N.Y. TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS 1 Tavern 4 Fabled loser to a tortoise 8 Go searching for food 14 Flabbergast 15 German auto make 16 Ways to travel

17 Young fellow

18 What you should take dubious advice with 20 “If I’m wrong, I’ll eat ___!” 22 School support grp.

23 Every family has one

24 Dry, as a desert 26 “That’s not true!”

29 What a complete fool lacks 32 G.M. car no longer sold new 33 Tennis umpire’s call

34 Offered for breeding, as a derby winner 38 Letter between oh and cue 39 Toilet paper layer

40 College application fig.

41 Red ___ beet 42 Passover celebrations 44 Dove’s sound 45 Squeaks (by) 46 Shylock’s harsh demand, in “The Merchant of Venice” 49 Leaked, as an old faucet 51 Government disaster org.

52 Greek war god 53 “Right you ___!” 55 Colorado skiing mecca 58 What “it” may hit you like

62 Before, in poetry 63 Concert gear handler 64 Brand of basketballs 65 Classic symphonic rock group, for short 66 Claim to be true

67 Odds’ counterpart 68 Documentarian Burns

DOWN 1 ChapStick, e.g.

2 What a robber hopes to get?

3 How robbers can get caught 4 Immobilize with rope, in a way

5 Month after Mar. 6 Harvest 7 Snobbish sort

8 To and ___ 9 “Ouch!” 10 Steals cattle 11 Maker of the game Centipede 12 Cosmetic goop

13 Toward sunrise: Sp. 19 ___ the Great of children’s literature 21 Paths of falling stars

25 Gets all pretty 27 Quickly and loudly detach

28 “The Thin Man” dog 29 Klutz’s cry 30 1997 title role for

Peter Fonda 31 Funny Tina 35 Glimpse furtively 36 Baking soda has lots of them 37 Sprint

39 Skull, for Hamlet when he says “Alas, poor Yorick!” 40 When repeated, infant’s sound

43 Any one of nine “Star Wars” films 44 Obsolescent laptop component 45 Things that suffered a 20thcentury blight

47 Close by 48 Eats royally 49 Bit on a baby’s bib 50 Kidneyrelated 52 Gillette razor option 54 M.B.A. class subj. 56 Mystery writer ___ Stanley Gardner

57 One of the noble gases 59 ___ Newton (cookie) 60 Q: Why is a flower like the letter A? A: Because a ___ goes after it

61 Joke (around)