THE NYT CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 “Common Sense” pamphleteer
6 Rambler maker of old, for short
9 Hindu on a bed of nails
14 Yellowstone has more than two million of them
15 Guy’s square dance partner
16 2006 Supreme Court appointee
17 Response to “Knock knock”
19 Fr. misses
20 On its way
21 “Esther …”
23 Cut, as with a letter opener
25 Ore-___ (frozen food brand)
26 One referred to as “my hero!”
29 Witchy woman 31 Not genuine: Abbr.
35 Squeeze moisture from
36 “Yvonne …”
38 Go public with
39 Natalie Portman or Gene Simmons, by birth
41 Some E.R. cases
42 “Sadie …”
44 Reason to earn a badge
46 Whodunit’s essence
47 Like all prime numbers but one
48 Where Dorothy and Toto are from
49 Camera type, in brief
51 Shelter rescues, e.g.
52 “Ken …”
57 In ___ of (replacing)
61 S.S.N., e.g.
62 “Luke …”
64 General local weather pattern
65 Like some stock trades, for short
66 Like a merino
67 Can’t stomach
68 Drop in on
69 Often-buggy software versions
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1 Handles clumsily
2 Need ibuprofen, say
3 Mineral plentiful in kale
4 Occupies, as a bird does a tree
5 Ballpark fig.
6 Secret ___
7 Musical partner of Peter and Paul
8 Queen of the Nile, briefly
9 World-renowned
10 Words of acclamation
11 Scale unit, in most of the world
12 Subject for gossips
13 Jack’s love in “Titanic”
18 ___ metal (1980s music subgenre)
22 British pol Farage
24 Ken Ken solver’s need
26 Washington establishment, so to speak
27 Typeface similar to Helvetica
28 Many a September birth 29 Over collect?
30 Tucked in
32 Eighth-century conquerors of Iberia
33 Second-most-populous nation
34 Components of some batteries
36 Stepped heavily (on)
37 Align the cross hairs on
40 Like some testimony and enemies
43 “The deadline has arrived”
45 Keep under one’s thumb
48 Vegas numbers game
50 Fills with cargo
51 Biden’s successor as V.P.
52 Hankering
53 Black-tie affair
54 Fire drill objective
55 “Chicago” simpleton ___ Hart
56 One to whom you might say “G’day!”
58 Rolling ___ (wealthy)
59 Pulitzer winner Ferber
60 Plays for a sap
63 Play ___ with (do mischief to)