NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Equine animal, in rural dialect
5 Caper
10 Take steps (into)
14 One of two in the Mcdonald’s logo 15 Italian name of six popes
16 Ice skating maneuver
17 Dr. Zhivago’s love
18 Rapture
20 Projecting rim of a metal beam
22 Fake eyelash, in slang
23 Org. whose members may be forewarned?
24 With this puzzle’s central black squares, ecstasy
27 Heating unit
29 Heating fuel
30 Hogs
35 Perez whose film debut was in “Do the Right Thing”
36 Join at the altar
37 ___ Island (part of Brooklyn that isn’t an island)
38 “Let’s be ___ about this” 40 Mindless
41 Affectionate nickname for the “Father of the Symphony”
45 Beats by a whisker
46 Face With Tears of Joy, for one 47 Keanu Reeves’s role in “The Matrix” 48 Houston ballplayer
52 Kind of computer port, in brief 53 Protection for vampire hunters
56 Bar “where everybody knows your name”
58 Steadfastly maintained, as one’s beliefs 59 Comforting mental state
63 Like a soldier who might be courtmartialed
64 Dunkable cookie
65 Sign up for more
66 Nickname for Grandma
67 Volume from Horace
68 Dingbats
69 Colorist
DOWN
1 Either part of a yin-yang symbol, e.g. 2 Unwritten exam
3 Manages to gather, as cash
4 Heaven
5 Church recess
6 “I’ll pass”
7 Something a wedge often leaves exposed
8 Paris’s ___ de la Cité
9 Greek tourist destination
10 Part of a squash court
11 Center of rotation
12 Arnaz of “I Love Lucy”
13 Part of a coding conditional 19 Research findings that can’t be reproduced, say
21 Field of mathematics pioneered by John von Neumann
24 Word with cash or holy
25 Take a risk when taking a polygraph test
26 Aged
27 Golfer’s challenge
28 Kotb of “Today”
31 Realm of marvels 32 Pleasantly
33 Hawaii’s state bird
34 Peepers
39 Uncle ___
42 Whom 39-Down wants, in a classic poster
43 Some Siriusxm workers, for short 44 Pen tip
48 Cause for a blessing
49 Pottery fragment
50 Plains dwelling
51 Auto takebacks, for short
54 A flat one is best to skip
55 Kind of energy
57 Lively for one’s age
58 Chops down
60 Sign before Virgo 61 Unspecified quantity 62 Corporate V.I.P.