NY Times Crossword 17 Dec 18, Monday

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Across

Number	Clues	Answers
1	Baseball’s record-setting Ripken	CAL
4	Catches a touchdown pass, e.g.	SCORES
10	Not much	A BIT
14	Lead-in to carte or mode	A LA
15	Tel Aviv’s land	ISRAEL
16	Helen of ___ (mythical beauty)	TROY
17	Flier that may carry rabies	BAT
18	Small bird of prey	SPARROWHAWK (giving “Jack Sparrow”)
20	French girlfriend	AMIE
22	Ginger ___ (soft drink)	ALE
23	Seaweed, e.g.	ALGAE
24	Something falling down, in a children’s song	LONDON BRIDGE (giving “Jack London”)
28	Lucy of 2000’s “Charlie’s Angels”	LIU
29	Summons, as strength	MUSTERS
33	Put the kibosh on	SCOTCH
36	Actor Efron of “High School Musical”	ZAC
37	Sign by a fire escape	EXIT
38	“Mazel ___!”	TOV
39	Commandeers … or a friendly hello to the people starting 18-, 24-, 51- and 62-Across?	HIJACKS or HI, JACKS!
42	Inits. on an airport uniform	TSA
43	___ out a living (barely gets by)	EKES
45	Moonshine container	JUG
46	Carriage named for an English county	SURREY
48	Careful reading	PERUSAL
50	Farrow of “Hannah and Her Sisters”	MIA
51	Dorothy’s footwear in “The Wizard of Oz”	RUBY SLIPPERS (gives “Jack Ruby”)
57	White-faced	ASHEN
60	Bit of cookware	PAN
61	Biz bigwig	EXEC
62	What follows Thanksgiving	BLACK FRIDAY (giving “Jack Black”)
66	“What ___?!” (cry of surprise)	THE
67	Volcanic flow	LAVA
68	From not long ago	RECENT
69	Was in charge of	RAN
70	In a dead heat	EVEN
71	No longer shrink-wrapped	OPENED
72	First Republican prez	ABE

Down

Number	Clues	Answers
1	Group of schemers	CABAL
2	Mission where Davy Crockett was killed	ALAMO
3	Don Juan sort	LATIN LOVER
4	Bro’s sibling	SIS
5	Network for political junkies	C-SPAN
6	Big name in toothbrushes	ORAL-B
7	Pinker in the middle, say	RARER
8	Always, in poetry	E’ER
9	___-mo (replay option)	SLO
10	Olympics competitor	ATHLETE
11	Toot one’s own horn	BRAG
12	Sioux City’s state	IOWA
13	Young ‘un	TYKE
19	Goes back and forth, as a tail	WAGS
21	Revise copy	EDIT
25	“That’s gotta hurt!”	OUCH!
26	Big name in desktops	IMAC
27	Teals and mallards	DUCKS
30	Start of a newsboy’s cry	EXTRA! EXTRA! …
31	Move skyward	RISE
32	Obedience school command	STAY!
33	“Watch your ____!”	STEP
34	Soft drink choice	COKE
35	Muslim woman’s head cover	HIJAB
36	Make a sharp turn back	ZAG
40	Bastille Day’s month	JULY
41	Kind of pump	SUMP
44	“I’m up for doing the job!”	SURE CAN!
47	Like thumped watermelons making a deep sound	RIPE
49	Like ships on the ocean floor	SUNK
52	Pizazz	SPICE
53	Filled with cargo	LADEN
54	Harebrained	INANE
55	2007’s Record of the Year by Amy Winehouse	REHAB
56	Big public display	SCENE
57	Up to the task	ABLE
58	Czech or Croat	SLAV
59	“Girls Just Want to ___ Fun”	HAVE
63	Jimi Hendrix’s do, informally	‘FRO
64	Sen.’s counterpart	REP
65	Paycheck stub abbr.	YTD