NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
This puzzle is a collaboration by the singer/ songwriter Weird Al Yankovic, working together with Eric Berlin, a writer and puzzle editor from Milford, Conn.
ACROSS
1 Imperfection 7 Shouts made with the waving of white hankies 11 Yo-yo 14 ___ Brothers, duo who sang “Wake Up Little Susie” 15 Part of a bottle 16 Skin art, informally 17 Satirist Tom 18 Prefix with cultural 19 Airport info, for short 20 Cheesy 1992 military drama? 23 Aid and ___ 26 Fish with tiny scales 27 Earned a ticket, maybe 28 Cheesy 1987 thriller? 33 Supply for Wile E. Coyote 34 Many promgoers: Abbr. 35 Singer/songwriter Bareilles 36 Mediterranean building material 38 Jousters’ equipment 42 Rock that rolls? 44 ___ G, Sacha Baron Cohen character 45 Contents of a vein 46 Cheesy 1993 legal drama? 50 ___ beans 51 Summertime setting: Abbr. 52 Cluster at many a highway interchange 53 Cheesy 2001 animated film? 58 The CW superseded it 59 Roman moon goddess 60 “Easy-peasy!” 64 Locale for a bathysphere 65 Poker stake 66 John famous for “silly walks” 67 “___ dead, Jim” 68 Something you might slip on 69 “Wait a minute …”
DOWN
1 It’s SE of Penn. 2 Wall-E’s love 3 Dismissive interjection 4 Typos, e.g. 5 Curly musical symbol 6 “Pericles, Prince of ___” 7 Wild equine 8 Tolkien elf played in film by Orlando Bloom 9 Beige-ish 10 Result of driving on ice, perhaps 11 Resuming the previous speed, in music 12 Glossy fabric 13 Custer’s “last” thing 21 Hoses down 22 Kind of cuisine with stir-frying 23 Times of day in classifieds 24 Like the wire in clothes hangers 25 Question for Brutus 29 Songwriters’ org. 30 Valuable collection 31 Certain lily 32 Coach … or what a coach is part of 37 Mr. ___ 39 Cheesy stuff 40 Leprechauns’ land 41 Goes out with 43 Just firm enough 44 Follower of John 46 Rug you don’t walk on 47 Shenzi, Banzai and Ed, in “The Lion King” 48 Acre’s land 49 Inexpensive writing implement 50 Reduce to a pulp 54 Certain shot in hockey 55 Adjust, as a piano 56 Nonmetric measure 57 The Big Easy 61 Gas option: Abbr. 62 Spanish bear 63 Editor Bradlee of The Washington Post