THE NYT CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Soak (up)
4 With 14Across, weakness for sugar
9 Fix, as a race
12 It’s on the waterfront
14 See 4Across
15 Juno’s Greek counterpart
16 Designer Gucci
17 With 25Down, 2012 British Open winner
18 Those, in Spain
19 What a rolling stone is unlikely to gather 21 Kurt of Nirvana
23 Retro
24 Baby
26 Pile up
27 A little thick 30 Same old, same old 31 Police dept. alert
32 Sharper
35 Cries of disgust
36 Christmas tree decoration … or a hint to what the circled letters form
38 Gets underway 41 I’m not buying it! 45 “___ take arms against a sea of troubles”: Hamlet
46 Something squirreled away?
50 Like black sheep
51 Tree with smooth bark
53 Long-handled tool
54 Language group that gave us “banjo” and “gumbo”
55 ___-chic (hippieinspired fashion)
56 “But of course!”
57 Popular footwear from Down Under 58 “That would stink”
60 “Gilmore Girls” protagonist
63 Shield
64 Part of a shore dinner
65 Dot-dotdot, dashdash-dash, dot-dot-dot
66 “Yahoo!”
67 Put an end to something?
68 Blue Stater, for short DOWN
1 BadenBaden, for one
2 “Moby-Dick” light source
3 Human-powered taxi
4 Vermeer and Rembrandt contemporary
5 Tattered
6 Forever and a day
7 Suffix with diet 8 2000s teen drama set in Newport Beach 9 What’s left
10 Absolutist’s rule
11 Number for a surgeon?
13 Tends to, as a cradle
15 Flip call
20 Show disdain for, in a way
22 Recurring action role for Matt Damon
23 Sound heard from a herd
25 See 17Across
27 Netflix item
28 “The Holly and the ___” (Christmas song) 29 Hearing aid?
33 Archaeological handle
34 Make, as dough 36 Stitch with a hook
37 Fills with fury
38 Loud lament
39 New York City bridge, informally, with “the”
40 Fate who cuts the thread of life
42 2010 Disney film that set a record for the most expensive animated movie ever made 43 Gallery sign
44 Romanian currency
47 Given to talk
48 “Would you look at that!”
49 Worlds 52 Potful for Winnie-thePooh
54 Succumb to pressure?
58 Some office printers, for short
59 South American tuber
61 Arles assent
62 Suffix with real or social