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NY Times, Wed, Dec 21, 2016 by NYTimes

Across

  1. 1. Creatures under Wayne Manor
  2. 5. 6'7" Sixers #6
  3. 8. Walks and balks
  4. 13. Court giant Arthur
  5. 14. Maker of the old Speed Wagon
  6. 15. Takes over
  7. 17. HOUSE
  8. 19. Hemingway who wrote "Out Came the Sun"
  9. 20. "Rumour ___ It" (2011 Adele hit)
  10. 21. Skin-care brand whose active ingredients are oat compounds
  11. 23. Ancient sun worshiper
  12. 24. You, more formally
  13. 25. APPLE
  14. 27. Genius Mixes program
  15. 29. She played Rosemary in "Rosemary's Baby"
  16. 30. Rightmost number on an Italian clock
  17. 31. Simpson who lost a crossword contest in 2008
  18. 32. State nobody wants to live in
  19. 34. "___ out!"
  20. 35. MAC
  21. 39. "I learned to be a movie critic by reading ___ magazine": Roger Ebert
  22. 42. GPS suggestion
  23. 43. Places where people have withdrawals?
  24. 47. Galoot
  25. 48. Choose
  26. 49. Sports entertainment show since 1993
  27. 51. CHEESE
  28. 55. The "E" of 14-Across
  29. 56. Observe
  30. 57. Bring to a boil
  31. 58. ___ wheels
  32. 59. Supported
  33. 61. "Shoot for the moon!" ... or a hint to interpreting the clues to 17-, 25-, 35- and 51-Across
  34. 63. European river that inspired Smetana
  35. 64. Baseball's ___ Desmond, three-time Silver Slugger Award winner
  36. 65. Alternatively
  37. 66. Message board admin
  38. 67. Sudden turn
  39. 68. Gardener's bane

Down

  1. 1. Aromatherapy substance
  2. 2. Single-named singer with the 2002 hit "Foolish"
  3. 3. Ariadne helped him navigate the Labyrinth
  4. 4. Jiffy
  5. 5. Tees off
  6. 6. Magazine urging
  7. 7. Hardly serious
  8. 8. Heavyweight bout venue
  9. 9. Screeners' org.
  10. 10. Golden
  11. 11. Christian supergroup?
  12. 12. 007 movie after "Skyfall"
  13. 16. Heavy-metal band with a killer sound?
  14. 18. Word with fast or fire
  15. 22. "Spare me!"
  16. 26. Comic actor Danny
  17. 28. Slangy negative
  18. 32. Be alongside
  19. 33. Instinctive
  20. 36. Longtime Yankee nickname
  21. 37. Took care of the last bit
  22. 38. Norma ___ (Sally Field title role)
  23. 39. 1 1/2-liter bottle
  24. 40. Fitting
  25. 41. Like the Hallows in a Harry Potter title
  26. 44. Quake
  27. 45. Torpor
  28. 46. Drank, as from a flask
  29. 49. Undertaking, as a war
  30. 50. "Say ___"
  31. 52. Water and sunlight, for plants
  32. 53. David ___, longtime Red Sox slugger
  33. 54. Faith founded in Persia
  34. 60. Thai neighbor
  35. 62. ___ Gardens, N.Y.

This puzzle was published on Wednesday, Dec 21, 2016 in the New York Times Crossword Puzzle. Edited by Will Shortz.

— NYTimes

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