NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
NO. 1024
ACROSS
1 One of the Five Pillars of Islam 5 Shakespeare, informally 9 Mists 15 “Interesting …” 16 Spark, so to speak 17 Taiwan’s capital 18 *“You fail to understand what I’m saying” 21 Nursery purchase 22 Smidgen 23 Info for a driver at an airport 24 *Cheesy fare served at a bar? 29 Old Renault 31 Berry marketed as healthful 32 Chaplin of “Game of Thrones” 33 Sanctify 34 Island garland 35 Bowled over 36 12-time Vatican name 38 *2006 cultclassic action film 43 Flubs 44 Hurdle for a Ph.D. candidate, typically 45 Firefighter’s tool 47 One-named Spanish-born actress 50 No longer mint 51 Gush 52 Get connected after typing one’s password 53 *“This relationship is smothering me” 55 Conjunction in the middle of a famous palindrome 56 Vegetable with pods 58 Narrow inlet 59 What a sci-fi portal might lead to … or what’s added successively to the ends of the answers to the starred clues 66 “The Bathers” painter 67 Symphony, e.g. 68 Spicy chocolate sauce 69 Trample 70 Horses that could be hounds or badgers? 71 Took to court
DOWN
1 Box-office success 2 Pale wood 3 Org. in “Breaking Bad” 4 Lakeside rental 5 Energy source from a “farm” 6 Swear words? 7 Permit to 8 Eva Mendes or Eva Longoria 9 Editor’s override 10 Official decree from the Vatican 11 2016 Olympics city, informally 12 Each 13 Busybodies 14 Musical instruments with frets 19 Trifling amount 20 Tough row to ___ 24 Bud 25 Finishes, as a cake 26 Genesis son 27 Loamy soil 28 Intro to Chinese? 30 “Frozen” princess 35 LeBron James’s hometown 36 “Gay” capital 37 Certain network ID 39 Streamlined, for short 40 Missing part of the Sphinx 41 Mecca for oenophiles 42 “Suit” 46 Source of feta cheese 47 Unclogs 48 Big buzzer 49 Early toddlerhood 50 Japanese eel-and-rice dish 51 Involuntary jerks
53 Like the verbs “lie” and “lay”: Abbr. 54 Do wrong 57 Jerome who composed “Ol’ Man River” 60 Blouse or sweater 61 Hoppy quaff, for short 62 Container for a 61-Down 63 Marker letters 64 Soccer match shout 65 Mustachioed character on “The Simpsons”