NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
Note: To mark the 75th anniversary of the New York Times crossword, we are publishing a series of puzzles co-created by famous people who solve the Times crossword and regular Times puzzle contributors that will appear periodically through the year. This collaboration is by astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson and Andrea Carla Michaels.
ACROSS
1 Fix, as a cat
5 “Get cracking!” 9 “Jurassic Park” insect casing 14 Pack animal
15 “___ girl!”
16 First lady after Hillary 17 “That’s my cue!”
18 Like Dorothy’s slippers 19 Boston airport
20 Toe testing the waters? 23 Potentially dangerous bacterium 24 ExxonMobil?
28 “___ Comedy Jam” 29 Command to Rover 32 “Bald-faced” thing
33 “Who goes there, friend or ___?” 34 Bowling scoresheet unit 36 Square dance site
37 Oscar nominees’ gathering? 41 Vittles
43 Manipulate, as bread dough 44 Bird that hoots
45 Mai ___ (cocktail)
48 Admit, with “up to”
49 ’50s high school dance 52 Bashful?
55 Inventory items
57 Total hottie?
60 Simple pond life
63 “Me as well” 64 “Voulez-vous coucher ___ moi ce soir?”
65 It may be reasonable to a jury 66 Catches forty winks 67 Intertwine
68 New Mexican pueblo builders 69 Exuberance 70 Regarding, in a memo
DOWN
1 Wore an upside-down frown 2 Volcanic rock
3 Many, many
4 1983 film in which Barbra Streisand dresses as a man
5 Suffix with million
6 ___ poker
7 Equally large 8 E-commerce site formerly owned by eBay
9 Declare to be true
10 Native New Zealanders 11 Computer program glitch 12 Paleozoic or Mesozoic
13 Sought political office
21 “The Scales” constellation 22 Greek letter before omega
25 Quite a distance off
26 Neither’s partner 27 Hamilton’s bill
30 Body part to lend or bend
31 Big inits. in trucks 34 1-800-FLOWERS alternative 35 Certain fraternal order member 36 Place to dream
37 Successful auctioneer’s last word 38 Commercial game with wild cards 39 Put in stitches
40 Having an aftertaste, as some barbecue sauce
41 Debate position against “against” 42 Have debts 45 140-character messages 46 Drivers’ org.
47 John who wrote “The World According to Garp”
49 Reindeer feet
50 Most bizarre
51 1960 Alfred Hitchcock thriller
53 Abu ___ (Mideast land) 54 Prebirth
56 President who won the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize
58 “Ain’t happening”
59 Finish second 60 Woodworking tool 61 Baseballer Gehrig
62 Rifle or revolver