NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Mattress cover
6 Desert beast
11 “Born in the ___”
14 Deserves
15 Cockamamie
16 Catch cold?
17 Meat entree in Ukraine
19 “Weekend Update” show, for short
20 Carne asada holder
21 Low-fat
22 Practice piece at a conservatory
24 Travel about
26 Back of a boat
28 Meat entree in Austria
33 Have a hunch
34 Pewter component
35 Excellent, informally
36 Pound sound
37 Brand that “nobody doesn’t like”
41 Greek “H”
42 Home to the majority of earthlings
44 ___ Air (affluent neighborhood of Los Angeles)
45 Bold type
47 Meat entree in New Zealand
51 Emmy winner Christine
52 Christmas carol
53 Freshwater polyp
55 Jam ingredient?
57 Alan who wrote the book “If I Understood You, Would I Have This Look on My Face?”
61 Sound elicited by a punch in the gut
62 Meat entree in the United Kingdom
65 Olive of cartoons
66 Disney World park
67 Be in accord
68 Small dog
69 Pro in taking dictation
70 Landowners’ papers DOWN
1 Religious offshoot
2 “That’s funny!”
3 California politico Garcetti
4 Concert bonuses
5 Sound of disapproval
6 The movie industry
7 “My Way” lyricist Paul
8 Thing attached to a sloop’s boom
9 Direction from Mo. to Me.
10 River embankments
11 Person not getting credit for a brave act
12 Hourglass contents
13 Up to the task
18 Panache
23 Mouse catcher
25 Easiest numbers to dial on a rotary phone
27 Adjust the pitch of
28 Chapter’s counterpart
29 Pop-up that results in the batter being called out even if the ball isn’t caught
30 Public bathroom compartment
31 No longer on the plate
32 Symbol on the Texas state flag
33 Bygone Swedish car
38 Assist in a crime
39 Trust
40 Cutting-___ (pioneering)
43 From a distance
46 Like a prison fugitive
48 Moby Dick and others
49 Counting everything
50 Separator of a.m. and p.m.
53 Owl’s sound
54 Dimwit
56 Thick Japanese noodle
58 Traditional knowledge
59 Ran out of juice
60 Pub pints
63 Choose, with “for”
64 Reprimand to a dog