new YORK Times Crossword
ACROSS
1 Clear of trees 6 Smack-dab
11 Sushi fish
14 ___ shirt (colorful garment) 15 Musical instrument almost anyone can play 16 Joined
17 Third-stringer
18 1973 Jim Croce hit 20 Extremely, in slang 22 “Desperate Housewives” co-star 23 J’s value in Words With Friends 24 “Lux” composer of 2012
26 Rack sites 27 Samples some, as beer or wine
29 Pro wrestling star John 31 “Awesome, dude” 32 One of Popeye’s foes 34 Sight on a rack
37 One radio format 38 Surrounding area 39 One way to play it 40 Self starter?
41 V8 component 42 About
43 Lamarr of old
Hollywood 44 Protractedly
46 Poet Conrad
49 What “-” may represent
in a Google search 50 “___ uncle”
51 It often features an “X” 55 Four-time winner of the Masters 57 Accelerate a vehicle suddenly 59 iPhone rival 61 Atmospheric pollution meas.
62 Bump, in poker-speak
63 ___ flask
(lab container) 64 Something credited to a pitcher
65 Bar in court
66 Young lad
DOWN
1 “___ Rheingold” 2 Tightwads
3 Field of “CSI” 4 Synagogue
5 Some addenda in research papers
6 Go downhill in a hurry?
7 Beep
8 Sea of ___
(arm of the Black Sea) 9 ___ bene
10 Concur
11 Up on stuff
12 Leave no way out for 13 “Intelligence … is really a kind of taste — taste in ___”: Susan Sontag 19 Salmon variety 21 Ouzo flavorer 23 “Voilà!” 25 Aboveboard
28 Cry of dismay 29 “Wisest and justest of all the centaurs,” in Greek myth 30 “Slow down, big fella”
33 Abbr. on a
GPS screen
34 Easily … and a hint to four answers in this puzzle
35 Like a sizable proportion of Caribbeans, ethnically
36 Wee
39 Confession topic 41 Public rebuke 43 When repeated, a
cry of approval 45 Unable to agree 46 Attorneys ___ 47 Neighbor of a Syrian 48 Record, as data 52 Degrees for
many execs 53 Slightly
54 Capital of Colombia 56 Treat with a
Thins variety 58 Account exec 60 Having less vermouth
than the norm