NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Subversive use of computers to promote a political agenda 11 Sharp

15 One who gets the show on the road 16 Dim

17 What’s not going anywhere? 18 Animal with a big bite, informally 19 Liberal arts dept. 20 Exact revenge legally 21 Constitutional

22 Bring (out)

25 Plant tissue

27 Apt rhyme for “casino” 28 Some animal tissue 31 Stunners

34 Dentist’s direction 36 1940s P.M.

37 “May I help you?” 38 Gave secondhand? 40 What the middle of the U.S. is usually on, for short

41 Involve

43 Becomes successful 45 Baked

46 Eats

47 One of the Greats? 48 Have a good time 50 Sci-fi writer McCaffrey, who was the first woman to win a Hugo for fiction 51 Not eat

53 Not a team player 55 Director Anderson 57 Texting preamble

58 Lack of polish 63 Portend

64 Finally

65 Lay eyes on 66 “How about we

get started?!”

DOWN

1 Some hand

waves

2 Tsp. or tbsp.

3 Keeper of the

books, for short

4 DC area?

5 Private eyes

6 Brit’s exclamation

7 It has a large

holding area

8 Good name for

an optometrist

9 One signatory to the Treaty of Fort Laramie 10 “Mere rhetoric is not enough”

11 The K.C. Chiefs are in it

12 Snack at a county fair or baseball park 13 Indiana Jones pursuit 14 K.O. 22 French city where an English/French treaty was signed in 1420 23 Evangelist’s exhortation 24 What has a lot in store for you? 26 ___ machine (restaurant fixture) 28 Research done outside the lab

29 Put together 30 Crown holders 32 Freshwater minnow 33 Fixed rate 35 Comparatively

twisted

39 Org. found early in

the phone book 42 Gray area?

44 Natural seasoning 49 Gossipmonger 51 Computer menu heading 52 Contemporary of Hosea

54 Pool surface 55 Proceed on one’s way 56 Breakfast item in a box

59 “___ Olvidados” (1950 Luis Buñuel film) 60 Slangy turndown 61 Long-running

procedural

62 Arrivals in “Arrival,”

for short