N.Y. TIMES CROSSWORD
This puzzle is a collaboration by the philanthropist Melinda Gates, of Medina, Wash., working together with Joel Fagliano, the digital puzzles editor of The New York Times.
ACROSS
1 Deg. for a museum worker 4 Loll 8 Elapse 14 Dashboard part 16 Musical run with four sharps 17 Part played by women and girls? 18 Have hot cocoa on a winter day, say 19 U.S. president with a Nobel Peace Prize 20 Take a breath 22 Had for dinner 23 Blue ___ (Duke mascot) 25 Use a lot? 27 Overhaul 29 Area below “To:” in an email? 32 Land in a Beatles song 35 Tide alternative 36 “Ghost” psychic Oda ___ Brown 37 Ones on set with 2009’s “Star Trek” director? 40 Any one of the 12 steps? 42 Grant with the 1991 #1 hit “Baby Baby” 43 Battery size 45 “This round’s ___” 46 Group of buildings housing a King? 49 Recedes 53 What Lot’s wife became 54 Common bacterium 57 Go bad 58 Group in the original “Ocean’s 11” movie 61 “Sure, that works” 63 Harrowing experience 64 Lover of Cummings’s poetry? 66 Sasha ___, Beyoncé’s alter ego 67 Speedster’s undoing 68 Owns (up to) 69 Money to belong 70 Greenminded org.
DOWN
1 Freight train part 2 Dwell (on) 3 Bruce Wayne’s butler 4 Intertwined 5 Eccentric 6 “Million Years ___” (Adele song) 7 Irony? 8 Places for parishioners 9 “Now!” 10 Libretto, for example 11 “SpiderMan” director, 2002 12 Horse with evenly mixed black-andwhite hairs 13 “Indeedy” 15 Gang pistol, in old slang 21 Jewelry designer Peretti 24 Obsolescent TV attachment 26 Place to bounce a baby 28 “___ House,” 1970 Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young hit 30 Panache 31 Quahog or geoduck 33 Where clothes often rip 34 Trade 37 Nasty comments 38 Pan creator 39 Island group in the Aegean Sea 41 Spike who directed “BlacK-kKlans-man” 44 Smart fellow? 45 Tic-tac-toe loser 47 Bewhiskered mammals 48 ___ College, liberal arts school in St. Petersburg, Fla. 50 Subject of a New York Times column until 2015 51 Study, informally 52 Chest bones 55 Feminist writer Audre 56 Giant furniture stores 59 Tempo 60 Hoppy mediums? 62 & 63 Distant 65 What’s found in the French rivière?