NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Wall Street index, for short 6 Things in jewel cases [3]
9 Vena ___ (major vessel) 13 County north of Limerick 14 Painter Paul [11]
15 Patron saint of Norway
16 Witch hazel or bay rum 18 Scrapped, to NASA
19 Cry from Scrooge
20 Hindu ascetics
21 Gloomy
22 Bird-related
24 Book borrower’s penalty [5] 26 Green Monster’s ballpark 28 Wenders who directed “Buena Vista Social Club”
29 “Last one ___ a rotten egg!” 30 Marmalade bit
34 Pear variety
38 Diner cupful, slangily
39 Some trackgoers [18]
41 Eur. distance measures
42 “How about that!”
44 Capital of 26-Down [21] 45 Scottish hillside
46 What A.L. pitchers normally don’t do
48 Interior designs 50 Classroom surprise [15][16] 54 Muscular strength
55 Off in the distance 56 Curator’s workplace 58 Fleur-de-___
61 Citrus named for its appearance 62 Line of upscale German autos [23] 64 Bausch & ___ (lens maker) 65 “Buy It Now” site
66 Salvage ship’s detection system 67 Fruity quaffs 68 Sleazynewspaper 69 Euphoric states [8][7]
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1 Persona non grata to a striker [1] 2 Letter before bravo 3 Hawthorne who created Hester Prynne 4 Rap’s Dr. ___
5 Shah’s domain until 1935 6 Chowder flavor
7 He “made me do it,” with “the” [4] 8 Like games with several lead changes 9 Mark for demolition [13]
10 Distant
11 Like the description “somewhere in the U.S.”
12 Prior to, poetically
14 Wrathful “Star Trek” villain
17 Patrick of “Dirty Dancing” [25] 23 Golfs, e.g. [22]
25 Aunts, in Andalusia
26 Part of Oceania [9]
27 Hydroxyl group compound [14] 31 “Star Wars” extras, for short
32 Early Beatle Sutcliffe [19][20] 33 “Mazel ___!”
35 Creator of Hogwarts [10]
36 Stickup man on “The Wire”
37 Plays for a sap
39 Steady guy
40 Wheel spoke, essentially 43 Pitmaster’s offering [17]
45 Pre-A.D. [2]
47 Cry before a fall
49 Catch in a web
50 TV journalist Zahn
51 Act ___ [6]
52 ___ d’Or (Cannes award) [12] 53 Fitness program done to Latin music 54 Like Playboy models [24]
57 ___ bag (event handout)
59 “You betcha!”
60 They became independent in 1991: Abbr. 63 Le ___ Soleil (Louis XIV)