NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Part of a modern circuit 12 Onetime MTV figures

15 Vegan sushi option

16 Extended stretch

17 Regional coverage plan?

18 Marble ___

19 Bit of work

20 Bit of work

21 Lit

23 Muckraker who pushed for “model

tenements”

25 Things with periods in their names 27 Actor Ansari

28 “Look before you leap” source 30 Control+Y on a PC

31 Reading block?

32 Optometrist’s favorite musical

note?

34 Became clouded over

36 [Just like that!]

38 Hamilton settings

39 Real-life ice age beast seen on

“Game of Thrones”

43 Like some light smokes

47 Played for a sap

48 Place to pick up chicks

50 Brazil’s fourth-largest state by

population

51 The Philippines’ ___ Archipelago 52 Egyptian sky god

54 Smart

55 Some chess sacrifices

57 Let

58 Celebratory move popularized by

Cam Newton

59 “Mr.” who has stitches in his face 60 Sloppy joe ingredient

64 Work that shows love 65 “Meridian” and “The Temple of My

Familiar” novelist 66 Edamame discard

67 Metric for gauging female

representation in works of fiction

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1 2 3 4 5 6

New Orleans cocktail

They can’t stay quiet when tickled Like a film that’s 2 1/2 hours or so Fish market supply

Player, perhaps

“None but the Lonely Heart” writer/ director, 1944

7 “That’s cheating!”

8 Like a blue jay

9 Like bad drivers, often

10 French pronoun

11 “Listen!,” e.g.

12 Sprint competitor

13 Driving the wrong way?

14 Welcomed blessing?

22 Snapchat feature that alters one’s

features

24 Got into a lather

26 Political cartoonist Edward

29 Stem

33 Lab, for one

35 Gearshift part

37 Amplifier for stage actors

39 Bunny picker-upper?

40 “Heck yeah!”

41 Kin

42 Individually

44 Western legend, familiarly

45 Some shooting stars

46 Gullible rodent in a Scott Adams comic 49 Kicked

53 Ski town near Mount Mansfield

56 Run through

61 Stadium cry

62 Spanish seasoning

63 ___-tab