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NY Times, Wed, Mar 02, 2016 by NYTimes

Across

  1. 1. "Beg pardon ..."
  2. 5. Help in a heist
  3. 9. Looked slack-jawed
  4. 14. Like a neat bed
  5. 15. King noted for saying "How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is / To have a thankless child!"
  6. 16. Still in the running
  7. 17. "This won't hurt ___!"
  8. 18. Setting for the highest-grossing movie of 1939
  9. 19. George whose name is a lead-in to "film"
  10. 20. Politician in charge of pasta?
  11. 23. Early anesthetic
  12. 24. ___-Drive, popular light-powered watch
  13. 25. Dice tosses
  14. 29. Hang in there
  15. 34. Comfy shoe
  16. 37. Means of transportation in "Cinderella"
  17. 39. "Am I my brother's keeper?" brother
  18. 40. Pasta, apparently?
  19. 44. Circus horn honker
  20. 45. Cotton candy, mostly
  21. 46. Original "King Kong" studio
  22. 47. Corrida combatant
  23. 50. Some used cars, informally
  24. 52. Hole maker
  25. 54. Orchard Field, today
  26. 58. Card game with pasta for stakes?
  27. 64. Philip Morris brand
  28. 65. Word said with a handshake
  29. 66. Latvia's capital
  30. 67. In the same way
  31. 68. 1996 Gwyneth Paltrow title role
  32. 69. H H H
  33. 70. Knight's mount
  34. 71. "Angels We Have Heard on High," e.g.
  35. 72. Mentally together

Down

  1. 1. Wow
  2. 2. Something to kick or break
  3. 3. British poet/critic Sitwell
  4. 4. Job at which one excels
  5. 5. Certain sax
  6. 6. Lover boy
  7. 7. Yield, as interest
  8. 8. Tiny amount
  9. 9. Tank unit
  10. 10. Reunion attendee, briefly
  11. 11. 12-point type
  12. 12. Hunter who wrote "The Blackboard Jungle"
  13. 13. ___ Moines
  14. 21. Spring blooms
  15. 22. Cap material?
  16. 26. Sotheby's collection
  17. 27. There are three for motion
  18. 28. Search all over
  19. 30. Court figures, briefly
  20. 31. Foe of the taxi industry
  21. 32. Stink to high heaven
  22. 33. Muppet who speaks in a falsetto
  23. 34. Ending with second or upper
  24. 35. Dessert item that was clued as "Mountain: Comb. form" in old crosswords
  25. 36. White House policy chief
  26. 38. Donald Trump catchword
  27. 41. Bullring cheer
  28. 42. Cat's seat, maybe
  29. 43. Show exhaustion
  30. 48. Went on a tirade
  31. 49. Be in hock
  32. 51. Beach resort locales
  33. 53. Filled with cargo
  34. 55. Muscular Japanese dog
  35. 56. Daughter of 15-Across
  36. 57. Expunge
  37. 58. Clobber with snowballs, say
  38. 59. The Gem City, so-called because of its sparkling lake
  39. 60. Greek figure on many a trophy
  40. 61. Jules Verne captain
  41. 62. Broken, as a bronco
  42. 63. President Chaim Weizmann was on its first flight
  43. 64. Some postgrad degrees

This puzzle was published on Wednesday, Mar 02, 2016 in the New York Times Crossword Puzzle. Edited by Will Shortz.

— NYTimes

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