NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Home to Santa’s workshop 5 Popular outdoor clothing brand, with “The”
9 Minnesota N.H.L. team from 1967 to 1993
14 Ruler over Valhalla
15 As dumb as ___ of rocks 16 American of Japanese origin 17 Mandatory: Abbr.
18 Gusto
19 Change for the better 20 Fraternity “T”
21 Dog that needs a muzzle, say 22 Novelist Charles with an appropriate surname
23 Volunteer’s phrase
25 Largest known asteroid
27 Giving over
29 Part of the brainstem
33 How most movies are released after theatrical runs
34 Send off, as an online order 36 Remunerates
37 What Friday has, unlike any other day? 38 Dividing line
41 Subj. for Bill Nye 42 Candlemaking supply
44 Like Christmas sweaters, stereotypically
45 Prefix with party or venous
47 Queen in “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” 49 ___ Way (Roman road) 50 Calf-length pants style
52 Iowa’s largest export 53 Language group of central Africa 56 Harsh
58 Anarchist’s aversion 61 Eponymous Dr. Alzheimer
62 Young muchacho
63 New York’s ___ Field
64 Scrabble 1 pointer (but a Words With Friends 2-pointer)
65 Years on the Yucatán
66 In a short while 67 Country hosting the 2018 Winter Olympics
68 Lefties
69 Notre Dame setting
DOWN
1 Affluent Connecticut town 2 Theaters of antiquity
3 Food restriction before and after surgery, maybe
4 Demise
5 Disconcerting
6 Aid in mischief
7 Sine’s reciprocal, in trig
8 Hand or foot
9 Caught
10 “Pencils down!”
11 Like Edward Lear’s Owl and Pussycat 12 Tear apart
13 U.N.’s location in Manhattan 21 Burglary, in police shorthand
24 Kind of engineer: Abbr.
26 Certain tow job
27 Interstate 5’s locale
28 Listless feeling
30 Bringing up the rear
31 Stretchy sportswear material 32 Resident of China or Japan, but not India or Iran
34 Pea with a thick, rounded pod 35 Chess-playing movie villain
39 Bon mot
40 Make fun of
43 Capable of being touched 46 Network with news at the top of each hour
48 Revulsion
49 Bridging
51 1986 rock autobiography
53 Area of longtime contention
54 Choir part
55 Pinot ___
57 Plenty, once
59 Huge amounts
60 Eurus, in Greek mythology
63 One waiting at the airport?