NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Venomous African snake 6 Quandaries
10 Duchess of ___ (Goya subject) 14 “Ghosts” playwright
15 Cartoon dog
16 Trollish sort
17 1984 Schwarzenegger sequel
19 Go fast
20 Reeves of “The Matrix”
21 Kind of bar
22 ___ Ranch (onetime “Texas White House”)
25 Early form of airmail?
28 “Yay, me!”
30 It’s measured in cups
31 Minor but essential part
32 “In this way”
34 Round floor cleaner
36 Many a bar mitzvah attendee 37 Chrysler model discontinued in 2010 39 Mother of the Virgin Mary 42 Butters up?
44 Opened one’s mouth but didn’t speak?
46 Fair-hiring inits.
48 Campaign freebie
49 Scary figure in Stephen King’s “It” 50 Grinder
55 Org. whose symbol is an eagle atop a key
56 Run-of-the-mill
57 Language from which “kayak” comes
59 Pac-12 team
60 It’s four units long in a popular board game (with the game’s other pieces hinted at by the circled letters) 65 Red giant in the constellation Cetus 66 A penny is a small one 67 Express
68 Future C.P.A.’s study
69 “Gotta go,” in textspeak 70 Fragrant compound
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1 Word after hot or open
2 Blood letters
3 ___ Explorer (browser)
4 Schnozz
5 Wings
6 Pope before Leo VI
7 For two
8 Potpourri
9 Congress
10 Bella of 1970s politics 11 Unpredictable sort
12 “Oh, cry me a river!”
13 Giving heat?
18 Duty
21 Neighbor of India and China in Risk 22 Cheerful tune
23 Cocktail party spread 24 Foreigner song with the lyric “With that one guitar / He’ll come alive” 26 Gaming debut of 2001
27 Agent
29 Actress Headey
33 Join voluntarily
34 Just what the doctor ordered, for short? 35 Turn on the waterworks
38 Watch over
40 Google heading
41 Novelist Ferber
43 Filter target
45 Pull off
46 Unearth
47 Pet store category
51 Lazy ___
52 Good at repartee
53 Big name in microprocessors 54 ___-de-sac
58 Chinese menu possessive
60 Take some swings
61 Army ___
62 Success in the game 60-Across … or a hint to interpreting the circled squares 63 Winter coat
64 Each