NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Skilled
6 What’s more
10 “Once ___ a time …” 14 “___ got a deal for you!” 15 Apply, as plaster 16 Repellent
17 First of a series of sci-fi movies starring Sigourney Weaver 18 10:1, for example 19 Computer command
for the error-prone 20 Actor who has hosted the Oscars nine times, a number second only to Bob Hope 23 Something stubbed 24 Powerful explosive 28 Baseball’s ___ Joe DiMaggio
32 Watchdog org.? 34 Wrath
35 Sound of danger
36 He played Gomez in 1991’s “The Addams Family”
38 Prefix with -zoic 39 Tube-shaped pasta 40 Geese formations 41 Comic actor who was an original cast member of SCTV 43 Swiss capital, to French
speakers
44 India pale ___ 45 Affectedly creative 46 Wild animals
47 Club Med, for one 49 The “f” of fwiw 50 Beginning of a romcom … or a description of 20-, 36- and 41-Across?
57 In fine fettle
60 College in New Rochelle, N.Y. 61 Bert’s pal on “Sesame Street”
62 Word of woe 63 Thumbs-down votes 64 Repeated short bits in
jazz
65 Agree (with) 66 Itsy-bitsy biter
67 Units of nautical
speed
DOWN
1 Melville captain 2 Limp watch painter 3 Satanic
4 Rind
5 Dickens lad who says “God bless us every one!” 6 Worship
7 ___ Gaga
8 Soap bubbles
9 ___ course (part of boot camp) 10 Throat dangler 11 Wrestling win 12 Outdated 13 & 21 Military hawk 22 Key of Beethoven’s
Symphony No. 7: Abbr. 25 Many flooring installers 26 Show the ropes to 27 Alternatives to
purchases 28 Preserves preserver 29 World Cup chant 30 Mascara is applied to them
31 1982 Disney film 32 Devastating hurricane of 2012
33 Pint-size
36 $2,000, if you land on
Boardwalk with a hotel 37 Iris’s place
39 Spring break activity in
Miami Beach or Cabo 42 Beloved, in “Rigoletto” 43 Crazy
46 Web crawler
48 Way overweight 49 Thanksgiving meal 51 Haunted house sound 52 New Age singer from
Ireland
53 ___ and bear it
54 Help desk offering 55 Fissure
56 What 1 is to 2 and 2 is to 3
57 Journey to Mecca 58 “Aladdin” prince 59 Chemist’s workplace