NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Tough-to-remove stain 7 Cracked 10 Basketball brand 14 Big report 15 Severe test
17 Gets frosty 18 Concern for the E.P.A. 19 Outdoor lighting fixtures?
20 Drawings seen in France’s Rouffignac Cave
21 Grey Goose competitor 23 Striplings
24 “Love in the Time of ___” (Gabriel García Márquez novel) 28 Shake
31 Actress Anderson 32 What putting one’s finger to one’s lips may mean
38 Indoor recess 39 Headline after a market
crash
40 “Walkabout” director
Nicolas 41 Pleasure-seeking 42 Cell tower feature 44 ___ vivant
45 British title holder 47 Parris Island grp. 51 Video game units 55 Stuffed garnishes 59 Code broken by rats 61 Waistband sight … or what 20-, 39- and 55-Across each have? 62 What red may mean 63 “You got it!” 64 Acquire via blackmail 65 Otherwise called 66 Spreads, as straw
DOWN
1 Less than 1%, say 2 Order across the
border
3 Sarcastic response 4 “Holy smokes!”
5 Salon stuff
6 Hype (up)
7 Sci-fi character
nicknamed “Bones” 8 1968 self-titled folk
album
9 Drawing contest? 10 Like records that are easily broken? 11 President whose initials were also his dog’s name
12 Long, old yarn
13 Come to ___ 16 Nutritional label abbr. 20 Nemesis of the Clanton gang
22 Deity often depicted with blue skin 24 Santa ___
25 Biker’s invitation 26 Dawn
27 One working for the
lord
28 Patriarch with 12 sons 29 ___ quarter (refuse
mercy)
30 Shellac, e.g.
33 What might make up
for lost ground? 34 Also keeps in the know,
in a way
35 Corruption
36 Skull and Bones collegian
37 “Cake Boss” channel
43 One living in the sticks,
e.g.
46 Modern home of
ancient Tripolitania 47 Dark
48 Cache
49 Made field calls? 50 Carries on through
difficulty
51 Lucky strike? 52 Wide-screen format 53 Magma conduit 54 “And so …”
56 Not assertive
57 Visitor to Rick’s Café Américain 58 Figures in the 2016 film “Arrival,” for short
60 Works in a salon