on 9/12/65
  50. 87. Earth's habitable parts
  51. 88. Dawnlike
  52. 91. Common monthly expense
  53. 93. Ladies' man
  54. 96. Prey for a dingo
  55. 98. Molly formerly on "S.N.L."
  56. 99. Like some dessert orders
  57. 100. King in 1922 news
  58. 102. Hot
  59. 105. Instrument depicted by the shaded squares in this grid
  60. 110. 1965 and 1966 concert site for this puzzle's subjects
  61. 112. Sweeping
  62. 114. Soon
  63. 116. Be domestic
  64. 118. Medical suffix
  65. 120. Calendar keeper, for short
  66. 122. Medical suffix
  67. 123. The "S" of CBS: Abbr.
  68. 125. Sci-fi sighting

This puzzle was published on Sunday, Feb 09, 2014 in the New York Times Crossword Puzzle. Edited by Will Shortz.

— NYTimes

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