NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Issue
6 Fodder for sports analytics
11 Place, as a bet
14 What a current flows through 15 Dickens’s ___ Heep
16 “Aladdin” monkey
17 Nickname for a glitzy author?
19 It contains M.S.G.
20 Emmy-winning Falco
21 Stark of “Game of Thrones”
22 A cluttered one is a sign of a cluttered mind, it’s said
[Don’t touch my bone!] Nickname for a clumsy composer? Sunken track
Key below Z, on a Mac
Country singer Tillis
John who played an older Kunta Kinte on “Roots”
“The bay in the fifth,” for one Actress McDonald
Nickname for a sloppy painter? “Get Happy” composer Gangster’s gun
Setting for 46-Across on a very hot day See 45-Across
“___ official …”
Compete
Nickname for a fiery philosopher? Shape of a swan’s neck
Get under the skin of
___ grecque (served with olive oil, lemon juice and seasonings)
Names in film credits
City where trap music originated: Abbr.
Classic hairstyle … or a hint to the puns in 17-, 25-, 39- and 51-Across
Prefix with colonialism According to
Chair designer Charles
Parched 70 Prime minister called “Pandit” 71 Address,with“to”
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1 ___ Mahal
2 Start of every ZIP code in Pennsylvania 3 Jigsaw, e.g.
4 Named, for short
5 Toyota coupe sold from 1970 to 2006 6 Hyundai Santa Fe or Tucson, briefly 7 Focus of a Facebook sidebar
8 Put on TV
9 Kind of bike or kayak
10 Miss identification?
11 Freeway divisions
12 Deep, deep pit
13 Eliciting an “ugh,” maybe
18 Have as a customer
22 Port at the west end of Lake Superior 23 Persona non ___
24 It might begin “Did you hear …?” 26 Old blues singer Johnny
27 Fellow bringing roses, perhaps 32 Sordid sort
34 Hard throw, in baseball
36 Rush-hour
37 TV host Philbin
38 Bodily complaints
40 First word of “The Raven”
41 Secular
42 Hook up (to)
47 Few and far between
49 Schedules
51 ___ X
52 Soda bottle unit
53 Bronze, but not silver or gold
54 Beth’s preceder
55 More rational
60 Give and take
62 Item above a kitchen stove
63 Grand finale?
64 “The vasty deep,” in Shakespeare 65 “What a shame!”