NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Decides one way or the other 5 Assemble in a field, say
9 Like know-it-alls
13 “Look out!” 14 x, y or z follower
15 Tuned in
16 Turn over
17 Studio figure
18 TBS show starting in 2010 19 StarKist competitor
21 Mean something
22 Lover boys
23 Polish target
25 Egg ___
26 Keeping elbows off the table, e.g. 29 Was idle
30 Utah ski town
32 “The Simpsons” character who wears a bow tie at work
33 It’s often rough: Abbr.
35 Risk mutual destruction, say 37 Question raised by four squares in this puzzle? 39 Coop material 43 Depression-___
45 Part of a workout routine 47 “Madness in great ___ must not unwatch’d go”: “Hamlet”
48 Be out for a bit?
51 A bit sharp, maybe
54 Show with a record 200+ Emmy noms 55 Chattahoochee River city 57 Astronomers’ sightings 59 Fabric store purchase 60 Person getting up there in years
64 Move furtively, in a way 65 Facts and figures
66 Stack of sheets
67 Tick off
68 Series curtailer: Abbr. 69 Letters on a stamp
70 ___ car 71 What blinks on a telephone may signify: Abbr.
72 Choreographer’s concern
DOWN
1 Where all-terrain vehicles go
2 It’s hit with a mallet
3 First, second and third, exactly
4 BART : San Francisco :: ___ : Philadelphia 5 Legal hurdle?
6 Scraps
7 “y = 2x,” e.g.
8 Subject of Chekhov’s “The Cherry
Orchard”
9 Faint
10 Guide
11 Muse invoked in “Paradise Lost”
12 How the boat goes down the stream, in a
children’s song
15 Highway adjacent to a throughway 20 Run smoothly
24 Galena, for one
25 Deplete (of)
27 Common cue
28 ___ jacket
31 A raised hand might indicate it
34 Derek Jeter, for the Yankees
36 Noted Warner Bros. toon
38 Aching
40 Most nuts
41 Deserter of a cause
42 Subj. for a diplomat, maybe
44 Aesop character
46 Some foreign correspondents
48 Island capital named for a European
royal house
49 ___ diet
50 Word
52 What two people may ride in
53 “Le Coq ___”
56 Had a 58-Down, e.g.
58 Bug
61 Stable stuff
62 ___ party
63 Plan for achieving a long-term goal