NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 ___ San Lucas (Baja resort city)
5 Chew the fat
8 Maze runner in an experiment
14 Brewery products
15 Pitcher’s stat
16 “Uncle!”
17 Five-time N.B.A. championship-winning coach with the Lakers and the Heat 19 Cable channel with many science shows, familiarly
20 “Ready, ___, fire!”
21 Ballad, e.g.
23 Circus enclosure
24 Garfield, to Jon Arbuckle
27 Notable statistic for Jeff Bezos or Bill Gates
29 Opening number?
30 Prosciutto, e.g.
32 Physicians, for short
33 Obtain
34 Mountain overlooking Tokyo 37 Casino floor V.I.P.
40 Make tiny criticisms
43 Ruler of old Russia
44 Broadcast
45 ___ tai (cocktail)
46 Bygone monthly for the 12-to-20 set 50 “The A-Team” actor with a mohawk 51 Road hazards that need filling
54 “Be patient!”
56 “Your turn,” on a walkie-talkie 57 Appear to be
59 Surface of a sty
60 Peeved
62 Dessert loaf
66 Cheap cigar, slangily
67 CBS forensics franchise 68 Midwife’s delivery
69 Sailor
70 “I know what you’re thinking” feeling, for short
71 First word in a fairy tale
DOWN
1 Salary limit
2 ___ carte
3 Software trial runs
4 Duel overseer in “Hamlet”
5 Do stuff?
6 Warlike Greek god
7 Musket attachment
8 Width’s counterpart
9 Santa ___ winds
10 Proceeding from low to high 11 America’s largest firearm manufacturer
12 Secret ___ (007, for one) 13 Egyptian god usually pictured with the head of an ibis
18 Apple computer
22 Neighbor of Homer on “The Simpsons” 24 “___ and Circumstance”
25 Break off a relationship
26 Yanks (on)
28 Drift, as an aroma
31 Hi-___ screen
35 Singer with the 1961 hit “Big Bad John” 36 Comforting words
38 Place to shower and brush one’s teeth 39 Cookie with creme in the middle 40 Never, in Nuremberg
41 Tehran’s land
42 Eartha who sang “C’est Si Bon” 44 Perfect attendance spoiler 47 Yankees legend ___ Howard 48 Originally named
49 Egyptian pyramid, e.g.
51 John, Paul and John Paul 52 Undeveloped seed
53 Four: Prefix 55 High-performance engine 58 Dishevel, as the hair
61 Work ___ sweat
63 Extra 15% or so for a waiter 64 Simple as ___
65 Henna, for one