NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Part of a modern circuit 12 Onetime MTV

figures

15 Vegan sushi

option

16 Extended stretch 17 Regional coverage

plan?

18 Marble ___

19 Bit of work

20 Bit of work

21 Lit

23 Muckraker who pushed for “model tenements” 25 Things with periods in their names 27 Actor Ansari 28 “Look before you

leap” source 30 Control + Y on a PC 31 Reading block? 32 Optometrist’s favorite musical note?

34 Became clouded

over

36 [Just like that!] 38 Hamilton settings 39 Real-life ice age beast seen on “Game of Thrones”

43 Like some

light smokes 47 Played for a sap 48 Place to pick up

chicks

50 Brazil’s fourthlargest state by population 51 The Philippines’

___ Archipelago 52 Egyptian sky god 54 Smart

55 Some chess

sacrifices

57 Let

58 Celebratory move popularized by Cam Newton 59 “Mr.” who has stitches in his face 60 Sloppy joe

ingredient 64 Work that

shows love 65 “Meridian” and “The Temple of My Familiar” novelist 66 Edamame discard 67 Metric for gauging female representation in works of fiction

DOWN

1 New Orleans

cocktail

2 They can’t stay quiet when tickled

3 Like a film that’s 2 1/2 hours or so 4 Fish market supply 5 Player, perhaps 6 “None but the Lonely Heart” writer/director, 1944 7 “That’s cheating!” 8 Like a blue jay 9 Like bad drivers, often 10 French pronoun 11 “Listen!,” e.g. 12 Sprint

competitor 13 Driving the

wrong way? 14 Welcomed

blessing? 22 Snapchat feature that alters one’s features

24 Got into

a lather 26 Political cartoonist Edward

29 Stem

33 Lab, for one 35 Gearshift part 37 Amplifier for

stage actors 39 Bunny

picker-upper? 40 “Heck yeah!” 41 Kin

42 Individually 44 Western legend,

familiarly 45 Some shooting

stars

46 Gullible rodent in a Scott Adams comic

49 Kicked

53 Ski town near

Mount Mansfield 56 Run through 61 Stadium cry 62 Spanish

seasoning 63 ___-tab