N.Y. TIMES CROSSWORD
Note: To mark the 75th anniversary of the New York Times crossword, we are publishing a series of puzzles co-created by famous people who solve the Times crossword and regular Times puzzle contributors that will appear periodically through the year. This collaboration is by astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson and Andrea Carla Michaels. ACROSS 1 Fix, as a cat 5 “Get cracking!” 9 “Jurassic Park” insect casing 14 Pack animal 15 “___ girl!” 16 First lady after Hillary 17 “That’s my cue!” 18 Like Dorothy’s slippers 19 Boston airport 20 Toe testing the waters? 23 Potentially dangerous bacterium 24 ExxonMobil? 28 “___ Comedy Jam” 29 Command to Rover 32 “Baldfaced” thing 33 “Who goes there, friend or ___?” 34 Bowling scoresheet unit 36 Square dance site 37 Oscar nominees’ gathering? 41 Vittles 43 Manipulate, as bread dough 44 Bird that hoots 45 Mai ___ (cocktail) 48 Admit, with “up to” 49 ’50s high school dance 52 Bashful? 55 Inventory items 57 Total hottie? 60 Simple pond life 63 “Me as well” 64 “Voulezvous coucher ___ moi ce soir?” 65 It may be reasonable to a jury 66 Catches forty winks 67 Intertwine 68 New Mexican pueblo builders 69 Exuberance 70 Regarding, in a memo
DOWN 1 Wore an upside-down frown 2 Volcanic rock 3 Many, many 4 1983 film in which Barbra Streisand dresses as a man 5 Suffix with million 6 ___ poker 7 Equally large 8 E-commerce site formerly owned by eBay 9 Declare to be true 10 Native New Zealanders 11 Computer program glitch 12 Paleozoic or Mesozoic 13 Sought political office 21 “The Scales” constellation 22 Greek letter before omega 25 Quite a distance off 26 Neither’s partner 27 Hamilton’s bill 30 Body part to lend or bend 31 Big inits. in trucks 34 1-800FLOWERS alternative 35 Certain fraternal order member 36 Place to dream 37 Successful auctioneer’s last word 38 Commercial game with wild cards 39 Put in stitches 40 Having an aftertaste, as some barbecue sauce 41 Debate position against “against” 42 Have debts 45 140character messages 46 Drivers’ org. 47 John who wrote “The World According to Garp” 49 Reindeer feet 50 Most bizarre 51 1960 Alfred Hitchcock thriller 53 Abu ___ (Mideast land) 54 Prebirth 56 President who won the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize 58 “Ain’t happening” 59 Finish second 60 Woodworking tool 61 Baseballer Gehrig 62 Rifle or revolver