NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Civil rights pioneer Du Bois
4 Shade of blue
8 Rant
14 Chicago’s home: Abbr.
15 Racer with the tortoise
16 Like a show with a single performer
17 Only major-league player to enter the 3,000-hit club in the 1980s
19 Ranting
20 1965 Beatles hit that starts “Ooh, I need your love, babe”
22 Donkey
23 Final bubble on a questionnaire, maybe
24 Something a barber has to work around
26 Maidenform product
27 Catch, as on a thorn
31 HBO show hosted by John Oliver
36 And so on: Abbr.
37 Home for the Hawks
and Braves: Abbr.
38 Equal: Prefix
39 Pal of Pooh
40 1974 John Updike novel
44 Greek cheese
45 Winery container
46 Verbal stumbles
47 Tattoo artist
50 Bug spray brand
52 The change from Julian to Gregorian … or what would be needed to make 20-, 31- and 40-Across possible?
58 A snake has a forked one
59 Engages in military conflict
60 Acting grown-up
61 Barely
62 Three on a grandfather clock
63 Dictation experts 64 Hankerings
65 Newspaper staffers, for short
DOWN
1 Electronic money transfer
2 “The Time Machine” people
3 Edifice: Abbr.
4 Informal talks 5 Gridiron gains
6 Bay ___ (San Francisco, Oakland, etc.)
7 When repeated, Frank Sinatra title city
8 Holy Jewish scroll
9 Wowed
10 Classic game with black-and-white discs
11 Female friend for François
12 Cold and damp, as a dungeon
13 Main lang. of the Commonwealth countries
18 Nautical map
21 Believer in a strong federal government
24 Message on a cake in “Alice in Wonderland”
25 Fancy tie
26 Pulitzer-winning Toni Morrison novel
28 Google ___ Viewer (tool for charting word frequency over time)
29 Ship-to-ship communications?
30 Classic Pontiacs
31 Flip (through)
32 Angkor ___ (Cambodian site)
33 Biblical verb suffix
34 The Beavers of the Pac-12, for short
35 The “N” of NCO
41 Carpenter’s tool that’s faster than a hammer
42 Very distant
43 Homer Simpson’s favorite beers
48 Prefix with science
49 Crawling on hands and ___
50 Church instrument
51 Supplies with meals
52 Jacket
53 Upfront bet
54 Give stars to
55 Little injury, in baby talk
56 Antipest spray
57 Some hospital pics
58 Things with ® symbols: Abbr.