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NY Times, Wed, May 04, 2016 by NYTimes

Across

  1. 1. "Dante Symphony" composer
  2. 6. "West Side Story" woman
  3. 11. ___ Marino
  4. 14. ___ deep
  5. 15. Author of an 1841 poem that contains the line spelled out by the shaded squares
  6. 18. Shows signs of waking
  7. 19. Enter surreptitiously, as an organization
  8. 20. Speak the gospel
  9. 22. Eastern European capital
  10. 23. Employers of dispatchers and brakemen: Abbr.
  11. 24. "Help!"
  12. 25. Month in l'été
  13. 27. Region, weatherwise
  14. 29. Big house party?
  15. 31. Purchase at an Army-Navy store
  16. 33. Civilize
  17. 36. Tulsa sch.
  18. 37. Oil holders, maybe
  19. 38. One-named athlete whose real first name is Edson
  20. 39. Chemical cousin
  21. 41. Ceramic jar
  22. 42. Secure, with "down"
  23. 44. Hand-held platform
  24. 45. Just
  25. 46. Old Testament peak
  26. 47. Free of fluid
  27. 49. Snack with a chewy center
  28. 50. Become absorbed in thought
  29. 51. Keyboard abbr.
  30. 54. Simpson's trial judge
  31. 55. Actress Lords
  32. 58. Drum up
  33. 60. Variety of sherry whose name means "little apple"
  34. 63. Vaccine target
  35. 64. Vocalist known for the 1944 song whose title (and first line) appears in the shaded squares
  36. 65. Phrase often following a superlative
  37. 66. Pince-___
  38. 67. Present, e.g.
  39. 68. Like the sounds "m" and "n"

Down

  1. 1. Imitates Sylvester the Cat
  2. 2. It's just for starters
  3. 3. Dumps
  4. 4. Novelist ___ Neale Hurston
  5. 5. Proportional
  6. 6. Muhammad's successor, to Shiites
  7. 7. Like hormones synthesized from amino acids
  8. 8. Skinny
  9. 9. Happy end-of-week cry
  10. 10. Not steady, as a light
  11. 11. Canon offering, for short
  12. 12. It might stop a break-in
  13. 13. "Just kidding"
  14. 16. And others
  15. 17. Guitarist Borland
  16. 21. ___ polloi
  17. 26. Sci-fi craft
  18. 28. "Them's fightin' words!"
  19. 30. Where legends are born?
  20. 32. Fed. management agency
  21. 33. Sign of a crying jag
  22. 34. ___ Springs, Fla.
  23. 35. Subway
  24. 38. Grp. of pinheads?
  25. 39. With 53-Down, blogger's bugbear
  26. 40. Missing name in the tongue twister "I saw ___ sawing wood ..."
  27. 43. Livestock attachment
  28. 45. Having an advantage over
  29. 48. Belief system
  30. 51. Where legends appear
  31. 52. "The Pearl Fishers" priestess
  32. 53. See 39-Down
  33. 54. Org. providing loans
  34. 56. Suffix with high numbers
  35. 57. Family
  36. 59. Resting place
  37. 61. [Snore]
  38. 62. Summer cooler

This puzzle was published on Wednesday, May 04, 2016 in the New York Times Crossword Puzzle. Edited by Will Shortz.

— NYTimes

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