N.Y.TimesCrosswordPuzzle
Across
1 Caterpillar, e.g.
6 Owns
9 Rifle filler
13 Seal the win, so to speak
14 Tuck away
15 Bank offering
16 Xenomorph
17 Actress Fisher
18 Sorry situations
19 Behave uncontrollably
21 “Give ___ rest!”
23 Not yet determined: Abbr.
24 Exclamation of mild surprise
25 Kind of bikes for stunt riders
26 “You’re as cuddly as a cactus, you’re as charming as an ___, Mr. Grinch”
27 Stagger with unexpected news, maybe
33 Take ___ at (besmirch)
34 Share again, as a story
35 Gender-neutral pronoun
36 Semiconductor device
38 Croft of the “Tomb Raider” franchise
41 Toy shooters
43 Word after life or time
44 Cause to malfunction
48 Gardener’s tool
49 Manning of ESPN’s “ManningCast”
50 Busyness representative?
51 Creation ( and rhyme) of 48-Across
52 ___ to pick
53 Eccentric sort … or a “sport” where one might make the plays at 19-, 27- and 44-Across?
58 13th or 15th days, on the Roman calendar
60 John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt, for one
62 Sits and waits
63 Drive
64 Mardi ___
65 Dance with a series of spins
66 The “T” of 57Down
67 New York Giant known as “Master Melvin”
68 Big hotel chain
Down
1 One spewing hogwash
2 “Because freedom can’t protect itself” org.
3 Pull (in)
4 YouTube unit
5 When Santa and the tooth fairy are most active
6 What’s-___-face
7 Went off-script
8 One sharing an armrest
9 Wepner’s 1975 opponent in the ring
10 Progressive rock?
11 Full-bodied red wine
12 Like Christmas lights after December 25, often
14 Digitally crisp, informally
20 Constellation whose mane and shoulders are known as “the Sickle”
22 Rod in a hot rod
27 Edgar Allan Poe owned a black one, appropriately
28 Wood once used for hockey sticks
29 Team with a sausage race at every home game
30 Burger, fries and a drink at a special price, e.g.
31 Poet who taught at Amherst
32 God, in Islam
36 Learning app with an owl mascot
37 Walrus ivory is one traditional medium for it
39 “Parks and ___” (NBC sitcom, to fans)
40 Sanctuary against extinction
42 Singer Stefani
43 Like krona coins
44 Prudence with money
45 Article of coolweather wear
46 Orchestral group pitched toC
47 Stoked
54 Candle-lighting occasion, in brief
55 Penne ___ vodka
56 In case
57 Exam for a future A.G.
59 Solidify
61 It might say “Welcome”