NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Thing with pads and

claws

4 Wanders

9 Rod, reel, tackle box,

etc., for a fisher 13 Olympic Dream Team

inits.

14 Place in a mausoleum 16 ___ Tokarczuk, 2018

Literature Nobelist 17 Raiser of the dead? 19 Musk who founded

Spacex

20 Brainstorms

21 Go by, as time

23 Young Scottish lady 24 Financial aid for college that doesn’t need to be repaid

27 Country whose name becomes another country if you change the last letter to a Q 29 Person with a basket or

cart

31 Mixed-breed dog that’s

part spaniel

35 “Keen!”

36 “That’s ___ from me”

(refusal)

37 Arthropod that can roll

into a ball

40 Melted chocolate, e.g. 41 Word before mall or

poker

43 Right to cross someone

else’s land

45 Unlucky 48 Start of a newspaper

article, in journalese 49 Busy person just before

an election

51 Pledge drive giveaway 55 Fix, as a shoe

56 Insects that love wool 57 Appropriate initials of

“stuff we all get” 59 Lures for magazine

readers

62 Tiny bit 63 Minneapolis’s twin city 64 Defining period 65 Banana leftover 66 Cosmetician Lauder 67 Singer Lana Del ___

DOWN

1 Necessity for

a teacher

2 Carne ___ (grilled beef

dish)

3 Home of Cardiff and

Swansea

4 Yanks’ foes

5 Number said just

before “Liftoff!”

6 ___ snail’s pace 7 Edible mushroom with

a honeycomb cap 8 Gets a whiff of

9 Flips out

10 Best Actress nominee

for “Juno”

11 “A long time ___ in a galaxy far, far away …” (“Star Wars” intro) 12 Tried to get elected 15 “Erin go ___!” 18 Elective eye surgery 22 Having tines

24 Big ___, nickname of

baseball’s David Ortiz 25 Unstable chemical

compound

26 Grand ___ National

Park

28 Comes down a

mountain, in a way 30 Rummage (around) 31 Alternative to Venmo 32 Like some beer at a bar 33 Related to big business 34 Cry to a toreador 38 Hay unit

39 For whom a product

designer designs 42 Against the law 44 Trending hashtag

beginning in 2017 46 Dots on a transit map 47 What lieutenants do to

captains

50 “Trees” in underwater

forests

52 It’s said to have the thickest fur of any mammal

53 When repeated,

comforting words 54 Op-ed piece, e.g. 56 Farm animal that kicks 57 Sample a soda, say 58 Tribulation

60 Back muscle,

for short

61 “What?,” in Oaxaca