N.Y. TIMES CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1
Big, in adspeak
5 Game show shout-out
10 “Miss ___ Regrets,” jazz standard performed by Ethel Waters and Ella Fitzgerald
14 Draft picks
15 Grammy
category
16 Sport shooting variety 17 After the top half of a 7-Down, sophisticated lady 19 Total War game company
20 His murder elicited the first wail of mourning, in Islamic accounts
21 Lead-in to
care
23 Icy remark? 24 When the
Lyrid meteor shower typically peaks
26 Bucolic call 27 Sport shooting variety
29 King of cubs 30 Before the bottom half of a 7-Down, tipple and then some
32 That, en
España
33 Carrie in “Sex
and the City” 34 Flash point?
36 Savage 40 Stopped producing new leads, as an investigation 44 Apt rhyme for “lumberjacks”
45 After the top half of a 42-Down, circles around the block?
48 Leave out
49 Silly
50 “Live well”
sloganeer
51
You can see right through it
52 MC ___ of
N.W.A
53 Talk up
55 Where you might search for a lead?
56 Stained, in a
way
58 Before the bottom half of a 42-Down, keeps arguing after something has been decided
62 Prerelease, in
Silicon Valley 63 Japanese
automaker 64 Isle known as “The Gathering Place”
65 Funk
66 Throat malady, for short
67 Graph
component
DOWN
1 Portrait seen on renminbi bank notes
2 Pole worker
3 “Cool it,
lovebirds”
4 Rubbish
receptacle
5 Cry of pain …
or laughter
6 Major talking point on CNBC, maybe 7 Hybrid creature of myth
8 City sieged by
Joan of Arc
9 Anti-D.U.I.
org.
10 “Fourth
periods” in hockey, for short
11 A host of
answers?
12 “Seconded” 13 Rival of
Athens
18 Sushi bar
choice
22 Follower of Christmas or Easter
24 Son in
“Tess of the D’Urbervilles”
25 ___ Pizza (punny trattoria name)
26 It may be
wireless
28 Green smoothie ingredient 30 Liquid-Plumr
alternative 31 Some tribal leaders on “Game of Thrones”
33 Playwright
Bertolt
35 Bucolic
beasts
37 Certain protective parent, colloquially 38 Graph
component 39 “Sounds like
a plan”
41 Late-night interviewee, e.g.
42 Hybrid creature of myth
43 “Lord of the
Rings” baddie 45 Gummy
candy brand 46 Kicked things
off
47 Connect with 48 Hard one to teach, in a saying
51 Inits. in a.m.
TV
54 They might be tied using a taiko musubi (“drum knot”)
55 “Time ___!” 57 Maneuverable, in nautical lingo 59 Philosopher
Mo-___
60 Sushi bar
choice
61 Letdown at a fireworks show