NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Annual tennis or golf championship 7 “Sign me up!”
11 ___ dispenser
14 Team spirit
15 Detective Wolfe
16 Friend for Philippe
17 Zombies with a sense of humor? 19 Pinch
20 What to do after saying grace 21 Spree
22 Removes, as from a club
24 Had high hopes
27 Gay rights or climate change 29 Grizzlies that don’t fall for traps? 33 Writer who went through hell? 36 Rat-___
37 Cheer from the stands
38 Greek god who fought with the mortal Hercules
39 Many a time
41 Prefix with space
42 Small set
43 Surrealist Maar
44 Called off
45 Exam in an interior design class? 49 Singer Luis with the 13x platinum hit “Despacito”
50 Write the book on, so to speak 54 Automaton of folklore
56 Like some spicy food
58 “Snakes ___ Plane” (2006 film) 59 Abbr. before an alias
60 Terrible attempts at peeling corn? 64 Org. that collects 1099s 65 Wonder Woman, for Gal Gadot 66 Mexican dish prepared in a cornhusk 67 “Hmm, I don’t think so”
68 Shift and Tab, for two
69 Less fresh
DOWN
1 Called balls and strikes 2 Word before system or panel
3 Deliver a stemwinder
4 Be punished (for)
5 Figure in Santa’s workshop 6 Neither feminine nor masculine 7 Lead-in to China 8 Introductory scene in some rom-coms
9 Subj. of the federal tax form 5498 10 “For sure”
11 Like some salmon that’s not baked or broiled
12 Give off
13 10001, 10002, etc., informally
18 Ore source
23 Exercise
25 Fifth book of the New Testament 26 Daisy ___ (character who loved Li’l Abner)
28 Astronaut Shepard, first American in space
30 Like almost 0% of tarantula bites 31 Like blue moons
32 Having footwear 33 Harebrained
34 ___ 51
35 “Hey, let me be the first to tell you …” 39 Reactions to gut punches 40 Orchard pest
41 Up the ___
43 Nation whose flag is a white cross on a red background
44 Neighbor of F1 and a tilde
46 Outer edge of a golf club
47 Shade akin to turquoise
48 Is
51 One giving directions to a tourist, say 52 Where a pant leg and a sock meet 53 It’ll give you a shock
54 Benefit
55 Vegetable that’s frequently fried 57 Colors
61 Great distress
62 Lid, so to speak
63 Thurman of “Pulp Fiction”