Antelope Valley Press

NEW YORK TIMES DAILY CROSSWORD

- Edited by Will Shortz PUZZLE BY DAVID DISTENFELD

ACROSS

1 Lures into a relationsh­ip by using a fictional online persona 10 Occasion for a

high flute?

15 Like households with stay-at-home spouses, typically 16 Like many spiral

notebooks

17 It may be taken for

dramatic effect 18 World record

holder?

19 “Do the Right

Thing” pizzeria 20 Get around

22 Giant mfr. of industrial machinery

25 5/15, e.g. 27 Hawaiian chorus 30 ___ job 31 Onboardee 33 Follower of many

state names 34 Really dry 36 Season ticket

holder, maybe 38 Pond blossom 40 Rockets can be

found in it, in brief 41 Infiltrate­s 42 Dealing with technical details, say 45 Blowout

46 Put away

47 Herbal infusions 49 Do-over 50 “Psycho” psycho 52 First name in

gossip

53 Some SAT takers 54 Not be completely

accurate with 56 Spanish key 58 Kind of cake with layers of coffee and chocolate 60 Where to find 55

and over? 65 Resource in the

game Catan 66 Film technique that accommodat­es wide- and full-screen display 67 Act crabby? 68 Parents obsessed

with play dates?

DOWN

1 Mustard, for one: Abbr. 2 “Is that ___?” 3 Start of a count 4 Some pudding

ingredient­s 5 Hurting

6 Like the milk in café au lait, sometimes 7 Improbable orders

for oenophiles 8 Myanmar has

two of them 9 Matches

10 They’re used during film production and promotion

11 The one in “Layla” lasts 3 minutes 48 seconds

12 Mixed emotions,

so to speak 13 Jacques Cousteau’s

milieu

14 Parts of some

bowls, in brief 21 Journalist

Swisher 22 Dressing option 23 Home of the largest street fair in North America 24 Modern-day scroll,

of a sort

26 Mama grizzly 28 Item to pack for a

trip abroad 29 Down times? 32 “Really? Wow!” 35 “Thanks, Captain

Obvious” 37 Telephone trio 39 Prepared to end

an engagement 43 Buffalo ___ 44 Picking up

48 Oscar Wilde

tragedy

51 Many a work by the artist Banksy

55 Mythical archer 57 Driver in

Hollywood 58 Reactions to

strikes?

59 Letter after

upsilon

61 Suitable

62 “Was ___ blame?” 63 Source of

withdrawal? 64 Article in a French newspaper

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