4 May 2016 NYT Crossword Clues

NYT Crossword Answer: 4 May 2016

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L
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I
3
S
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Z
5
T
6
A
7
N
8
I
9
T
10
A
11
S
12
A
13
N
14
I
N
T
O
O
15
L
O
N
G
F
16
E
L
L
O
17
W
18
S
T
I
R
S
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I
N
F
I
L
T
R
A
T
E
20
P
R
E
A
C
21
H
22
S
O
F
I
A
23
R
R
S
24
S
O
S
25
A
O
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U
T
27
C
L
28
I
M
E
29
L
I
F
E
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R
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K
I
T
B
A
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G
33
T
34
A
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M
E
36
O
R
U
37
E
A
S
E
L
S
38
P
E
L
E
39
I
S
O
M
40
E
R
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O
L
L
A
42
B
A
T
T
43
E
N
44
I
O
S
45
O
N
L
Y
46
A
R
A
R
A
T
47
D
R
A
48
I
N
49
S
M
O
R
E
50
M
U
S
E
51
A
52
L
53
T
54
I
T
O
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T
R
56
A
57
C
I
58
M
U
59
S
T
E
R
60
M
A
N
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Z
A
N
I
L
L
62
A
63
P
O
L
I
O
64
F
I
T
Z
G
E
R
A
L
D
65
O
F
A
L
L
66
N
E
Z
67
T
E
N
S
E
68
N
A
S
A
L

Hints & Clues

Across
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"Dante Symphony" composer : LISZT
6
"West Side Story" woman : ANITA
11
___ Marino : SAN
14
___ deep : INTOO
15
Author of an 1841 poem that contains the line spelled out by the shaded squares : LONGFELLOW
18
Shows signs of waking : STIRS
19
Enter surreptitiously, as an organization : INFILTRATE
20
Speak the gospel : PREACH
22
Eastern European capital : SOFIA
23
Employers of dispatchers and brakemen: Abbr. : RRS
24
"Help!" : SOS
25
Month in l'été : AOUT
27
Region, weatherwise : CLIME
29
Big house party? : LIFER
31
Purchase at an Army-Navy store : KITBAG
33
Civilize : TAME
36
Tulsa sch. : ORU
37
Oil holders, maybe : EASELS
38
One-named athlete whose real first name is Edson : PELE
39
Chemical cousin : ISOMER
41
Ceramic jar : OLLA
42
Secure, with "down" : BATTEN
44
Hand-held platform : IOS
45
Just : ONLY
46
Old Testament peak : ARARAT
47
Free of fluid : DRAIN
49
Snack with a chewy center : SMORE
50
Become absorbed in thought : MUSE
51
Keyboard abbr. : ALT
54
Simpson's trial judge : ITO
55
Actress Lords : TRACI
58
Drum up : MUSTER
60
Variety of sherry whose name means "little apple" : MANZANILLA
63
Vaccine target : POLIO
64
Vocalist known for the 1944 song whose title (and first line) appears in the shaded squares : FITZGERALD
65
Phrase often following a superlative : OFALL
66
Pince-___ : NEZ
67
Present, e.g. : TENSE
68
Like the sounds "m" and "n" : NASAL
Down
1
Imitates Sylvester the Cat : LISPS
2
It's just for starters : INTRO
3
Dumps : STIES
4
Novelist ___ Neale Hurston : ZORA
5
Proportional : TOSCALE
6
Muhammad's successor, to Shiites : ALI
7
Like hormones synthesized from amino acids : NONSTEROID
8
Skinny : INFO
9
Happy end-of-week cry : TGIF
10
Not steady, as a light : AFLICKER
11
Canon offering, for short : SLR
12
It might stop a break-in : ALARMBELL
13
"Just kidding" : NOTREALLY
16
And others : ETALIA
17
Guitarist Borland : WES
21
___ polloi : HOI
26
Sci-fi craft : UFOS
28
"Them's fightin' words!" : ITSON
30
Where legends are born? : RUMORMILLS
32
Fed. management agency : GSA
33
Sign of a crying jag : TEARSTAIN
34
___ Springs, Fla. : ALTAMONTE
35
Subway : METRO
38
Grp. of pinheads? : PBA
39
With 53-Down, blogger's bugbear : INTERNET
40
Missing name in the tongue twister "I saw ___ sawing wood ..." : ESAU
43
Livestock attachment : EARTAG
45
Having an advantage over : ONEUPON
48
Belief system : ISM
51
Where legends appear : ATLAS
52
"The Pearl Fishers" priestess : LEILA
53
See 39-Down : TROLL
54
Org. providing loans : IMF
56
Suffix with high numbers : AIRE
57
Family : CLAN
59
Resting place : SOFA
61
[Snore] : ZZZ
62
Summer cooler : ADE