N.Y. TIMES CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Petite pooch, familiarly 4 Small lumps
8 Plot twists may elicit them
13 Group of docs
14 Aware of, as a scheme 15 Lassie, for one
16 Singer Benatar feels blue
18 Consignment shop business 19 Aromatic dried pepper
20 Author Grafton has arrived for dinner 22 An alto probably can’t hit it 25 California ball team 26 Actress Wells has just entered the scene
28 First company to feature a gay couple in a mainstream U.S. TV ad (1994)
29 How a used item may be sold
30 Slugger’s stat
32 Stop by 36 Tailor’s concern 37 Actor Nicholson will bat next 40 Medium for some sculptures with short lifespans 41 Sample
43 “Fly swatter” for an elephant
44 One of a fairy tale threesome 45 Jazzy James 48 Baseball’s Boggs has agreed to join us
50 Shot
follower
52 Online magazine covering politics and culture 53 Actor Norris got tagged 55 ___ Lama 58 Charttopper, e.g. 59 TV father Cleaver has just left the starting line 62 Some garden dwellers 63 Skin care brand
64 Org. with an inspector general 65 Located (in) 66 Lily that is Utah’s state flower
67 Head of England?
DOWN
1 “Come to ___”
2 Country whose name can be an exclamation 3 Compete intellectually (with)
4 Condo restriction 5 Numero ___ 6 “Just so you know…,” in a text
7 “___ and Lovers” (D. H. Lawrence novel) 8 Throws a loo-ong pass 9 One who didn’t make it to the office
10 “12 Years a ___”
11 Things some sorters make
12 Oracle 15 Sound like an old floorboard 17 Protected body parts for goalies and baseball catchers 21 News inits. 23 Circular wedding dance
24 “Fast Money” channel 26 Addlebrained 27 Locale of both the highest and lowest points on the earth’s surface 31 Mike’s candy partner 33 Some engine fuel
34 Purple berry 35 Relative of a sea gull
37 Zipped along on a watercraft 38 Proverbs 39 Name of a mountain range or a river
42 “How do you do it? I want to know”
44 Trial
stages
46 Trial stages
47 The
Cards, on scoreboards 49 Cool cat
50 Where the compass was invented 51 Science fiction awards 53 Classic
N.Y.C. punk rock venue 54 Counting by them takes half the time
56 Big do
57 In that case
60 Ginger ___
61 Jaunty piano
tune