N.Y. TIMES CROSSWORD
Note: When finished, this crossword grid will have 25 things that complete a set, in the order indicated by the clues.
ACROSS
1 Wall Street index, for short 6 Things in jewel cases [3] 9 Vena ___ (major vessel) 13 County north of Limerick 14 Painter Paul [11] 15 Patron saint of Norway 16 Witch hazel or bay rum 18 Scrapped, to NASA 19 Cry from Scrooge 20 Hindu ascetics 21 Gloomy 22 Bird-related 24 Book borrower’s penalty [5] 26 Green Monster’s ballpark 28 Wenders who directed “Buena Vista Social Club” 29 “Last one ___ a rotten egg!” 30 Marmalade bit 34 Pear variety 38 Diner cupful, slangily 39 Some trackgoers [18] 41 Eur. distance measures 42 “How about that!” 44 Capital of 26-Down [21] 45 Scottish hillside 46 What A.L. pitchers normally don’t do 48 Interior designs 50 Classroom surprise [15] [16] 54 Muscular strength 55 Off in the distance 56 Curator’s workplace 58 Fleur-de-___ 61 Citrus named for its appearance 62 Line of upscale German autos [23] 64 Bausch & ___ (lens maker) 65 “Buy It Now” site 66 Salvage ship’s detection system 67 Fruity quaffs 68 Sleazy newspaper 69 Euphoric states [8][7]
DOWN
1 Persona non grata to a striker [1] 2 Letter before bravo 3 Hawthorne who created Hester Prynne 4 Rap’s Dr. ___ 5 Shah’s domain until 1935 6 Chowder flavor 7 He “made me do it,” with “the” [4] 8 Like games with several lead changes 9 Mark for demolition [13] 10 Distant 11 Like the description “somewhere in the U.S.” 12 Prior to, poetically 14 Wrathful “Star Trek” villain 17 Patrick of “Dirty Dancing” [25] 23 Golfs, e.g. [22] 25 Aunts, in Andalusia 26 Part of Oceania [9] 27 Hydroxyl group compound [14] 31 “Star Wars” extras, for short 32 Early Beatle Sutcliffe [19] [20] 33 “Mazel ___!” 35 Creator of Hogwarts [10] 36 Stickup man on “The Wire” 37 Plays for a sap 39 Steady guy 40 Wheel spoke, essentially 43 Pitmaster’s offering [17] 45 Pre-A.D. [2] 47 Cry before a fall 49 Catch in a web 50 TV journalist Zahn 51 Act ___ [6] 52 ___ d’Or (Cannes award) [12] 53 Fitness program done to Latin music 54 Like Playboy models [24] 57 ___ bag (event handout) 59 “You betcha!” 60 They became independent in 1991: Abbr. 63 Le ___ Soleil (Louis XIV)