NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Match, as subject and

verb

6 Newspaper held in low

esteem

9 Cigar milder than a

maduro

14 Top of an espresso 15 Novelist Umberto 16 Swing by

unannounced

17 Things that may fly

around saloons 18 France’s Académie ___

Beaux-arts

19 Gives deep massage

therapy

20 Old Spice alternative 21 Violinist Zimbalist 23 Only president who was

also a chief justice 24 Film school deg. 25 “Whew! What a tiring

day!”

27 Padre’s hermana 28 Tackle, for one 30 Slicing, as through water

32 Part of a cello that supports the instrument on the floor 33 Make right, perhaps in a

not-so-right way 34 Complete … as suggested by four symmetrical pairs of Down answers in this puzzle

38 Burn black

41 Layered cake

42 Group that votes

together

46 A lowercase “f” on a blue background, for Facebook

47 Like Delta Force forces 48 She said “Little boy, gonna make you a man,” in a Kinks song 49 Princess of Avalor, on a Disney show

51 One of the Three Stooges

52 Cares for, as a garden 53 New Deal prez

54 Airport screening org. 56 Cheer repeated before “sis-boom-bah!” 58 Astronomers’ std. 59 “I Am … ___ Fierce,” #1 Beyoncé album

61 ___ Park, Calif.

63 Plays (around)

65 Curvy

67 Started eating

68 Magic Johnson’s 10,141 69 Ten-gallon hat

70 Cry of disbelief

DOWN

1 Good-natured

2 Mythical beast that’s half lion and half eagle 3 Edmond ___,“Cyrano de Bergerac” playwright 4 James who sang “At Last”

5 Canadian interjections 6 Distinctively colored freshwater fish

7 Bitter

8 What “it” is supposed to do

9 Y course

10 Rioter’s spoils

11 H.S. course often covering the “Aeneid” 12 Making up variations on a theme

13 Performing live, say 21 Send off, as rays

22 Sea cow

25 One who might become a fiancée 26 Record for later, in a way

29 Screenwriter Nora 31 Flimsy, as an excuse 35 Stuffed grape leaves 36 Half a sextet

37 Member of the weasel family

38 Pitch setter

39 Waits for a better offer, say

40 Game box info

43 Like friends not seen for years

44 Antebellum Dixie 45 People are asked to sign it after an accident 50 1896 Olympics locale 52 Hush-hush org.

55 Tell

57 Many Pennsylvania Dutch speakers

60 Typical “Key & Peele” segment

62 Dark time in France

63 E.R. workers

64 Second part of the sign of the cross, symbolically

65 Glimpsed 66 Indianapolis-to-atlanta dir.