NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Tex-Mex morsel
10 “Ooh-la-la!”
15 Pop group with the 1993 #2 hit “All That
She Wants”
16 Polite rejection
17 Tough crowd?
18 Artifacts, to archaeologists 19 Program-closing command on a PC 20 Gripes
22 Mountain home
24 Equatorial Guinea joined it in 2017
25 Lay the groundwork?
27 This blows!
28 Common classroom adornment
32 Acts all-powerful
35 Detective in “The French Connection” 36 Lamb, by another name
37 Scissors
40 Big name in cookware
41 ___ business
43 Maritime graphic
45 Ration
48 Material in translation
49 Some chats, briefly
50 Behind
51 First chairman of the E.E.O.C., familiarly 53 Wager
56 Heat
59 Group in feminist writing
60 Air traveler?
62 Whence the line “Beauty, terrible beauty! A deathless goddess — so she strikes our eyes!”
63 “Told you!”
64 ___-Poo, son of the Mikado 65 “Abso-freakin’-lutely!”
DOWN
1 One running for the Senate? 2 Supercelebrity 3 Yoko Ono, artistically, in the 1960s 4 Equivalent of a megagram
5 In a way 6 Sweet-and-spicy sports bar snack 7 Theme of Cirque du Soleil’s “O,” appropriately
8 “Hurry!”
9 Renowned pirate captain during the Golden Age of Piracy
10 First, second and third place 11 Primitive attire
12 “Who ___?”
13 Department store section
14 Where victims of arrests are taken, for short
21 Mental health org.
23 Historic town in Berkshire
25 Certain bank deposit
26 Basic skateboarding trick
29 Classic musical with the song “A Hymn
to Him”
30 Freak out
31 Hides
33 Talk, talk, talk
34 “Yo mama” joke, e.g.
38 Ideal, in teenspeak
39 Contents of a playground box
42 We
44 Coiner of the words “chortle” and “frabjous”
46 Modern connection inits.
47 Home of Vegas’s World Series of Poker 52 Turquoise or aquamarine
53 Bugs Bunny’s girlfriend
54 Exiled ruler of 1979
55 Auto dial
57 Good name for a landscaper? 58 ___-Willets Point (subway station in Queens, N.Y.)
59 The “1” in 1-9
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