NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
This puzzle is a collaboration by Rachel Maddow, the host of MSNBC’s “The Rachel Maddow Show,” working together with Joe DiPietro, a bar owner in New York City. This is Joe’s 129th crossword for The Times.
ACROSS
1 Hosp. units
4 ___ peas
10 Basics
14 Kind of flour
15 1965 Michael Caine spy
thriller, with “The”
17 ___ grano salis
18 What might help a hacker go undetected? 19 Deride
21 Kentucky’s northernmost county
22 Abbr. in an auction
catalog
23 Gambling card game 24 “Doctor Faustus”
novelist
25 Part of an oven 27 Similar (to)
28 Actor with seven
Primetime Emmys 30 Greek cheese
31 Tennis player, to
sportswriters
33 Op-ed, e.g.
35 Cocktail with
rye whiskey
37 Sean Hannity and
Chris Hayes 41 Quarry of cartoondom’s Gargamel
43 Pope when Elizabeth I
took the throne 44 Virus in 2003 news 47 Cellphone component 49 Do some programming 50 Stud of the
sports world? 52 Walked over
53 Hard ___
54 Footwear brand since 1978 55 Hollywood agent Michael 57 Military gathering? 58 Journalist’s tool since ’67
61 Home of Sen. Mike Crapo: Abbr. 62 Political leader? 63 Sister
64 Elate
65 Like baking
dough
66 Big mean
on campus
DOWN
1 Those who’ve seen both Europe and Asia, say
2 Home to Lake Waiau 3 1928 Winter Olympics site
4 Keeper of the flame?
5 Mil. address
6 Dives with a tank 7 W.W. I battle locale 8 “Give it to me straight” 9 Jacket letters 10 Behind, at sea
11 “Kiss my grits!” 12 You’re not in it if you’re out
13 Car model originally called the Sunny in Japan
16 Tallow source
20 Rosina Almaviva, in “Le Nozze di Figaro” 24 Go pirating 26 “Unless it’s impossible”
29 Got back (to),
in a way
32 “Uhhh …”
34 “Eureka!”
36 Review 38 Programming
manager’s specialty 39 Did a bit of
cleaning
40 Only daughter of
Joseph Stalin 42 Typeface that shares its name with the Roman goddess of luck 44 Marks on shoes
45 Who said “Take it from
me, every vote counts” 46 The Midwest or
the South
48 More than half of scores
51 Ralph Nader’s American Museum of ___ Law
56 So
57 “Just doin’ my job” 59 Furthermore
60 Fixed