THE NYT CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Twin city of Raleigh 7 Dictionary offering: Abbr. 10 The “m” of e = mc2 14 Italian cheese 15 Tire filler 16 Give off 17 1988 #1 hit for UB40 19 “___ going!” 20 Oak or elm 21 Big feature on a donkey 22 Empty ___ (parent whose children have all moved away) 24 1971 hit for Marvin Gaye subtitled “The Ecology” 27 Toy gun pellets 30 Year: Sp. 31 List-ending abbr. 32 Regions 34 “___ Lay Dying” 35 Like some textbooks 39 1920s standard with the lyric “Sugar’s sweet, so is she” 43 Woman in “The King and I” 44 12, on a grandfather clock 45 ___ bin Laden, 2011 Navy SEALs target 46 Salt, chemically 48 Psychic power, informally 50 June preceder 51 1986 hit for Talking Heads 56 Classical music halls 57 Decay 58 Yawn-inducing 62 Gas in commercial signs 63 1990 hit that samples the bass line from Queen/Bowie’s “Under Pressure” 66 1941 film “citizen” 67 Complain, complain, complain 68 Laid down the first card 69 Toboggan, e.g. 70 Route displayer on a dashboard, for short 71 Word with finger or America
DOWN
1 Something thrown at a bull’s-eye 2 Pusher’s customer 3 Carnival attraction 4 ___ pants (baggy wear) 5 See 6-Down 6 With 5-Down, present time 7 Grocery section with milk and yogurt 8 German “a” 9 Crazily fast 10 “Old boys’ network” meeting places 11 Friendliness 12 Cry to an attack dog 13 One cubic meter 18 City between Dallas and Austin 23 A pitching ace has a low one, in brief 25 Like a Monday crossword puzzle, relatively speaking 26 Western plateau 27 See 34-Down 28 ___ Mawr College 29 Observed 33 Left behind 34 With 27-Down, foe of the Forty Thieves 36 Setting for “The King and I” 37 Funny Bombeck 38 June 6, 1944 40 Removing surgically 41 New York City mayor de Blasio 42 Head: Ger. 47 Barley beard 48 “The Time Machine” race 49 “30 Rock” or “3rd Rock From the Sun” 51 Policy experts 52 Perfect 53 Sierra ___ (African country) 54 Bottom-of-the-bottle stuff 55 Flowed back 59 Word that fills both blanks in “This ___ is your ___” 60 Brother of Cain 61 Jekyll’s alter ego 64 Item of apparel often worn backward 65 Commercial lead-in to Pen