3/3/16 Answer New York Times Crossword

3/3/16
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1D
___ mater
ALMA

2D
Savage
MAUL

3D
One added to the staff?
MUSICAL NOTE

4D
Thomas Gray’s “The Bard,” e.g.
ODE

5D
50% off and “Sorry, we’re closed”
STORE SIGNS

6D
High-tech home gadget company
THE SHARPER IMAGE

7D
Having the same pitch but written differently, in a score
ENHARMONIC

8D
Fixed
SET

9D
Dichromatic fad of the 1950s
TWO-TONE CARS

10D
Aviation-related prefix
AERO-

11D
___ Mawr
BRYN

13D
Ypsilanti sch.
EMU

14D
Big U.S. import
OIL

17D
Five-time Rose Bowl winner, for short
UCLA

18D
Hunk
SLAB

23D
Skillful
ABLE

26D
Kind of pool
GENE

27D
Blacksmiths’ needs
ANVILS

28D
Stop that!
QUIT IT!

31D
Sci-fi classic featuring Dr. Susan Calvin
I, ROBOT

32D
Haven’t heard a thing
NO NEWS

34D
Pastoral setting
LEA

35D
Map abbr. before 1991
SSR

41D
Film director from whose work the word “paparazzi” is derived
FELLINI

42D
Library penalty
LATE FEE

45D
Let stand in water again
RESOAK

48D
Sale item indicator
RED TAG

52D
Explanatory words
AS IN

53D
Suffer some tire damage
GET A FLAT

54D
Wonderstruck
AWED

55D
One adept with a deck
CARD SHARP

56D
Zero
NIL

57D
Personally speaking, in a text
IMO

58D
Top of an outfit?
CEO

60D
Neighbor of Mont.
IDA

61D
Bring in
NET

62D
M.A. hopeful’s hurdle
GRE

1C
Police rounds
AMMO

5C
Anne, par exemple: Abbr.
STE

8C
Transfix
STAB

12C
Hail
LAUD

13C
___ jazz (fusion genre)
ETHNO

15C
America’s Cup, for one
EWER

16C
Home to many stuffed animals
MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY

19C
Son-in-law of Muhammad
ALI

20C
Tar water, as seen in medieval medicine
CURE-ALL

21C
Cargo unit
TON

22C
What the second letter of 17-Down stands for: Abbr.
CAL

24C
Bark up the wrong tree
ERR

25C
In times of yore
AGO

27C
Port city on the Red Sea
AQABA

29C
Virtual city dweller
SIM

30C
Porto-Novo is its capital
BENIN

33C
Having no legal force
NULL

34C
They may be stretches
LIMOS

36C
Ruler preceding the Year of the Four Emperors
NERO

37C
Trunk attachment?
VINE

38C
First first family of Alaska
EGANS

39C
Field of competition, for short?
ECON

40C
Early Japanese P.M. Hirobumi ___
ITO

41C
Certain geek
FANGIRL

43C
Japanese P.M.
ABE

44C
Petro-Canada unit
LITRE

46C
Mo
SEC

47C
Pointer
ARROW

49C
Shade of blue
STEEL

50C
Challenges
TESTS

51C
Mill runoff
SLAG

54C
Got nothing back from?
ACED

56C
Salade ___
NICOISE

59C
Floating
WAFTING

63C
Seriously
I MEAN IT

64C
Nook, e.g.
E-READER

65C
Dressed neatly and fashionably
LOOKING SHARP

66C
Gridiron scandal of 2015, informally
DEFLATEGATE